Africa

2Go Set To Go Global – COO Marc Herson At #NokiaWorld

2go has become leading social networking app in Africa, especially Nigeria with about 9 Million active users which is currently more than Facebook and…

BBM Resumes Cross Platform Rollout With Samsung In Sub-Saharan Africa

BBM resumed its rollout for other platforms around the globe. For Samsung customers in Sub-Saharan Africa, BBM will be available to download today from the Samsung…

Microsoft Ventures Supports Entrepreneurship In Africa

Microsoft Corp. on Monday announced the expansion of the Microsoft Ventures partnership program into Africa. Microsoft Ventures was introduced in June as a coordinated global effort…

CapitalSquare Opens Shop To Young And Creative Entrepreneurs

Hubs and Accelerators such as the Co-Creation Hub, Wennovation, iDEA, Venia, TechnoVision, and even SPARK (even though it call itself a business birthing other…

#SMWLagos | Lagos City Gets Ready For Social Media Week 2014

Social Media Week Lagos (SMW Lagos) co-produced by Dragon Africa and AFRIKA21 returns for a second year to Lagos February 17 – 21, 2014. In…

Alliance For Affordable Internet To Lower Access Cost To Users

This October saw a diverse group of private and public sector players come together in Abuja, Nigeria to launch the Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI),…

Apps Developed in Africa – NewsDrift

If there is ever anyone left wondering how much the times have changed, maybe now they have one more reason to be convinced -News…

Top 10 Growing Startups In Nigeria – StartupRanking.com

According to StartupRanking.com, a global web ranking service, these are the Top 10 gorwing startups in Nigeria. Designed to provide global web ranking stats…

70TH PRECINCT To Host Nigeria’s First Mobile Application Summit

Global content provider for mobile applications – 70th PRECINCT is planning to host what would be the very first Nigerian mobile applications summit in…

South African Startup, GoMetro Heads For VentureOut Final Challenge

GoMetro, a South African mobile startup in the transport space, has been selected as a Global Finalist in the VentureOut Challenge, an initiative of infoDev,…