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The DHL Global E-Tailing 2025* study analyses the role which eCommerce will play in consumer’s live in the year 2025 Over the next 10 years, online retail will continue to gain popularity in both developed and emerging markets and as a result, logistics companies are set to play a key…

DISTREE Africa will be held at Kenya’s Safari Park Hotel from 19-21 June SanDisk (http://www.sandisk.com), the global leaders in flash memory, will showcase some of its latest products at Africa’s first ever DISTREE in Kenya, which kicks off today. Africa represents one of the biggest opportunities for the flash giant…

Global real estate portal Lamudi.com has today unveiled a world-first Android app for house-hunters, available in Nigeria and 27 emerging markets worldwide. Lamudi Nigeria currently hosts more than 18,000 property listings from Lagos, Abuja, Port Harcourt, Ibadan and other cities and towns across Nigeria. Globally, the Lamudi ventures collectively list…

With the World Cup going on in Brazil, here is a profile of the 10 most beautiful hotels that the football teams are staying at during the tournament 1. Nigeria – Vitoria Hotel   Vitória Hotel Campinas Concept is the largest and newest venture network, opened in February 2003. Marco referential…

Starting from June 17 to June 19, 2014, the 14th edition of the Card, ATM & Mobile Expo 2014 will be holding at the Expo Centre, Eko Hotel & Suites, Victoria Island, and  eTranzact limited, Nigeria’s first award winning multi-application and multi-channel electronic transaction switching and payment processing platform has…

TECNO Mobile has announced it is partnering with OLX Nigeria, an online free classifieds platform, to launch its OLX Makes Me Happy campaign. The phone manufacturing company said it is giving out one of its latest products, the TECNO R7 which also comes with an Etisalat 6GB data bundle for…

foodpanda, together with its affiliated brand hellofood, one of the world’s leading food delivery marketplaces, announces today that it has taken over Russia’s food delivery business Delivery Club. Through the acquisition, foodpanda/hellofood Russia now offers the broadest food selection in Russia with access to over 2,500 partnering delivery restaurants via…

GeoPoll (http://research.geopoll.com), the world’s largest real-time mobile survey platform, today released initial findings on TV ratings, audience size and demographics following the first games of the 2014 FIFA World Cup. The data, gathered via mobile surveys in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania and Uganda, provides a first-ever glimpse of the fans…

MTN has been rated among the top 500 global companies on corporate sustainability and environmental impact in the 2014 Newsweek Green Rankings. The rankings are one of the world’s most recognised assessments of corporate environmental performance. Newsweek partnered with Corporate Knights Capital and leading sustainability minds from non-governmental organisations and…

Last night, Delta Airlines congratulated the US soccer team  on Twitter and Facebook for beating Ghana in a World Cup game. US beat Ghana 2 – 1. While the message chose the Statue of Liberty to stand for USA, it used the picture of a giraffe to depict Ghana. See…

I had thought that Google would only do a Doodle for the beginning of the World Cup as shown here. But I was wrong. Apparently, Google relocated some of its doodlers to Brazil to celebrate and capture the spirit of the football fiesta. Here are some of the doodles they…

The speedster, the creator, the dribbler, the powerhouse and the engine. Every team in the World Cup has a player that shows at least one such quirk on the field. Compare that to cars and bang on! You get to see a striking similarity that is just so hard to…

Nigeria’s leading online marketplace Kaymu.com.ng has partnered with Nigeria’s first twenty-four hour music and lifestyle channel Nigezie TV to organize the biggest sporting event of the World Cup titled Watch a Match with a Celebrity on the 21st of June 2014. According to the Tomiwa Oladele, Public Relations Manager for Kaymu, “The World Cup is the…

Customers can transfer money to their Orange Money account directly from their BNP Paribas bank account, or vice versa, simply, quickly and securely Orange and the BNP Paribas group offer retail banking customers in Africa direct access between their BNP Paribas account and their Orange Money account through their mobile…

It has been announced that this week, PayPal will be expanding its payment services into Nigeria, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Zimbabwe and 6 other countries. The other countries are 5 European countries – Belarus, Macedonia, Moldova, Monaco and Montenegro and one South American country – Paraguay. According to Reuters, Rupert Keeley,…

With the 2014 FIFA World Cup going on, you can get football alerts, fixtures and updates from different services on the Airtel Network. – To get football alerts, highlights and updates, Dial *244*8#. You will get action from Brazil live and direct – For insights and news from former Nigerian…

After the selection and the training, we now have part 1 of the Match to save the world from the aliens. “The months of training are behind them and the challenge for earth begins now” How will the Lionel Messi led team fare against the Hurakan? Watch….. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ystoqYTciBI&feature=youtu.be

Google in its usual tradition has unveiled a doodle for the 2014 FIFA World Cup. The doodle features a ball in the Brazilian colours of green and yellow rolling across the screen, before a scene is unveiled that features some of the country’s most famous landmarks. The football event starts…

APO (African Press Organization), the sole press release wire in Africa and the global leader in media relations relating to Africa, announced today that entry is now open for the 2014 APO Media Award (#APOMediaAward).The first-place winner will be presented with $500 a month for one year, one laptop…

Hellofood, Africa’s leading online food delivery marketplace, has been selected as the best ecommerce startup at the 2014 European Tech Startup Awards “The Europas”, which took place yesterday in London. Having successfully expanded its service to over 40 countries since launching less than two years ago, the startup has proven…