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Toyota is getting serious about automated driving. Last week Thursday, the car company announced it is investing $1 billion over the next five years into artificial intelligence and robotics research. It is creating a new company, called Toyota Research Institute Inc., that will have offices in Silicon Valley and Cambridge,...

CNN International and Africa’s leading mobile operator, MTN, today launched a dedicated ‘Africa View’ news app. The app launch is part of a multi-platform commercial partnership between CNN and MTN, spanning advertising, sponsorship and digital components. The ‘Africa View’ app curates CNN International’s extensive Africa content, including the network’s ‘Africa...

Union Bank of Nigeria Plc has launched a savings product which is aimed at helping its customers to develop a savings culture. The UnionKorrect allows customers win extra cash up to N1 million in quarterly draws when they save. This followed the recent unveiling of the bank’s new identity in...

L- R: Femi Adeniran, Head, PR, Airtel Nigeria, Remi Abere, Project Ambassador, Climb with Remi and Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, participant/climber; at the press conference of Climb with Remi, sponsored by Airtel Nigeria In its continued efforts at providing succour and relief to internally displaced people across the country, leading telecoms...

Fly Labs, a tiny New York company that makes apps for editing mobile videos, is now part of Google. The company broadcasted the news on Friday afternoon. It makes a quartet of video editing tools and claims that over 20 million videos have been created within its apps. At Mountain...

Union Bank of Nigeria, one of Africa’s most prominent banks, has undergone a transformational rebrand led by the global strategic brand consulting and design firm Landor. The near-century-old Nigerian heritage bank is a highly regarded financial institution serving millions of customers in the region. However, recent years have seen the...

Senior secondary school students in Nigeria have a few more days more to enter the UBA Foundation national essay competition, which closes November 13, 2015. UBA Foundation, which is the corporate social responsibility arm of United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, has announced that the closing date for the entries...

Innovectives Limited, Nigeria’s provider of secure and affordable transaction channels for the un-banked and under-banked members of the public, has launched SmartPesa, its mobile point of sales (mPOS) terminal in the Nigerian market. After two years of intensive process, National Inter-Bank Settlement System (NIBSS) has certified SmartPesa mPoS for the Nigerian market.  SmartPesa mPoS enables...

Some of Nigeria's finest celebrities, Richard Mofe-Damijo, BasketMouth, Uti Nwachukwu and Kemi Adetiba will join international top shots to the party capital of the USA, Las Vegas for the first ever selfie from space, courtesy of the world's number one brewer, Heineken. Billed to take place on November 5, 2015 in Nevada, Los Angeles, these...

.... Nigerian Stars to join others as Heineken premieres James Bond Movie 'Spectre' Some of Nigeria's finest celebrities, Richard Mofe-Damijo, BasketMouth, Uti Nwachukwu and Kemi Adetiba will join international top shots to the party capital of the USA, Las Vegas for the first ever selfie from space, courtesy of the world's...