Basic Lead, a business-to-business trade show organizer that put together DISCOP AFRICA, recently announced a record turnout for its television content industry gathering’s spring edition in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. Read More »

Facebook's collaboration with African developers was on display this month in San Francisco during the company's F8 developer conference. Read More »

Facebook showcased its commitment to Nigerian content companies and developers at Social Media Week in Lagos Feb. 22 to Feb. 26. Social Media Week Lagos is Africa's largest technology, new media and business conference. Facebook offered master classes and workshops as well as a day dedicated to assisting Nigerian developers on growth hacking and designing social applications. Read More »

Kropmann Communications Limited, a professional services firm, recently signed a reseller agreement with Argyle Data to sell the company’s native Hadoop fraud analytics technology to consumers in Africa. Since 2005, Kropmann has been selling its services to mobile communications operators to create and deliver new technologies in Africa that address business challenges. Read More »

Global payment company Visa Inc. announced Tuesday that it is opening an office in Côte D'Ivoire. This expansion is part of Visa's strategy with the World Bank Group to provide universal financial access and electronic payment accounts to 500 million people by the end of 2020. Visa is working with several government representatives and local organizations to establish its new office. Read More »

To prevent debit and credit card fraud for West African users, representatives from Visa Business School is hosting a three-day fraud prevention workshop in Dakar, Senegal. Topics being covered at the workshop, which was attended by 17 banks, included the latest technology in debit and credit cards and best practices for using them as well as fraud trends and how to detect them. Read More »

Technology use in the West African nation of Nigeria is growing rapidly as is evidenced by recent statistics, showing that 16 million in Nigeria visit Facebook each day. Facebook officials recently visited Nigeria to find out how people were using the site and what would make it better for them; already, 100 percent of Nigerian users access Facebook via the site's mobile app. Read More »

Businesses in Ghana and Nigeria received help from Facebook Tuesday. The company held a discussion with local business owners in Accra to show local businesses how Facebook can help them grow their brands. Facebook officials pointed out several Ghanaian and Nigerian businesses that have already had success employing Facebook as a tool for their marketing strategy. Read More »

African capital markets experienced some hard times in 2015, according to PwC "2015 Africa Capital Markets Watch" released Monday. The report includes studies of equity and debt capital market transactions that took place between 2011 and 2015 on exchanges across Africa; it also looks at transactions completed by African corporations using international exchanges. Read More »

ItsOn recently entered into an agreement with MTN Group to drive subscribers and revenue via its ItsOn cloud-based services. Africa's largest mobile operator MTN will launch ItsOn's technology beginning in South Africa, with expansion to other countries. ItsOn provides clients with a device application plus cloud service for e-commerce and payment methods and loyalty programs. Read More »

An Ebola treatment center in Ganta, Liberia -- operated by PCI Liberia, a global development organization that oversees projects dedicated to improving health and ending hunger -- officially closed this week. Read More »

African and African-American movies and TV shows can now be accessed worldwide, thanks to technology from niche video streaming service Afrostream and IBM subsidiary Aspera. Read More »

Sierra Leone native Massah KaiKai wanted to find a way to show the world there was more to her family's homeland than civil war and the recent Ebola pandemic. Read More »

Social media is an inexpensive and effective way for a business to reach a large -- even global -- audience. Read More »

Facebook and telecommunications company Bharti Airtel Africa recently said they have partnered to expand an Internet-access program, called Free Basics, to four more African nations. Read More »

Best Western Hotels & Resorts opened two new hotels in Nigeria last month, bringing the company's total operations in West Africa to 11. The Best Western Meloch Hotel is a three star hotel marketed toward business travelers. It has several amenities, such as an on-site restaurant, complementary breakfast, air conditioning, free wireless Internet, a pool and cocktail lounge. Read More »

Frost & Sullivan finds that Sub-Saharan Africa is primed for renewable energy investment. South Africa, Tanzania, Namibia, Kenya, Zambia, Nigeria and Ethiopia are all ripe for investment in grid-tied solar, wind, and geothermal projects. Frost & Sullivan cited International Finance Corporation's Scaling Solar Programme as an example of solutions addressing the funding gap. Read More »

Telecom services in Mali are forecast to generate $789 billion in revenue this year, according to a report posted by Hexa Research, Inc. on Sept. 22. Mobile voice will be the major contributor for revenue in the mobile service industry, and the growing adoption and usage of low-cost smartphones and value-added services will drive mobile data growth. Read More »