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Tue, August 28th, 14:35 · Elly Okutoyi

VoguePay vows to upset online payments in Nigeria

Nigeria-based company Afrisoft Interactive has vowed to disrupt the way online payments are carried out considering that a majority of African countries cannot use international platforms such as PayPal. → Read more
Tue, August 28th, 13:58 · Dan Sudi

Pupils in Rwanda benefit from Carnegie Mellon University’s 14-day training

Carnegie Mellon University provided a 14-day training to more than 300 pupils from Saint Vincent Pallotti primary school. The programme ended last weekend. → Read more
Tue, August 28th, 13:38 · Vincent Matinde

Kenyan university to host tech expo in November

Kenya’s Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) has scheduled this year’s Tech Expo for November 1 and 2 at the college’s main campus in the capital Nairobi. → Read more
Tue, August 28th, 13:00 · Dan Sudi

Shoemaker Bata introduces online store in Kenya

Kenya’s giant shoe maker and retailer Bata Kenya has moved a notch higher in its online ventures by introducing a Web store, a result of a partnership with payment platform firm Pesapal along with Aramex Delivery, a delivery firm. → Read more
Tue, August 28th, 12:21 · HumanIPO

Base stations in Nigeria guzzling US$1.1 billion worth of diesel each year

With over 22,000 Base Transceiver Stations (BTS) across Nigeria, it costs the country’s telcos an estimated N177.7 billion (about $1.1 billion) on fuel each year, reports the Thisday Live. → Read more
Tue, August 28th, 10:51 · HumanIPO

TNW’s Startup World introduced in Africa, $332,000 worth of prizes up for grabs

World’s top online publisher of technology news of international perspective The Next Web (TNW) has extended its initiative, the Startup World Competition, to African technology start-ups staking on promoting tech-entrepreneurship in the continent. → Read more
Tue, August 28th, 09:57 · Tefo Mohapi

Samsung Week slated for Zambia

Lusaka’s capital Zambia is scheduled to host this year's Samsung Week from August 26 to September 1. The weeklong extravaganza would later be rolled out across Africa. → Read more
Tue, August 28th, 09:51 · Dan Sudi

LG unveils L series Android smartphones in Kenya

Electronics giant LG officially launched its wider range of L series Android smartphone at Blancos Lounge in Kenya’s capital Nairobi. → Read more
Tue, August 28th, 09:34 · Elly Okutoyi

Nigerian music streaming service iROKING hits 100,000 registered users

World’s top online distributor of Nigerian music iROKING has announced it has reached its 100,000-subscriber milestone barely seven months after launching. → Read more
Tue, August 28th, 09:15 · Vincent Matinde

Lagos Innovation Hotspots maps out business areas in Nigeria

A startup in Nigeria called Lagos Innovation Hotspots hopes to map out business regions in Lagos, in a bid to show the business side of the city → Read more
Tue, August 28th, 09:08 · Vincent Matinde

Kenya, South Africa part of the M2Work Hackathon

Kenya is part of the global M2Work hackathon slated for September 15 to 16 this year. The code-fest will take place in conjunction with MLab East Africa. → Read more
Tue, August 28th, 08:08 · Dan Sudi

Kenya’s competition regulator now charged with determining mobile voice rates

Kenya’s communications authority the Communication commission of Kenya (CCK) has directed the Competition Authority(CA), country’s consumer protection and fair competition regulator, to make a ruling on the mobile termination rate after it failed to reach an agreement with the country’s four mobile service providers. → Read more
Tue, August 28th, 07:35 · Elly Okutoyi

Mobile technology to help Nigerian Business women

The Cherie Blair Foundation for Women has said it will be launching a new mobile phone service in partnership with Nokia and MTN Nigeria to help women looking to grow their small-scale enterprises in Nigeria. → Read more
Tue, August 28th, 06:55 · Robin Okuthe

Bharti Airtel finds comradeship with Sproxil in battling Africa’s fake drugs

Giant telco Bharti Airtel yesterday announced it has partnered with Sproxil to stamp out the counterfeit drug market in Africa. → Read more
Mon, August 27th, 19:55 · HumanIPO

Nigerian telephony project worth U.S$200million incomplete after 11years

A rural telephony project dubbed National Rural Telephony Project (NRTP) that started eleven years ago in Nigeria is yet to be completed. → Read more
Mon, August 27th, 19:42 · HumanIPO

Airtel soccer clinic starts off in Nairobi

Some 50 boys and girls from across nine African nations were yesterday briefed on what they should expect from the Airtel Rising Stars soccer clinic run by Bharti Airtel Africa in partnership with the Manchester United Soccer Schools. → Read more
Mon, August 27th, 14:12 · HumanIPO

Google highlights ways to enhance African maps

Google recently hosted an African map developer’s conference in Lagos, Nigeria with the aim of understanding the coders’ challenges as well as impart to them new ideas that would improve their skills and performances as they make use of the mapping app. → Read more
Mon, August 27th, 14:11 · Dan Sudi

Ugandan farmers drawn into ICT use in climate change sustainability project

Climate Change Adaptation and ICT (CHAI) project that is targeted at facilitating water solution during dry seasons in Uganda was launched earlier this month in the capital Kampala. → Read more
Mon, August 27th, 13:15 · Dan Sudi

Kenyan MP wants CCK’s fake phone switch off plans put off

Kenya’s Embakasi Member of Parliament Ferdinand Waititu is seeking a court order to hold over paralyzing of non-genuine handsets. → Read more
Mon, August 27th, 12:56 · Elly Okutoyi

Near Field Communication technology catches up in Kenya

Kenyans today embrace the Near Field Communication (NFC) technology more than before thanks to the advancements in mobile and Internet technology, credited for having transformed the society into a more a cashless transaction economy. → Read more