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Serena Gomez has emerged as the first person to reach the 100 million follower mark on Instagram. Imagine in a world of over 7.5 billion people and over 500 million active users on the Facebook owned platform, and one person has access to 100 million people. This person is influential…

Olayinka Oluwakuse, the brain behind Balogunmarket.ng, has come up with a new app called BuyChat. BuyChat is a chat-commerce app that has evolved from Olayinka’s interactions with traders in West Africa’s biggest Market, Balogun Market, Lagos Island. According to him, “We listened to the traders in the market and pivoted from e-commerce…

Oracle is partnering with Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB) to drive Cloud  Adoption in Africa. In line with this, they are organising a four day event which will involve in-depth sessions with experts on Oracle Public Cloud Services, a developers day, hands-on demo sessions and a hackathon challenge to test knowledge gained. The Developers day…

Officially Google is now an adult, with the celebration of its 18th birthday. It really has come a long way to affect the lives of earthlings since it was given its life by Larry Page and Sergey Brin on the 4th of September. Don’t ask whether September 27th is the…

Econet Media has launched its 24 hour, free-to-air all-sport channel in Rwanda, which joins Kenya, Tanzania and Ghana to have the full 24 hour channel. A further five countries are currently planned for this year and the company has already licensed more than 10 other countries to receive Kwese content…

Starting from the 26th to the 30th of of September, stakeholders will gather together to support the growth of women in technology and leadership at the Women in Tech week. It is the first and largest Women in Tech event on the African continent. It includes curated user generated events with event…

d.light has secured $22.5 million to grow its PayGo business globally and support its mission of providing solar energy solutions for households and small businesses around the world. The company raised the funds in the following manner: $15 million in Series D equity from KawiSafi Ventures Fund, Energy Access Ventures, Omidyar…

Marriott is now the World’s Largest and Best Hotel Company with the acquisition of Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide. Marriott now offers the most comprehensive portfolio of brands including leading lifestyle brands, a significant global footprint, and leadership in the luxury and select-service tiers as well as the convention and resort…

Twitter shares rose by more than 20% to $22.46 per share today on the report of sales talks. And it seems that Google and Salesforce are in the forefront of many technology companies that are interested in buying the social media company. Twitter has been the subject of takeover talks for some…

From Australia to India, abstract statues and billboards have been taken over by Google ahead of its #madebygoogle event coming up in a couple of days – October 4, 2016. Earlier in the week, Google sent invitations for an event in San Francisco on Oct. 4 where it is expected to…

Over the next two weeks Nigeria will play host to a series of official train-the-trainer (TTT) sessions as the country takes on a leading role in the build up to SAP Africa Code Week (ACW) 2016. Founded in 2015, ACW seeks to empower African youth with coding skills through hands-on…

Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan through the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, announced that they will be investing $3 billion over 10 years to build tools to advance health care – cure, prevent and manage all diseases by the end of the century. The evening started with Priscilla Chan talking about how…

Video on demand (VOD) partnerships key to growth for telcos With voice revenues in terminal decline and future data revenue models uncertain, Africa’s telcos have to expand their value-added services portfolios. “On-demand entertainment and infotainment present the next big opportunity for telco VAS business growth,” says Stephen Watson, Director of…

Samsung Nigeria has postponed the launch of its Galaxy Note7 launch in Nigeria. This announcement was made via its Instagram page. This was expected because of the recent reports from the US and South Korea of the phone “exploding” during or after charging. The company confirmed this saying that “This is…

Zimbabweans in South Africa to send money directly into local EcoCash wallets Econet Wireless Zimbabwe today announced a money transfer deal between EcoCash and Mukuru Money Transfer, which is a well-established and growing international remittance provider. This partnership between Mukuru, a key player in the South African remittances space, and…

Western Digital Corporation yesterday unveiled its SanDisk 1TB terabyte (TB) SDXC™ card prototype at the world’s leading trade fair for photo and video professionals. This is the world’s first 1TB memory card. According to Dinesh Bahal, vice president, product management, Content Solutions Business Unit, Western Digital in a press release, “Showcasing the…

Google has launched a Whatsapp rival called Allo. Google announced its coming at the Google I/O in May this year. Google Allo can help you make plans, find information, and express yourself more easily in chat. And the more you use it, the more it improves over time – it…

Don’t get confused. Yes ! Microsoft has just introduced a new feature phone into the market. It is the Nokia 216. This is the same company that said in May this year that it was selling its feature phone business. How come it is now launching a new feature phone? Well,…

Registration is now open for the upcoming edition of “The Platform Nigeria”. The theme for this edition is “The Economic Value of Nigeria and How Nigeria can be made to work” The speakers are as follows: Bolanle Austen-Peters – Foudner, Terra Kulture and BAP Productions Peter Obi – Former Governor,…

Rotary today committed an additional $35 million in grants to support the global effort to end polio, bringing the humanitarian service organization’s contribution to $105 million in 2016. The announcement follows recent reports of three new cases of wild poliovirus in Nigeria: two cases in July, and one in August.…