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Telecoms

Glo 4G LTE Service now Available across Nigeria

Nigeria’s telecommunications company, Globacom, has announced the availability of its 4G LTE services in the 36 states of the West African country. Besides, Globacom said the service is also available in over 200 tertiary institutions, thus confirming it as the network with the widest LTE coverage in the country. Globacom, which is the nation’s national […]

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Social Media

Facebook Shut-down 115 Accounts Ahead of U.S. Election

Facebook Inc blocked about 115 user accounts after U.S. authorities tipped it off to suspicious behavior that may be linked to a foreign entity, the company said in a blog post on Monday, hours before U.S. voters head to the polls. The social network said it needed to do further analysis to decide if the […]

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StartUps

Mastercard Foundation Launches $2m Fund for African Social Ventures

The Mastercard Foundation has announced a new fund that will enable young African changemakers to seed and kick-start promising social ventures and community projects, creating economic opportunities for themselves and others. The Mastercard Foundation is one of the largest such organisations in the world, and was established to advance learning and promote financial inclusion for […]

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Telecoms

5G Operators Revenues to Reach $300b by 2025, as Connections Near 1.5 Billion

Annual operator billed revenues from 5G connections will approach $300 billion by 2025, rising from $894 million in 2019, its anticipated first year of commercial service. This is an average annual growth of 163% in its first 6 years. The new study, 5G Market Strategies: Consumer & Enterprise Opportunities & Forecasts 2018-2025, from Juniper Research […]

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TechEntertainment

Yellow Dot Hits the Screen with Onidiri Premier

Content creation and talent management company, Yellow Dot Limited, has been officially launched to the public amidst glitz and glamour alongside the screening of the first movie from its stable, Onidiri, a short movie on the hair-maker that took guests down memory lane. The occasion was graced by stakeholders, family and friends, including the Ooni […]

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Business

MTN Issues Frighten Foreign Investors, Says US, UK Envoys

The envoys of the United Kingdom and the United States of America in Nigeria have said that the problems being faced by leading telecommunications giant, MTN, have scared investors from both countries from Nigeria, resulting in some of them pulling back and others withdrawing fresh offers and taking them to neighbouring countries. The Central Bank […]

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Gadgets and Device

Smartphone Shipments Down 6.0% in Q3 2018 as Leading Vendor and the Largest Market Face Challenges

Smartphone vendors shipped a total of 355.2 million units during the third quarter of 2018 (3Q18), resulting in a year-over-year decline of 6.0%. This was the fourth consecutive quarter of year-over-year declines for the global smartphone market, which raises questions about the market’s future. IDC maintains its view that the market will return to growth […]

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Technology

U.S. Supreme Court Divided over Google Privacy Settlement

U.S. Supreme Court justices, in an internet privacy case involving Google(GOOGL.O), disagreed on Wednesday over whether to rein in a form of settlement in class action lawsuits that awards money to charities and other third parties instead of to people affected by the alleged wrongdoing. The $8.5 million Google settlement was challenged by an official […]

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Women-In-Technology

Cameroonian Female Health-tech Entrepreneur Wins $25k Anzisha Prize

ameroonian health-tech entrepreneur Melissa Bime has been crowned winner of the US$25,000 Anzisha Prize, for INFIUSS, her online blood bank and digital supply chain solution which ensures local hospitals have access to blood. Hosted by the African Leadership Academy (ALA) in partnership with the Mastercard Foundation, the Anzisha Prize celebrates Africa’s most innovative social and […]

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Computing

Book Reading Mobile App Unveiled to Empower African Authors, Writers

A reading subscription service firm, Bambooks has introduced a mobile application that allows users to read an unlimited numbers of books on its platform. The app comes in a mobile app and a web application, which allows users to read on their phones, tablets, laptops at any time of the day as long as they […]

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