Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BRAZZAVILLE (Reuters) - Republic of Congo's homegrown tech start-up VMK this week launched a production unit of its mobile phones ...

Tech startup VMK is offering sleek mobile devices at an affordable price. Founder and CEOÂ Verone Mankou is dedicated to providing the latest technology to his community. VMK makes a tablet called Way ...

VMK, a company founded by Vérone Mankou, the Congolese entrepreneur behind the first tablet made in Africa, announced the opening of its first VMK store in Abidjan. Located in the Treichville commune ...

When 26-year-old Congolese entrepreneur Verone Mankou followed up the introduction of the first African-designed tablet with the announcement of the first African-designed smartphone, some within the ...

Smartphones have taken off big time in Africa, with latest figures from the World Bank revealing that the continent now has more mobile subscribers than either North America or Europe, coming only ...

AFRICAN technology pundits cheered when a Congolese company announced in June that it would be launching a new Android tablet computer "designed in Congo" in September. Technological innovation is ...

Verone Mankou, the Congolese entrepreneur responsible for Africa’s first-ever homegrown smartphone and tablet, says that “only Africans know what Africa needs … Apple is huge in the U.S., Samsung is ...

His home country is considered of the most difficult places in the world to do business.But Verone Mankou has blazed a trail as the man who created Africa’s first tablet – a gadget for people who ...

BRAZZAVILLE (Reuters) - Republic of Congo's homegrown tech start-up VMK this week launched a production unit of its mobile phones in Congo and aims to assemble some 4 million phones annually, the ...