Easter is a special season of sharing and Nigeria’s largest online mall and Marketplace, Konga.com wants to give everyone the opportunity to share gifts with friends, family and colleagues as it opens its Easter Shop. With the newly launched Konga Marketplace packed with several amazing new features for the buyer and…
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Kaymu.com.ng, Nigeria’s number one online marketplace is bringing rewards and good cheer to its customers this Easter season with the release of the company’s own version of Pharrell’s music video for ‘Happy’ and an Easter-themed competition on the site. In a statement by Kaymu, “our customers have been a major…
Orange Money is now available in 13 countries, including Botswana, Kenya, Uganda, Mauritius, and Egypt (under the name Mobicash) Stéphane Richard, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Orange (http://www.orange.com), gave a bonus to the 10 millionth customer of Orange Money in Dakar, Senegal: Ms Kanny G., who had gone to…
Garmin Southern Africa (Pty.) Ltd is pleased to announce that it is hosting a trade delegation in Accra, Ghana from the 12th to 16th May 2014. The purpose of the trade delegation is to engage with prospective businesses partners in West Africa who have strong distribution and/or reselling capabilities and…
Nigeria’s largest local search engine, VConnect has announced a strategic partnership with Stanbic IBTC, a leading banking conglomerate in Africa and provider of integrated financial services, to enable SME customers of both companies gain online presence and have access to financial aid which would help these SMEs increase reach and…
Nigeria’s leading telecoms company, MTN, has partnered with Nova-Lumos, the world’s first distributed utility provider, to launch a next-generation alternative “mobile electricity” service in Nigeria. The Nova-Lumos service will provide alternative electricity to MTN customers who are living in rural areas across Nigeria and are not connected to the electricity…
Lucy Quist will be taking over from incumbent CEO, Philip Sowah as the New Managing Director of Airtel Ghana with effect from 1st May 2014. Lucy is coming from Vodafone Ghana where she has been the Director for the Enterprise Business Unit. Lucy joined Vodafone Ghana in 2011 as Head of Strategy & Planning…
Bharti Airtel (“Airtel”), a leading telecommunications services provider with operations in 20 countries across Asia and Africa, has been awarded a 3G/4G license by the Tchadian Government. The granting of the Tchad’s first license is an important milestone towards the development of the telecommunications infrastructure, and will facilitate better Internet…
After lurking in the shadows for the first ten months of 2013, cybercriminals unleashed the most damaging series of cyberattacks in history. Symantec’s Internet Security Threat Report (ISTR), Volume 19, shows a significant shift in cybercriminal behavior, revealing the bad guys are plotting for months before pulling off huge heists…
The African Innovation Foundation (AIF) announced the finalists of the prestigious Innovation Prize for Africa (IPA) 2014 (http://www.innovationprizeforafrica.org). Ten African innovators have created practical solutions to some of the continent’s most intractable problems, from a domestic waste biogas system to a wafer matrix for paediatric antiretroviral (ARV) drug treatment. Chosen…
The most anticipated Samsung smartphone device as finally arrived and it is already selling fast and exclusively on Konga.com! The New device from Samsung boasts of 16MP shooter with a super-fast autofocus and support for selective focus and HDR modes. Super-fast internet connectivity that combines the 5th generation WiFi and…
Airtel Nigeria has taken further positive steps in the direction to becoming Nigeria’s leading Internet Company with its foray into the Advertising Space. The Mobile Advertising service is a platform that allows Third Party organizations to promote their brands, products and services to relevant target audience using Airtel’s existing mobile…
Unified Payment Services Limited, the leading Payments Industry Service Provider announces the introduction of a new service platform, Payarena. Payarena offers customers access to Value Added Services which include purchase of Airtime (Virtual Top Up, Prepaid PINs, Blackberry subscriptions, Data bundle plans etc.) for all Telcos in Nigeria; payment of…
YooMee Africa Group, a Swiss based provider of mobile broadband Internet in sub-Saharan Africa, launches its operations in Côte d’Ivoire. After becoming the market leader of broadband Internet in Cameroon, YooMee Africa continues its expansion by deploying its network in Côte d’Ivoire. Broadband internet in the Ivorian market YooMee Côte…
Twitter has started rolling out a new user design of user profiles. Starting on Tuesday, this new look provides more user informartion and some new features. In fact, it looks like Facebook. The new web profile lets you use a larger profile photo, customize your header, show off your best…
Airtel Nigeria, has partnered with Interswitch, Nigeria’s leading integrated payment and transaction processing company, to create an interactive platform, which will enable customers top up their airtime directly from their phones. This service, which is novel in Nigeria, allows Airtel customers who have Verve and MasterCard debit cards to buy…
MTN Group and Bharti Airtel today announced a cross-border remittance partnership in Africa, which seeks to remove the hassles of transferring money between Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso for the operators’ Mobile Money customers on either side of the border. The landmark partnership will enable Mobile Money customers of MTN…
Infobip, a global provider of mobile messaging and payments, announced today that it has launched the first ever end-to-end business messaging solution in South Africa. This makes Infobip the only provider to enable companies – banks, brands, OTTs, social networks, aggregators and others – a direct SMS messaging communication…
Africa Internet Holding (AIH), Africa’s leading startup builder, now announced the launch of Lendico in South Africa. Lendico is the digital alternative to banks that enables investors to directly fund the loans of private individuals. Launching in South Africa today, the NCR-approved Lendico marketplace now offers borrowers cheap loans and investors attractive returns…
The campaign uses social, mobile, and e-commerce technologies, enabling the public to purchase treatments for children in Zambia Donors are able to share information with their social networks and encourage friends to donate Today marks World Health Day, focusing on vector-borne diseases, of which malaria is the most deadly Novartis …