Google, today announced winners of it’s Android Challenge Competition. The battle was fierce and well fought amongst African Countries. There were 29 finalist, including 5 from Nigeria; 8 South Africa 6 Kenya 5 Nigeria 3 Ghana 2 Uganda 1 Senegal 1 Malawi 1 Togo 1 Tanzania 1 Republic of Guinea Afrinolly, the Nigeria/Africa entertainment app, with [...]
We will be writing a series of post highlighting how technologist in the country started their companies; the challenges they encountered, how they overcame and how they have been able to sustain and grow their businesses over the years. For now, we are covering Nigeria but plan is under way to cover whole of Africa [...]
As is the culture here at webtrendsng.com, we love to review emerging sites especially Nigerian and African sites. Today, the site under review is a social media site TimmyNaija, a Nigerian site that aims to bring Nigerians together, for mainly networking purposes. What comes to the mind of any “web enthusiast is another social networking [...]
Yea! Google is on a moving train across Africa, this time Ghana is the destination. Google want to meet with software developers, technology entrepreneurs and marketing professionals. G-Nigeria day was held at University of Lagos, February between 18-20th. It was a 3-day event and was extremely successful. The turn-out was huge! G-Ghana will be holding [...]
The battle between East and West Africa is growing day by day. Barcamp Africa will be held in Abidjan this year (first on African soil) from 4th to 7th of June and Chembe, a venture capital company is willing to sponsor anyone who can has something to offer. Remember, today is the online discussion between [...]
Erik Hersman has been so inspiring on the African tech scene. In this interview he poured out his heart on the journey so far for Ushahidi.
Facebook adoption continues to see growth every month. Let’s take a look at how it has feared this quarter. The countries under review have a combined 85% of total African population on Facebook. Growth in South Africa has saturation point while Egypt, Tunisia and morocco are all fast rising. Egypt added the highest number of [...]
Recently Kenya launch an iHub, which simply means “Innovation hub” powered by the community though. Now again, it’s a massive investment from world’s leading telephone maker, Nokia! Kenya technology scene is moving at a very fast pace that I somehow “jealous” and I appreciate the fact that the people are committed and making things happen. [...]
M2M connections to triple in five years According to ABI Research, the number of cellular M2M (machine-to-machine) is likely to triple over the next five years, reaching over 200 million in 2014. It’s a deal: Zain finally gives the OK to Bharti Bharti Airtel today confirmed the acquisition of Zain Telecom’s 15-country Africa operations for [...]
