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Thuraya Telecommunications Company, a leading Mobile Satellite Services operator and The Western Union Company, a leader in global payment services, today announced their agreement to offer top-up services for Thuraya prepaid SIMs for voice and data services using the Western Union® Quick PaySM service. The service is available at participating…

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Whatsapp hit a big milestone yesterday. It now has 500 million active users, sharing more than 700 million photos and 100 million videos every single day. The mobile messaging app maker made the news recently when it was acquired by Facebook for $19 billion. In its blog, it states that…

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Following Jovago’s success in countries such as Nigeria, Kenya and Senegal, the online booking portal founded by Africa Internet Holding (AIH) now announces its expansion into South Sudan, in order to bring easy and transparent hotel booking to an even wider audience across the continent. Jovago aims to make the…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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