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Hilton Hotels & Resorts today officially announced its first hotel in Chad, Hilton N’Djamena which takes Hilton Worldwide’s overall presence to 100 countries and territories. The 194-room property, offering breathtaking panoramic views of Chari River, is located in the new and upmarket district of Sabangali in N’Djamena. The latest addition…

During January, ‘CNN ‘Marketplace Africa’ is airing a series of episodes featuring four of the biggest global brands in Africa. Each week, the programme focuses on operations of a brand on the ground, showing how it deals with infrastructural and logistical challenges that exist on the continent, and how it…

Facebook might be the most popular social media site but Instagram is the fastest growing social network. It has more engagement and organic growth than Facebook, Twitter, and similar sites – but that isn’t the point. Is your business growing with Instagram? Are you getting more customers? These are a…

The organisers of the NollywoodWeek Paris Film Festival have launched the call for submissions for the 4th edition of one of Europe’s leading film festivals and the biggest celebration of Nollywood in France each year. The 4th edition which will be held at the Cinema l’Arlequin in Paris, France from June…

Facebook has just launched a new feature called Facebook Sports Stadium. This is a dedicated place to experience sports in real-time with your friends and the world. With 650 million sports fans, Facebook is the world’s largest stadium. People already turn to Facebook to celebrate, commiserate, and talk trash with their…

The African Innovation Foundation (AIF)  in a joint collaborative effort with the Government of Botswana (GoB) represented by the Ministry of Infrastructure, Science and Technology and the Botswana Innovation Hub (BIH) today announced that the  next Innovation Prize for Africa (IPA) event will be held in Gaborone, Botswana in June…

Twitter was down globally from Tuesday Pacific Time 19th January (i.e. Wednesday WAT 20th January 2016) ; i.e. for those who noticed. The Jack Dorsey led online social networking service was unavailable for up to eight hours in some regions. This affected its Web and mobile apps for a significant…

Viber , one of the leading messaging and calling apps with more than 664 million unique users worldwide, announced today that it has opened its latest social channel ‘Public Chats’ to partners in Africa and the Middle East. Brands, organizations, celebrities, public figures and social influencers from these countries can…

BBM Stickamania is live in Nigeria and you can win cash prizes in this Blackberry sticker competition. It is all about designing the most creative, expressive stickers for BBM. Following the successful series of BBM competitions in Indonesia and South Africa, Nigerians now have the chance to win in this famous competition. All…

WhatsApp has announced that it is scrapping its subscription fees. Hitherto, users were required to pay 99 cents per annum after their first year. If you’ve been using WhatsApp for the six years it has been available then you’ve probably never experienced the subscription fees. Most original users were granted…

Uber has announced that it will be partnering with Airbus to provide on-demand helicopter rides. This means you will be able to hail helicopter rides via the Uber app. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Airbus CEO Tom Enders stated “It’s a pilot project, we’ll see where it goes — but…

Tanzania’s leading digital lifestyle company, Tigo, has announced another quarterly payment of US $ 2.1million (Tshs 4.4 bilion) to its 4.6 million Tigo Pesa users, the seventh time in a row that the company is distributing profit to its mobile financial services users. Speaking at a press conference in Dar…

24 year old Onyeulo Kelechi will be representing Nigeria at the Young Chef Olympiad 2016 taking place in India. Onyeulo is currently a student of Culinary Academy, a hospitality consulting, lifestyle, recreational, and academic organization founded by Ms. Tiyan Alile who has a great passion to educate people and promote the…

One word that has always been essential to Samsung Electronics throughout its history would be “innovation.” It’s never been about singular achievements, but relentlessly pursuing the next big thing. From semiconductors in 1983, all the way to the Gear VR headset in 2014, Samsung has always stayed ahead of the…

This video is at a recent TEDx event in Berlin where Nuhu Ribadu talks about Corruption in Nigeria. He shares his experience as the Chairman of EFCC and three notable cases while in office. The cases include Emmanuel Nwude who singlehandedly defrauded a Brazilian bank of $254million which led to the…

Next month, on the weekend of the 20th and 21st February Egypt will host Africa 2016, the first international business and investment forum of its kind. This is an Africa to Africa investment forum aimed at strengthening business ties within Africa, both at a business and presidential level. The Forum…

Even though Apple’s watch was launched in April 2015, a report by Juniper Research states that it accounted for over half of the smartwatch sales in 2015. Its rival, Android Wear shipments comprised less than 10% of sales for the year. The report also adds that Samsung’s Tizen-based Gear S2 has not achieved…

Google Street View is now available in Uganda, thus making it the fifth African country (after South Africa, Botswana, Swaziland and Madagascar. Streetview is currently available in 75 countries globally. Google Street View is a technology featured in Google Maps and Google Earth that provides panoramic views from positions along…

Nokia and Alcatel-Lucent today celebrate their first day of combined operations, marking the completion of Nokia’s latest transformation and the creation of a global leader in technology and services for an IP connected world. “Nokia has gone through a fundamental transformation,” said Risto Siilasmaa, Chairman of the Nokia Board of…

Innovation Village featured Pewdiepie as No. 1 in Forbes 2015 World’s Top-Earning YouTube stars list and now he has launched his own network to even get bigger. The name of his network is Revelmode. For those who do not know, Pewdiepie makes his money playing videogames and sharing the experience on…