Movie lovers need not miss their favorite movies any longer as Africa’s premier cinema app, SceneFlix launches on the Android & iOS Platforms. Sceneflix, in a bid to bring the cinema closer to movie lovers, through their mobile phones, has introduced a first of its kind, mobile application, which will…
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Staff Writer
I am a staff at Innovation Village.
E-commerce is at the epicenter of Africa’s thriving economy. With internet penetration rapidly spreading across the region, this represents huge potential which has hitherto been untapped. Africa Internet Group, one of the continent’s leading e-businesses, ranks Africa’s top seven e-commerce friendly countries. Africa is a burgeoning and largely unexplored consumer…
foodpanda acquires Donesi.com in Serbia, Montenegro, and Bosnia & Herzegovina, Pauza.hr in Croatia and Netpincer in Hungary foodpanda establishes itself as market leader in each of these countries and targets market leadership across Eastern Europe Global online food delivery marketplace foodpanda today announces another series of acquisitions in Serbia, Bosnia &…
In commemoration of World AIDS Day 2014, Coca-Cola Nigeria Limited in partnership with Friends Africa (Friends of the Global Fund Africa), a pan-African NGO, organised a week long HIV/AIDS outreach in Lagos, enabling about 4,000 persons to take the HIV test. The programme, implemented in collaboration with Access Bank, First…
ChopUp, the company that brought the Chibok inspired game, Sambisa, has released a trailer of its new game, Jumpology. The Synopsis of the game reads…. One day walking through the forest, Baba Lasisi finds himself in a tight corner caught between his evil doppelgänger and a monkey (whose bananas he…
Two Telecom companies, MTN and Orange, have partnered with the Cameroun Govt to introduce a Mobile Tax Service. The government said the service will help millions of taxpayers in the country pay their property taxes via mobile money. Cameroon has a population of 20 million people, and property tax collection…
The arrival of Genevieve Nnaji as a true fashion icon did not just start today. The Award winning Nollywood actress has been known for not only her amazing acting talent that has won her numerous awards, but for also being a woman of simplicity and great style. Recently, with the launch of her…
Investors are seeking opportunities in new sectors and geographic locations with Dubai and the UAE a well-placed hub to drive and facilitate growth Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) countries are placing more attention on new markets in east, west and southern Africa as their trade flows with the continent expand, according…
It’s that season again, where all the Nigerian’s living in different areas of the world return home to celebrate the festive season with their loved ones. Most of them are usually referred to as the ‘I Just Got Back’ (Hashtag #IJGB) mostly because those four words are usually the next…
Sidel, the leading global provider of PET solutions for liquid packaging, has announced a new initiative aimed at reducing the amount of PET used in beverage bottles worldwide, thereby helping producers to save money and improve their environmental footprint at the same time. To allow beverage producers and bottlers to…
Thousands of smallholder farmers in Liberia are set to benefit from an innovative seed distribution initiative that seeks to combine food security and Ebola containment strategies in Liberia. The initiative, led by the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) in partnership with the government and other stakeholders, seeks…
International property platform Lamudi has relaunched with a complete revamp of its website to offer a more intuitive design that streamlines the online house-hunting process for users globally. The new website introduces a responsive design, with the site adapting to match the user’s particular device and screen size. The platform’s…
In a bid to making this yuletide season a memorable one for its ever growing loyal customers, Microsoft Mobile Devices has made good its promise of rewarding customers who emerged winners in its in 12 Days of Christmas MakeIthappen Lumia Promotion. The company redeemed its pledge to its winners on…
Nigerian Breweries Plc intends to make a statement with one of its beer brands – STAR. It is currently building what it hopes to be the tallest tree made entirely out of beer bottles. The current World Record of 1000 beer bottles is currently held by the Chinese in the…
Yesterday (December 11), Angry Birds celebrated its birthday by welcoming every baby born in Finland to the flock with a special BirdDay present, a soft hoodie or a warm overall! Angry Birds is a video game franchise created by Finnish computer game developer Rovio Entertainment. Inspired primarily by a sketch…
The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, Saudi Arabia’s King Abdallah bin Abdulaziz al-Saud has extended a grant of US$35 million to help fight Ebola in West Africa. In a statement to the media on this occasion, Dr. Ahmed Mohamed Ali, President of the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) (http://www.isdb.org) said…
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and global telecommunications operator Orange recently announced a new alliance to develop innovations in mobile health (mHealth) at the Global mHealth Forum in Washington, DC. These mHealth innovations will help treat and care for individuals in developing countries across Africa. “With the increasing…
YouTube has launched a new feature that allows you take videos offline to watch later during short periods of low or no internet connectivity. For videos where this feature is available, you can choose to add the video for offline viewing by tapping on the offline icon. Once taken offline,…
TIME Magazine has just announced that the Ebola Fighters as the choice for Person of the year 2014. They beat the other finalists which included Russian President Vladimir Putin, Apple CEO Tim Cook, Artist Taylor Swift, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell and President of the Kurdistan Region in Iraq Massoud Barzani. Time’s managing…
With Kevin Systrom, CEO, Instagram recent announcement of Instagram having an active base of over 300 million users, it now stands taller than Twitter which has an active base of 284 million users. However this is still a far cry when compared to its parent company’s (Facebook) active base of…