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Carmudi launches in Senegal
Following its recent success in Ghana, Cameroon and Nigeria, where unique listings have just surpassed the 20,000 mark, car classifieds platform Carmudi, founded by Africa Internet Holding (AIH), has announced its expansion into Senegal. Since its launch in 2013, Carmudi…
Ghana: MTN reveals Roam Like Home service
MTN Ghana has reveled its new service “Roam Like Home.” Roam Like Home is a new roaming tariff that allows MTN Ghana subscribers to only pay for the local rates charged for Voice, Data and SMS while travelling in any…
MTN Uganda CEO redeployed
MTN has strengthened its leadership core in Nigeria, Iran and Uganda. Mazen Mroue, the Chief Executive Officer of MTN Uganda, has been appointed as the new Chief Operations Officer of MTN Irancell. He will be succeeded in Uganda by Brian…
Africa’s first medical tablet wins award
Five young visionaries from Africa, India, Europe and the Middle East were announced at London’s leading scientific institution, the Royal Society, as winners of the 2014 Rolex Awards for Enterprise. One winner in particular, Arthur Zang from Cameroon, has invented…
Mozambique: FNB introduces money transfer facility
A year after launching its Zimbabwe Money Transfer service, FNB has added an additional cross border service, this time to Mozambique. This service is available to qualifying FNB customers in South Africa in order to send money to residents in…
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…
Moroccan telecom regulator opening ADSL market
Moroccan telecom regulator, ANRT, has decided to open up the ADSL market within the country of Morocco in North Africa. While this move will ultimately allow telecom service providers to establish a formidable position within the country, it does however…
Evernote looking for local app talent
Evernote has joined with the African Technology Foundation (ATF) to find Africa’s hottest homegrown talent in app design and development. ATF and Evernote have kicked off their search to find and showcase the top African applications that integrate with the…
Who will you meet at the June 25 Innovation Dinner?
The next Innovation Dinner on the 25th of June 2014 is shaping up to be a guaranteed success. ITNewsAfrica.com has secured top-flight speakers as well as confirmed the attendance of executives, academics, regulators and industry analysts. The next Innovation Dinner…
June 2014 Innovation Dinner Speakers Announced
The Innovation Dinner series has become well known among South Africa’s ICT professionals, entrepreneurs and senior business people as a great opportunity for networking and strategic planning. IT News Africa, together with key sponsors Kaspersky Lab and Orange Business Services…
Android Facebook app efficient for emerging African markets
Facebook is looking to offer the best experience on mobile with the added benefit of less data usage with its Android app on the Google Play Store. While mobile data is relatively cheaper in some countries, unfortunately it is extremely…
Kenya: Safaricom offering developers app testing platform
Safaricom is in the process of offering app developers a platform in which they can test their innovations on at no cost. Safaricom chief executive officer, Bob Collymore, stated that: “offering support to app developers can propel innovative solutions for…
Microsoft brings tech to the classroom with TV White Space
Microsoft South Africa, in partnership with the Department of Science and Technology (DST), the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, the University of Limpopo, and local networking firm Multisource, with regulatory support from the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa…
Police bring down Tigo call credit fraud ring
Four employees working for mobile operator Tigo and three resellers located in the cities of Touba, M’backe and Thiaroye have been arrested by Senegal’s national police force on fraud charges. It is suspected that the employees set up a system,…
Spectrami expanding to South Africa
Spectrami has revealed that it is entering into the South African market by opening up a new office within the country. The company plans to start with the South African market and then get into East and Southern Africa along…
IBM & African leaders tackle workforce development & healthcare strategies
Teams of IBM experts completing month-long pro bono consulting assignments in Africa recommended strategies to the leadership of Ghana, Kenya and Morocco to help improve critical public health and workforce development efforts in those countries. The 42 IBM specialists were…
