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Taking into consideration the young ones in families, Uber is now trialling a riding option that allows parents with toddlers to keep their children safe, while abiding by South African legislation. South African legislation making it illegal to transport any child under the age of the three years old in a vehicle…

Today, Orange and Millicom signed an agreement leading to Orange’s acquisition of Millicom’s operations in the DRC (“Tigo DRC”). The mobile market in the DRC is undergoing significant growth and is currently the largest mobile market in Central and West Africa after Nigeria with more than 40 million subscribers. Tigo DRC…

According to The Guardian Online, Etisalat has instituted legal action against MTN for the acquisition of Visafone’ 800MHz spectrum. Visafone was the last surviving CDMA operator in Nigeria owned by Jim Ovia. According to Chinesie Amanfo, Etisalat’s Public Relations Regulatory and Corporate Affairs Division Officer, responding to The Guardian enquiries, said:…

Microsoft Nigeria, recently, unveiled two of its latest Windows 10 mobile flagship smartphones; Lumia 950 and 950 XL, which shares the same code-base with Windows 10 desktop OS. The newest flagship devices to join the Lumia portfolio and the first to ship with Windows 10, the Lumia 950 and Lumia 950…

Africa Internet Group (“AIG”), a leading e-commerce group in Africa, and AXA, a worldwide leader in insurance and asset management, today announced a partnership whereby AXA will become the exclusive provider of insurance products and services through Jumia and other AIG online and mobile platforms in Africa. Going forward, AXA’s…

Here are the tech and telecoms companies with Super Bowl 50 ads in 2016. The Super Bowl is taking place on Sunday 7th February 2016. We earlier featured the auto companies with their ads for the Super Bowl. Amazon: The e-commerce giant features Echo, its smart assistant for the home. Amazon Echo…

A Washington, D.C.-based company, iManagement Consulting, has launched an “Afro Emoji” app with West African themed character stickers.  The stickers consist  of an array of interesting characters in traditional African attires accompanied with everyday pidgin phrases used on the continent. Phrases include “Abeg no vex” (please, don’t be annoyed), “Chai!” (an exclamation of surprise)…

Former Africa Head for Airtel Money, Chidi Okpala, has joined Atlas Mara as Chief Digital Officer. As the Chief Digital Officer, Chidi will be leading efforts around Innovation, Digital Financial Services and Financial Inclusion. Atlas Mara was founded on November 28, 2013 by former Barclays Executive Bob Diamond and entrepreneur Ashish Thakkar…

Come February 10, 2016, YouTube will be launching its own exclusive series and movies, aptly named YouTube Red Originals. YouTube will be starting with the following four programmes: A Trip to Unicorn Island: From the team at Astronauts Wanted, this feature-length movie gives fans an extraordinary look inside the life…

Terra, a mobile-first international payment network, incubated by Mahindra Comviva, recently, announced the launch of Terra Pulse to help financial authorities and regulators accurately measure mobile-powered international remittances. In developing countries, migrant remittances equal US$440 billion, a figure three times higher than the volume of official aid flows. From a…

MobileMoneyAfrica today announced the winners of the 6th Kalahari awards, which was presented this evening at the 6th Remittance and MobileMoneyExpo in Lagos, Nigeria. The winners were announced in a ceremony hosted by Tv host , Stephen Ipalibo-Lawson  at the Lagos Oriental hotel, Nigeria. The Kalahari Awards honor organizations that…

South African smartphone producer, AG Mobile, an African mobile technology brand has launched in Nigeria. Established in 2007, it became the first South African brand to release its own mobile device and is now well known for its range of affordable, quality phones and tablets that offer world-class features, free…

Facebook announced 16 million people in Nigeria visit Facebook every month with 100% of them coming on mobile. Each day, 7.2 million people visit Facebook with 7 million on mobile. Facebook’s visit coincided with Friends Day (4 February), or Facebook’s 12th birthday. During the past five years, the global Facebook community…

Western Union is truly going digital in recognition of the new economy. It is wonderful that it is adapting to the changing times. Just three months ago, the global payment services leader struck a partnership with Chinese App service, WeChat to enable cross border money transfer. The company has now announced another…

Zambia’s fastest growing telecommunications company, MTN Zambia, has launched a popular social media service in partnership with Kirusa, the leader in voice and social media solutions for mobile users in emerging markets. The AMAVIP service is one of the popular social media services offered by Kirusa that gives celebrities and…

The Super Bowl is one major events in the American Sporting calendar every year. The 2016 edition will take place this Sunday, 7th February. It is also one of the events that companies take joy in releasing new TV commercials. The companies are not bothered about the high price tag…

Leonard Stiegeler, former General Manager Ringier Nigeria & Head of Ringier West Africa, has now been appointed to the new position of General Manager Ringier Africa. This is part a restructuring effort that Ringier has undertaken in its international market set-up for the beginning of the new year. On the first of January,…

British council in partnership with Virgin Atlantic, Zenith Bank and Samsung invites you to join the 2nd edition of ‘Enterprise Challenge’. If you are a young Nigerian entrepreneur and you value a good challenge, then this might just be for you. The Enterprise Challenge is an online competition which is…

Innovation Village ran a story some days ago that Interswitch, Nigeria’s digital payments company is likely to go public on the London Stock Exchange and the Nigerian Stock Exchange this year. Well in the same light, Bloomberg reports that Helios Investment Partners, the main shareholders of Interswitch, is working with Citigroup Inc. to run a…

In pursuit of its goal to constantly add value to the lives of customers, Konga.com has partnered with mi-Fone to launch the mi-Tribe series of mobile devices. mi-Fone founder and CEO Alpesh Patel said “The mi-Tribe is the first African mobile device the company is collaborating with Konga on, to introduce…