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- 13 Mar 2023
MTN Becomes First Telco in Nigeria to offer Amazon's Prime Video Mobile Edition to Customers
MTN Nigeria has teamed up with Amazon’s global streaming platform, Prime Video, to offer Prime Video Mobile Edition – a single-device, mobile-only subscription. MTN customers who subscribe will have…
- 12 Jan 2024
Amazon Announces Buy with Prime Integration with Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Amazon has announced the Buy with Prime for Salesforce Commerce Cloud integration. This solution helps Salesforce merchants seamlessly integrate Buy with Prime into their existing shopping…
- 23 Jun 2025
Over 7m Streaming Accounts’ Credentials were Leaked in 2024 - Report
In a new report, Kaspersky identified over 7 million compromised accounts belonging to streaming services like Netflix, Disney+, Amazon Prime Video and others. For millions of Gen Z users, these…
- 27 Oct 2025
After MultiChoice Buyout, Canal+ Eyes Full Ownership of Showmax
Canal+, French media giant, is reportedly eyeing the full takeover of Showmax, the African streaming platform jointly owned with MultiChoice Group. This followed its recent push to expand across the…
- 15 Aug 2016
Tablet Shipments Records More Than 12% Decline in Second Quarter
Worldwide tablet shipments, inclusive of slates and detachables, reached 38.7 million in the second quarter of 2016 (2Q16) according to preliminary data from the International Data Corporation (IDC)…
- 3 Aug 2016
Worldwide Tablet Shipments Decline More Than 12% in 2Q16
Worldwide tablet shipments, inclusive of slates and detachables, reached 38.7 million in the second quarter of 2016 (2Q16) according to preliminary data from the International Data Corporation (IDC)…
- 13 May 2021
Premier League Inks £5Bn TV Broadcast Deal Extension with Partners
Premier League has secured approval in principle for a three-year renewal of its £5 billion TV broadcast rights deal with partners in the United Kingdom. The deal with Sky Sports, BT Sport, Amazon…
- 10 Jul 2026
DStv, GOtv Owner MultiChoice Officially Joins Canal+ Group
MultiChoice has officially become a wholly owned subsidiary of French media company Canal+, marking the completion of one of the largest acquisitions in Africa's media and entertainment industry. The…
- 3 Sept 2015
Ericsson, TV & Media Report Shows 71% Increase on Video watched via Smartphones
Ericsson ConsumerLab TV & Media Report 2015 shows consumers embracing video on-demand services like never before as every third viewing hour now spent watching on-demand TV and video According to…
- 9 Sept 2015
Ericsson ConsumerLab Shows 71% Increase in Video Views with Smartphone
Ericsson has launched the latest edition of the annual Ericsson ConsumerLab TV & Media Report, representative of the views and habits of 680 million consumers making it one of the largest studies…
- 24 Aug 2016
Netflix Moves to Break 100m Subscriber Mark by 2018
The total number of Netflix subscribers grew 30% between 2014 and 2015 and is forecast to grow 21% in 2016 as territorial expansion reaches its peak. By 2018, the number of international Netflix…
- 11 May 2018
Fear as OTT Threatens Everyone’s Lunch
Despite the new and exciting capabilities offered by over-the-top (OTT) services; there are also risks to the content owners and service providers. And watch out! with bad regulation of OTT services,…
- 5 Nov 2018
HMD Introduces the Nokia 7.1 in Nigeria
The first smartphone to launch PureDisplay screen technology for a superior viewing experience, and advanced imaging with ZEISS Optics HMD Global, the home of Nokia phones, today announced the Nokia…
- 11 Jun 2020
MultiChoice to Stream Netflix, Amazon in New Deal
MultiChoice Group Ltd, Pay-TV company, has signed deals with Netflix Inc and Amazon.com Inc to offer their streaming services through its new decoder. The deal has been touted as a move by…
- 4 Jan 2021
OTT TV & Video Subscriptions to Reach 2B Globally by 2025 – Report
A new report by Juniper Research has found that there will be nearly 2 billion active subscriptions to on-demand video services in 2025; a 65% increase over the end of 2020. The primary engine for…
- 13 Jun 2021
MultiChoice Hits Record Profit with Huge Increase in DStv Subscribers
MultiChoice Group (MCG), Africa’s leading video entertainment company, has revealed a big increase in trading profit and subscribers on DStv, its pay-TV service in its latest financial results, ended…
- 19 Jan 2023
Growth Strategies to Scale Up Tech Businesses Using Lessons from Film Anatomie
Insights from the Cinema Exhibitors Association of Nigeria show that Nigeria’s movie production company, Nollywood, grossed over N800,000,000 (eight hundred million Naira) from theatre releases in…
- 28 Nov 2023
Nollywood Targets to Generate $14.82B by 2025
A report recently released by the Nigerian Entertainment Conference (NECLive) has revealed that the Nigerian entertainment industry is projected to reach an estimated $14.82 billion revenue in 2025,…
- 17 Apr 2024
Canal+ Offer for MultiChoice Gains Shareholders’ Support
Some MultiChoice shareholders have expressed relief at the offer by Canal+ to buy Africa’s pay TV giant for $2.9 billion, essentially viewing the potential deal as a vehicle for them to be rescued…
- 28 Nov 2024
Verve Partners Ali Express On Seamless Cross-Border Shopping
Verve International, Africa’s domestic payments card scheme and token brand, has announced that its cards are now accepted on AliExpress, one of the world’s largest online retail platforms. This…
- 30 Dec 2024
Verve International Achieves 70 Million Payment Cards Milestone in Nigeria
Verve International, Africa’s pioneering and largest domestic payments scheme, has announced a significant new milestone, further solidifying its market dominance in Nigeria. The company has now…
- 22 May 2025
Over 250,000 Cyberattacks Disguised as Anime - Report
From Naruto to Attack on Titan, cybercriminals are increasingly using anime and other Gen Z favourites as bait. In a new report covering Q2 2024 – Q1 2025, Kaspersky has found over 250,000…
- 3 Oct 2025
Ghana Govt, DStv Settlement Sets New Regulatory Precedent in Africa
The recent DStv pricing dispute in Ghana has underscored the volatile intersection of consumer protection, political manoeuvring, and multinational business operations. According to myjoyonline.com,…
- 7 Apr 2026
Multichoice Bleeds Customers in South Africa, Loses 580,000 Subscribers
Rising cost of living, currency depreciation, and competition from streaming services have all conspired to see MultiChoice lose 589,000 South African subscribers in its latest financial year. The…
- 13 May 2026
Facebook Launches ‘Made by Africa’ Campaign to Spotlight African Cinema
Facebook has launched the sixth edition of its pan-African campaign, 'Made by Africa, loved by the world: Where stories spark community,' ahead of Africa Day on May 25. This year's focus: African…
- 13 Apr 2015
Online to Mainline: OTT Streaming to Hit 100m Subscribers in 2015- Ovum
Direct-to-consumer initiatives such as HBO Now and Sling TV herald a new era in online streaming as premium, stand-alone services based on content once exclusive to traditional pay TV hit the…
- 6 Dec 2017
Google bars Amazon devices from You Tube
Google in an unusually public spat,ever witnessed in the technology industry increase rapidly,when it said that, it would block its video streaming application YouTube from two Amazon.com Inc…
- 4 Dec 2023
Premier League Agrees Record-Breaking £6.7Bn Deal with Sky Sports
Sky Sports will air a minimum of 215 Premier League matches a season as part of a new domestic rights agreement which is worth a record £6.7billion. The broadcaster secured four of the five packages…
- 9 Jan 2014
No Jobs? Well The Machines Are Taking Them!
Welcome to 2014. While many of us in developing nations are embroiled in trivial and non sequitur ethnic, religious and political/governance battles, there is a new and most powerful ‘race’ that is…
- 5 Nov 2017
Apple, Samsung & Huawei Top Third Quarter Tablet Market
According to preliminary data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Tablet Tracker, the third quarter of 2017 (3Q17) closed with 40 million tablets shipped globally.…