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CcHUB officially launches the Geeks Club, an after-school computing club for secondary school students in Nigeria. Providing a co-curricular outlet, Geeks Club engages students in secondary school and provides them with new tools, resources and skills to creatively express themselves. On the 11th of March 2015, with support from Google…

TopCheck, a price comparison website based in Nigeria, says it has just closed its first round of financing with a group of European business angels. Just launched 2 months ago, in January 2015, TopCheck is a price comparison website for services in Nigeria offering a comprehensive set of product categories…

Uber has announced that it is committing to create 1 million jobs globally for women as drivers on the Uber platform by 2020. This commitment was made in light of a new global partnership with UN Women with the goal of accelerating economic opportunity for women. Currently Uber has over 160,000…

If you have been keeping up with the JIMsBigThing mystery you will know by now that it is a mobile phone by Infinix that is being described as revolutionary! Jumia Nigeria, Infinix and MTN had been keeping their cards close to their chest for the past few weeks but now…

Mr Lampe Omoyele has been appointed as Managing Director of Nielsen West Africa, replacing Mr Harshvardhan Sarda who will be taking on a new role in Nielsen. Lampe is an accomplished leader from Nigeria with more than 25 years’ experience, gained in top consumer goods and telecommunications companies across West…

Vodafone is truly working on making M-Pesa ubiquitous across East Africa with the enablement of mobile money transactions between Kenya and Tanzania. It should be remembered that M-Pesa is the brain-child of Vodafone and it won worldwide fame which it emerged as a successful initiative in Kenya being pushed by…

Accenture and the Accenture Foundations have awarded Amref Health Africa an additional grant of US$3 million to help the organization enhance and scale its mobile health training program to 3,000 community health workers in Kenya. This grant brings Accenture’s direct support to Amref Health Africa to more than US$7.3 million since…

Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, announced new details of much-awaited Apple Watch, new MacBook at its “Spring Forward” event. The event took place today at the Yerba Buena Gardens Auditorium in San Francisco. Here are some of the highlights at the event: The Apple Watch The Apple Watch…

A new hashtag, #BabaWhileYouWereGone , was created on Twitter yesterday, March 6 and went viral. Interestingly the hashtag speaks of all things that happened while the APC Presidential Candidate, Muhammadu Buhari was away for 2weeks in the United Kingdom. From the tweets, it would seem that the hashtag was created by a supporter of…

Here are some of scenes from the 2015 Mobile World Congress which took place in Barcelona from 2nd to 5th of March 2015. Enjoy!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQZ4CIBinK8&edit=vd

The 20th edition of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona has come and gone. The Mobile World Congress is the world’s largest annual gathering of mobile and related industry C-Level executives. If anything is happening in mobile, it can be found at MWC. This year’s event took place from the…

Ahead of International Women’s Day 2015, Singapore Committee for UN Women and MasterCard announce the annual launch and call for submissions for Project Inspire: 5 Minutes to Change the World. Celebrating five years of supporting young social entrepreneurs around the world, 2015 promises to be an exciting year. With over…

Earlier in the week, we brought you an interview with one of the companies (Vas2nets) exhibiting at the ongoing Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona. We now bring another company exhibiting at the event, Terragon Group. We had an interview with the CEO of Terragon Group who spoke about their presence at…

…Announces Collaborations with Ericsson, Samsung, Others as Part of Broad Effort Spanning Silicon, Devices, Security and Networking Solutions Intel Corporation CEO, Brian Krzanich has announced a series of mobile platforms including the company’s new low-cost system-on-chip (SoC) for phones, phablets and tablets, a global LTE solution, innovative personal computing experiences, and a…

Today at Mobile World Congress, Cisco, Deutsche Telekom and Intel announced Challenge Up! a joint Internet of Things (IoT) accelerator for startups from the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region. The program aims at helping innovative IoT startups go-to-market faster through joint projects, mentoring, high-value networking and corporate assets.…

Remittance Service to be Available to eTranzact Mobile Money Wallet Holders and Banked Consumers in Nigeria, Africa’s Largest Remittance Market At Mobile World Congress, MasterCard today announced an agreement with eTranzact International plc, a leading pan-African mobile banking and payment services company, to make international remittance services available to millions…

British Airways has ‘done the double’ at the Superbrands 2015 awards, winning both the Business and Consumer titles. The airline also secured the Consumer Superbrands title last year, but this is the first time any carrier has secured both the top titles. Google was the last brand to win both…

Vas2nets is one of the only 2 Nigerian companies exhibiting at the Mobile World Congress currently going on in Barcelona. We ran into them Hall P8, Stand 8.ID72 and asked them why they were in Barcelona. Vas2nets is an innovative company providing value added services to the telecoms industry. They offer…

The GSMA today announced that, since the launch of Mobile Connect at Mobile World Congress 2014, there are now 17 mobile network operators (MNOs) who have launched the service in 13 countries, with plans for additional launches and beta trials to follow in 2015. The GSMA’s Mobile Connect service enables…

Apple, LG, Bharti Airtel and Etisalat were among the winners announced at the 20th Global Mobile Awards this afternoon at the GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The winners were announced in a ceremony hosted by actor, comedian, writer and film producer John Cleese. Cleese, best known for the Monty…