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TechAfrikico is a blog for Tech Junkies, resourceful minds and anyone who is willing to know about the latest news about Tech and Gadgets in the Continent.

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Prempeh College Wins Toyota Innovation Award at ROBOFEST 2016 in Michigan, USA

#Prempeh College Wins Toyota Innovation Award at #ROBOFEST 2016 in Michigan, USA #TeamPrempeh #GRAF #Robotics @toyota_europe @Toyota

Prempeh College teams “AGYENGOGOLF” & “EINSTEINIUM-ALPHA” coached by Peter Agyeman have been awarded the prestigious TOYOTA INNOVATION AWARD at the just ended ROBOFEST World Championship in the Senior Game category.  Their solution was adjudged the most innovative; capturing the excellent incorporation & deployment of sensors and top-notch programming skills. Their robot had unimaginable and…

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Edel Technology Consulting Adjudged GTA’s IT consulting firm of the year

Edel Technology Consulting Adjudged GTA’s IT consulting firm of the year #Edel #Tech #GTA #GTAAward #GITTA

After Being Judged One the 100 Most Globally Competitive Startup’s In Ghana, Edel Technology Consulting Is Nominated   For It Consulting Firm of the Year Edel Technology consulting (www.edelitconsult.com ) has been nominated in this year’s Ghana Telecom Award now re-branded Ghana Information Technology and Telecom Awards (GITTA), in the category “IT consulting firm of the year”.

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TWO SHS STUDENTS REPRESENT GHANA AT ROBOFEST 16

TWO SHS STUDENTS REPRESENT GHANA AT ROBOFEST 16 #Africa #Ghana #ICT #Robotics #ROBOFEST

Two Ghanaian senior high school students are representing Ghana at this year’s ROBOFEST, an annual international robotics competition, at the Lawrence Technological University, Michigan in the United States of America.

Teams for participating countries.

The two, Kofi from Prempeh College in Kumasi and Benedict Amoako, from Presec Boys’ Senior High School in Accra were selected to represent Ghana…

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Ringier Africa & One Africa Media Enter Into Classifieds Joint Venture

Ringier Africa & One Africa Media Enter Into Classifieds Joint Venture #RingierAfrica #OAM #Classified #Funding #Startups #Acquisition

Ringier Africa and One Africa Media (OAM) have agreed to merge their pan-African Classifieds assets to create and grow Africa’s largest classifieds group. In the joint venture deal announced today, Ringier One Africa Media (ROAM) was officially launched – becoming Africa’s classifieds leader, comprising some of the continent’s leading homegrown brands, including OAM’s Jobberman, Brighter Monday,

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How Telcos Can Take Advantage Of Business Intelligence Solutions

How Telcos Can Take Advantage Of Business Intelligence Solutions #BI #Startups #Telco #Business #BusinessAnalysis #Smartphone #BigData #Data

Data is believed to be the new “Oil”. It’s a whole industry on its own that’s still green and barely untapped especially here on the African Continent. Refer to my previous post if you want to know more about Business Intelligence Solutions and how they can be of benefit to your organization.

In Africa, there are millions of documents if not billions which are still not digitized and all this…

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iROKO Closes Content & Capital Deals At $19m

iROKO Closes Content & Capital Deals At $19m #iROKO #Nigeria #Africa #InternetTV #Funding #Startup #AfricanTech #Entertainment

African mobile entertainment and internet TV pioneer, iROKO, today announces multiple deals totaling $19m, both in content development and in capital funding. French media giant CANAL+, together with existing investor Kinnevik AB, are investing in addition to iROKO’s own cash flow to give the leading African tech & entertainment company the platform to scale its operations and expand aggressively…

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WhatsApp Now Officially Free As They Drop Subscription Fees

WhatsApp Now Officially Free As They Drop Subscription Fees #IM #Apps #Android #WhatsApp #Facebook #Lollipop

I remember back in 2009 when WhatsApp was launched, many were those who had to beg for invitations from their friends in order to join the platform. Gradually, the messaging app was made open to the public without the need for invitation. it wasn’t long after when the company decided to charge uses for the app. For less than a dollar, we could enjoy WhatsApp for a whole year.

On February 19,…

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Silvertree Internet Holdings to Invest $10m In African Startups This Year #Startups #Africa #Investment #Entrepreneurs #SilvertreeHoldings Funding is a term on the lips of every entrepreneur and its one  of the difficult part of running a business, getting funding to scale.

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Infinix Conquering The Smartphone Industry In Nigeria

Infinix Conquering The Smartphone Industry In Nigeria @InfinixIndo @InfinixMobility #Nigeria #Infinix @InfinixPakistan @InfinixEG

Competition in Nigeria’s Smartphone market is unwavering as the big players try to stamp their dominance while new entrants such as Infinix Mobility and others are pushing with new devices. Notwithstanding, few years ago, the Nigeria mobile market was dominated by the likes of Nokia, Apple, Samsung, HTC and Blackberry. Then came Tecno with cheap and affordable smartphones, within few years it…

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Got What It Takes To Fork That US$50,000? Village Capital Brings Hardware Accelerator Program in Accra

Village Capital Brings Hardware Accelerator Program in Accra @villagecapital #Startups #Hardware #tech #STEM @creativitygp @iSpaceGh

All over the world, the spread and evangelism of STEM is moving at a faster pace than never before. Children from across the globe are being introduced to hardware hacking thanks to cheap kits like Arduino and the Raspberry Pi. On this side of the Continent, you often hear news of startups who are often into the software side of tech, and its rear to find Hardware Startups.

But hopefully, this…

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Africa's CES, Africa Mobile & ICT Expo 2016 Launched

Africa's CES, Africa Mobile & ICT Expo 2016 Launched #CES #Mobex15 #Mobex16 #ICT #Africa #Technology #mobile

It was rare to see a conference of African Tech Enthusiasts as huge as that of CES, MWC, Defcon and others, but fortunately, that’s not the case anymore. This year’s edition of the Africa Mobile & ICT Expo 2015 was nothing like we have seen before. Both the organisers and attendees of the programme were amazed with the interest and the engagements during the 3 days event.

Recap of Africa Mobile &…

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Updated Versions of the Samsung Galaxy A3, A5, and A7 Announced

Updated Versions of the Samsung Galaxy A3, A5, and A7 Announced #Samsung #GalaxyA3 #GalaxyA5 #GalaxyA7 #Android #Smartphones #tech

Samsung today announced that it will be releasing an updated versions of their Galaxy A3, A5, and A7 smartphones in coming weeks. The Samsung Galaxy A7 which was launched at the very beginning of this year together with the other Galaxy A series smartphones represented Samsung’s attempt at bringing quality smartphone construction and design at a price tag consumers can afford.

With it being…

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How Infinix Mobility Is Gradually Becoming The Xiaomi Of Africa

How Infinix Mobility Is Gradually Becoming The Xiaomi Of Africa #InfinixHot2 #Infinix @JumiaNigeria ‏@JumiaGhana @InfinixMobility

Many industrialists think penetrating into the African market can sometime be a pain in the ass, but the truth be told, if you understand the Continent, one can penetrate and make so much. If you think Africa is poor, you have already lost the battle! In Africa, there are over 327,145,889 people who have access to internet as of the third quarter of 2015.

In all, the Continent is almost reaching…

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The MagicStick Is The World's First Powerful PC Stick With 8GB RAM

The MagicStick Is The World's First Powerful PC Stick With 8GB RAM #MagicStick #PC #MiniPC #AndroidTV #Ubuntu #Computers #Tech

Mini PCs and PCs on stick have come of age with respect to shapes and sizes. In recent times we have seen major corporations like Intel, Meegopad, Arduino, Raspberry who are pushing the boundaries in bring affordable mini computers to consumers.

As much as these Mini PCs are useful, they can’t really be used for high performance demanding applications, but luckily, it probably wouldn’t be the…

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LG Just Released The Cheapest Smartphone Ever, Cost Only $10

LG Just Released The Cheapest Smartphone Ever, Cost Only $10 #LG #Smartphones #Tech #CheapPhones #Android

In a market where smartphone are damn crowded, it can sometimes be tedious trying to get the best smartphone for your need, but this can sometimes translate more money had to be spent in order to get the type of phone to get the job done. Affordable smartphones are something we have begun seeing in recent time with the like of the Android One from Google among other.

Today, Motherboard spotted a…

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YouTube’s Brought Offline Viewing For Mobile to Ghana

YouTube’s Brought Offline Viewing For Mobile to Ghana #YouTubeOffline #YouTube #Ghana @googleafrica #Google @YouTube

For many, accessing YouTube on their mobile devices is a pain due to the among of data it would take to stream a video. Though internet data is somewhat cheaper than some years back, not everyone can afford to spend their mobile data in streaming videos on YouTube.

Mid this year, Google launched YouTube Offlinewhich basically cache a video of your choice on your phone for easy playback when you…

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SIKA, An Online Payment Platform Set To Be The PayPal In Africa

SIKA, An Online Payment Platform Set To Be The PayPal in Africa #Africa #PayPal #SikaApp #MobileMoney #Cashless #Ghana #eCommerce @SikaApp

e-Payments in African is still in its early stage, but some African countries have been able to embrace the technology seamlessly without too many obstacles in the way. In Ghana, Mobile Money is gradually taking over the banks and this is as a result of the trust through education, transparency and comfort that backs the technology.

Unfortunately, the Mobile Money solution doesn’t seem to go far…

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