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News, Tech, Web May 28, 2012

Megaupload User Approaches Court Again For Files

Remember Megaupload and it’s ill luck? Really interesting turn of events has brought the issue back in the press. Not the company this time…

News, Products, Resources, Tech, Web May 26, 2012

Effiwe: Online Resource For The Nigerian Medical Students

Effiwe is a very common Yoruba slang meaning a person who loves books, a bookworm, but when you add ‘.net’, it becomes something else…

Developers, Events, News, Tech, Training May 25, 2012

Storify: Official Launch of The Nokia – Co-Creation Hub Growth Academy

Tweets and Photos from the Official launch of Growth Academy, an initiative by Nokia (Futurice) and the Co-Creation Hub to accelerate 10 companies in a period of 3 months. See more http://bit.ly/GANokiaCCHub

Developers, Events, News, Tech May 25, 2012

Orange Launches 2nd African Social Venture Challenge

This seems to be the season of challenges, competitions and conventions. Orange has launched Orange African Social Venture Prize. This will be the second edition…

Mobile, News, Products, Tech May 25, 2012

Eskimi Hits 7 Million Users And Becomes Largest Social Network To Meet New People In Africa

Mobile community Eskimi celebrated 7 million customer mark. Same time number of customers from the biggest Eskimi market Nigeria reached 3.5 million. Eskimi also…

News, Tech, Web May 25, 2012

BSA Report: Nigeria Lost USD$250 Million To Software Piracy In 2011

Before sharing the piracy report, I will like to explain more about Piracy. What precisely is it? There are countless definitions but I will…

Events, Mobile, News, Tech, Web May 25, 2012

Mobile Monday: Talking Business Models For Internet And Mobile Service In Nigeria At May Edition

I have been disturbed concerning the month of May, as it seemed to have turned out event-less when it came to tech, but I…

Developers, News, Products, Tech, Web May 24, 2012

Gbooza: The Nigerian News-Blog-Forum Online Community For China

Gbooza is a Nigerian exclamation to express surprise, astonishment or shock. Just like Yahoo! Ugh, well it is similar to Yahoo. Someone has put…

Developers, News, Products, Tech May 24, 2012

UberConference Wins Third Annual TechCrunch Disrupt NYC

Editor’s Note: We had no idea when we did a post two days ago, that UberConference was going to be the winner at the…

Gadgets, Press Release, Products May 24, 2012

Samsung Galaxy Pocket Released in Conjunction with Spinlet in Nigeria

Nigeria, a country where only 5% are smartphone users–the others are using dumb phone and  feature phones. Samsung has again raised the bar in…