InMobi, the mobile ad-serving company focusing emerging market has just release report for the first quarter 2011 of ad impression in Africa. Nigeria witnessed the highest growth with a whopping 36% increasing between December 2010 and March 31 2011. 2.8% growth in African Mobile Ad Impressions in first 3 Months of 2011 says InMobi … [...]
Nokia sponsored Open Innovation Africa Summit is currently holding in Nairobi Kenya. Thought leaders in Africa’s Mobile and technology space gather under the same room to discuss what impact open innovation will have on Africa growing technology space. We are currently following the tweets and picking highlights of the events. Ellen from the World Bank [...]
It is eye-opening to dissect further the source of Nigerian internet growth having reported 43million internet users earlier in the year. According to the newly released report of mobile web usage world wide by Pingdom; 3.18% of world wide internet traffic comes from mobile devices as Asia and Africa countries lead other developed countries. Though [...]
Founded in 2005 by Segun Williams and Obinna Onwuekwe, TransTales Entertainment is the first film company to produce African themed 3d animation films from the perspective of African filmmakers and with that filling the void with myriads of authentic African animation stories. The titles which are available for download on the company’s website transtales.com is [...]
With over 70million mobile subscribers and 43million internet users in Nigeria, Nigeria a darling destination for tech business. Come February 2nd and 3rd 2011, the event will be held live in Lagos with thought leaders in the industry and mobile technology enthusiast. The event was successfully held in September in South Africa. The event is [...]
Nigeria and other African countries witnessed massive growth in number of Facebook users. Still at the top is Egypt, followed by South Africa, Morocco and Nigeria with Tunisia closing up at the top five. In Nigeria, the number of males (67%) on Facebook is more than double the number of their female (33%) counterpart. Total [...]
Talking about technology development in Africa, this year is a significant one for Africa and I strongly believe this is Africa’s decade. The summit is schedule between November 29th and December 1st this year; sponsored by Nokia and WorldBank with support from Capgemini. It will bring together 200 African thought leaders to discuss how to [...]
In this interview, we talked extensively with Jide Akindele, founder of MMIT; an emerging mobile payment company with innovative products. M-Wallet one of their products was recently launched at MobiFest 2010 in Lagos. Read through to know about the “man being the money” as he disrupts the industry “one Kobo at a time”. WTN: Briefly, [...]
Google Adsense is one of the top business model employed by most African sites, recieving checks have always been a big headache and the charges are way too high. The issue was raise at the last G-Nigeria Day help in Lagos and Google said it will do something about it. This announcement was made today [...]
African technology space is growing at an alarming rate, foreign interest is pouring in day-by-day. “Entrepreneurial Sefari” is a mission to Africa to share startup lesson learned to budding African Entrepreneurs by Silicon Valley successful entrepreneurs. Guess which country they will land? …. you answer that! New Scholars in the brain behind this initiative, in [...]
