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Feedback from the Facebook community is one of many signals Facebook uses to raise potentially false stories to fact-checkers for review.... -
Facebook celebrates 40 young leaders, developers, entrepreneurs, and change-makers from across Sub-Saharan Africa at their “Icons of Change” event in Ghana. Facebook at the weekend brought together 40 young leaders, developers, entrepreneurs, and change-makers from across Sub-Saharan Africa, to a two-day event in Accra, Ghana, titled “Celebrating Icons of... -
2018 saw Facebook grow its momentum and step up its investment in Africa. More than 139 million people across Sub-Saharan Africa come to Facebook every month, of which nearly 98% come back on mobile. Have a look at this infographic to see the year in numbers, projects and highlights... -
Nigerian ISP startup Tizeti and its consumer-facing brand, Wifi.com.ng has closed a Series A round of $3M, led by 4DX Ventures. This follows on from the company’s Seed investment of $2.1M reported in 2017, with this round included existing investors Y Combinator Continuity, Lynett Capital, Social Capital, Western Technology Investment, Friále, and Golden Palm Investments. Tizeti will use this investment to expand... -
Google is out with a new internet commercial Google+ African Brothers which aims to encourage families to sign up on Google+ — Google’s social network. Google Plus is part Twitter, part Facebook and part Beluga. It gives you yet another way to build a social network and share information...
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As part of my civic duty as a Ghanaian blogger, I’m helping curate and aggregate content about Ghana’s Elections which is underway across the country. On this blog, you’ll find live updates from trusted sources and Ghana Decides team members on the ground. You can follow the hash-tag #GhanaDecides...
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The Ghanaian electorates goes to the poll to elect a President and Parliamentary candidates for their 275 constituencies on Friday, December 7, 2012. Over the past couple of months, Ghana Decides team been using social media tools (Blogs, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Online debates) to monitor the political dialogue...
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Co-founders Robert Lamptey and Badu Boahen of Saya Mobile pitched their messaging startup Saya Mobile at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference currently on-going in San Francisco, California yesterday highlighting the potential of African innovations to an international audience. The Saya Mobile App is for texting which mixes SMS,...
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Leading Scotch Whisky Brand, LABEL 5 has launched a great competition through its Facebook page: www.facebook.com/Label5, which invites its worldwide fans to take an Instagram picture which echoes, according to them, the number 5, to get a chance to win a 5-day trip to NEW YORK City! LABEL 5...
