Nigeria

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Nigeria’s iROKO TV Launches SMS Service For Updates

One of Africa’s largest video on demand site, Iroko TV, yesterday launched a text service set to enable users send queries to a code,…

Celestine Omin Talks Gbedu.FM, BlackBerry, Nigerian Tech Hubs, and Developer Lifestyle

It started out as a regular Facebook chat, and before we knew it, we were discussing all sort of things. Celestin Omin is a…

Google Motorola Deal, Finally Sealed

It has been a while since the news about Google acquiring Motorola has been broken. There were still protocols that needed to be met and contracts…

From The MailBox: What’s New on Jobberman

Editor’s Note: The last time I got a mail from Jobberman (aside the job alerts), I did blog about it. I remember it was…

How Failing Fast And Smart Can Grow Your Business

This is a post I wrote last year. It has some striking lessons for me and I believe that anyone working on a startup…