Even More Exclusive: Rocket Internet To Open Online Clothing Store In Lagos
We’ve got news that Rocket Internet, one of Europe’s largest incubator companies, is opening an online fashion goods store in Nigeria. The store will be called Sabunta and will allow users purchase designer branded goods online and have them delivered to a forwarding address. Sabunta’s website currently has a form accepting emails for it’s launch. It’s Facebook page is also live. Rocket Internet was founded in Germany by the Samwer brothers and... Read More
Efiko, BudgIT, Receive N1Million Grant From Nigeria Internet Group
Efiko is on a roll. After winning CC-Hub’s Tech-In-Ed hackathon and raising additional $5000 funding from the Tony Elumelu Foundation, Efiko is one of the winners on the Nigerian Internet Group’s Internet For Jobs Initiative. Earlier in the year, The Nigerian Internet group through its I4J initiative asked Nigerian internet entrepreneurs to submit internet solutions that solve social problems and have the potential to create jobs. Winners were then chosen across... Read More
Mobile Web West Africa 2012: Top 10 Tweets
If you missed the entire event that was Mobile Web West Africa and you also missed the hashtag #mwwa2012, here are the top 10 live tweets from the event. ‘Local content, simplicity and accessibility are the key to success.’ Read @samokocha‘s report from #MWWA2012: vc4afri.ca/vkn5y — Bertil van Vugt (@brutuz) April 30, 2012 “…when you showcase them, people do more …” by@otekbits #ictAfrica #mwwa2012 — jean-patrick ehouman (@jpehouman)... Read More
Facts And Stats From Mobile Web West Africa 2012
The Mobile Web West Africa conference officially ended on Friday last week. It was a gathering of Mobile developers, advertisers, enthusiasts and let’s not forget the bloggers. Almost every representative from every company shared their stats. Men lie, women lie but numbers don’t. Here’s a roundup of mobile web and application statistics that were shared at the event. 70 percent of Internet users in Africa are mobile In the 1st quarter of 2012, InMobi had 34... Read More
Facebook Founder, Mark Zuckerberg Tells Goodluck Jonathan To Quit Facebook [VIDEO]
Here’s a parody video from OurOwnArea. It’s an animation of a phone dialogue between Nigerian President, Goodluck Jonathan and Facebook founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg. In the video, Goodluck Jonathan is browsing his Facebook page on a Mac, then he gets a notification of “32,000 curses” on his wall. He then receives a call from “That Facebook Boy” who asks him to delete his page and move to Friendster or Myspace because the curses are melting... Read More
Wikipedia Founder, Jimmy Wales, Calls Nigerian Broadband Faster Than New York’s. I Think Not
Wikipedia Founder, Jimmy Wales is in Nigeria for the Youth-Marketer Converge series. A series of events by FB. Initiatives & Innovations Ltd to bring professionals from different walks of life to speak to and inspire Nigerian youths. A few hours after landing Nigeria, the Wikipedia Founder tweeted Broadband speed in Nigeria.Beats New York City. speedtest.net/result/1857643… — Jimmy Wales (@jimmy_wales) March 26, 2012 This made me LOL. Firstly, he compares... Read More
On This Day Last Year, DealDey Was Born[INFOGRAPHIC]
It’s been an entire year since DealDey launched. I remember that very Ice Cream deal they started with and the next were discounts off the Fela in Lagos show. In the last year, DealDey has gotten over 100,000 subscribers, 6026 purchases of over 800 from 245 merchants. The site is visited by 10,000 people every day. DealDey is a group-buying website that allows its users sign up to get special deals and discounts from merchants across the country. They started with... Read More
Co-Creation Hub’s March #DevParapo Is About Building Next-Gen Mobile Solutions
As the mobile technology space in Nigeria continues to grow, there’s the need to build stuff that solve actual problems. Co-Creation Hub’s March Developers’ Parapo is in conjunction with Qualcomm. Qualcomm’s Managing Director West Africa Alex Dadson will talk about the company’s plans to stimulate growth of the mobile market through the development of technologies and services for 3G devices. He’s also going to Demo on-going work in the Augmented... Read More
IrokoTV Raises $8Million In Funding
IrokoTV, the website that streams Nollywood on the internet has raised $8Million in over 2 rounds of funding led by Global Tigers, according to PandoDaily. IrokoTV went live at the end of 2011, after Jason Njoku ran Nollywood Love – a YouTube channel for Nigerian movies for about 2 years. In his first year of running the channel he made over $1Million and eventually quit YouTube this year to focus on IrokoTV. Just a month after IrokoTV launched last year, it had over 100,000... Read More
Gidi Traffic Gets New York Invite For Shorty Awards Nomination
If you live in Lagos and you use Twitter, you’re very likely to be following @Gidi_Traffic. If you don’t follow, you’ll definitely have seen retweets from the account. Gidi Traffic was set up in September by an Anonymous Twitter user to help share traffic reports across the city of Lagos. During the #OccupyNigeria protests, Gidi Traffic got a bit of an expansion and was used to share trouble spot reports across the country. After the protests, Gidi Traffic helped... Read More
