Huawei and the African Union have signed through Amb. Thomas Kwesi Quartey, the Deputy Chair Person of the African Union Commission and Philippe Wang, Huawei’s Vice-President for the Northern African region, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to consolidate their collaboration and establish the necessary arrangements to ensure an effective cooperation on ICT matters. The main […]
Read MoreTwo organisations in the private and public sector of Nigeria’s technology industry have advocated for the deployment of technology in the nation’s tourism and travel space as a panacea for boosting businesses in the tourism and travel sector. In two separate keynote address delivered at the Maiden Edition of Tourism and Technology Summit held in […]
Read MoreThe Nigerian Communications Commission would be hosting stakeholders in Nigeria’s telecoms industry with the intent to promote ICT innovation and investment opportunities. In Lagos, South West Nigeria, the Commission said it would meet with stakeholders at its maiden edition of Emerging Telecoms Technologies Research and ICT innovation forum. The Forum’s theme: “Developing Nigeria’s Tech Ecosystem; […]
Read MoreFacebook Inc has been ordered by a U. S. to give shareholders emails and other records concerning how the social media company handles data privacy, after data for 87 million users was accessed by the British political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica. In a 57-page decision on Thursday, which followed a one-day trial in March, Vice […]
Read MoreMainOne, West Africa’s premier connectivity and data centre solutions provider is playing a role in providing support towards the capacity development of Nigerian youths with the successful completion of the second batch of its Bright Minds Graduate Trainee Programme. The 2-month intensive training session was deliberately designed to groom recent Nigerian graduates into highly skilled […]
Read MoreInternational Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, global smartphone shipments will face another challenging year in 2019 with volumes forecast to decline 1.9% from 2018. This will mark the third consecutive year of market contraction driven by highly saturated markets in developed countries and slower churn in some developing economies. IDC expects shipments […]
Read MoreGoogle has updated its content policy for the Google Play Store, banning apps that “facilitate” the sale of marijuana or cannabis. The new policy means all apps selling, delivering or facilitating the sale of marijuana or related products are banned, whether they operate in a country where it is legal or not. In September, South […]
Read MoreWest African open innovation platform Kinaya Ventures has launched the Spring Fellowship, an accelerator programme that offers tech-enabled startups the opportunity to increase their traction and enter new markets. Kinaya Ventures, based in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, and Dakar, Senegal, formed last year and has been deploying accelerator and upskilling programmes for African startup founders, including […]
Read MoreFemale Nigerian entrepreneurs have been invited to apply for the latest edition of the SLA Accelerator, which will see the overall winner secure N2 million ($5,500) in funding. The programme, run by social enterprise She Leads Africa (SLA), is a four-month process designed to identify, support and fund the next generation of Nigeria’s brightest female […]
Read MoreNigerian maritime logistics startup MVXchange has closed a pre-seed funding round worth $100,000 in order to scale its technology and acquire more enterprise customers. MVXchange is a B2B tech-driven maritime platform that matches vessel charter requests with available Offshore Support Vessels (OSVs), focused on empowering users to conveniently charter vessels while reducing man-hours, saving cost […]
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