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Mobile Operator, Tigo, has announced that it will  be investing over US$ 75 million on the network expansion and quality improvement by scaling up its 4G and 3G sites, fiber network as well as increasing the number of customer service outlets in Tanzania this year. Tigo General Manager, Diego Gutierrez…

Automattic, the company that owns Wordpress.com, announced that it has secured rights to oversee and operate the sale and registration of .blog domains. This means that anyone can use the .blog domain instead of the popular .com. According to Automattic in a blog post, “You’ll be able to purchase a .blog…

Echo House beat 128 other shortlisted startups to emerge the 2016 Startup of the year in the 2016 Ghana Startup Awards. Echo House Ghana, founded by its CEO, Beryl Agyekum, is a 360 degree creative marketing agency with years of operational experience in publishing, digital marketing, production and sales. Hosted…

Naspers’ streaming service, Showmax, is now available in 36 new African countries. This comes barely ten months after the launch of the service which now boasts of “approximately fifteen thousand TV show episodes and movies, totaling almost ten thousand hours of viewing.” According to the company’s Chief Product Officer, Barron Ernst, “We’ve…

GE and Santa Clara University’s Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship have announced a partnership that focuses on training and mentoring social entrepreneurs working on maternal and child health innovations in sub-Saharan Africa. The program enables more women to experience better health by improving the quality, accessibility, and affordability of care. The…

People know Samsung for gadgets, phones, electronics. And now it has dabbled into the surfing world by creating a digital smart Surfboard. The Samsung Galaxy Surfboard prototype is powered by a Samsung Galaxy phone slotted into a special drawer on the side of the board. It uses LEDs to display…

Did David Cameron know his mic was on? Were his comments meant to be heard? Anyway it was recorded on camera. UK Prime Minister, David Cameron, was overheard telling the Queen that Nigeria and Afghanistan are “possibly two of the most corrupt countries in the world”. Apparently the Prime Minister was briefing…

Ringier Africa and One Africa Media (OAM) have agreed to merge their pan-African Classifieds assets to create and grow Africa’s largest classifieds group. In the joint venture deal announced today, Ringier One Africa Media (ROAM) was officially launched – becoming Africa’s classifieds leader, comprising some of the continent’s leading homegrown brands, including…

Mobile accounts for most of the overall growth in travel bookings since 2014, this is according to Criteo, a leading market research firm. The worldwide research, carried between Q2 2014 and Q2 2015 indicates an increase from 12% to 23% of bookings made via mobile devices. Although the report does…

Stanford Seed, the Stanford Institute for Innovation in Developing Economies, has launched its Seed Transformation Progam in East Africa. This builds on the success of the same program in West Africa In May, the first group of promising business leaders selected by Stanford Seed will gather in Nairobi to begin a 12-month…

Vodacom has announced that it will discontinue its M-Pesa mobile payment offering in South Africa at the end of June 2016. This statement was made by CEO Shameel Joosub yesterday. He said that “Vodacom’s decision is based on the fact that the business sustainability of M-Pesa is predicated on achieving a critical mass…

The infamous Panama Papers database is scheduled to go on-line today at 6.00p.m. GMT in a searchable form at The Panama Papers · ICIJ. The massive database is expected to detail ties between some 368,000 people and some 300,000 offshore entities Today’s data dump is just part of the picture, detailing the relationships between individuals,…

Nigeria’s biggest telecommunication company MTN Nigeria lost 6.5 million data subscribers according to the 2016 first quarter telecoms industry report recently published by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC). The report revealed that MTNN kicked off the year with 39,924,737 internet subscribers and ended the quarter between January and April with…

You may think that it is cute as a parent to post your child’s photo running around in a nappy on Facebook or Twitter. However the child may think otherwise when he grows up. French authorities are saying you should think before you post it as you may face fines…

The African Innovation Foundation (AIF) today announced the top 10 nominees for its landmark programme, the Innovation Prize for Africa (IPA). Now celebrating its 5th year under the theme “Made in Africa”, IPA is the premier innovation initiative in the African continent, offering a grand share prize of US$150 000 and…

Innovation Village had a chat with Olayinka Oluwakuse, CEO of Buyoverchat Technologies Limited and Founder, Balogunmarket.ng. Innovation Village (IV): Tell us about yourself and your startup Olayinka Oluwakuse (OO): My name is Olayinka Oluwakuse, a Lagos based Techpreneur .  I run BUYOVERCHAT TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED, a company interested in revolutionising how e-commerce is played out…

Vodafone Ghana Music Awards is taking place right now in Accra. It is being hosted by Chris Attoh, Naa Ashorkor Mensah and DJ Black Africa Watch it now… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqUKGDLFcvA&feature=youtu.be

Imagine working from the famous UK Telephone boxes. Well a New York based company that operates a growing chain of co-working spaces is about to transform these iconic red public boxes in mini-workstations called “Pod Works” Bar Works Inc is about to launch “Pod Works” in London, Leeds and Edinburgh using old…

Have you seen this new trailer “African Booty Scratcher” uploaded on YouTube by Damilare Sonoiki? It is about a Nigerian immigrant family in America struggling to balance giving their son a better life with ensuring he maintains their traditional values. The comedy series was written, created and directed by Nigerian-American Damilare…

One Acre Fund , a nonprofit agriculture organization that supplies smallholder farmers with the financing and training they need to increase their incomes and food security, today announced the official opening of its Malawi and Uganda operations. Malawi and Uganda began as pilots in 2013 and 2014 respectively. One Acre…