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Visa Inc. and Bharti Airtel, a leading telecommunications services provider with operations in 20 countries across Asia and Africa, today announced a partnership to bring innovative mobile payment services to seven markets in Africa including Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Rwanda, Seychelles and Tanzania. Visa and Airtel will build on the…

Elo Umeh, the CEO of Terragon Group says it will unveil a new data and advertising technology named the  ‘Adrenaline’ at the ongoing Mobile World Congress taking place in Barcelona, Spain. This innovative technology allows advertisers to buy inventory and access to reach mobile users on organically generated channels which sit on…

Imagine a phone with the following specs: 20 MP camera with sapphire camera cover lens; Size – 144.6 x 69.7 x 9.61 mm 5.0 inch, Full HD 1080p display CPU Speed – Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 810, octa core 64-bit, 4 x 2.0GHz + 4 x 1.5GHz Front-facing stereo speakers with built-in…

It is another important calendar event in the telecoms and related industry. It is the Mobile World Congress taking place in Barcelona. Barcelona is already full of foreigners from all the nooks and crannies of the world either to present new products, showcase current offerings to new people or to…

Samsung has just launched the Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge at the MWC2015 officially opening tomorrow, 2nd March 2015.  The unveiling was done at the Samsung Unpacked event today, Sunday March 1 in Barcelona. “With the all new Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 edge, Samsung is offering what’s next…

Samsung has just unveiled the next generation of Galaxy phones – the Samsung Galaxy 6 and Galaxy 6 Edge.  This was done at the MWC2015 at Samsung’s Unpacked 2015 event. The Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2015 press release started at 5.30 UK time (WAT 6.30p.m) Continue watching the live stream of…

Huawei unveiled its first smartwatch in the Huawei wearable family at the Mobile World Congress today. Simply called the Huawei Watch, it is a stylish circular watch which has a diameter of 42mm and a thickness of 11.3mm. It has a 400×400 resolution AMOLED display. “We have responded to consumers’ requests from around…

Global IT training outfit, New Horizons, has partnered with The Adekeke University, Ede, Osun State, to launch an Information and Communications Technology (ICT) resource centre at the university campus. This N50m resource centre, with over 100 HP CPU-Monitor combined computers, intelligent boards, and multimedia projectors, has installed networking facilities, software, international IT-E Biz courses/curricula,…

The announcement has just been made about the interoperability between Tigo Pesa and Vodacom’s M-Pesa in Tanzania. This means that 4 million Tigo Pesa users will for the first time be able to exchange money with 6 million M-Pesa customers in Tanzania later this year. Commenting on the announcement, Millicom’s…

Diamond Bank has introduced a fingerprint recognition feature on its Mobile App. This means that Diamond Bank customers can log into their accounts with their fingerprints instead of using their User IDs and passwords. This new feature has been made possible by an iOS Touch ID recognition feature, which is a…

As a build up to the March 1st telecast of episode one of Nigerian Idol season five, Nigeria’s most innovative telecommunication, Etisalat treated members of the press and guests to an exclusive episode of the show. The event held at Oriental hotel, Lagos was to give guests a peek of…

This Saturday, 28th February at Oceanview Victoria Island Lagos, the Airtel Trace Music Star for Nigeria will emerge to join the 12 other finalists from other Airtel particpating countries in Africa. The five finalists from Nigeria are Pearl, Tejiri, Omotayo, Yetunde or Jitey. The winner of each country will be…

HTC has announced the launch of a new UEFA Football Collector’s Edition HTC One (M8). The back of this special edition smartphone is engraved with every past league winner of the Champions League. This is the second unveiling in the HTC UEFA Champions League Collector’s Edition range. HTC had earlier delighted…

Tech Giant, Apple, is to pay $533 million for infringing three patents owned by Smartflash. This order was given after a federal jury in Texas determined that Apple willfully used Smartflash’s patents without permission. Smartflash had asked for $852 million in damages. According to Apple, “We refused to pay off…

New report shows hard retail data, consumer needs and behavior, combined with macro-economic datasets, are better indicators of opportunity and success in African markets For brands eager to tap into the growing African markets and the region’s estimated 350 million middle class consumers, relying solely on macro-economic data such as…

Connecting with consumers has always been the main focus of brands ever since the invention of marketing. Kaymu – one of Africa’s largest online shopping communities – brings a fresh perspective on using Social Media as a marketing tool. Marketing has evolved greatly since 1941, which saw the broadcast of…

In an apparent move to re-energize his social media image following a growing slide in his electoral fortunes as well as a series of scandals involving Mr. Reno Omokri, President Goodluck Jonathan has appointed Obi Asika as his new Social Media Strategist. Obi Asika, known in music circles as the…

The Hello Tomorrow Challenge is calling for the most creative minds across the world to compete in 6 tech tracks that will shape our TOMORROW: Energy & Environment, Information Technologies, Food & Agriculture, Healthcare, Materials & Manufacturing, and Transport & Mobility. The challenge comprises more than €300,000 of potential gains…

Pass.ng, one of the nine startups in the first edition of the 440NG Accelerator program and winner of 1 million Naira in the Airtel Catapult-A-Startup has launched its service on the Airtel Nigeria Network. Pass.NG is the revolutionary service targeted at secondary school leavers and other exam takers in the…

In celebration of the first issue of its debut comic strip, Black Sage, Boxtout Studios is offering a free download of a copy as from the 6th of February, 2015. Black Sage Comics is not just meant to entertain, but issue-driven and economic-solutions-oriented. It covers a broad spectrum of issues…