Google has continued its investment in Africa as a new service was just rolled out of its lab; Google SMS. The feature allows you to send and recieve SMS from your Gmail account. Guess what? The SMS is free (though a standard charge require if you are sending from your mobile phone)! In Google’s own [...]
If you have been following this blog since the start of the year, you will notice a growing pattern in the Nigerian web space. I wrote last time about an e-payment service for Nigerian (FasteCash). I went o Interswitch on yesterday (Tuesday) to ask for any update regarding their payment platform, well nothing has changed [...]
We covered the event live on our website and twitter through out the three days. I wrote a follow up article on the impact of Google on Nigeria and African Internet market. The Organization of the event was above average, except for the first day when all startup glitches showed up. The second day was [...]
Interview with Chiemeka Ozumba, CEO of ishopinlondon.com As Nigeria ecommerce market continues its aggressive growth, ishopinlondon.com joins the league of site launch this year. Mpesa comes to South Africa In a move that could pitch Vodacom competitively against local banks for the first time, its parent Vodafone has announced that it will launch M-Pesa, Kenya’s [...]
I was at the Google event for 3 straight days and covered the event; it was very interesting as hundreds of developers and internet business people in came around. Read more on Day One, Day Two and Day Three. The Nigerian internet market is growing progressively; in recent stats, Nigerian internet users are over 11 [...]
We followed the event live here from our twitter page and on this site, you view day 2 live feed here. Day 2 started off with introduction on setting up online business. Session 2 Adwords and Adsense Second session focused on Adwords and Adsense; the two Google advertising product helps you to reach your target [...]
Google Nigeria day is going on currently in University of Lagos. You can stay connected to the event on twitter here with the hash tag #gnigeria. Google Buzz back channel here. Nelson Mattos delivered the key note speech, highlights below; More than 50% of 16yr olds who are familiar with the Internet don’t use it [...]
