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Fifty-one (51) new emojis have been approved by Unicode as part of the Unicode 10.0 release. Unicode is the group that controls the development and use of emojis. The new emoji are based on requests from third-parties to the consortium over the past year. The new list consists of woman breastfeeding a baby, a…

A glitch happened on Facebook happened yesterday when some people woke up to find on their profiles a memorial banner sitting on top of it, urging their friends and family members to remember them. It even happened to Mark Zuckerberg himself. https://twitter.com/stevekovach/status/797177651261751296 Many people took to Twitter to say that they were still…

The Lagos State government will launch the “Code Lagos” programme today, 11 November 2016. CodeLagos is an initiative of the Lagos State Ministry of Education aimed at educating Lagos State residents for the future of work – by teaching how to write code and creatively solve problems. To actualize this…

Opera currently has 100 million users in Africa, with an 86.41% market share in Kenya, 71.83% in Nigeria and 53.1% in South Africa Nigerian, Kenyan and South African Opera users collectively saved data equating to over half a billion US$ in 2016 Android users make up nearly half of overall…

QPON is said to be the Tinder for business and it is launching on the 1st of December in South Africa. According to the co-founders, Arno van der Merwe (CEO) and Marli Steyl (CMO), “We hook up businesses and customers, it is just that simple. Giving answer to the age old…

The accomplishments of the small business community in South Africa was in the spotlight as winners of the 2016 South African Small Business Awards were announced on 10 November at Montecasino in Fourways, Johannesburg. In its eighth year, the South African Small Business Awards acknowledge the country’s most outstanding businesses…

Innovation Village caught up recently with Vivian Nwakah, the founder of Medsaf.com. Vivian believes that quality medication is a fundamental human right and she has gone ahead to provide a platform where this can be actualised. Medsaf is a technology-enabled pharmaceutical platform connecting high quality, trusted manufacturers to the African medical industry…

Konga, Nigeria’s largest online shopping mall, is gearing up for its busiest shopping day of the year, Yakata, the Nigerian equivalent of ‘Black Friday’. The main event will run from November 18 to 21st, when the online marketplace will slash prices on tens of thousands of consumer goods. Yakata, which…

Donald Trump has been elected as the next President of the United States of America. He will now be the 45th President of the United States of America. According to the AP, Trump won the race with 56,897,955 popular votes and 276 electoral votes, compared with 55,877,015 popular votes and…

The Canadian immigration website, ‘Citizenship and Immigration Canada’, has crashed apparently due to the increased hits by people, possibly Americans, wanting to migrate to Canada due to an imminent Donald Trump Victory So many people have stated that they would migrate to Canada if Hillary Clinton loses and Donald Trump wins.…

This is a new challenge in town and it seems to have caught on like wild fire. It is the #manequinchallenge. It is all about posing in an elaborate scene, like mannequins in department stores. Essentially, everyone strikes a pose and someone films it. This is the video that started it the…

Online retail giant, Jumia Nigeria has announced the date and categories for the 2016 Black Friday sales event!  This year, Jumia Black Friday will take place for 12 jaw-dropping days! From Monday November 14th to  Friday, November 25th  2016 on all Jumia websites – Jumia Mall, Jumia Food, Jumia Car, Jumia Market,…

Safaricom released its half-year results for the period ending September 2016 . One thing worthy of note is the fact that for the first time, the Kenya telecoms giant earned more revenue from its non-voice business. For half year FY17, it earned a service revenue of Kshs 98 billion which is…

The Toyota Corolla is one of the best-selling cars in the world and it celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. Here are five interesting things you should know the Toyota Corolla. 1.  The first model of the Toyota Corolla went on sale in Japan on Nov. 5, 1966. Three years after the…

Adegoke Olubusi of OneMedical and Tobiloba Ajibola of Dresses by Aloli have emerged as winners in the Etisalat Prize for Innovation event held yesterday at Eko Hotel in Lagos, Nigeria. Adegoke Olubusi of One Medical won N5,000,000 as the most innovative product or service launched in the previous year. OneMedical is an advanced digital…

Zain Telecom has agreed to pay Bharti Airtel $129 million to settle its various claims and disputes in Nigeria. Bharti Airtel acquired Zain’s African business, including Nigeria, for $10.7 billion six years ago According to Airtel, “Bharti Airtel International (Netherlands) BV and Zain Telecom have reached an agreement, pursuant to which Zain…

The Nigerian Interbank Settlement System (NIBSS) has launched a mobile payment system called microCash (mCASH). NIBSS partnered with Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), banks and the telecoms companies (Airtel, Etisalat, Globacom and MTN) to provide this Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) payment solution to further deepen financial inclusion. The banks involved in…

Get your family and friends involved as we come together to keep the doors of Mirabel Centre open – a sexual assault referral centre which is the first SARC in Nigeria and the second in West Africa that provides free counselling and medical support for victims of rape and sexual…

Huawei unveiled its latest flagship smartphone yesterday. It is the Huawei Mate 9. In fact, two phones were unveiled at the global event – the HUAWEI Mate 9 and the exclusive PORSCHE DESIGN HUAWEI Mate 9. “In developing the HUAWEI Mate 9, we started with a simple question – how can…

Effective today, Groupon closed its shop in South Africa and is no more offering deals. This is the summary of the message that can be seen on the Groupon South Africa site. The full message is written below: Dear Customer, You have been redirected here as you have tried to…