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Farewell Tanzania! JUMIA shuts Down Operations In Tanzania Following Portfolio Optimization Effort

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JUMIA has shutdown its operations in Tanzania barely two weeks after its exit from Cameroon. Consequently, users will no longer be able to buy and sell goods from the retailers website, https://is.gd/R9Z0kx

Lime, First Major Micromobility Operator To Launch Electric Scooters In Africa

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Africa is obviously an emerging market for innovative explorations in the world, as Lime, is set to become the first major micromobility operator to launch electric scooters in Africa, in the coming https://is.gd/2Tp35T

WhatsApp's New Call Waiting Feature Is Perhaps What You've Been Waiting For!

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WhatsApp’s latest update for iPhones brings important features like the call waiting, Braille keyboard integration and also a redesigned chat screen. The call waiting support now allows users to r https://is.gd/aGLRsh

MTN Nigeria Runs 5G Demo In Abuja In Partnership With Huawei

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MTN Nigeria has just carried out its 5G test launch in Abuja, the country's capital city. The telco says it has achieved this milestone in collaboration with the world largest telecommunications https://is.gd/B3bJUY

Hulu Is Down, And Nobody Seems To Know Why

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Sunday morning, East Coast of U. S, woke up to a stream of tweet complaints on the sudden outage of Hulu. The situation became more frustrating when the company's twitter support responded back https://is.gd/rK0Vwm

Google Will Pay You $1 Million If You Can Hack Its Phones.

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Google on Thursday announced its array of offerings: –Offering of $1 million to anyone who can deploy a unique hack into its pixel 3 and 4 phones. –Offering up to $1.5 million for exploits fou https://is.gd/1UlT6P

First AI (Artificial Intelligence) Book Launched For Primary And Secondary Schools In Nigeria. 

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Data Science Nigeria (DSN) has taken the bull by the horn as it launches first Artificial Intelligence (AI) book in both primary and secondary schools in Nigeria. The book launch which brought https://is.gd/kUhT6h

Opay Adds Another "O" To Its Portfolio Of "O" Services In Nigeria

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OPay, also known as Operapay, has launched OCar as part of its app services in https://is.gd/3q2xh7

Goodbye Cameroon! JUMIA Shuts Down Operations In Cameroon Five Years After Inception

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Africa-focused e-commerce company JUMIA has reportedly shutdown its operations in Cameroon five years after inception. The e-commerce Group CEO & co-founder, Jeremy Hodara told TechCabal the https://is.gd/iUVFkn

IS MOTOROLA RAZR A FLIP OR FOLDABLE PHONE?

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Prior to when the iPhone family stormed the market in 2007 and grabbed a share of the global smartphone market, Motorola Razor was the spotlight of all phones. It was supposedly given the name https://is.gd/5K5hry

Visa To Acquire 20% Stake In Africa's Most Illustrious Fintech, Interswitch, For $200 Million

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Visa, a US-based global credit card giant, has reportedly planned to acquire 20% stake in the Nigeria-based Africa payments firm Interswitch for a whopping $200 million. According to skynews, the https://is.gd/GLLvRZ

Nigeria's Civic-tech Startup BudgIT Launches a SMS Simple Solution To Follow LG Monthly Allocations

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The Nigeria's civic-tech organization BudgIT is looking to tackle corruption in the grassroots –local government areas of the country with the "LET'S TACKLE LG CORRUPTION" m https://is.gd/RT88n8

Reasons Google Is Willing To Invest A Whopping Sum Of $2.1 Billion Into Fitbit.

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Google's diversification into health tech is regarded a huge one considering its intention to buy over a prolific health tech company named Fitbit. Peeking into the minds of Google, we're able to https://is.gd/cJ9l1Z

Reasons Google Is Willing To Invest A Whopping Sum Of $2.1 Billion Into Fitbit.

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Google's diversification into health tech is regarded a huge one considering its intention to buy over a prolific health tech company named Fitbit. Peeking into the minds of Google, we're able to https://is.gd/cJ9l1Z

WhatsApp's Fingerprint Unlock Feature Keeps Your Chat Conversations Safe

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WhatsApp's long promised unlock feature is now on Android. This is part of Facebook's way to consolidate its security goals and abate privacy violations across its platforms. Speaking of https://is.gd/vnhIEE

Elon Musk Says He Sees No good In Twitter

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Elon Musk has on Nov 1st, indicated his interest to stay offline or maybe off internet as shown in his tweet "going https://is.gd/51f61b

Samsung's Developer Conference 2019 Highlighted Three Major Topics In Technology

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This year’s Samsung Developer Conference (SDC 2019) offers attendees exclusive looks at technologies that will enable partners and developers to shape the next generation of experiences. The e https://is.gd/fNmZH6