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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
