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MWC: Orange launches low cost Firefox digital offer across Africa

Orange has launched a new low cost digital offer across its African footprint in a bid to win the battle for data customers...

East Africa

UK crowdfunding platform opens the door to emerging markets investments

A new UK crowdfunding platform aims to give UK-based investors the chance to invest in some of the most exciting frontier and...

Events

Unlocking opportunities in Africa through business and technology

Africa’s one billion plus population is adopting technology at an unprecedented rate. However many tech startups and entrepreneurs in the UK are not...

East Africa

Mobile operators emerge as Africa’s latest VC investor

Venture capital (VC) funding is slowly but surely arriving in Africa for in greater quantities. High profile funding rounds in 2014 for...

Innovation

Data hungry Africans creating data storage challenges

Data consumption continues to grow at an incredible pace globally. Over 90% of all the data in the world was created in...

East Africa

Local internet hosting is key to internet development in Africa

The development of locally relevant content that is attractive to users has been shown to have a positive impact on internet adoption....

East Africa

Tigo subscribers to enjoy 36m music tracks on their smartphones

Music streaming is the fastest growing area for the global music industry and music content is already the second most popular mobile...

East Africa

The first mobile money service to pay profit to its users

Tigo has announced the first of its regular quarterly payments worth 3bn/- (US $ 1.8 million) to Tigo Pesa users in Tanzania

Innovation

African online recruitment pushes beyond traditional jobs boards

Online recruitment in Africa has been on an upward curve in the past few years, both for full-time and temporary work, with...

Awards

Airtel wins best App for Africa at AfricaCom Awards

The winners of the digital and telecoms awards have been announced at AfricaCom Awards 2014 in Cape Town, with Airtel winning best...

Innovation

Airtel and Grameen Foundation to launch mobile health services

In an effort to reduce infant and maternal mortality rate in Nigeria, Airtel Nigeria has partnered with Grameen Foundation and VAS2nets Technologies...

Gadgets

Wiko mobile phone brand launches in Nigeria

After establishing a strong market position in Europe in just three years, Wiko started its operation in West Africa by launching its...

Apps

5 myths that hold a business back from getting an app

There’s no doubt that among global small businesses, there’s a serious mobile app deficit. While no one has done an exhaustive survey,...

Social Media

Social media for business a no-brainer

Social media for business is the single most cost effective distribution channel any business has at its disposal. This Content-generating resource lends...

Events

BrowseDotCom conference coming to Lagos

BrowseDotCom, has announced the date for the second edition of their annual conference 2014 which will take place on October 18th, 2014 at...

Independent VoD providers the future of video in Africa

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Innovation

Independent video on demand providers the future of video in Africa

With video on demand (VoD) services and independent VoD providers on the rise in Africa, many believe VoD is the future of...

Apps

Self service apps to drive customer experience for MNO’s

Self Service applications allow customers to manage their mobile account transactions real time from their individual phones. A recent study conducted by...

East Africa

Tigo debuts m-wallet interest payments in Tanzania

Tigo claimed a world first after launching an innovative mobile money service in Tanzania which offers users the opportunity to automatically earn...

Apps

Nigerian subscribers to get free Ebola information on mobile

Airtel Nigeria in collaboration with Opera Software, has launched a free service for customers looking for information on the Ebola virus.

Innovation

MTN and Huawei trial the industries fastest and most intelligent optical network in Africa

MTN, Africa’s largest telecommunications operator and Huawei announced the successful live trial of a Transport Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and 2.4Tbit/s wavelength-division multiplexing...

Events

Mobile Web Africa 2014 returns to Johannesburg

Mobile Web Africa 2014, the fifth South African edition of the most progressive and interactive mobile focused events in Sub-Saharan Africa, returns...

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