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In March 2017, the producers of Godzilla transport audiences to the birthplace of one of the most powerful monster myths of all in KONG: SKULL ISLAND, from Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures. When a scientific expedition to an uncharted island awakens titanic forces of nature, a mission of discovery…

The first Wonder Woman movie trailer premiered at the Comic-Con on Saturday during the Warner Bros. panel. The trailer starts with the Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot) bending over and admiring a man, Steve Trevor (Chris Pine) washed up a beaches of Themyscira. She leaves with him and is involved in…

Nigeria’s largest online mall, Konga.com, will lay off some of its employees, as part of its business development strategy whereby it reviews staff strength every 6months. Konga has been doing this consistently over the last 2 years and usually let go of staff that still go on and do great…

No it is not a joke. It is true. A constitutional court in Zimbabwe delivered a landmark ruling ordering every Zimbabwean citizen to pay the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) licence fees irrespective of the service provider one may select to use. This means that any citizen with a gadget capable of receiving radio…

Naspers’ online streaming company, Showmax, announced that 10 million TV shows and movies have been watched on the platform since launch last year. Showmax launched in August 2015 trying to beat Netflix’s proposed entry into the South African market. According to Chief Product Officer Barron Ernst, “We knew we had a good…

From 19 August to 3 September the Fak’ugesi African Digital Innovation Festival is back in Johannesburg to explore and celebrate technology and creativity by Africans for Africa. The 2016 festival has cast its central theme as ‘Afro Tech Riot’ as community, femininity, notions of the spiritual, and exploring African knowledge…

The finalists were picked from a record 723 technology startups from 27 African countries that applied to launch at the event. Out of the 30, South Africa is represented by 11 startups, Nigeria 6, Kenya 5 and Ghana 3. For the first time Morocco will have a representative in the…

A new Zimbabwean Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO), Viva Mobile, has been given approval to launch by the local telecoms regulator, Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (POTRAZ). This will be the first MVNO in Zimbabwe. According to the founder and CEO, Dzidzai Chidumba, he had anticipated a go-live date…

When Twitter first introduced account verification in 2009, it was seen as status symbol. Denoted by a blue badge icon, verified accounts on Twitter allowed people to identify the authentic accounts of key individuals and organizations. An account may be verified if it is determined to be of public interest.…

July last year, Bharti Airtel entered an agreement with French based mobile operator, Orange to sell its operations in four countries – Burkina Faso, Chad, Congo Brazzaville and Sierra Leone. Today, Orange  announced that, together with its Senegal-based partner Sonatel, it has completed the acquisition of 100% of the mobile operator Airtel in Sierra…

A Brazilian judge has ordered the nationwide blackout of the messaging service, WhatsApp.  This will be the third time in eight months. Though the other two times were temporary blackouts in December and May, this one is indefinite. It is expected to be in force until the company complies with a previously issued request…

Nintendo market capitalisation has soared to 4.5 trillion yen ($42.5 billion) in just seven sessions since the mobile game Pokemon Go was launched in the United States. The game has been released in 35 countries, triggering massive buying in Nintendo shares. Interestingly the game is not yet available in Japan, though reports state…

WeFarm has won the second prize in the Chivas Regal “The Venture” competition for social enterprise. WeFarm was awarded the second largest contribution from the fund, receiving $200,000. The Venture, luxury whisky Chivas Regal’s search to find and support the most innovative startups from across the world, rewarded five social enterprises the…

Through the advent of Messenger and bots, messaging platforms have rapidly increased their impact in reaching users with life-changing content. Leading this technological evolution in low and middle income countries, the Praekelt Foundation will launch a new chatbot for Messenger integrated into the South African Nation Department of Health’s MomConnect, at…

According to the founder and CEO of Uber, Travis Kalanick, it took five years to reach its billionth trip, and just six months to reach the next billion. 1 billion rides in six months! This means the online transportation network company was providing an average of 5.5 million rides a day,…

Africa’s future rests in the hands of its youth – and every effort must be made to ensure they thrive, philanthropist and entrepreneur Bill Gates said in South Africa yesterday. Delivering the 2016 Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture at the University of Pretoria (Mamelodi campus), Gates said he was optimistic about…

Charging to drive someone around Lagos was chiefly a cash-in-hand job before Uber launched in Nigeria two years ago. To this day, the rest of the transport industry remains largely informal, with no clarity on how much money is made and only negligible tax contributions to the state. Uber is different.…

It seems that there is now one more use for the Tobacco plant apart from getting people high. South African Airways (SAA) has recently concluded a flight using jet fuel from a tobacco plant. According to the airline, it used 6,300 litres of bio jet fuel for a one-way trip to Cape Town…

There are reports that Twitter, Facebook and YouTube have been blocked in Turkey amid talks of an attempted coup. There are talks of military tanks on the streets of Istanbul. The Prime Minister has stated that the coup was conducted by a small minority in the country. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan,…

After six rounds of voting and over 2000 votes, Printivo beats Hotels.ng in the finals of Starta’s Startup Matchup Nigeria. Starta began the online game five weeks ago.  They pitted 32 funded startups in Nigeria against each other and asked voters to choose which startups they would like to invest in.…