Hoping to capitalize on the seemingly insatiable global market for smartphones, vendors continue to focus their efforts on new, low-cost devices for the African market. Huawei has stated that it will offer the ’4Afrika’ smartphone by next month. This Windows Phone 8 device is expected to sell for $150. It will include a 1.2 GHz [...]
It started just like normal weird idea on the secret/invite-only group on Facebook, Silicon Africa when Kayode Muyibi asked this question “How easy would it be to get 1000 Africans’ to fund a fund with 100 dollars every month in perpetuity?” at about 3:56pm on Wednesday, August 29th. Few hours later, more than 40 comments were [...]
The internet space is Nigeria is growing really fast and a lot of money (not enough yet) is coming into the industry to fund innovation. It is good to note that the internet has given birth to young millionaires (in USD) in Nigeria who are doing great works. Things that can work for us include; [...]
This is hot, MIH, the operator of the brands above has decided to shut down the services. Kalahari was expected to relaunch the site but a management decision from MIH south Africa has notified Kenyan Staff about the decision. This means that, the company may want to be operating from South Africa or forget the [...]
Microsoft will hold an event next week in Lagos. The event is targeted at professional programmer and it is held worldwide. The lagos edition comes up next week Tuesday at The Civic Centre. It’s invitation-only though, plan to attend by Registering. Microsoft Open Doors Lagos. Developers Event ID: 1032496192 Civic Centre, Lagos Ozumba Mbadiwe Road,Victoria [...]
Today, the federal government of Nigeria launched Youth Enterprise with Innovation in Nigeria (You WiN!) Programme to help young people with innovative ideas to get funding and mentorship. The program is between 3 ministries; Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Communication Technology (CT), and the Ministry of Youth Development. The initiative is very brilliant [...]
It’s a new month again, another time for us to check out how Nigerian sites performed last month. At the top of the rank is vanguardngr.com keeping in it strong on the number one spot for 3rd consecutive month as nairaland.com still find it a tough task to take on. As expected, there is nothing [...]
On Wednesday, we gathered at the Co-creation hub to learn how to monetize mobile apps and web, led by InMobi, the fledging mobile ad network. We had an interesting time, and I really learnt a lot from interaction I had with developers present. The whole event really gave me hope that, Nigerian developers are not [...]
In what I will call a massive validation of the Nigerian internet market, I got a scoop from a reliable source that NollywoodLove just raised a whopping 3Million dollars to bring Nigerian entertainment online. They got the funding from a US-base investment fund that has continued to shine its light on Nigerian tech market. The [...]
Today opens a new chapter in web industry in Nigeria as Google is leading the change to bring about a revolution in web presence of small and medium businesses in Nigeria. The initiative according to Google is to help businesses benefit from the enormous potentials the internet have for them. About GNBO and what Google [...]
