Africa

MALIYO Games Go Live And Social Too

About three months ago, it started out as a conversation over drinks at the g-Nigeria event, and yesterday, these ideas were showcased as product…

Startup Stories: Njorku Founder Shares Lessons from First Startup, NaijaBorn.com

In 2009, amidst great publicity and fanfare, NaijaBorn was launched. It was described as a social network that wanted to create a searchable, detailed,…

Avoid Delayed Payments In 5 Simple Steps

Delayed payments by large corporations and state agencies can put small and medium enterprises under unnecessary pressure, and even go as far as stagnancy…

Introducing MALIYO Games – With African Narratives

MALIYO Games is a Nigerian company, which shares the experiences of everyday Africans with a global audience through games. MALIYO creates casual browser games…

SYL’S Smart Start – The Nigerian Interactive Multilingual Computer Tutor

Smart Start is an interactive multilingual computer tutor that introduces the basics of computer appreciation in its simplest form. It was developed by identifying…

“Eskimi” Introduces Mobile Money Marketing Platform in Nigeria, Supports the Cashless Initiative

Vytautas Paukstys, Chief Executive Officer of Eskimi, recently disclosed that, for the last 3 months Eskimi’s been working on the tools for mobile money…

Opera Mini 7 Smartens Up Your Basic Phone And Gets You Social

Want a better way to connect with friends and the web on almost any basic mobile phone? Try new Opera Mini 7 with Smart…

Nokia/Co-Creation Hub Growth Academy: Meet The Participants

Is the Growth Academy trending yet? This is our 5th post on the Nokia/Co-Creation Hub initiative. For every season, (that’s a sports metaphor) 10 startups…

UNICEF: How The Future of Mobile Lies in the Developing World

Editor’s note: This post was gotten from TechCrunch, and is written by Erica Kochi, the co-lead of Tech Innovation at UNICEF. Her team started UNICEF’s open…

Open Innovation African Summit, #OIAS: Day one Recap

Editors Note: Open Innovation Africa Summit is ongoing at Safari Park Hotel, Kenya. It started yesterday. Here’s a summary of what went down yesterday….