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In a glittering ceremony that marked the five-year milestone anniversary of the Innovation Prize for Africa  the landmark programme of the African Innovation Foundation (AIF) innovative healthcare solutions took pole position this year, offering ground-breaking responses to address Africa’s prevailing malaria and HIV/AIDS burdens. Out of a total of 985 applications, 10…

Interswitch, the Leading Integrated Digital Payments and Commerce Company focused on Africa, is pleased to announce the graduation of the first batch of its sponsored Nigerian Entrepreneurs from the Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST) Training Programme, in Accra, Ghana. Out of the 19 Nigerian Entrepreneurs In Training (EIT) sponsored…

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. Now Orange has announced that, together with its subsidiary Orange Côte d’Ivoire, it has completed the acquisition of Airtel operations in Burkina Faso. Since the…

Yes. Almighty YouTube website went down today for a couple of minutes today. It is not clear whether it was a glitch or it was but it is back up now. The outage was from 7.30a.m – 8.15a.m (Eastern time) i.e 12.30p.m – 1.15p.m West African Time. Not sure if…

Effective Tuesday, Twitter allows you to upload videos for up to 140 seconds. This was extended from a previous limit of 30 seconds. (Select publishers will continue to be able to post videos up to 10 minutes long through our professional publisher tools.) https://twitter.com/video/status/745239649652662273 It is expected that this increase in…

Nigeria’s leading turn-key e-commerce solution provider for businesses, SlimTrader, is set to host its inaugural empowerment forum for owners and managers of hotels and hospitality businesses in Nigeria on June 29, 2016 at the Federal Palace Hotel, Ahmadu Bello Way, Victoria Island, Lagos. The event with the theme ‘Positioning Your…

According to an Instagram blog post, there are currently 500 million Instagrammers in the world. Nine months ago, it had 400 million users. More than 300 million of these Instagrammers use Instagram every single day. And for a platform owned by an American based company, Facebook, more than 80 percent os these…

We just did an unboxing for this new smartphone from Tecno Mobile – the Tecno Camon C9. Wouldn’t you like to own this phone? Well you have a chance to own one free of charge. The Camon C9 is the third in the series of camera centric smartphones from TECNO.…

Devcenter, an online community for Nigerian software developers has announced the launch of ‘Devcenter Jobs’. Devcenter jobs is a solution to bridge the gap between clients who need software developers on projects and developers who need clients. The site can be accessed via the URL jobs.devcenter.co. Devcenter has always served…

Paulina Robert, a 17-year-old student from Tanzania nabbed a $500 (US) prize from Reach for Change Africa yesterday to set up a reproductive health campaign for girls in her community. The contest was aligned with the Day of the African Child on June 16 and challenged contestants to answer the…

Fresh from its stop in New York City earlier this month, She Leads Africa brings its four-day boot camp to Nairobi, Kenya from June 30 to July 3. SheHive Nairobi is a professional bootcamp that helps young women develop their career and business skills, connect with a community of leaders, and network with…

Have you ever wanted a way to plan for an Uber ride hours or days in advance? Well Uber has finally decided to roll out a new feature “Schedule Rides” globally. Since Uber launched six years ago, you can only book a ride just when you need the ride. Now Uber…

Foremost financial institution, Guaranty Trust Bank plc, is set to hold the 6th edition of its Annual Autism Conference. The two-day programme, which is free and open to the general public, will hold on the 20th and 21st of June, 2016 at the MUSON Centre, Onikan, Lagos. Themed “Managing Autism:…

Orange Money is available in Metropolitan France. This service is offered to Orange mobile subscribers in France and enables them to transfer money via their mobile to other Orange Money customers in Côte d’Ivoire, Mali, Senegal, and within Metropolitan France. An offer that improves contact between Orange customers in France and…

Twitter has invested $70 million for a stake in the music service, Soundcloud. Twitter wanted to buy this company last year but walked away at the last minute. According to Recode, this investment is part of a round that should end up in the $100 million-range. The round is expected to value…

Facebook has announced that it is rolling out its suicide prevention tools and resources globally. Developed in collaboration with mental health organizations and with input from people who have personal experience with self-injury and suicide, these tools first launched in the US with the help of Forefront, Lifeline, and Save.org.…

eTranzact International PLC, Africa’s premier e-payments solution provider has announced a corporate rebrand and strategic repositioning across its markets. The strategic rebranding of its identity, vision, mission, products and people, reaffirms the company’s leadership position in transaction switching, mobile banking, mobile money, bulk payments, remittances, bills & utilities payments, collections…

The Ghanaian Ministry of Transport and Uber have entered into a Statement of Understanding (SOU) to officially welcome Uber in Ghana’s largest city, Accra, last week. Uber was privileged to have Honourable Fifi Kwetey, Minister for Transport and the Ambassador of the United States to Ghana, Robert Porter Jackson at…

DStv customers with an active internet-enabled Explora PVR can access ShowMax, regardless of which DStv package they have. This is a result of a partnership between the two sister companies which belong to the same parent company, Naspers. According to Mark Rayner, CEO of MultiChoice South Africa, the objective of adding ShowMax…

At the WWDC today, Apple’s Craig Federighi stated that Siri was coming to the Mac, the new macOS Sierra. With this new in-built feature, Siri on the Mac is now just one click away. The familiar features of Siri are now on the Mac with brand-new capabilities specifically designed for…