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Garmin today announced two of its latest GPS running watches –the Forerunner 230 and the Forerunner 235. Tracking distance, pace, time, heart rate and more, the 230 and 235 keep runners on pace for their next personal record. The Forerunner 235 is the first product to feature Garmin Elevate wrist…

MoneyGram , a global provider of innovative money transfer services, and Econet Wireless, the leading mobile operator in Zimbabwe, today announced the launch of a new service that enables customers from more than 200 countries and territories worldwide to transfer funds via EcoCash, Zimbabwe’s leading mobile money transfer solution. The…

Want to know about the North West province of South Africa? You must get the new Bokone Bophirima Tour App.  This is an integrated mobile app that puts the sights and sounds of the North West Province tourism, heritage, attractions, arts and culture, at user fingertips, with personalised guidance on the go. The…

Olatunji Olajide loves to play videogames and he makes a lot of money doing this. In his world, he is simply known as KSI or KSIOlajidebt and Forbes claims he made $4.5million last year just doing this, thus placing him in the 5th position on the 2015 world’s top-earning YouTube…

Swatch has launched its own device, the Swatch Bellamy, to partake in the payments space. The Swiss watchmaker presented the new “pay-by-the-wrist” watch, at the landmark Swatch Art Peace Hotel in Shanghai earlier this week. Swatch joined forces with China UnionPay and Bank of Communications to introduce the contactless payment…

Interswitch, Africa’s leading digital payments and commerce provider, has announced an integration of its Quickteller services with BlackBerry’s BBM™. The groundbreaking service will be made possible via a new app called Quickteller Mini, available for smartphones running Android™, BlackBerry and iOS®. With this partnership, BBM users with a Nigerian bank…

Veteran IT professional and Founder of Codeplus Software Academy, Abiodun Oke wishes to train 10,000 Nigerian youths in Software development by 2020. He made this assertion at the recent launch of Nigeria’s first free software academy with the tagline, #TheJourneyIntoTomorrowBeginsToday, on the 1st of October 2015 at Otaru house, off Ikosi…

One Africa Media (OAM) has landed in Mauritius through the acquisition of a stake in Property Finder Ltd, a subsidiary of La Sentinelle Ltd who operates the leading property portal on the island, Lexpressproperty.com, as well as other publications including home decor website, lacase.mu. OAM is Africa’s largest online classifieds group and…

Jumia, the leading online shopping destination in Africa, has been adjudged the overall best organization in 2015 Customer Service (CS) practice in Nigerian e-commerce landscape. This award clearly signifies a strong desire and commitment to creating a convenient ecosystem where everyone across Nigeria can shop with ease. It plainly asserts…

Nigerian Online digital printing startup, Printivo, announced that it has secured a six-figure investment early-stage technology venture capital firm, EchoVC Partners for expansion. The investment will be used to significantly broaden the company’s product range, increase headcount, accelerate customer acquisition and scale the business. Initially servicing Nigeria’s booming SME sector, Printivo is poised…

Today, Novartis (NVS) announced the launch of Novartis Access in Kenya, the first country to benefit from a portfolio of 15 affordable medicines to treat cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, respiratory illnesses, and breast cancer. The Novartis portfolio is being offered to the Kenyan government, non-governmental organizations and other public-sector healthcare providers…

Well-loved fun fruit drink brand, Yojus will be staging the second edition of its annual painting contest, Yojus Painting Star on Saturday, October 24, 2015. Targeting children between the ages of 6 and 12 years in primary school, the competition aims to encourage creativity and thinking amongst children and provide them with…

It is said to be the largest tech deal of all time; at least for now. It is Dell’s acquisition of EMC for $67 billion The press release published today states that “The combination of Dell and EMC will create the world’s largest privately-controlled, integrated technology company. The company will be…

Yudala, Nigeria’s first true composite online and offline retail chain, has announced a landmark partnership agreement with foremost financial institution, Access Bank Plc. and telecommunications giants, Airtel on the implementation of YUBOSS, an entrepreneurship scheme targeted at jobs and wealth creation for Nigerians. As part of the pre-launch of YUBOSS,…

Recently the internet has been agog with rumours of a Pepsi phone. The likes of Mashable and The Verge reported that Pepsi was indeed making its own phone – Pepsi P1. The online blogs cited online site Mobipicker, a blog that covers mobile phones, that the Pepsi P1 was an android…

WaraCake is Nigeria’s largest cake marketplace. WaraCake is set to use tech to transform the traditional method by which cakes are being sold by creating the platform which connects the best bakers to customers. WaraCake is positioning itself as a brand to be reckoned with by the new African consumer…

The Co-Creation Hub, a social innovation hub also known as the CcHub, based in Lagos Nigeria has released an infographic about i-HQ, the connected community called Yaba. The CcHub set out to assist in building “an innovation city” – a hotspot for creative ventures. What started out as a vision…

The Huawei Y3C is the first product we are giving away and you can participate to win. And we have two phones. The Huawei Y3C is an affordable smartphone that runs on Android v4.4 kitkat operating system and powered by a 1.2 GHz quad core processor. It is a dual SIM phone and has…

Foremost African financial institution; Guaranty Trust Bank plc has partnered with Agence Française de Développement (AFD) to launch the N3 Billion Ariz Portfolio Guarantee Scheme, an initiative designed to boost financing for business start-ups and development projects in Nigeria. The partnership with GTBank, which is the first in Anglophone Africa,…

Esther Gloria Arinaitwe has emerged as the winner of the Agri-business Innovation Challenge. She did this by introducing a innovative packaging idea for a popular local malt beverage – Bushera. As the winner, Esther received € 20,000. The runner-up Hadijah Nantambi received € 10,000 with the innovative idea of Supa…