Millions of mobile and online content users across Africa and the Middle East will reap the benefits of a landmark tie-up between MTN and IMImobile – an India-based software and managed services provider linked to 350 content providers worldwide.
The two companies have teamed up in a bold move to address the growing demand for content [...]

- Mobile Application Assists Agri-entrepreneurs in Marketing Products and Boosting Revenues -
NEW DELHI – September 2, 2009 – Qualcomm Incorporated (Nasdaq: QCOM), a leading developer and innovator of advanced wireless technologies, products and services, has, as part of its global Wireless Reach™ initiative, engaged in a pilot project with the Indian Society of Agribusiness [...]

President Kagame and Starbucks CEO discuss Upcoming Initiatives
Today during his third visit to Rwanda, Starbucks Coffee Company (NASDAQ:SBUX) chairman, president and ceo, Howard Schultz, met with Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame to discuss and build on the investments Starbucks has made in East Africa over the past five as well as future opportunities. Additionally, Schultz [...]

Initiative to provide 500,000 workstations to bridge the digital divide
New Delhi, May 26th 2009 – NComputing, the leading provider of ultra low-cost computing solutions, today announced that it will partner with the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) to bring computer access to primary and secondary schools in developing countries around the [...]

The Coca-Cola Company announced today that it has committed US $30MM over the next six years to provide access to safe drinking water to communities throughout Africa through its Replenish Africa Initiative (RAIN). Implemented by The Coca-Cola Africa Foundation, RAIN will provide at least 2 million Africans with clean water and sanitation by 2015.
“Africa’s [...]

One Laptop per Child (OLPC), a nonprofit organization whose mission is to help provide every child in the world access to a modern education, is launching an internship program in which up to 100 teams of university students from around the world will distribute thousands of XO laptops to children in Africa this summer. Partnering [...]

Core Facts:
· The winners of The Pioneers of Prosperity Africa Awards 2008 have been announced
· This year’s US$100,000 Grand Prize was awarded to Superflux International, a Nigerian-based print specialist
· The co-founders, S.E.VEN Fund, Templeton, Legatum and OTF [...]

Beats Rivals to Global Availability with Expansion to Over Two Hundred Countries
Limbo, one of the fastest growing mobile social networks in the world, announces the availability of its network to three and a half billion people in more than two hundred countries. Limbo was among the first location-aware social networks to launch an iPhone [...]

Highlights:
Gateway Broadcast Services (GBS) will deploy NDS MediaHighway® middleware and EPG across the GTV pay-TV platform for sub-Saharan Africa
Roll-out of enabling set-top box software and EPG starts in Autumn 2008
Agreement further strengthens relationship between NDS and GBS
NDS (Nasdaq:NNDS), the leading provider of technology solutions for digital pay-TV, today announced that Gateway Broadcast Services (GBS), [...]

Luxembourg, 22nd May 2008 – MACH the provider of effective and reliable business processes to optimise roaming profitability, today announced that the MTN Group has exclusively signed a Framework Agreement with MACH to cover its operations in the Middle East and Africa.
Headquartered in South Africa, the MTN Group is a leading provider of communications services [...]