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Team ENTy of Romania has emerged as the 2016 Imagine Cup World Champion. Team ENTy’s project is an app for monitoring balance and posture. The team’s members include Flavia Oprea, Iulian-Razvan Matesica and Cristian Alexandrescu. The final leg of the nearly year-long Imagine Cup journey began on Wednesday, when 35 teams…

Uber is set to invest $500million in global mapping project to reduce dependence on Google Maps and pave the way for driverless cars. According to a Financial Times report, the San Francisco-based transportation company has mapping vehicles crisscrossing the US and Mexico to record the surroundings and gather images for maps. Uber…

Pan-Africa fintech company MFS Africa has acquired Sochitel, an international airtime top-up provider, in a move that creates the largest value transfer payment network focusing on Africa. The MFS Africa Hub enables cross-border, cross-currency, cross-network payments within and into Africa, reaching an estimated 100 million mobile wallets across all major mobile money…

Do you dream of using technology to change the world? Why don’t you apply for Andela Nigeria Fellowship Cycle XVI. THE ANDELA FELLOWSHIP The Andela Fellowship is a four-year paid technical leadership program designed to shape you into an elite software developer. The program requires that you dedicate yourself to the broader…

Uber Lagos says it has undertaken over one million trips since it launched 2 years ago. The one millionth trip took place on 16th July 2016 from Yaba to Lekki. This is truly an awesome achievement for a company who came into Lagos, Nigeria just two years ago. In these two…

Godfrey Efeurhobo is now the Managing Director of Smile Nigeria. Before assuming this office, he was the Chief Sales Officer at Airtel Nigeria. A Lawyer by education, Godfrey has spent the last fourteen years in the Telecoms industry transiting from the Legal division to the Commercial Operations of the business.…

According to Forbes, Amazon Jeff Bezos has now become the third richest person in the world. Bezos’ fortune was $65.3 billion as of 4:30 p.m. EDT (2030 GMT) on Thursday, compared with Buffett’s $64.9 billion. The rise in Jeff Bezos net-worth is due to the sharp rise in Amazon’s share…

The launch of Safaricom’s Little Cabs seems to have jolted Uber Kenya to take a second look at its prices. The taxi-hailing company has announced a whooping 35% reduction of its prices. Or is it truly the fact that the company wants to get more business for its partners? Uber…

The Middle East and Africa remains a key growth contributor for Orange Speaking at its 4th annual strategy and activity update for press and analysts in London on 28 July, Ramon Fernandez, Deputy CEO and Chief Finance and Strategy Officer, Bruno Mettling, CEO of Orange Middle East and Africa (MEA),…

Facebook has surpassed expectations by posting $6.44 billion in revenue and $0.97 EPS, up 63 percent year over year, compared to $6.02 billion and $0.82 EPS as analysts expected. Mobile ad revenue accounted for 84% of the total revenue, i.e.$5.42 billion, up 81 percent year over year. Monthly active users hit 1.71 billion during…

Apple has just announced that it recently sold its 1 billionth iPhone. This announcement was made by CEO Tim Cook at an employee meeting in Cupertino this morning. According to him, “iPhone has become one of the most important, world-changing and successful products in history. It’s become more than a…

Though Chinese smartphone maker has always been know for pushing out mobile phones, it has now veered into the world of laptops by introducing its first ever laptop – the Xiaomi Mi Notebook Air . I wonder what Xiaomi is trying to do by pitching itself against Apple’s Macbook Air. Xiaomi…

Xiaomi has just released a budget phone known as the RedMi pro and it is selling for 1,499 yuan which is about $225. The budget phone was launched at a special event in Beijing today and it is said that Redmi Pro will the new flagship smartphone in Xiaomi’s budget Redmi series.…

Vconnect, a search engine for local businesses in Nigeria, had redesigned its website to focus on improved business discovery and engagement. The company has redesigned core components on the website and added some more. All these will make it easier for people to find, connect with, and buy from the 1.2 million business…

According to latest sports statistics, German football club, Bayern Munich, is now officially the most supported club in world football in terms of membership numbers. At 277,000 fans, it has surpassed Spanish giants Barcelona. Bayern president Karl Hopfner expressed his delightment at the achievement. “I’m delighted at the ongoing excitement about…

Twitter is launching a marketing campaign to address the question – What is Twitter and what is it used for? According to the Jack Dorsey-led company, it undertook a research recently to understand more deeply the perceptions of Twitter around the world. It found out the following: ninety percent of people globally…

Hillary Clinton launched a game-style mobile app, Hillary 2016, for her presidential campaign. This app helps volunteers get engaged in the campaign activities from their smartphone. The app was built by a team of techonlogy veterans from DreamWorks Animation, Charity: Water and Livestream. With Hillary 2016, you can: Complete daily challenges to help…

The Chairman of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates, has expressed interest in investing in the electronic payment and store value system, “digital currency” in Ethiopia. This assertion was made after seeing the increasing number of users in Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania. He referred Gates said that the foundation has not done…

DraperDarkFlow, Toro Orero, and Tim Draper have made investments in 8 SpeedUPAfrica startups. The eight Startups that have received  investments are as follows: VugaPay: A faster and safer way to send and receive mobile money payments online without sharing your financial information. Tress: A passionate global community of black women sharing and discovering…

As usual, the Comic Con is the place to release the latest TV and movie trailers and the 2016 edition is no exception. Here are some of the new trailers: The Films Suicide Squad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0Xb9BhfVjY Justice League https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gglkYMGRYlE