These are the apps which are coming into the market across Africa. NIGERIA (16) Maths Practice by Olaseni Odebiyi – Lagos Mobile app on maths tutorials to help you pass your GCSE maths,A-level,and WAEC This mobile app features maths tutorials to help you pass your GCSE maths, AS or A-level,
This is one project we have been watching seriously just to see how far it can go. A private university that will be 100% online in Africa? With no accreditation right now, it is possible the Nigeria University Commission will kick them badly. But Beni American University has a presence. This is
The program is one of Kenya’s most comprehensive efforts in entrepreneurship training with an access to capital component. Sinapis estimates it to cost nearly Ksh 1 million to put each entrepreneur through our program. In exchange for tuition, Sinapis asks that each business accepted into its program donate 10% of its
You’ve probably heard at one point or another that the key to startup success is execution. I’ve said as much myself. In the harsh reality of building businesses, ideas are commodities and successful business models are luxury goods. Except that isn’t entirely true. While inspired execution can determine success or failure, this only happens after a working
Canalys has released the results of a recent App Interrogator survey of the top paid-for and free apps from the leading consumer app stores to clients of its App Store Analysis service. The survey reveals that the top paid-for Android apps are priced dramatically higher than those on iOS for the iPhone. In the US, to purchase the top
Twitter means business and they are very serious. They have gone to court against spammers. What this means is that nothing is for fun. These clicks are money and if you do not know and go to mess them up, you will be in jail. Read this
On March 21 the U.K.’s coalition government produced its budget for the next year. Among proposals discussed had been a so-called mansion tax—an annual 1 percent levy on homes worth more than £2 million ($3.2 million). In Russia, President-elect Vladimir Putin has put forward a luxury tax to be levied on purchasers of high-end cars and real estate. In France,
Mobile devices have exacerbated an always-on work culture where employees work anytime, anywhere. They’ve contributed to the blurred distinction between when you’re on the clock and when you’re not. Service industry professionals are especially tethered to these devices. There’s an assumption that using smart
Apple Macs are often upheld by their creators as being much less susceptible to malicious virus infections than Windows based systems, but the discovery of a new virus targeting Macs has brought this view in to dispute. A Russian anti-virus firm called Dr Web revealed that somewhere in the region of 600,000 Macs have been successfully infected
InsightsAfrica is a free, publicly available tool which anyone can visit to explore online penetration rates, understand usage patterns amongst the online population, and learn about the barriers to coming online. Through InsightsAfrica, you can learn what would encourage young Kenyan women to come online more often via mobile phone, locations where Senegalese men
Google announces that in May they are coming to Dakar for gSenegal and Abidjan for gCote d’Ivoire! This year’s gSenegal will have more hands-on coding sessions for more experienced developers, more sessions on new Google technology, and more local success storiesperhaps you will be featured! Join us for gSenegal [https://sites.google.com/site/gsenegal2012/]
The iPhone 5 is expected to break with tradition and feature a bigger display. This means rather than the iPhone 4S’s 3.5-inch screen, the new iPhone is thought to land with a 4.6-inch Retina display. But that’s old news – the new news is that Apple is braced to make a swap from using LCD technology to
Nigerian telecommunication operators may drag the federal government to court by December 2013 if it fails in its promise to improve public power supply. The operators, who have been bearing the brunt of the poor electricity supply, said that the worrisome situation would cost them N45.9 billion in 2012
The idea behind this competition is to implement a public portal where victims or witnesses of crimes in Lagos could document the incidents, and we would forward each incident to both the Lagos police command and the Lagos State. The winner of
As the ongoing registration of Subscriber Identification Module (SIM) cards nears conclusion, 110.43 million lines have so far been registered, a whopping 14.28 million more than the official figure of 96,150,836 active mobile lines in the country. Eugene Juwah, executive vice-chairman, Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), who disclosed this weekend at a consultation forum organized