Mobile West Africa has confirmed that its 2016 conference, taking place in Lagos on 20th & 21st April, will feature its strongest ever speaker line-up. Representatives from Jumia, Huawei, Uber, Opera, iROKO Partners and Google are set to deliver presentations to confirmed delegates from companies including Konga, Wikimedia Foundation, Grant Thornton, Promasidor and Ringier Nigeria….
Remember “The Break Digit Show”? we have evolved to the Startup Show, this is because we have come to love the part of showcasing Startups in Africa on the two tv network and feel it will be great to name the show to resonate with what it is doing, The Startup Show will now air…
Editor’s note:This is a text from Nigeria Telecoms Advisory Council inaugural Meeting presented by Titi Omo-Ettu on the 8th April,2016. Two reasons informed this contribution to on-going industry development initiatives: One is that there has been a wait-and-see attitude by industry players in the communication technology industry and this may be a convenient time that specific…
Elon Musk’s Rocket and Spacecraft company SpaceX yesterday recorded another great feat by successfully landing a rocket on a drone ship. See the rest of the story and the video from space.com website Additional report from Techcrunch
A new entrant into the top mobile market in Africa and around the world -Nigeria is Ntel as they announce a roll out of commercial 4G/LTE Mobile Telephone services across Nigeria.In a competitive market like Nigeria where you have telecommunications giants like MTN,Etisalat,Glo and Airtel one would think that there is no space for a…
The excitement that lit her face when I gave her the package was nothing compared to the exhilaration when she unwrapped it. Even though she had tried to hide it from me, I knew she really needed a phone and so I got one. I watched, a little proud of myself as she inspected the…
Poet and novelist Fiston Mwanza Mujila was on Saturday, 19th March 2016 announced as the winner of the 2015 Etisalat Prize for Literature for his first novel, Tram 83. Originally written in French, Tram 83 was translated into English by Roland Glasser and published by Deep Vellum. 35-year-old Mujila is the first Francophone writer to…
The 2016 shortlisted finalists for the West Africa Mobile Awards (WAMAS), the first truly West African technology awards to recognise the region’s leading mobile and tech companies, have been announced . According to the organizers,An overwhelming response drew submissions from 10 countries across 3 continents. Entrants (and finalists) run the gamut from exciting mobile industry…
Summit on Data Centre Investment in Africa Set to Hold in June
Smartphones have opened up the floodgates for startup enthusiasts by providing business platform at competitive investment. This breed of smart entrepreneurs are redefining the word ‘business’ by cashing on the rich mobile technology fused with application development for business solutions. Consider this startup statistics in past two years as quoted by Kauffman Index “the 2015…
IDC Mobile Spending Guide Shows Annual Spending on Mobility Across Middle East, Turkey, and Africa (META) Expected to Reach $185 billion by 2019
More than 1200 international education and technology experts, advisers and investors will gather in Cairo in May to discuss how to turn the African Union’s vision of a “transformed continent” into reality. They will look at how developments in technology could enable education and training to boost growth and transform the lives and prospects of…
The Gionee P5 mini is the new definition and epitome of simplicity and style.
Ken Nwogbo Joins TechTrendsng.com as Contributing Editor
Sponsored Post Recently, mobile phone manufacturing giant, Gionee, released its newest model into the Nigerian Market. The M5 Mini, which is just four weeks old,is fast becoming a favorite in the country. It will take a while to get over its beautiful look and amazing performance, but it will take forever to get over its…
Are You a Mobile Innovators in West Africa, Enter for the West Africa Mobile Awards (WAMAS) 2016
The Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI) has just released the 2015-16 edition of its annual Affordability Report which basically shows that without immediate and urgent action, the world will miss the newly agreed global goal of universal Internet access by 2020. This is the key finding of the Alliance for Affordable Internet’s (A4AI’s) 2015-16 Affordability Report, released today. Analysis…
Several people have contributed greatly to the development of Information and Communications Technology in Africa.One of such men is Leo Stan Ekeh,the Chairman of Zinox Technologies Group.Today we join many to celebrate the achievements of Leo Stan Ekeh, an African ICT Icon on his 60th birthday. Interestingly not many people know about him. Leonard Nnamdi…
There is a difference between the phone about to be launched and one that has been bought. Before launch, a phone can be a bit too proud and boastful but after spending one week with its buyer, it will be more humble and sincere. The about-to-be-launched phone can hide behind glossy images, flowery language and…
MTN, in partnership with the MTN Solution Space and Jumia, are proud to announce the launch of the MTN Entrepreneurship Challenge powered by Jumia. The Pan-African competition launching today, will be the first of its kind in Africa, bringing together over 1000 entrepreneurs, students and investors, to collaborate on ways to amplify and consolidate the…
Facebook hosted a Women’s Safety round table in Kenya on February 10 with participants from NGOs, academia, women’s rights groups, and safety organisations from Kenya and across Sub-Saharan Africa to highlight how the community can work together to create a harassment-free online environment where everyone can feel safe to share and interact.
According to the latest Kaspersky Lab Security Bulletin , the volume of spam emails in 2015 decreased to 55.28% of overall email traffic – a fall of 11.48% on the previous year. The significant slump in spam emails can be attributed to the increasing popularity of legal advertising platforms on social networks, coupon clipping service…
Eric Schmidt the Executive Chairman of Alphabet Inc. owners of Google,in a recent post announced the expansion of Google Ideas,Google’s think tank, as a technology incubator called Jigsaw.He stated: The team’s mission is to use technology to tackle the toughest geopolitical challenges, from countering violent extremism to thwarting online censorship to mitigating the threats…
Samsung today unveiled its product line-up for 2016 at its annual Samsung Africa Forum event.The company underlined the importance of innovation that makes a meaningful difference in people’s everyday lives, showcasing its new bezel-less curved SUHD TVs with Quantum dot display, the industry-first Front Load Washer with AddWash™, and a range of refrigerators and freezers with…
Africa’s Phone Users Hit 700 Million.Mobile phone subscriptions are now almost eight times higher in Africa than in 2000, reaching about 700 million.According to a report by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), mobile technology has played a crucial role in promoting financial inclusion in sub-Saharan Africa, where less than 20 per cent of households have…
UNICEF is inviting technology start-ups developing solutions with the potential to improve the lives of the world’s most vulnerable children to apply for funding from its recently launched Innovation Fund.
INTRODUCTION After so much anticipation, Gionee launched its newest addition to its M5 family. News of the arrival of the Gionee M5 Mini has been generating speculations and debate since the company hinted the new release. Speculations came to an end on 10th February 2016 when the spectacle was finally unveiled. Yes, there was a…
The African Innovation Foundation (AIF) in a joint collaborative effort with the Government of Botswana (GoB) represented by the Ministry of Infrastructure, Science and Technology and the Botswana Innovation Hub (BIH) recently announced that the next Innovation Prize for Africa (IPA) event will be held in Gaborone, Botswana in June 2016. The decision to host…
Hotels.ng launched its jobs portal a process that formalized its hiring process into some of the most unusual screening questions, and since then the online hotel booking portal has seen some interesting responses from applicants and online commentators alike. One defining thread of the hotels.ng hiring process is that it is unconventional,and you will need more than…
Money transfer service WorldRemit in a recent press statement to us,has raised $45m in financing from TriplePoint Venture Growth BDC Corp and Silicon Valley Bank. Pioneering a mobile-first approach to remittances,WorldRemit will use the funds to support its rapidly growing transfer volumes.The WorldRemit app lets people send money straight from their smartphone, instead of having to…