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I am a staff at Innovation Village.
Ericsson has announced its partnership with Informa to host an innovation station “Ericsson AHUB” at AfricaCom 2015, Cape Town, 17- 19 November. The innovation station will bring together Africa’s leading entrepreneurs, tech start-ups and angel investor communities to encourage investment and showcase talent in the technology sector. This initiative extends Ericsson’s…
Are you an existing or aspiring entrepreneur? Konga.com has something for you. Get ready for the biggest Seller Summit specially organized for small and medium business owners in Nigeria. The theme for the event is The New Marketplace: Tapping into the Ecosystem. As an entrepreneur in Nigeria’s fast evolving trade…
Mr. Rahul De has replaced Mr Bayo Adekambi as MTN Nigeria’s Chief Marketing Officer. MTN Nigeria announced that Mr Adekanmbi had won a global inter-school Ph.D research competition thereby leaving the company on a sabbatical leave. Bayo was recently appointed the CMO of MTN Nigeria in October 2014. Before taking up…
Interswitch, Africa’s leading integrated payment processing and transaction switching company has been appraised at Maturity Level 3 on the CMMI Institute’s Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) framework. The appraisal validates the high level of importance Interswitch places on the quality of its service delivery, having instituted well defined processes which are…
She Leads Africa has announced the six finalists in its 2015 Entrepreneurs showcase. This is the second edition of this competition. The chosen finalists are as follows: Beauty Rev NG – Beauty Rev NG provides cool, edgy beauty brands at the click of a button. Founded by Louisa Kinoshi, BeautyRevNG…
Jovago, Africa’s N°1 hotel-booking website is proud to announce the opening of new offices in Kampala. The expansion across Africa shows consistency in covering the African continent with localized Jovago presence in order to reach and satisfy the needs of all our travellers. Uganda’s booming population, fast-growing economy and beautiful…
In a bid to ensure sustenance our National cultural heritage, which according to most experts is gradually fading amongst children, foremost financial institution; Guaranty Trust Bank plc is embarking on anamazing journey to promote the Nigerian native languages through a national competition for children titled “SKS In Your Mother Tongue”. The competition which is powered…
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…