Weekly recap, first week of March

Nigerian Pidgin Bible; Crowd-sourced Project on Facebook

Pidgin english is a simplified English language people in Nigeria use for casual conversation.
A project developed by 9ja BusStop; the Facebook application hopes to translate the Christian Bible to pidgin English.

Most visited Nigerian sites in February 2010

As usual looking at how Nigerian website feared in the recent month. It again no surprise that nairaland.com remains on the top spot but its good to note how punchng.com rally from shadow of its formal glory to take back the second spot.

NetNaira.com another Nigerian e-payment site

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).

Interswitch webpay, a dying goldmine

Interswitch the leading payment gateway in Nigeria, in fact has a near monopoly stronghold on the e-payment industry in Nigeria.

Startups Act 2010, US wants technopreneur around the world

I was reading through Techcrunch and came across this post. Silicon Valley technocrats are drumming up support for the bill proposed by Senator John Kerry (D-MA) and Richard Lugar (R-IN) to be discussed next week Thursday.

Innovation Hub lands in Kenya

If there is a country on African soil that has shown consistent commitment towards technology development in recent time, I sure will choose Kenya! Kenya is home to M-Pesa and some other innovative technologies.

Facebook worth $11.5billion, Twitter $1.4billion, Linkedin $1.3billion

Whether you want to say, social networking is fun or business, I guess a company worth over a billion dollars is no more a child’s place.
Facebook is the world largest social networking site with over 400 million users worldwide. Oh! 400 M, yeah! 400million eyeballs you can market to!

Nigerian Blogger Featured on Oprah Show

Nigeria internet scene has been growing massively on the positive side, Google recently stamped its footprint on the Nigerian Internet Market last month; as other large scale investment is going on to harness the potential of the Nigerian internet market.

BBN SMS launched bulk SMS recharge cards

BBN SMS is one of the leading bulk SMS operators in the Nigeria’s growing bulk SMS market. To serve more customers, BBN believes that bulk SMS does not have to run into thousands but some Naira. Today the dealer recharge PIN has been launched!

Zain Nigeria not for sale to Bharti

Mobile provider ECONET is making attempts to block any possible sale of Zain Nigeria to Bharti Airtel of India. According to Bloomberg, CEO of Econet, Strive Masiyiwa says his company has the first option to buy the stake acquired by Zain.

Egypt’s Orascom, eighth largest mobile network in the world

The past decade has been a highly successful one for the leading Middle Eastern and African operators. PRTM, a global management consultancy, has a new report in which it says that Egypt’s Orascom Telecom has become the eighth largest mobile network in the world by customer numbers. As a result, the company is now ahead of some of the well-established international operators.

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This week on the Web, weekly recap

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 wildly popular mobile money transfer service, in SA.

Africa Meet AppStore

Apple in a bid to consolidate usage of its products in Africa, Apple on the 18^th of February launched the AppStore for Africa. This will make buy app for Apple platform for African countries easier. Countries listed are: Botswana, Kenya, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Niger, Senegal, Tunisia, and Uganda. The question you may want to ask is where is Nigeria on the list?

Facebook Drives 44 Percent Of Social Sharing On The Web

If you are still wondering why Google is pushing so hard with its new product Buzz, it is because it wants in on social traffic. For many sites on the Web, social traffic coming through Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace is beginning to rival, and in some cases overtake, search traffic as the single biggest source of traffic. This traffic comes from shared links, photos, and videos. By its own numbers, 5 billion pieces of content are shared on Facebook every week.

Microsoft Fights Google With Google-Hosted Videos

Yesterday, we saw Microsoft shamelessly go after the iPhone with a video which played at Mobile World Congress for its new Windows Phone 7 Series. But it’s not just Apple that Microsoft is taking on with videos, it’s competitors like Google and OpenOffice.org as well.

How we built secret London in a weekend

This is a guest post by Tiffany Philippou who started the Secret London Facebook Group. Two weeks after launch the group had amassed over 180,000 members, propelling its 21 year old creator into her first startup – see our previous coverage.

Google Launched New Maps domains in 30 African Countries

As Google increase its penetration in Africa, it has improved effort to put Africa on Google Map. Haven launched the products in Kenya and South Africa, this latest effort is a big step forward in reaching the Africa audience.

G-Nigeria kick starts with day one

Google starts the much anticipated event, G-Nigeria in university of Lagos on Thursday 17^th of February. The event saw a large turn-out and the auditorium was filled up. Google introduced its technology to the African developer and how to market better use of them. Google believe, than local developers are needed for the next phase of advancement on internet.

G-Nigeria Day two

The second day accommodated technopreneur, web markets and business people with interest in Google. This day was the best day I must say, well organized and coordinated. Google top products, Adwords and Adsense were explored and questions answered from the audience. The entrepreneur and VCs, session was mind blowing as young people asked the VC how to raise fund, develop business mentoring.

G-Nigeria Day three

On Friday was the focus on Computer Science students, a repeat of day one but focus was made on the students. Google believe the university community and students are the next point to expect great idea, hence the need to help them get started faster. Students asked question from the G-team and was delighted to learn from Google.

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Web Weekly Buzz, second week of February

Let’s take you through what has happen in the web world this week. The biggest event this week is Google Buzz, while it’s receiving praise so it’s receiving nocks too. Have you missed any news? Checkout highlight here;

African mobile market up 20%

Mobile subscribers in Africa have reached 448.1 million, this according to a report produced by Ovum Research.

Twitter Hires a CFO From Pixar

This is the year that Twitter is slated to start monetizing in a big way. Along those lines, the company has just hired a chief financial officer by way of Pixar Animation Studios.

Facebook Fixes News Feed, Still Irritates Users

Facebook has responded to a news feed issue that users have been experiencing and bellyaching about. On its Facebook Page, the company posted:
“We’ve heard from many of you who are seeing a delay in your News Feed posts. We’ve fixed this issue and you should see your News Feeds gradually return to normal. Thanks for your feedback.”

Online Retail Spending Reaches $39 Billion In Q4

Online retail spending in the U.S. in the fourth quarter reached $39 billion, a 3 percent increase compared to a year ago, according to the latest report from comScore.
Total retail ecommerce spending reached $129.8 billion in 2009, slightly lower than the previous year’s total of $130.1 billion.

How Over 400 Million People Use Facebook

Last week, as Facebook celebrated its sixth birthday, the company announced that it was surpassing the 400 million-user milestone. That’s one good reason why it pays for businesses to have Facebook Pages. That’s not the only impressive number though.

Google Buzz is launched

The new product Google launched to enter the social media game. It helps you share, communicate and comment on topic being discussed by your friends.

Surepay.com.ng Nigeria online payment gateway

SurePay is a payment gateway that allows website owners and businesses to receive payments on their website from Interswitch, Etranzact, MasterCard and Visa (ATM) cardholders. The platform is easy and helps websites owners accept payment both locally and internationally.

Naijacards.net is a scam stay off the site

We reported a phishing website that claims to sell recharge cards (MTN, Zain, Etisalat etc) to you at 15% discount. What it simply does is to collect your ATM card details and use it for another purpose.

Spanish Telecom May Seek To Charge Search Engines

The CEO of Spanish telecom company Telefonica might soon try to obtain some money from Google and its rivals.  Cesar Alierta said today that search engines’ popularity creates something of a burden for his organization, and that he’d like Telefonica to share in their profits.

MTN will implement rate decrease on 1 March 2010

MTN will implement the Mobile Termination Rate (MTR) decrease on 1 March 2010. This was revealed in a statement released by Robert Madzonga, acting chief corporate services officer at MTN South Africa.

Google Buzz: What It Means for Twitter and Facebook

So far, Google has failed to launch a successful social web product to U.S. Internet users. Orkut has taken off in including Brazil and India, but not in North America. Wave is a neat concept, but it has proven too abstract to catch on.

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Weekly Web Recap Second week of January

Let’s look back at how last week went in web/tech industry as the year moves on. The battle between Google and China intensify as Google gives its chinese staff break and in serious debate with China as to the Government involvement in the attack against its infrastructure in the country. Soutth Africa Internet Users also sees rise and at home here webtrendsng.com clocks one in providing you with insightful web news and analysis. Read below for more.

As Webtrendsng.com clocks one

We are reflecting as we look back to when the first article was published on this site, January 13th 2009.
So much has happen and we are glad to be part of the making the Nigerian Internet Industry valuable.

Nigerian Web Awards continues…

The Nigerian Web Awards nomination which commenced on the 21st of December 2009 is still on. Nominate your favourite web, people and company. You can nominate as many times as possible from any category of your choice.

Nigerian Web Conference

I see an improved awareness of the Nigerian Internet Market this year with many events, conferences and seminars. One of it is the: Nigerian Technology outlook 2010 while another one recently announced is Nigerian Web Conference which is schedule to hold in June 2010.

Nigerian Websites of Interest Part 2

Last year I wrote about Nigerian site of interest here, it received additional sites and I want to believe their are many more Nigerian site that I or anyone is yet to know. This time around I will base the site on consistency, functionality and usability. I have my personal picks based on my experience though, so if you have one, kindly drop them below as we compile the list.

Google Defends Against Large Scale Chinese Cyber Attack: May Cease Chinese Operations

Google is releasing information about a “highly sophisticated and targeted attack” on their corporate infrastructure that occurred last month. The attack originated in China and resulted in the “theft of intellectual property from Google.” In light of the attack Google is making sweeping changes to its Chinese operations.

Zain Nigeria receives mobile networking solution from Huawei

Zain Nigeria, subsidiary of Zain group and Huawei, announced today the deployment of a next-generation blade mobile softswitch in Nigeria, that will see an improved operation capacity for the Nigerian telecom operator, supporting…

East African Mobile Communication market to reach $9 billion in 2015
The mobile communications markets of Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Rwanda, earned revenues of $2.62 billion in 2008 combined and are expected to deliver $8.99 billion in 2015, following the availability of cheaper handsets and network investments in this region, says a recent study compiled by Frost & Sullivan.

Egypt to enhance broadband in northern Africa
Telecom Egypt, which early last two weeks announced that it had assumed total control of its subsidiary TE Data, said the move would enhance the growth of the broadband industry in the North African country.

Internet usage in SA to grow by 15% in 2010
South African Internet users exceeded the five million mark for the first time, accounting now for 10% of Internet penetration in the country, says a study conducted by World Wide Worx and jointly sponsored by Cisco.

Theme set for e-Governance Africa Forum
The theme for this year’s e-Governance Africa Forum has been set. Organizers, the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organization (CTO), said the event will be held under the theme “Effective Governance, transparent public services and citizen empowerment through Information and Communication Technologies”.

The event, aimed at facilitating and promoting information and communications technology development through knowledge-sharing events, is scheduled for Maputo, Mozambique, from 23 to 25 March.

Nigeria’s Zinox acquires World e-Books Library Affiliation
“Nigeria Reads” from Zinox Computers is inspired by the company’s exclusive affiliation to the World e-Books Library, which gives this nation direct access to over 750,000 e-books and documents embedded in every Zinox Computer and enabled by a Zinox e-Card, renewable annually at a subsidized rate of N5,000 only.

Social networking tool launched in support of MWC
Organizers of this year’s Mobile World Congress (MWC) have introduced a new social networking tool aimed at enhancing the event and expanding delegates’ networking connections.

They introduced App Planet, a new “event within an event” focusing on mobile application developers, which will be held at MWC.

The Mobile World Congress, which will draw delegates from the continent, is scheduled for Barcelona, Spain, form 15-18 February.

Fa.il: Bing’s URL Shortener Is Longer Than Bing’s Own Domain
Everyone is getting into the URL shortening game these days. Google, YouTube, and Facebook are just a few joining the likes of the established players such as Bit.ly. And now Microsoft is jumping in. But there’s something weird about their URL.

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Weekly recap, first week of 2010

Below is the compilation of news from technology/web sector in Nigeria and around the world. This week being the first in this year, it was loaded!

Countdown to Technology Outlook 2010

Nexus-one (Google Phone) Launched

Most Visited Nigerian Site in 2009; Analyst report

This report is an excerpt from our Nigerian Internet Report to be published next month. You can join the survey here for the reports to be published alongside the paper. We recently wrote an Analyst Report on Google Zeitgeist 2009 here.

Apple Acquires Quattro

We’re hearing that Apple is buying mobile advertising company Quattro Wireless for $275 million. This jives with reports earlier this evening of a deal between the two companies. Our source says that there was initially talk of a $400 million pricetag, but that has since come down. We’ve also heard that Microsoft may have been very interested as well.

Social media strategies, fishing where the fishes are

This article is in continuation of “Corporate Web Strategies” Series… read other installments here, here.

In the beginning, the web was developed as a stateless platform and ever since it has evolved to something meaningful and social. With the advent of programming languages that helped maintain states on the web so as to have a meaningful experience, the web now mimics the normal social life.

Cybercrime Bill for Nigeria; Sign petition now!

In developed countries, there are laws protecting individials and companies using the internet. As Nigeria joins the league of Nations playing in the digital world, we need digital laws.
To protect businesses and investment there need to be an enabling law to this effect. ‘Gbenga Sesan Executive Director of Paradigm Initiative Nigeria initiated the bill.

Nigeria intensifies focus on broadband connectivity

Nigeria’s Communications Commission (NCC), Earnest Ndukwe, has called for focus on broadband internet connectivity by emerging markets as a means of forging ahead in global competitiveness.

Top 10 resolutions for the African wireless market in 2010

2010, the year of mobility? According to Julien Blin, Principal Analyst and CEO at technologies research and consulting services company JBB Research, based in USA, the African continent will undergo a higher focus on 4G technologies, cheaper, more capable smartphones and improved mobile social networking, payment and entertainment services for its end users in the current year, with 2010 World Cup the main driver in South Africa.

The rise and rise of Jobberman.com

A Job search website launched in September 2009, and has gained widespread usage amongst job searchers and recruiters. We have written about it here.

Nigeria seeks ways to curb online crime

The president of the Institute of Software Practitioners of Nigeria (ISPN) has called on Nigeria to invest on secured internet protocol versions to curb the menace of internet scams that allegedly originate from the West African country.

Overview: Will the future look bright for telecoms in Nigeria?

That no modern economy can be sustained without an integral growth in Information Communications Technology (ICT) is widely acknowledged. The ICT penetration in Nigeria in 1999 when the transition to democratic rule occurred was very low, and less than 1 percent of the population had access to telephone.

NATCOMS accuses NCC of interconnect rate rip-off

Nigeria’s National Association of Telecommunication Subscribers (NATCOMS) believes the recent interconnect rates method as agreed by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) is a rip-off strategy against telecoms subscribers in the country, writes the Lagos publication the Independent.

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Weekly recap

Around the globe, the web is on the move. Follow the links below to know what is going on in the web industry.

Nigerian Web technologist takes the web to the mainstream

I was at Joomla Day Nigeria last Saturday, pictures uploaded here.

Google Fast Flip gets more Publication

Cisco Completes $3 Billion Starent Networks Acquisition

Goo.gl: Google Launches a URL Shortener, Too

Google Phone “Nexus One” Launching January 5th [REPORT]

Facebook Movie Hotly Anticipated by Hollywood Insiders

WordPress 2.9 Now Available for Download

Microsoft Licenses Flight Simulator Technology To Flight1

Yahoo’s 2010 Turn-Around Strategy Revealed: A Cycling Team

Google Grabs Plaxo’s CTO To “Turbocharge” The Opening Of The Social Web

Facebook Sets A Date For Its Third f8 Conference. Expect Another Huge Announcement

Facebook Now Consumes 5 Percent of Our Collective Internet Time

MySpace And Wall Street Journal To Send A Citizen Journalist To Davos

Google In Discussions To Acquire Yelp For A Half Billion Dollars Or More

Ad.ly Launches Analytics For Sponsored Tweets

Feel free to add links you think will be helpful for fellow web nerds below!

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Happenings around the Internet for the Week

Facebook Users in Nigeria and Africa sees Growth

I last reviewed Facebook Users across (Selected) African countries in August here. Another look at the users’ increment is outlined below. Let’s first take a look at Nigeria’s Facebook Users;
Total: 901,840

Fastecash: a Nigerian e-Payment platform

As the internet users’ grow by the day in Nigeria, one of the challenges of growing the ecommerce side of it has been largely online payment solution. Interswitch is the topmost of all with their ATM cards which is usable online and issued by all Nigerian banks.

Nigerian Search Pattern; Google Zeitgeist take a look

Earlier in the week Bing release its search stats and not long Google also released its annual Zeitgeist. Google’s report is broad and includes Nigeria.

Rave of acquisition; Google acquires appJet, Apple acquires Lala

As the battle between the two companies grows, the needs to shop for creative and talented startups have seen them acquire startups here and there. Google acquired gizmo5 and adMob last month and now has acquired appJet the develop of etherPad. On the other hand Apple also acquired Lala the cloud music streaming platform that have gain wide following.

Microsoft and Yahoo seals deal

The Microsoft-Yahoo search and advertising deal, first announced back in July, has just been finalized by the two companies.

Back in October, it was revealed that details were still being mulled over because of the deal’s complexity, but this afternoon, the companies put out a statement to let the world know that the deal is now complete.

Google Gets Into The DNS Business. Here’s What That Means

Google just announced Google Public DNS, a new service that lets consumers use Google as their DNS service provider. The benefits to users are a theoretically faster and more stable browsing experience, and some additional security against malware type sites. The benefit to Google – tons more data, and some potential revenue.

Amazon and Vente-Privee in talks over 2 billion Euro acquisition, say sources

US retailing giant Amazon is in deep and secret negotiations with Vente-Privee, the French private sales club which has taken the ecommerce and fashion industries by storm, our sources say.

Twitter Debuts New Mobile Site, Eats Its Own Dogfood

If you use Twitter frequently on your smartphone, there’s a good chance you use a native Twitter client. Between apps like Tweetie on the iPhone, Twidroid on Android, and Seesmic on Blackberry, there’s no shortage of quality apps that put advanced features at your fingertips. But, according to a post that just went live on the Twitter blog, there are still plenty of people who navigate to m.twitter.com, the Twitter mobile site that’s about as spartan as they come. Tonight, Twitter is showing off a preview of the new mobile site it’s working on, housed at mobile.twitter.com. And it’s a big improvement.

Twitter, Amiando, Obopay, And Playfish Are Named Technology Pioneers By The World Economic Forum

Every year the World Economic Forum picks a couple dozen or so up-and-coming technology startups from around the world and dubs them Technology Pioneers. In the past, Technology Pioneers have included Google and Mozilla. Last year, Mint, Etsy, and Brightcove joined the club.

Digg.com clocks Five
It was exactly five years ago today that digg.com went live as a simple site where you could vote on your favorite content from around the web. (Here is our initial profile from over 4 years ago.) They’ve grown a lot since then, to over 40 million monthly visitors and 80 employees, founder Kevin Rose writes today.

SEC Files Lawsuit Against Canopy Financial And Co-Founder For Fraud

Canopy Financial, Inc. provides technology-enabled electronic payment, account management, and investment technology platforms for health savings accounts, flexible spending accounts, and health reimbursement arrangements. It recently falsified its financial statement into misleading investor to part with as much as $75 million.

Zoosk Lands Another $30 Million For Social Dating

Zoosk, the dating service with a focus on social networks, has closed a $30 million Series D funding round led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with existing investors Canaan Partners and ATA Ventures participating as well. Bessemer’s David Cowan will be joining the Zoosk board of directors.

Meebo Gives Publishers More Control Over Meebo Bar With New API

Meebo.com once again gives users control over display of chat platform on their site.

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Internet Buzz in Nigeria, Africa and Worldwide for the week

Developing Nigerian Web Industry: Challengies and Opportunities

This paper is written to point out the challenges of the Nigerian web industry, and also outlined the potential of the market with steps on how to realize the potential. Looking into how the Nigerian web industry has evolved the current market structure and potential of each of the segment.

Etisalat Launches Easynet, a cheap internet connection in Nigeria

As the internet market in Nigeria grows, the competition among telecom companies has been very aggressive recently. Etisalat entered the market just last year and adding to the ever increasing internet packages offered by various telecom operators. Before this, Etisalat offered internet connection through Pay-as-you-go model. The new products now offer three bundle internet plans in 30 days circle.

Interview with Nweke (Mrs.) Executive Director (Operations) Digital Sense Africa(DSA)

We had this interview shortly before the event, highlighting all what the forum was all about, what people should expect and the players in the industry expected at the event.

ATCON Technology Exhibition

Professionals in the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in Nigeria, say no modern economy can exist without fundamental ICT infrastructure, as these are tools for national and economic development.

Digital Sense Africa, Forum Event

This event was also held in Lagos. You can read the tweet-stream on the link above.

Most visited Nigerian Site for October

We also reported the ranking for Nigerian sites for last month during the course of the week.

Nigerian Internet Market Structure

A featured article from our whitepaper title; Collaboration and Competition: Developing the Nigerian Web Industry.

Twitter Testing Out New Tweet Notifications To Keep Users Engaged

Twitter has a problem: A number of users tweet, then lose interest. It needs a way to reengage them in the site. And on Wednesday it’s starting to test one way: Notifications.

Search Til You Drop: Google Launches Hosted Commerce Search For Retailers

Searching retail sites can be frustrating at times. While many retailers try to present product search in a visually appealing way, search can often be slow or difficult to refine. Tonight, Google is making a huge play in retail space with the launch of Commerce Search, a hosted enterprise search product to power online retail stores and e-commerce websites.

Google Lets You Customize and Curate the News

Google News is already a handy resource for staying informed on breaking news stories, but they’ve just become a news source that’s more dialed into your specific needs. Google News custom sections, launched today, empowers you to build your own section in their online newspaper rack.

Google Friend Connect Becomes Friend Connect With Benefits

A battle has been brewing for months now: Google and Facebook both want to be the social layer that sits on top of every site on the Internet. So far, at least in mindshare, Facebook has been winning this battle with Facebook Connect. Google’s offering, Friend Connect, is the sibling that gets no respect. But that could change starting today with some new features and functionality.

MYTH BUSTED: Internet Use Doesn’t Lead to Isolation

Imagine this: once a happy child with a lot of friends, little Jack has started spending many hours per day on social networking sites such as Facebook, which has turned him into a pale asocial freak. Oh, if only he’d never touched that cursed box we call the computer, he’d be a healthy young man now!

Failed Online Navigation Software Maker Sues Google, Yahoo And More Over Patent

Bone-headed patent lawsuit number 573482: a company called WebMap Technologies is suing a host of technology companies over an online map patent that was issued over 5 years ago, reports Law360 (requires registration).

Eventbrite Gets A $6.5 Million Infusion From Sequoia Capital

Popular online event site Eventbrite has raised $6.5 million in funding, according to an SEC filing. The company has confirmed the funding, and says Sequoia Capital is the new investor. Sequoia partner Roelof Botha joins the board of directors. Both Roelof and Sequoia backed Eventbrite CEO Kevin Hartz’s previous startup, Xoom.

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Weekly internet update in Nigeria and Worldwide

Kilonshele.com launches in Nigeria

A better, easier and a cost effective way to book for events in Nigeria. Looking at how the internet market is transforming, “crazy” ideas are being launched and I must say this is one of them! The site was launched at the Silverbird Galleria with Webtrendsng.com in attendance to follow the flow.

Nairajobs.com Nigeria jobs aggregator

Recruitment sub-category of the Nigerian internet market has witnessed tremendous growth this year, this is an addition to the pack but a more creative way to aggregate all jobs from various sites targeting Nigeria. Launched by a profiled influential Nigerian online Kayode Muyibi, the product is set to be a revolution!

Facebook Developer’s Roadmap

Facebook has been growing greatly and having users top 300 million and more than 1 million developers is a great thing. Facebook recently clamp down on app with ads and now about launching more products and reorganizing existing one, this gathering is a brainstorm session with the developers on the way forward.

Yahoo Mail And IM Users Update Their Status 800 Million Times A Month

As Yahoo is trying to see how much it can grab from the growing social networking market, it released few stats worth noting on their performance in recent times. Yahoo status update allows you to set your status across your mail and messenger for your friend to catch up with you. Yahoo currently drives about 100 billion messages per month and with its flickr product having much more than 4 billion photos and 100 million added monthly.

Google Redefines GPS Navigation Landscape: Google Maps Navigation For Android 2.0

Google is indeed flexing its muscles with innovation across its brands of products. In the recent Droid day, Google showed up a Map Navigation app based on its Android phone. This product is great and is offered completely free, challenging the prominent players in the industry. With about 50million active users on Google Map, this product is set to explode anytime soon.

Mobile And Social Platforms Want To Be The King Of Local Search

The study shows that the web generally, but in particular mobile and social network search, are increasingly factors fueling growth in the overall search market. This grew to 21.9 billion total US searches in June 2009, a year-on-year increase of 31%.

The Chinese Internet: Why the “Copy Cats” Win

Looking at the way the web is evolving, the startups and grownups are beginning to battle it out. As the grownups struggles to make more profit by expanding to unexplore markets. Chinese startups have enjoyed some success owing to the local content introduced.

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Internet buzz from Nigeria, Africa and around the World for the week

West Africa Internet Governance Forum: Event Updates

The biggest event in IT industry in Africa for the week, held in Accra Ghana. It brought together the stakeholders in the IT industry in Africa to discuss issues facing the continent and define the future.

In the blogosphere, participants tweeted live from the event. The top tweeterers you were: @niyyie @nnenna and @camega with the hashtag #waigf.

Applause For Finland: First Country To Make Broadband Access A Legal Right

Starting July 2010, every person in Finland will have the right to a one-megabit broadband connection as an intermediate step, says the Ministry of Transport and Communications. By the end of 2015, the legal right will be extended to an impressive 100 Mb broadband connection for everyone.

Video Interview with ‘Gbenga Sesan; Developing Web industry in Nigeria

We conducted a video interview with Gbenga Sesan about the Web industry in Nigeria. You can watch the excerpt online.

Nigerian top web hosting companies: signonafrica.net, mcreal.net

We featured these two websites on our site acknowledging the roles they have played in the web hosting aspect of Nigeria.

Corporate Web Strategies; getting started, defining your goal

We also featured a strategist article highlighting how to define and maintain your Corporate Web Strategies.

Google Wave beta testing, expert reacts

Online Advertisement do you need it?

This Article ex-rayed how to online advertisement, giving you a headstart toward the importance of Advertising online. One of the highlight is the UK industry where online ads have overtaken TV ads.

2009 State Of The Blogosphere: The Full BlogWorld Presentation

Technorati released Blogosphere report for 2009.

Technorati gets new funding, re-launched site

Additional $2Million was raised to make Technorati profitable says Richard Jalichandra the new CEO. On the other hand, to reflect new dimension Technorati also re-launched its site with new features which make it more serious about profitability.

Twitter Expands Lists Beta Testing. A Great New Feature.

Twitter has rolled out its new Lists feature to a larger portion of its user base right now. The feature allows you to group users you follow together and then lets you share those for others to also follow.

Google Puts Analysts’ Targets, Recession In Rearview Mirror

Experts had high expectations heading into Google’s third quarter earnings report, but that was no problem for the search giant as it beat estimates in almost every way.  Google’s stock is now heading up in after-hours trading.

The consensus was that Google would bring in something like $4.24 billion in terms of net revenue.  It posted $4.38 billion, instead.  An even bigger gap was then evident in terms of non-GAAP EPS, with Google reporting $5.89 instead of $5.42.  And operating expenses went down by a noticeable amount on a year-over-year basis, drifting from $1.72 billion (or 31 percent of revenues) to $1.64 billion (or 28 percent of revenues).

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