The over 100 billion daily active users on Facebook, twitter, WeChat, Skype and Telegram can now experience the ease of performing their financial transactions directly from these platforms with the aid of the recently introduced solution, ChatPay.

Thrilled by the innovative solutions presented by no fewer than 120 best students from 34 countries around the world, the Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft, Satya Nadella during an award ceremony at the just concluded 2016 Microsoft Imagine Cup competition held in Seattle, Washington, the United States of America , has challenged the students to change the world with digital technology.

Following the success of its first powered by Android, phone, PRIV, Canadian smart phone maker, BlackBerry Limited has unveiled DTEK50 , the world’s most secure Android smartphone in the mobile market to address address security, privacy needs of Android users with DTEK50 series The product being BlackBerry’s thinnest device ever, represents the best of BlackBerry with Android to make users more productive and responsive, pairing security with intelligent design.

While more than half a billion people across Africa are now subscribed to mobile services as the continent continues to migrate rapidly to mobile broadband networks, , mobile ecosystem contributes more $150 billion in economic value of African economy, latest report released at the just concluded GSMA Mobile 360 – Africa event held in Dar es Salaam, has indicated. The new report, ‘The Mobile Economy: Africa 2016’ is authored by GSMA Intelligence, the research arm of the GSMA. The report also highlighted the increasing contribution of Africa’s mobile industry to the regional economy, including employment and public funding, and mobile’s role a platform for digital and financial inclusion.

After the top three teams in the Games, Innovation and World Citizenship have pitched their projects in front of hundreds of students, judges, and Journalists in the Quincy Jones Performing Arts Centre at Seattle’s Garfield High School, Washington, the United States of America, this morning, Team ENTy in the innovation category from Romania took the place as the 2016 Imagine Cup World Champion winner.