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By Technology Times Staff Reporter Lagos. October 24, 2012: Barring any last minute change, Visafone Communications Limited will today launch its Blackberry service in a major pioneering move that enable subscribers on its CDMA network to use the popular smartphone. Today’s planned launch of the Visafone Blackberry service is another key milestone for a smartphone [...]
By Bunmi Adeniyi Lagos. September 15, 2012: Group CEO of Etisalat Group, Ahmad Julfar, says the launch of its mobile commerce service into Nigeria by its local subsidiary Etisalat Nigeria will put banking services in the hands of millions of mobile phone users will profoundly change transform the nation’s economy. The UAE-based mobile phone [...]
By Olubunmi Adeniyi Lagos. September 14, 2012: Ericsson, the world’s leading provider of communications technology has mapped out the potential of transformation within mobile-commerce in key markets across Africa. According to ConsumerLab, a research service of the equipment supplier, studies have shown that traditional advertising alone cannot work m-commerce but education will help users [...]
By Technology Times Lagos. September 10, 2012: ATM supplier TestLink, which eyes Nigeria among target growth market for its ATM machines, has predicted that 70 per cent of its revenues will be derived from international support by 2014. The UK and Czech Republic-based ATM machines specialist says it has experienced tremendous growth in its [...]
By Technology Times Lagos. September 8, 2012: Bharti Airtel, a leading telecoms company and owners of Airtel Nigeria with operations in 17 countries across Africa and South African financial services group, Sanlam say they have forged a strategic cooperation for the distribution of insurance and health funding products. Nigeria is among the seven countries [...]
By Olubunmi Adeniyi Lagos. July 16, 2012. eTranzact, one of the companies issued regulatory approval by the Central Bank of Nigeria has said its recently-launched PocketMoni will promote seamless financial transactions to complement the apex bank’s policy vision of fostering financial inclusion across diverse segments of the economy. Chief Operating Officer, eTranzact, Richard Omoniyi [...]
By Abbas Bolanle Lagos. May 22, 2012. ExxonMobil Foundation, a primary philanthropic arm of Exxon Mobil Corporation in the United States, alongside Cherie Blair Foundation for Women recently released the result of their research on how mobile phones can help women entrepreneurs develop their businesses. The research which was supported by a $1.5 million grant [...]
By Olubunmi Adeniyi September 5, 2011: Pagatech Limited, a pioneering financial services company based in Nigeria has commercially launched “Paga” with promises that the money transfer service will be easy to use for mobile phone users in the country. Pagatech Limited was issued provincial licence by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in November [...]
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