Uber is celebrating its launch in Accra by providing free rides. Ghanaians can try out the new service by accessing their complimentary rides on the Uber app. Promocode is MoveGhana in order to receive the free rides. This makes it the 467th city Uber has stepped foot on worldwide and the 6th in Africa. Akwaaba Uber!
Someone is not taking this lying low. Over in Kenya, Safaricom in partnership with Craft Silicon is set to launch its taxi service called Littlecabs in the very near future. According to Bob Collymore, the telco will help to develop the mobile application for the service, offer the network connectivity, put Wi-Fi in vehicles that will be signed up on it just like mobile hotspots, and use its mobile-phone based financial service M-Pesa to process payments. We wait patiently to see how that pans out.
Did you hear about the site that was developed for ugly people? Tom Thurlow, uglyr.com’s founder says, ”Our users don’t come here expecting to take home a six pack – they’ll settle for a beer belly that can make them laugh.” First you judge someone’s looks by calling them ugly and you think you make a choice for them too? It is presently available in UK, Ireland, USA, Australia and South Africa. Seems like a site for tinder rejects. Do you think it will get half as popular as Tinder?
MTN South Sudan in order to at least continue operations have laid off 54 employees and also begun encouraging its 1.1 Million subscribers to make airtime purchases via bank transfers eliminating distribution costs and the need for importation of your conventional scratch cards. Meanwhile, MTN Nigeria is battling with a multibillion naira fine they have been mandate to pay by the NCC. Different strokes.
Image: By George Appiah – originally posted to Flickr as Independence Arch – Accra, Ghana, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4730648
