THIS year’s edition of the Microsoft Imagine Cup Competition — the football World Cup equivalent in software design — saw no fewer than 350,000 budding software experts from 75 countries worldwide gathering at the convention centre in Sydney, Australia to compete in different categories like software design, game design, IT challenge, Windows Azure challenge, Kinnect fun Labs challenge, Windows Azure challenge and Windows phone challenge, with health care solutions dominating entries.

To widen the reach of local and international players in the growing Nigerian market through safe, easy, affordable shopping and connective technology, Nigerian based online shop, Kasuwa.com has announced plans to invest on over 20,000 book titles across the board to its customers.

Building up to the Electronic Payment Providers Association of Nigeria, EPPAN organized ePayment for Government Summit in Abuja next week, Interswitch’s Director for Payment and Solutions, Mr Charles Ifedi, in this interview has tipped the summit as last stroke to break awareness barrier of the CBN cashless society initiative.

TOP national telco, Globacom has launched Season 3 of its promo, Glo “text4millions” aimed at rewarding loyal customers on its network.

Etisalat Nigeria, last week announced the revamp of its popular promo, the 9ja free credit promo, in which it will give customers the opportunity to win a phone every five minutes throughout the months of July and August.