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Ghana
Technology | Media | Economy - Development

Google to compete with Ghana media

afrol News - Internet giant Google today launched a new "marketplace" product exclusively in Ghana. If successful, it could seriously threaten Ghanaian media's main revenue source.

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Zambia
Agriculture - Nutrition | Technology

Zambia farmers get innovative e-vouchers

afrol News / SciDev.Net - Zambian farmers could gain faster access to agricultural products and services with Africa's first electronic voucher scheme for farmers.


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Côte d'Ivoire's Alassana Ouattara campaigns on YouTube
Africa
Technology | Media | Society

Africa's social media revolution

afrol News / Africa Renewal - Lost in the excitement about Africans' enthusiastic embrace of mobile phones is the growing use of those phones to access the Internet - particularly YouTube, Facebook and other social media sites.

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South Africa | Africa
Technology | Economy - Development

Why phone calls are so expensive in Africa

Sponsored Feature - It is estimated that African telecom operators are cheated for revenues totalling more than US$ 1 billion from their northern counterparts, who are not properly billed when international calls are made to Africa. These losses are a major reason behind the stiff pricing of international calls for Africans.Christian Ciupek, of South Africa's Intec Telecom Systems, looks at the issue.

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