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Apple Watch Launch Event is Today by 6pm (18:00 WAT)

The Apple Watch will make its big debut today at the ‘Spring Forward’ media event to a sea of expectations

Nigeria Holds Position as the 2nd Largest PayPal Market in Africa

A representative of the international payments and money transfer firm, Paypal, recently revealed that Nigeria is the second largest market for their payment solution and first being South Africa.

Microsoft Won 10 Awards at the MNC 2015
The multinational corporation, Microsoft, actually bagged ten awards at the week-long Mobile World Congress 2015, for their range of devices displayed at the congress.

South Sudan Will be Amongst the Mobile Money Community Soon with ‘Bank it System’
The country is looking to a local infrastructure, Bank it System, developed by Laul Michael Mayen, a software engineering student at Makerere University, Uganda.

You Can Make Visa Purchases With the Samsung Galaxy S6
The newly launched Samsung Galaxy S6 at the MWC has a payment feature on it Samsung Pay, this is a joint effort of Visa and Samsung.

Burundi Improves Border Transaction with a Single-Window System Launch Costing 2.5 million
Burundi Revenue Authority has launched a single-window system called Electronic Single-window System (ESS) to keep standardized information and documents that are essential for cross border transactions thereby making paper documentation obsolete.

M-PESA Customers Can Now Send & Receive Money from Tanzania
Safaricom and Vodacom has collaborated to enable M-PESA customers send and receive money from Tanzania.

Econet’s ‘Dial-a-Doctor’ Mobile Service in a Tussle with MDPCZ
Mobile network operator in Zimbabwe, Econet Wireless, seem to be going through some registration problems with the Medical and Dental Practitioners’ Council of Zimbabwe (MDPCZ) regarding the launch of their mobile phone

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