What went down on the African tech-scape today? Here are the big stories.

Internet.org Has Increased Data Subscription For Telcos By 40%

Internet.org app has increased the rate of data acquisition by new customers from Telcos partnering wth the initiative by at leat 40%.

Sandisk Unveils New 200GB MicroSD

The Mobile World Congress has been a showcase of strength so far, Sandisk has unveiled a high capacity microSD card with 200 gigabyte capacity.

Primary Energy Can Be Reduced By 50% – UNEP

United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) and Copenhagen Centre on Energy Efficiency (C2E2) believes the world’s Private Energy Consumption could reduce by 50% if cities and governments can change energy systems to the modern district ones.

New Mastercard, eTranzact Team-up Promises Homier User Experience For Nigerians

MasterCard has announced an alliance with eTranzact to make international remittance services available to millions of Nigerians via their mobile devices.

Video-tweets Are Here And They Can Be Embedded Too

It used to be that users can only embed snackable videos from Twitter proprietary photo sharing app, Vine. With the latest offering from Twitter, however, users can now embed videos right from the network unto their webpages.

Visa And Airtel Partners To Bring Mobile Money To Seven African Countries

Visa Inc. and Bharti Airtel have partnered to provide mobile payment services to Ghana, Tanzania, Kenya, Madagascar, Gabon, Seychelles and Rwanda.

2015 CoWorking Africa Conference WIll Hold In Cape Town This July

Global Enterprise and Cape Town office will partner to host this year’s Coworking Africa Conference 2015 in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa on July 24 and 25.

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Meet the iDroid Royal V7 and iDroid Tango A5, the latest phones in Uganda by iDroid USA

iDroid US has released what we would categorize as “Mid-range” smartphones sporting Mediatek-based Quadcore processors, 1GB of RAM, 8GB of internal Memory and rear cameras above 8MP range.

A billion new mobile users by 2020

The GSMA said on Monday at the Mobile World Congress in Spain that the number of individual mobile subscribers will increase from 3,6bn people at the end of 2014 to 4,6bn by 2020.

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