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The U.S. Agency for International Development, Land O’Lakes International Development, and the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research announced the six winners of the Feed the Future Fall Armyworm Tech Prize at the AfricaCom conference in South Africa today. The prize, launched…
The World Health Organization (WHO) in the African Region has launched the first WHO Africa Innovation Challenge calling for health innovations with the potential for having significant social impact and addressing the unmet health needs on the continent. “This Innovation Challenge recognizes…
We often read about the number of jobs that our youth are going to be doing in 10 or 15 years that don’t even exist yet. The conventional wisdom is that we can prepare them for this “unknown future” by giving them…
CAPE TOWN, South Africa, 29 October 2018 -/African Media Agency (AMA)/- Newly launched advocacy organisation Part Worn Africa is calling for governments and regulatory bodies across the African continent to develop and enforce stronger regulations governing the sale of part-worn and second-hand…
19 year old Ghanaian, Gabriel Opare has created a video search engine that can search and stream from multiple destinations on the internet in one place. The search engine called Mudclo is as I can confidently say a preamble of the ingenuity…
LONDON, United-Kingdom, May 12, 2015 Global research consultancy TNS has today announced an exclusive and wide-reaching strategic partnership with GeoPoll (http://www.geopoll.com), the world’s largest mobile survey platform. Under the multi-year agreement, TNS and sister company, Kantar Media, will join forces with GeoPoll…
ABIDJAN, Côte d’Ivoire, May 11, 2015/ — JUMIA Côte d’Ivoire (https://www.jumia.ci) undertook the relocation of its Treichville warehouse to a brand new, twice as large storage facility warehouse, in the industrial zone of Koumassi; a suburb of Abidjan. Operations at the new…
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) will host an online press conference on Friday, April 24th, 2015 at 09:00GMT GENEVA, Switzerland, April 20, 2015/African Press Organization (APO)/ — As many as 700 African migrants are feared drowned after their packed boat capsized…
The regional stock exchange for the eight countries of the West African Economic and Monetary Union has chosen the London Stock Exchange as the venue for the second round of “BRVM Investment Days” LONDON, United-Kingdom, April 22, 2015 The Bourse régionale des…
The U.K. mobile payment provider judo has launched judoHub as a repository of content and educational broadcasts to help businesses, journalists and app developers understand and learn about m-commerce and payments. Judo said the site was inspired by the growing number of…
The digital file cabinet and online bill payment provider doxo has added The Seattle Times to its list of clients. Seattle-based doxo helps customers manage their accounts by providing a free digital file cabinet that holds information on the various billing accounts…
Airlines see a potential for driving revenues from mobile payments, according to research from London-based processor WorldPay. For its “Alternative Payment and Distribution Landscape: Airlines and Alternative Payments – The Facts” report, WorldPay questioned 56 global airline carriers worldwide on their use of alternative…
Customers may soon be able to order and pay for their Chick-fil-A meal through their smartphones. According to CNBC, the chain is currently testing a mobile ordering and payment iPhone app at six locations — in Chicago, Pearland, Texas, Costa Mesa, Calif.,…
The retail chain Bon-Ton Stores has added a mobile solution that lets in-store shoe shoppers know if the store has the shoes they’re looking for. If not, an RF/NFC-enabled display shoe will guide shoppers to the nearest store that has the shoe…
Back in 2007, Wells Fargo was one of the first banks to offer mobile banking apps to business customers. Now, according to American Banker, the bank is updating its offering, creating a browser-based, mobile-optimized CEO Mobile site. The site was built in-house in HTML5,…