Author: Staff Writer

I am a staff at Innovation Village.

Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook has announced that students in Rwanda will benefit from Internet.org’s SocialEDU. Speaking last night at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, Zuckerberg said SocialEDU is part of Internet.org’s new projects. He described it as “a collaborative online education experience” via mobile. “Facebook and Nokia…

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One of South Africa’s leading banks, FNB has launched its popular Budget Tracker and Daily Money Management tips on Mxit. In a statement made available to Innovation Village this evening, the bank said it decided to bring the tips to Mxit after it had identified a gap in the market…

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King Mohammed VI and president of Mali, Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, have inaugurated the Malian section of the Trans African optical fiber cable in the nation’s capital city of Bamako. The optical fiber cable links the city of Sikasso (border of Côte d’Ivoire and Burkina Faso) to Gogui (border of Mauritania).…

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Global real estate classifieds player Lamudi continue their expansion on three continents at the same time. The platform is now also available in the Philippines, Peru, Ethiopia, Indonesia and Zambia, countries associated with increasingly flourishing economies and booming real estate industries, but also the online communities in these countries are…

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Telecoms company, MTN and Ecobank, a Pan-African bank have announced a partnership aimed at extending cardless ATM services to Ecobank ATMs across Ghana. Through the partnership, about two million MTN Mobile Money subscribers will be able to access convenient, easy and instant money withdrawals Ecobank ATMs anytime and anywhere without…

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Fresh from its acquisition by Facebook, Whatsapp is planning to offer free voice calling later this year, so says CEO and Co-Founder Jan Koum. Jan mentioned this at the during a presentation at Mobile World Congress 2014 currently taking place at Barcelona.  According to New York Times, Jan Koum said users…

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Samsung Electronics  introduced the Samsung Gear Fit, the industry’s first curved, Super AMOLED wearable device for the active consumer. The Gear Fit offers the unmatched convenience of Samsung Gear technology with the most comprehensive fitness tools available, empowering consumers stay physically active without sacrificing personal style or mobile connectivity. “Samsung understands…

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Telecoms company, Etisalat Nigeria is the only telecoms company in Nigeria that was not sanctioned by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC). According to the regulatory agency, only Etisalat met all the key performance indicators (KPIs). Other networks – MTN, Globacom and Airtel will pay about N648 million as fine for…

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Oracle Academy has completed the first “Train the Trainer” Introduction to Computer Science (ICS) course in Lagos, covering database design and programming with SQL. Twenty Five faculty members from Cross River University attended the course delivered by Nigerian professor Dr. Abel Usoro, who teaches the Oracle Academy course at the…

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Omobola Johnson, Nigeria’s communication technology minister has revealed that the communication technology is going ahead with the ban on importation of SIM cards to Nigeria by December 2015. Speaking to ICT journalists in Lagos, she said the decision is part of ways of promoting local content in the sector. She…

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