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African Classifieds giant, One Africa Media, has invested an undisclosed amount in Kenya’s online real estate classifieds company, BuyRentKenya.com. BuyRentKenya.com was set up by Jamie Pujara and Nicolas Adamjee in 2012 to provide property seekers with agents and developers. In an exclusive interview with Techmoran, Jamie Pujara said, ” The funding will help us…

Kaymu.com.ng, Nigeria’s leading online marketplace with key focus on entrepreneurship will take the stand on the Focus Day of the Mobile West Africa 2014 to expound on how entrepreneurs and small and medium scale businesses can monetize the digital age. The Mobile Marketing West Africa Focus Day, featuring practically…

Following rapid expansion across Africa, Asia and the Middle East, Lamudi, Africa’s leading online real estate platform is now expanding to Zimbabwe to bring its services to a new market. Launched in October 2013, Lamudi is now operating across 25 countries in Africa, Asia and South America with further expansion planned…

JUMIA, Nigeria’s largest online retailer, founded in Nigeria in early 2012, wins another big award as e-commerce website of the year. The ‘e-commerce website of the year’ award was awarded to JUMIA at the Beacon of ICT awards organized by Nigeria communications week Media that brings different players in the information, communication…

It is being rumoured that Apple is in talks with Dr. Dre over the acquisition of Beats Electronics for a whopping $3.2 billion. This seems to have been corroborated by The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and re/code. This deal would be Apple’s largest acquisition ever. The company…

JUMIA, Nigeria’s largest online retailer with over 20,000 fashion items in store has recently expanded its reach promoting more Nigerian fashion with a partnership with African Fashion Week Nigeria. Jumia Nigeria is the one stop for fashion in Nigeria, giving as much visibility as possible to Nigerian designers to showcase…

Carmudi is continuing to establish itself as the no 1 car classifieds platform for emerging markets as it announced today that it has now has over 20,000 unique listings in Nigeria, having reached 10,000 listings just 2 months ago in March. This rapid growth in listings comes as a response…

APO will award one African journalist transport, accommodation and daily allowance to attend the 2014 Annual Meetings of the African Development Bank APO (African Press Organization) will award one African journalist transport, accommodation and daily allowance to attend the 2014 Annual Meetings of the African Development Bank Group held in…

The Nigerian business community came out in grand style as the Lagos chamber of commerce and industry recognized Konga.com, Nigeria’s largest marketplace and other deserving corporate organizations and public institutions who have contributed to the development of commerce and industry in Nigeria Konga.com picked up the award for most innovative…

Jason Njoku, Founder and CEO of iROKOtv, has just announced that there will be no more free access to Nollywood movies on iROKOtv. According to him on a blog post recently, After spending the best part of 2.5 years building a multi-million dollar freemium service with 95% free and 5%…

E-commerce in Nigeria continues to provide opportunities for Nigerians that they wouldn’t otherwise enjoy with traditional retail stores. As part of efforts of commemorating Nigeria’s formidable workforce this Workers’ Day, Konga.com, Nigeria’s largest online mall and marketplace is taking it to a new level with a sale it is calling…

Easy Taxi, the world’s largest taxi booking app, has teamed up with Samsung to offer its services to even more customers across Nigeria, with the Easy Taxi app to be pre-installed on all new Samsung Galaxy S5 devices as part of the Galaxy Gift Exchange. At the launch of the…

Jovago.com, Africa’s largest online hotel booking platform, has rolled out a new loyalty programme for Nigerian businesses to boost Nigeria’s hospitality industry. The new loyalty programme aims to make the hotel booking process easier for Nigerian corporate organisations and businesses looking to book accommodation for their corporate group trips. Following…

Leading online marketplace Kaymu.com.ng has partnered with Global Oceon, World Health Organization, WHO and the Lagos State Ministry of Health by donating mosquito nets distributed to Itedo Community in Lekki Area of Lagos. On Thursday April 24th 2014 Kaymu took part in the charity walk against malaria to raise awareness…

Samsung has just released a new ad pitting its Galaxy 5S directly against the iPhone 5S. The different thing about this ad is that Samsung actually mentions the iPhone by name instead of the subliminal references to Apple’s devices in the past. Check out the ad below https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUxYqO1yyxE

As you may know, Nike’s rival Adidas is the sponsor for the 2014 World Cup. So how would Nike come up with a World Cup ad without mentioning “World Cup”? Well the ad is interesting and engaging with the likes of Cristiano Ronaldo, Neymar Jr., Wayne Rooney, Andres Iniesta, Zlatan Ibrahimovich…

If you consider washing your car to be a chore, the Nissan Note might just be for you. Or it might just be the technology you have been waiting for. Nissan has just introduced the world’s first “Self-Cleaning” car – Nissan Note. This is based on the innovative paint technology…

In 2013, Indigo Publications registered its 11th consecutive year of growth and profit. Its turnover increased 7.4% to €3.4 million and its operating result rose 25% to €535,000. These good results confirm the group’s excellent health and the durability of its economic model, based on exclusive paid-for information for professional subscribers.…

Tigo Tanzania announced today a partnership with Facebook in which all its customers in the country will get free access to Facebook services in English and a new Kiswahili version through their mobile handsets. It is the first time that Facebook will be free on any mobile network in East…

The online property listings giant Lamudi turns six months old this month and has marked the occasion by releasing an infographic showing the exceptional pace of growth of the company. Launched in October 2013, Lamudi is now operating across 25 countries in Africa, Asia and South America with further expansion…