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Nigeria: Airtel launches “Awoof Recharge”

Airtel Nigeria recently introduced a new value pack for its customers. Dubbed "Awoof Recharge", the value pack is said to be loaded with six minutes talk time and six SMSes. Chief Commercial Officer, Airtel Nigeria, Maurice Newa explained that: ‘Awoof...

Nigeria: Google’s Executive Breakfast Forum ropes in 80 execs

Google's upcoming Executive Breakfast Forum, which will be held in Lagos on 24 July, is expected to rope in eighty chief executive officers as well as top business executives. The Google Executive Breakfast Forum has been put together by Google...

Orange to improve Internet connectivity in West Africa

Orange has opened West Africa’s first very large-capacity IP Point of Presence (PoP). The operational launch of this facility, which is located in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, is set to enhance Internet connectivity in the sub-region by offering faster connection...

Nigeria: Airtel reveals Touching Lives initiative

Airtel Nigeria has revealed a major CSR intervention, Airtel Touching Lives, in order to enrich Nigerians and provide assistance to the under-privileged members of the society. According to the Telco, the initiative marks a significant milestone in the company’s history...

Jumia Nigeria reveals Online Marketplace for SMEs

Jumia Nigeria celebrates its 2nd year anniversary with massive growth and impact on the Nigerian economy. Over the past 2 years Jumia has been building an online platform that attempts to bridge the gap between consumers and access to...

Saltside reveals rapid growth for classifieds platform in Ghana

Saltside Technologies, a rapidly growing tech company with offices in Dubai and Sweden, has seen its online classified listing site Tonaton.com grow by more than 300 per cent - with a large percentage of that being from Ghana, Sri Lanka...

Drogba & Co by HOM range launched on Jumia Ivory Coast

Didier Drogba, captain of the Ivory Coast national team, has brought his Drogba & Co. by HOM underwear range home to the Ivory Coast exclusively on www.jumia.ci, with 1€ from every sale going to the Didier Drogba Foundation. Produced in partnership with...

PayPal set to expand services to Nigeria, Zimbabwe and more

The online payment company, PayPal, has stated that it has finalised its plans to offer its services to ten new countries this week. The move will allow countries like Nigeria to use the facility as an alternate option in...

MTN staff, touching lives across Africa

This week marked the start of an ambitious project by MTN employees in Ivory Coast to teach at least 1000 women how to read and write, using a mobile phone. Aptly called the “Y’ello ABC”, the 3-week project forms part...

557m smartphones in Sub-Saharan Africa by 2019

Ericsson has today revealed the scale of the region’s ongoing data revolution with traffic growth doubling the past year. The June 2014 Sub-Saharan Africa Ericsson Mobility Report shows that in 2014 phone users accessed 76,000 TB (terabyte) of data...
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Zoho Launches a Tool to Extract Intelligence from Unstructured Business Data

 Zoho launched Zia Hubs, a solution within Zoho WorkDrive that brings new forms of unstructured business data into the company's broad...
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