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Airshop has won the Abidjan ticket for the 2015 Seedstars World tour. Airshop beat the other finalists to emerge the winner. ICT4Dev.ci and African Media Group took the second and third positions respectively. The event took place at the Orange Technocentre, 2 plateaux Vallon, résidence Bertille, Abidjan. Airshop is a platform that…

Samsung Electronics announced today the global launch of the Samsung Galaxy S6 edge+ and Galaxy Note5. This too live a couple of minutes ago in a Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2015 event in New York. The Galaxy S6 edge+ and Galaxy Note5 blend form and function with industry leading features, including: the…

Sim Shagaya, Founder of Konga.com has announced that the online mall will be introducing Mercury, a new powerful hosted logistics management system next week. He stated this via a tweet today on his page. He also said that Mercury will be free to Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMEs) that wish…

The Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2015 event is currently live in New York and Samsung is launching the Galaxy Note 5 and Galaxy S6 Edge Plus. Check out the video of the event on its website and you can watch it live here below. What should we be expecting from these two new phones? Watch…

MainOne’s  premier Tier III Data Center, MDX-I, has become the first Tier III Data Center operator in Nigeria to achieve both Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) and ISO 27001:2013 certifications. According a press release made available to Innovation Village, this announcement was made by the company Chief…

Convergence Partners has invested $20m for a minority stake in Venture Garden Nigeria (VGN), a diversified fintech company with significant operations in Nigeria. The investment was by the Convergence Partners Communications Infrastructure Fund (CPCIF), the largest fund dedicated solely to ICT infrastructure in Africa. VGN is a holding company for…

Following the first draw of its Reach for the Skye Millionaire reward scheme  held in July at the Bodija market in Ibadan, Oyo State, Skye Bank is set to kick off the second draw of the reward scheme next week in two market locations in Lagos. In a statement, the…

The image above is the teaser invitation sent to journalists of an impending media launch for a yet-to-be named service that Naspers is planning to launch on the 19th of August. However speculation is rife that Naspers is planning to launch a Subscription Video On Demand (SVOD) to compete with Netflix…

In a surprise blog post, Larry page the CEO of Google announced that it would metamorphose into a new holding company – Alphabet. The new company already has a website – Alphabet (http://abc.xyz). According to Larry,  “Alphabet is mostly a collection of companies. The largest of which, of course, is…

GSK – one of the world’s leading research-based pharmaceutical and healthcare companies – is committed to improving the quality of human life by enabling people to do more, feel better and live longer. GSK has partnered with the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN) on an innovative training program, tagged Scientific…

The team behind the Forbes Under 30 $1m Change the world competition has announced that they will be doing a webinar to help with the questions about the competition. The webinar will be to review the rules and guidelines of the competition. The webinar will be presented on Thursday, August 13,…

Seedstars World is coming to Abidjan for its inaugural event – Seedstars Abidjan. This is fresh from its event in Baku, Azerbaijan. Its last African stop was Accra, Ghana where Asoriba emerged the winner. On the 12th of August, the 9 best startups will be invited to pitch in front…

Airtel Nigeria’s Smart icon, Phyno, has jus released a new video titled “Nnunu”. This video shows the artistic talents of the Eastern Nigerian with the sonorous voice of music belle, Stormrex. This is a colourful video that makes you want to keep on playing the song because you just can’t get…

Google has just announced the release of Google Hangouts 4.0 for Android to make Hangouts faster, simpler, and easier on the eyes. Here’s what’s new: Hangouts is sleeker. Now updated with material design, Hangouts has a new look and feel: items respond to your touch in more intuitive ways and transitions between…

After recording monumental success with the maiden edition of its revolutionary CSR initiative, Airtel Touching Lives, leading telecoms operator, Airtel Nigeria, has announced the commencement of the second edition of the initiative, which has been described by many as a ground-breaking approach to Corporate Social Investment. The Airtel Touching Lives…

awamo has announced that it raised 500,000 Euros in its first round of funding to launch a mobile, biometric solution for microfinance lenders in Africa. The microfinance solution company raised 400,000 Euros from business angels from Europe, the US and the United Arab Emirates and the balance from German and European…

It seems that the competition from Samsung and Huawei has adversely impacted the fortunes of Taiwanese smartphone maker, HTC. Trading on Monday witnessed a fall in HTC’s market price to NT$47 billion ($1.5 billion), which is below the NT$47.2 billion cash it had at the end of June. This is essentially…

In June 2015, statistics revealed that the average rental cost for a house or apartment in London has reached £1,515 (USD 2,363) a month. For the same price, you could have your own private pool in Indonesia, a Central Park-adjacent apartment in New York City, or a Mexican mansion. As…

Governments around the world are waking up to the need for the regulation of e-commerce within their countries. The Nigerian government is not left behind as the Consumer Protection Council (CPC) last month disclosed plans to set up a comprehensive framework that would regulate the conduct of electronic commerce transactions…

The English Barclays Premier League (#BPL) kicks off today and Twitter has launched new special Twitter emojis to make the conversations more exciting. Starting today, emojis will show up when any user Tweets using specific dedicated hashtags during the opening weekend. The feature will be live until midnight on Monday…