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Jumia expands to Cameroon
Jumia is rapidly becoming a household name across the continent of Africa. Following its recent launches in Uganda and Ghana, the online retailer has now gone live in Cameroon. With the launch of the Jumia in Cameroon, the company is…
Africa’s telecoms market to be worth $65bn by 2018
The African telecoms market is set to be one of the main growth success stories for the telecoms sector in the next 5 years. This is according to a new report entitled Sub-Saharan Africa telecoms market: trends and forecasts 2013–2018…
Zimbabwe: Telecash cuts Mobile Money fees
Telecash Zimbabwe has revealed that its customers can now send money for free to other registered telecash subscribers, following the recent revision of telecash charges. According to telecash, the new tariffs show that it costs nothing to send cash through…
Uganda: Airtel Money takes digital award
Airtel Uganda has been voted the Best Digital Financial Service for 2014. The award was received at the Digital Impact Awards Africa. According to Airtel Uganda: “With Airtel Money, customers now get a wider access through nationwide agents and transact…
Is consumerisation forcing businesses to rethink IT?
Technology has forever altered the way we interact in our business and personal lives. The consumerisation of IT is forcing businesses to rethink how they run IT, and making them forge better, more collaborative relationships with their users. Karen Tegan…
Huawei invests 100 Million NGN to train Nigerian youths
Huawei Nigeria has invested 100 million NGN ($616,956.89) in a six-month vocational training for 41 Niger Delta youths. The 41 beneficiaries attending the scholarship program left the country on Sunday for Malaysia. Before leaving the country, each beneficiary had undergone…
Nigeria: Easy Taxi to drive Ebola awareness campaign
Easy Taxi and Dettol have set up a training session for the Easy Taxi drivers during their monthly meeting to inform them on the symptoms and preventive measures of the deadly Ebola virus. The drivers who were visibly pleased with…
PayPal lands 1 Million active users in SA
PayPal has revealed that over a million South African consumers now have active PayPal accounts across the country. PayPal also stated that the company has over 152 million active accounts in 203 markets around the world, including: Algeria, Kenya, Rwanda,…
MTN reveals two new smartphones for Nigeria
MTN Nigeria has revealed two new Android powered smartphones. The devices launched include the the Sm@rt mini620 and SM@rt 720i. The devices are set to sell in the country for NGN 8,000 ($50). According to MTN, The Sm@rt Mini 620…
Cell C launches new Daily Data deals in SA
Cell C has revealed a new range of same day and late night data bundles, which are now available to all prepaid and hybrid customers. Cell C CEO, Jose Dos Santos, stated that: “Our strategic objective is to offer an…
Innovation Dinner August 2014 Sponsors Revealed
Africa’s foremost ICT publication ITNewsAfrica.com, today announced that Hitachi Data Systems, Microstrategy, and Samsung are partnering up at the IT News Africa Innovation Dinner. Hitachi Data Systems develops comprehensive data storage solutions to help its customers protect and manage their…
IT News Africa: Top Stories of the Week
This week has been a busy one in the technology industry. Not only has SAP announced that it will be injecting a $500 Million investment into Africa, but Vodacom has also stepped up to the plate with a R1 Billion…
Ghana: Tigo unveils new IVR system
Tigo Ghana has unveiled the installation of an Interactive Voice Response (IVR) system. The system is intended for pre-paid and post-paid customers to access Tigo’s entire product offering through a unified short code, 555. According to Tigo, the installation is…
Tanzania: Airtel reveals cross network money transfer service
Bharti Airtel, has revealed the introduction of a service that will allow customers to send and receive between Airtel’s mobile money service and that of Tigo in Tanzania. The introduction of the service is poised to help the deepening of…
MTN to roll out HD Voice in South Africa
MTN notched another feather in its cap when it became the first operator in South Africa to launch Adaptive Multi-Rate Wideband (AMR-WB) technology, which is more commonly referred to as high definition voice (HD Voice). HD Voice is available across…
Ghana: Samsung suspends phone swap promo due to backlash
Samsung Ghana originally announced that consumers will be offered the opportunity to swap out their old mobile device for a new Samsung smartphone or tablet. Once swapped out, the consumer would then pay the difference for the new handset or…
