Leading online store solution WebMallNG.com has launched another unique product called GIFT REGISTRY for users who plan to celebrate their weddings, birthdays, anniversaries, baby showers etc. The multi-merchant platform allows for products from each store on its site to be added for purchase by friends for a celebrant’s special day and celebrants can share their GIFT REGISTRY online with their friends either on Facebook, Twitter or via email.

If you missed the Mobile Web West Africa 2013 conference or you just want to re-live some of the moments at the event in photos, we’ve got your back! Here are 120 photos from day one for your viewing pleasure. Enjoy!

Since Microsoft announced the availability of Office 2013 in Nigeria, we’ve been looking for ways to show our support for the company’s latest Office suite of products for Windows users. That’s why we’re launching the Office 2013 giveaway, in collaboration with Microsoft, in order to give our readers the chance to experience how working seamlessly in the cloud as well as offline can add value and increase productivity in their lives and businesses.

Konga.com, Nigeria’s online megastore is celebrating Workers’ Day 2013 with massive discounts across its many categories in a promo tagged “WORKERS DAY MEGA SALE” starting from April 30 to May 2. The special sales promo allows you to shop for your favorite items like laptops, mobile devices, tablets, books, fragrances, home appliances, toys, fashion, etc [...]

MedEnhanz, an online medical information company based in Nigeria has launched a web-based medical information and clinical reference tool for Nigerian medical professionals. The company, co-founded by serial entrepreneur, Wole Faroun who has been involved in other technology-based solutions including WebMall NG, is looking to take on the huge task of creating an industry that [...]

African casual gaming start-up KULUYA is set to launch a hybrid commerce platform that would allow its growing players to make money through competitive cash games. The company which launched in August 2012 with $250,000 in seed funding has recently raised another undisclosed seed round that is said to value the company at $2 million.

Have you always wanted to own the latest computers, phones, tablets, electronics, cameras, home appliances from the world’s leading manufacturers? Nigeria’s leading online retailer, Jumia is offering up to 30% discount off some cool gadgets on its store this week in a promo called Week of the Geek. The deal is one of those shopping [...]

One of the leading banks in Nigeria, Skye Bank has announced that it will be carrying out a scheduled system maintenance in its continued efforts to ensure improved service and functionality of its alternate channels. The maintenance expected to take place on April 21 and April 22, 2013 between the hours of 12am – 2am [...]

A new technology hub located right at the heart of the Lagos innovation cluster in Yaba is launching today in order to provide entrepreneurs support to build software skills, solutions and businesses critical to their success. [Follow our live-blog of the official launch in Lagos] The hub called Information Technology Developers Entrepreneurship Accelerator (iDEA) says that [...]

After two successive and successful mobile web events in 2011 and 2012, the leading mobile-focused conference within the African region is back in its third year with ambitious plans to take the monetisation and content creation dialogue to the next level. This year’s 4-day event from May 7-10 will feature a Mobile Marketing West Africa Focus Day, [...]

After about 10 years of working with South African media group, Naspers, Neil Schwartzman has finally left the company to join African digital music platform, Spinlet as its new Chief Executive Officer, Techloy has learnt. Born in Canada, Schwartzman studied Computer Science at the University of Manitoba. He later moved to South Africa where he worked for various Internet [...]

We love food. And that’s why whenever we feel hungry, we whet our appetite by sniffing up at our sister site, Foodiciary.com, a blog that provides local food recipes and restaurant reviews. But when we can’t help it any more, we go over to some of our favourite online food ordering sites. Here are 5 online [...]

A new e-commerce start-up called Cart! is launching soon to help entrepreneurs enable a personalised online store front powered by payments, shipping and marketing support. Founded by former Dealdey VP of Technology, Dika Oha, the start-up wants to be Nigeria’s verison of Shopify, an e-commerce site builder founded in 2006 that powers tens of thousands of [...]

Earlier this week, Techloy exclusively reported that one of the world’s most valuable extensions, .ng which happens to be the well-sought after Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Nigeria will be sold for less than $100 USD per domain name. Today, we learned that some accredited domain registrars and resellers have began selling prepping up [...]