How Akure Is Building A Promising Tech Startup Culture And Community
While Akure may never have appeared on any lists of tech startup hubs in unlikely places around the world, the largest city and capital of Ondo State in the South-Western region of Nigeria is gradually starting a movement to mould a tech startup culture and community.
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Adsolut Wants To Be For Nigeria What Google-Owned AdMeld Is For The U.S.
While advertisers in Nigeria seem to be struggling to find the right platforms with targeted audiences to promote their products, Adsolut, a new local, home-grown ad solution wants to make it easier.
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NextSpeel Brings African TV Series And Soap Operas Online
NextSpeel, a new online streaming site for TV episodes and series wants to let you watch the best TV series and soap operas from Nigeria and Africa for free. With popular soap operas from Nigeria such as Super Story and AY’s Crib, the platform says it would be launching this Friday, May 3 with at [...]
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EXCLUSIVE: Konga Launches SMS-Based Shopping
Leading online retailer, Konga.com is about to launch a revolutionary new SMS-based shopping platform called SMS2ORDER tomorrow that basically lets you shop via SMS, similar to Amazon’s TextBuyIt service launched in 2008.
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The Making Of: The TechLoy Brand Name
Several years ago, I became aware that there exists an Irish word called ‘Loy’ which comes from the Gaelic word laí, which means spade. A ‘Loy’ is an Irish narrow spade with a long heavy handle made of ash, a narrow steel plate on the face and a single footrest.
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You Don Port? Nigerian App Tells Which Mobile Networks People Are Likely Porting To
Last month, Olusegun Martins, a technology professional who currently works as Head of Technology for Insight Communications, the biggest marketing communications agency in West Africa released a mobile web app which he called the ‘Number Portability Movement Analyzer‘. Before developing the app, Martins was curious to know which mobile network would be the most preferred [...]
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Afriscover Lets You Discover Spots Based On Your Personal Interest
A few days ago, I was searching for where to have a good coffee/cappuccino with an outdoor seating and green environment with iROKO’s global PR lead, Jessica Hope who’s visiting Lagos for a few weeks. Basically, I wanted a good web resource with useful information based on a specific interest, not some business directory service or [...]
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Domain Registrar, 101Domain Puts Exorbitant $199 Price Tag On .NG SLDs
As hands get itchy to start snapping up .ng second-level domains come Tuesday April 16th, we’ve learned that domain registrar, 101Domain.com has put an exorbitant $199 price tag (over N31,000) on each purchase of one of the world’s most valuable extensions. Last week, Techloy exclusively reported that starting from April 2013, the country’s official domains registrar, NiRA will open [...]
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EXCLUSIVE: Jobberman Is Being Accused By Competing Site Of Copying Their Job Ads
A job search site called HotNigerianJobs.com has accused Jobberman, the leading jobs portal in Nigeria of copying its job ads, posting several screenshots showing evidence of what it claims to be an unfair advantage on its website.
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Orin.io Is A New African Music Streaming Service With A Social Feel
A new music streaming service called Orin has launched to help you discover new African music and share with your social sphere. Founded by Finbarrs Oketunji, a Nigerian product designer based in the UK, Orin (pronounced Oh-rin; which is a Yoruba word for song) has a cool design interface that is very similar to Ex.fm, a [...]
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Konga Wants Entrepreneurs To Own An Online Store On Its Mall
As the challenges of building a successful e-commerce company in Nigeria continue to grow with several entrepreneurs struggling to play in a market that requires significant investments, leading online retailer, Konga wants to help entrepreneurs to own their online store. While leveraging on its robust delivery infrastructure, warehousing logistics and nationwide coverage, the company is about to [...]
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EXCLUSIVE: Nigeria’s 2nd-Level Domain .NG To Sell At N15,000 A Pop
Nigeria’s .ng Second Level Domain has for a long time been viewed as one of the most valuable extensions in the domains market for an obvious reason: it creates virtually any verb-related web domain on the surface of the Internet. Just imagine domain names like facebooki.ng, googli.ng, bloggi.ng and a host of other verb-related words [...]
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EXCLUSIVE: PriceCheck App Shortlisted For Blackberry App Of The Year Award
Blackberry users around the world have selected PriceCheck’s Blackberry 10 app as one of the apps that demonstrate the most innovative use of the BlackBerry technology in this year’s Blackberry Achievement Awards. The app, which was built using HTML5 and JavaScript source code and wrapped with Cascades and some feature plug-ins, takes shopping to a whole [...]
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