After four months of paperwork, hype and speculation, the last piece of the Facebook IPO is in place: Facebook said it has priced its IPO at $38 a share.   At that price, Facebook’s IPO will raise $16 billion, making it the largest tech IPO in history. It’s the third largest U.S. IPO ever, trailing only the $19.7 billion raised by Visa (V, Fortune 500) in March 2008 and the $18.1 billion raised by automaker [...]

Hewlett-Packard on Wednesday announced the OfficeJet 150 Mobile All-in-One portable printer, which the company called the world’s first mobile multifunction device that can “print, copy and scan on the go.”   HP hopes to provide a printer, copier and scanner that users can carry on the road, just like laptops. At 6.8 pounds (3 kilograms), the multifunction device is lighter than stationary inkjets, making it easy to move inside homes or between work sites. The [...]

Mobile Facebook fans are in for a double treat today, as the company has started rolling out its new Pages Manager app for the iPhone and introduced some design changes to its mobile News Feed.   Facebook has launched a new app, this time dedicated to fan pages. It’s said to work in a similar way as the main Facebook app, but centres around your page for business or personal use so you can monitor [...]

Taskforce announced at Boao Forum by chairman Richard Attias; Forum will take place the June 8-10, 2012 in Libreville, Gabon and will host a major Chinese delegation   Building on the momentum of the New York Forum, launched in June 2010 by former Davos producer and Clinton Global Initiative and Nobel Laureates Conference co-founder Richard Attias, the first “New York Forum AFRICA” will take place in Libreville, the capital of Gabon, from June 8-10, 2012. [...]

MTN Group Ltd. (MTN), Africa’s largest mobile-phone operator, said sabotage, terrorist attacks and shutdowns by state agencies seeking undue taxes are hampering efforts to meet service conditions set by Nigeria’s regulator.   The Nigerian Communications Commission on May 11 fined MTN and Emirates Telecommunications Corp. (ETISALAT) 360 million naira ($2.3 million) each for failing to meet minimum service standards. Bharti Airtel Ltd. (BHARTI) must pay 270 million naira and Globacom Ltd. 180 million naira. The regulator last year threatened to stop [...]

Last week, it was reported that the Siri named Nokia’s Lumia 900 the best smartphone ever. Now, Siri appears to have changed its mind, causing Nokia to accuse Apple altering Siri’s programming.   On Friday, The Next Web reported that, when asked “What is the best smartphone ever”, the iPhone 4S’s assistant replied with the Nokia Lumia 900, after generating its answer based on results from Wolfram Alpha, a service that draws from users reviews across [...]

Pivot East regional mobile apps, a developer competition will end in a pitching conference on 5th and 6th June 2012. The competition has five categories with each having finalists pitching to a rich audience of investors, development partners, telecoms operators and other industry players from East Africa and across the globe.   The competition also gives companies the opportunity to showcase their applications to Operators, Venture Capital Community, Angel Investors and the ICT community at [...]