MainOne, a major provider of telecommunications services in West Africa, has opened its US$40 million data center in Lagos. The Tier III purpose-built facility, the largest of its kind in the region, was originally expected to come online in the third quarter of 2014. MainOne‘s MDX-i tier III Lekki data center in Lagos, Nigeria is […]
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Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork BankMobile says it is the first full-service mobile-only bank. Taking a trip to your local bank may no longer be necessary. BankMobile, a division of Customers Bank, launched Wednesday, claiming to be the first bank to allow customers to open checking and savings accounts and even get a credit line
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Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork The applicants clustered on Kissena Boulevard, clutching documents from around the world, trading familiar stories with strangers in a driving rain outside the Queens Library in Flushing. There were the police encounters, the school visits, the fraught hospital trips — all negotiated without the bureaucratic lubricant of local identification. “We
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Kam-Au currently serves as the Senior Marketing Officer for Go Africa Network Inc. Kam-Au is an entrepreneur who is passionate about growing entertainment and cultural enterprises. He boasts experience in training, media and the performing arts, and displays a full appreciation of the convergence of media and culture within the global context. He was
Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork The tech industry is doing its best to topple the Tower of Babel. Last month, Skype, Microsoft’s video calling service, initiated simultaneous translation between English and Spanish speakers. Not to be outdone, Google will soon announce updates to its translation app for phones. Google Translate now offers written translation of
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For generations, the label has been at once exclusive and widely misapplied, available to millions in earnest, but vulnerable to line-blurring by suburban peers who claimed New York City residency without an address to match. Could a New Yorker be identified by a harried gait? A brash retort? The knowledge that L trains are to
Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork Heralded by some as the face of the new Nigeria, Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest man, is looking beyond cement, sugar and flour — the three commodities that built his fortune — to the oil business. In April 2014 he announced $9 billion in financing from a consortium of local and
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Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork Nigerian energy firm Taleveras Group said on Monday it had signed a deal with the government of Equatorial Guinea to build a giant oil storage hub in the central African country. The Bioko Island facility will have a total capacity of 1.34 million tonnes of storage for crude oil and
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Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork Imagine it’s a Sunday in the not-too-distant future. An elderly woman named Sylvia is confined to bed and in pain after breaking two ribs in a fall. She is being tended by a helper robot; let’s call it Fabulon. Sylvia calls out to Fabulon asking for a dose of painkiller.
Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork LAS VEGAS — ZTE and Alcatel OneTouch have a lot in common. Both companies will be coming on strong in the US as they fight to capture your attention. They won’t find it easy going. They both focus on selling affordable smartphones. They concentrate on prepaid customers. They’re both growing
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