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Sat, April 19th, 12:00 · Gabriella Mulligan
Orange Money hits 10m subscribers
Orange Money has hit the 10 million subscriber mark, with the company celebrating the potential of the service as a “growth engine” for Africa and the Middle East. → Read more
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Fri, April 18th, 08:00 · Paul Adepoju
Airtel launches Easter campaign for mobile money in Ghana
Airtel Ghana has launched a campaign to promote its mobile money service Airtel Money to people travelling to Kwahu, a region in south-central Ghana, this Easter. → Read more
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Thu, April 17th, 18:00 · Paul Adepoju
Etisalat Nigeria launches mobile banking app
Etisalat Nigeria has launched an app offering smartphone users access to mobile money and banking services, expanding its mobile banking services for its subscribers. → Read more
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Thu, April 17th, 17:30 · Susan Mwenesi
Roaming charges in East Africa set to come down
Roaming charges in East Africa are to come down after the governments of Rwanda, Uganda and Kenya promised to sit down and discuss the best modalities of bringing down the charges. → Read more
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Thu, April 17th, 11:30 · Tom Jackson
Kenya’s internet market recovers lost ground
Kenyan internet subscriptions increased by 1.2 million to 13.1 million between October and December last year, recovering from losing almost one million subscribers during the previous quarter, according to the latest figures from the Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK). → Read more
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Thu, April 17th, 11:00 · Tom Jackson
IHS secures $130m in latest funding round
African tower management firm IHS has secured a further US$130 million for expansion across the continent, adding to the US$490 million of debt and equity announced last month. → Read more
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Thu, April 17th, 10:00 · Gabriella Mulligan
Egypt’s political turmoil not a hindrance – BEE
Political instability in Egypt over recent years has not impacted negatively on mobile usage or payments, although frequent changes in governments have delayed new deals, according to mobile payments solutions firm BEE. → Read more
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Thu, April 17th, 09:30 · Chris Udemans
MTN partners Vivo for energy services
South African mobile operator MTN has partnered Vivo Energy, the company that distributes Shell products, to expand services to their customer bases. → Read more
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Thu, April 17th, 09:00 · Agatha Nduku
Telecel subscribers win trips to 2014 World Cup
Telecel Zimbabwe has presented four of its subscribers to the Go to Brazil Bhora promotion with tickets to the 2014 FIFA World Cup taking place in Brazil from June 12 to July 13. → Read more
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Thu, April 17th, 08:00 · Chris Udemans
FICO software saves FNB $14m
Predictive analytics and decision management software firm FICO has saved South Africa’s First National Bank (FNB) over ZAR150 million (US$14.2 million) by reducing the amount of fraudulent activity taking place on the bank’s network. → Read more
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Thu, April 17th, 05:00 · Chris Udemans
BlackBerry invests in IT healthcare firm
BlackBerry has announced an investment into IT healthcare firm NantHealth, hoping to transform the delivery of health services. → Read more
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Wed, April 16th, 20:00 · Chris Udemans
Evidence for mobile phone-related cancers mounting – study
Evidence of health risks from electromagnetic fields (EMF) and wireless technologies has increased substantially since 2007, according to a study by the BioInitiative Working Group. → Read more
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Wed, April 16th, 19:30 · Gabriella Mulligan
SA author, Tourism Radio launch storytelling app
South African author Peter Delmar and digital tour guide Tourism Radio have launched a storytelling app covering the N1N4 road linking South Africa and Botswana. → Read more
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Wed, April 16th, 17:30 · Paul Adepoju
MTN Ghana launches 30-day 400MB social media bundle
Ghana’s largest telecoms company MTN has announced a data bundle specifically for heavy users of WhatsApp, Twitter and Facebook, offering subscribers 400MB for 30 days. → Read more
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Wed, April 16th, 16:30 · Susan Mwenesi
Eneza scoops overall price at Kenya’s Vision 2030 innovation awards
Eneza Education, a virtual tutor and teacher's assistant on low-cost mobile phones that makes it easier for students to engage teachers directly, was the overall winner of the 2014 Vision 2030 awards. → Read more
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Wed, April 16th, 15:30 · Agatha Nduku
MasterCard funding AppLab Money for Kenya’s unbanked
MasterCard has partnered the Grameen Foundation on AppLab Money, an initiative designed to create mobile financial services products for the unbanked and underbanked in Kenya. → Read more
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Wed, April 16th, 13:00 · Agatha Nduku
Airtel delighted to assist Kenyan MVNOs
Airtel Kenya says it is delighted to open a new chapter in Kenya’s telecoms industry with the announcement it will host three mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) on its network. → Read more
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Wed, April 16th, 09:00 · Gabriella Mulligan
Vodacom launches G-Connect Wi-Fi offering
South Africa’s leading operator Vodacom has launched a G-Connect Wi-Fi offering, allowing customers to buy Wi-Fi bundles to be used at G-Connect’s 1,500 hotspots across South Africa. → Read more
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Tue, April 15th, 18:30 · Chris Udemans
Mxit launches deals platform
South African mobile social network Mxit has partnered with in-store mobile transaction platform provider wiGroup to launch “Deals on Mxit”, an initiative to bring special offers and discounts to new and existing Mxit users. → Read more
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Tue, April 15th, 15:30 · Gabriella Mulligan
Mobile solutions to replace physical wallets by 2019 – Wallenje
Physical wallets across the world will disappear and be replaced with mobile solutions by 2019, according to Ondieki Obare, chief executive officer (CEO) of Kenyan mobile money and loyalty card startup Wallenje. → Read more
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