Encipher’s Co-founder CEO, Saheed Adepoju has been appointed to be part of the committee finalising the Nigeria’s National ICT Policy being chaired by the Honourable Minister of Communications Technology.
Even the launch of Youtube in Kenya and Uganda in October and December 2011 respectively didn’t increase usage of the world’s largest video sharing site.
In this exclusive interview with TechLoy, Jason Njoku, founder CEO of Iroko Partners tells us how his company’s awesome Internet offerings attracted funding from a $9 billion venture and private equity firm as well as some of the company’s figures and future plans.
Saying that Nokia’s current position is precarious would be putting it mildly. But having said that, I also really hope that this company doesn’t go the way of Kodak anytime soon, losing relevance in an industry that it played a huge part in bringing to where it is today. I want Nokia to live…
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InMobi, the world’s largest independent mobile advertising network with offices on five continents, is entering Taiwan. The move into Taiwan represents the next phase in InMobi’s global expansion plans, and will allow InMobi to better serve its Taiwanese customers, according to a statement. InMobi served one billion mobile ad impressions in the fourth quarter of 2011 [...]
Following its massively successful inaugural mobile web event in 2011, All Amber has stepped up this years’ event with ambitious plans to establish Mobile Web West Africa as the leading mobile-focused conference within the region.
Actually, it’s day 4 since the policy began. And Lagos is still humming along like always, no wahala. But if this experiment works, it would go a long way to change the way money moves in the country — less cash handling costs for Banks and the CBN, less robbery and the fear of it, less corruption, more accountability –
Designer and front-end user interface developer, Ernest Ojeh, has developed a Chrome app that makes it easier to log into the GTBank electronic banking interface.
The world’s most popular social network has unfriended Africa’s most popular President on Facebook.
During his first-ever visit to Nigeria, while speaking at a youth marketing seminar in Lagos, Wikipedia founder, Jimmy Wales highlighted the growth of the Yoruba language.
The Delta state government is said to be establishing an Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Park in Asaba, according to local newspaper, Nigerian Observer. Citing Sunny Ofili, the Senior Special Adviser to the state governor on ICT, the report said that the intention of the government is to make the state a silicon valley of Africa. [...]
While many Nigerians would disagree, Wikipedia founder, Jimmy Wales believes that broadband speed in Nigeria “beats” that of New York City.
Africa’s largest telecommunications network, MTN has been awarded 3G Licenses in Côte d’Ivoire and Benin, as its customers in those countries would soon have access to world-class connectivity. According to BusinessDay, the company was granted a universal licence in Benin, allowing it use technologies such as 3G, 4G, LTE, WiMAX , Wi-Fi and VoIP to provide [...]
gNigeria was about showcasing Google technology to the local tech and business community…It was also tech colonialism and the race for emerging markets. Current indicators, social, political and economic, mark Africa as a strategic lap in that race, and it appears that at the moment, Google might be ahead