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Orange awarded Bassita the first prize in the 2015 Orange African Social Venture Prize competition. The announcement was made during the AfricaCom Awards ceremony held in Cape Town last night. Bassita is an Egyptian start-up that has developed the idea of “click funding”. The platform allows businesses to host their social, cultural or…

Travelbeta.com is the newest online travel agency in Nigeria and it has raised $2 million barely six weeks of going live online. According to Onyeka Akumah, co-Founder and Chief Commercial Officer of the company,  “We have raised a seed fund of $2,000,000 from a group of Nigerian Investors lead by Altheus Limited…

The first Ford car has been rolled out of the Ford Assembly plant in  Nigeria. In August this year, Ford in conjunction with Coscharis Motors announced that it would commence the assembly of the Ford Ranger Pickup truck in Nigeria as from the last quarter in 2015. According to Jeff Nemeth,…

Remember the popular Twitter campaign #ThingsILongThroatFor? Well, turns out it was a smart launch for the reveal of the new 60CL Pepsi bottle, AKA The Long Throat Bottle. Wow! The campaign set Twitter on fire! Nigerian celebrities like Wizkid, Tiwa Savage and Seyi Shay went on Twitter to announce the…

Thursday, 19th November 2015 will go down in history as the day Ethiopian Airlines operated its first ever all female crew flight. The flight operating from Addis Ababa to Bangkok will be a historic flight aimed at empowering women on the eve of the Airline’s 70th Anniversary. From the ground…

22 year-old Nigerian Chris Kwekowe, founder of Slatecube, has won the Anzisha 2015 Grand Prize for African youth entrepreneurship. Chris beat the other finalists to take home the grand prize of $25,000. Fintech entrepreneur Fabrice Alomo (22, Cameroon) was 1st Runner Up ($15,000) and fashion entrepreneur Mabel Suglo (22, Ghana) was 2nd Runner Up…

Tigo has announced the launch of a new offer of Techno Y3 Smartphone with a fully-embedded Kiswahili menu as a gift to new and up-coming customers to enable them to share with their beloved ones all the wonderful moments associated with Christmas and New year holidays. Announcing the new offer…

President Muhammadu Buhari flagged off the N40 billion support for Nigerian farmers yesterday in Kebbi State. Under the CBN Anchor Borrowers programme, the government set aside N40 billion out of the 220 billion Naira Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise Development Fund which will be given as support for small scale farmers…

The Next Einstein Forum (NEF), an initiative of the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) in partnership with Robert Bosch Stiftung, today announced the 2015/2016 NEF Fellows Class – twelve of Africa’s top scientists and technologists under 42 years old, working in Africa and around the world. Central to the…

OLX, the leading online classified is putting their money where their mouth is by equipping young graduates with entrepreneurial skills. In a recent interview with Femi Oriowo, a business developer and an avid OLX user, he described how he was able to get his current job by using the platform…

Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, has announced the activation of Facebook Safety Check in Nigeria after last night’s bombing in Yola, Adamawa State. Facebook’s Safety Check is a feature activated during natural or man-made disasters to quickly determine whether people in the affected geographical area are safe. Previously named the Disaster Message…

Microsoft Corp. has launched a new fund to cultivate companies with solutions that bring affordable Internet access to underserved markets. The fund is part of Microsoft’s Affordable Access Initiative, which invests in new last-mile access technologies, cloud-based services and applications, and business models that can reduce the cost of Internet…

The 18th annual AfricaCom 2015 kicked off today, 17th of November in Cape Town, South Africa and will run till the 19th of November. The event, hailed as the biggest and best tech event in Africa, gathers together senior decision-makers from the entire digital ecosystem. The theme of this year’s event…

The investment is valued at 5 million euros and will enable Algeria to reduce the import bill for medicines The unit will produce 500 million tablets of its anti-diabetes medicine in its various dosages Improved availability and better access to treatment of diabetes for Algerian patients Merck , a leading…

Black Friday, one of the biggest shopping days in the world, will this year offer great deals and price cuts for bargain hunter around Africa. Set to be the first and largest event of its kind in Africa, Jumia, the leading online shopping destination in Africa, introduced Black Friday for…

World Panel Inc. today showcased its latest products at AfricaCom and announced a deal with Vodacom as a key retail partner to sell its new SunStream™ in select stores. Executives from both companies were on the floor of the Cape Town tradeshow to unveil the products that directly connect mobile…

Crackberry has just released leaked photos of Blackberry’s second android phone – the Vienna. This is just weeks after Blackberry Priv – the first blackberry android phone – was released. With the Vienna, Blackberry is going back to the iconic Blackberry layout, ditching the Priv’s slider which I do not…

#PrayforParis is currently trending on Twitter and Instagram as the world sympathises with Paris. Paris came under 6 terrorist attacks simultaneously yesterday evening in different places including Stade de France (where Germany was playing France), Le Bataclan concert hall, restaurants and bars. As at the time of this report, it is reported that…

Google says that it wants to do a lot to support artists and all the fans who turn to YouTube to discover music, so they are making the experience even better with a brand new YouTube Music app. With YouTube Music, you’ll get a completely new type of experience, designed to make…

Keeping up with its commitment to improve quality of human life, to enable people to do more, feel better and live longer, GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals joined the rest of the world to mark the 2015 World Pneumonia Day at an event held on the Thursday, November 12 in Abuja. While delivering…