We’re live-blogging the official launch of the iDEA Hub happening at its Lagos Centre right next to the Co-creation Hub (CcHub) in Yaba, Lagos. The hub called Information Technology Developers Entrepreneurship Accelerator (iDEA) wants to help Nigerian entrepreneurs create successful businesses in the areas of mobile apps, enterprise software, linguistic software, custom programming and business intelligence [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Today’s Google Doodle is celebrating late Kenyan environmental and political activist, Wangari Maathai who was born on April 1, 1940, and would have turned 73 years old today. [See more Google doodles related to Africa] Maathai was awarded the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize for her “contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace”, making her the first [...]

Ghana’s President John Mahama has launched a project to build a $10 billion IT hub near the country’s capital, Accra, within three years, according to the BBC. Citing an investor, the BBC reports that the hub will have Africa’s tallest building, at a height of 270m (885ft) and will be built on empty land employing [...]

We earlier brought you some photos from the Mobile World Congress showing the venue, participants and booths of some of the world’s leading device manufacturers. Now, we take you through a tour of Nokia’s booth at the event to give you an inside look at the company’s heavy presence at the Mobile World Congress 2013.

At the Mobile World Congress 2013, Nokia announced that with more than 130,000 applications now available on Windows Phone, it is opening up its APIs in imaging, location and music to encourage developers to build unique and innovative application experiences for Lumia. Already, new apps from Burton, GoPro and FourSquare are taking advantage of these [...]

Nigerian-born Makinde Adeagbo, an ex-Facebook software engineer has been featured in a short film about what most schools don’t teach: Code. The 6-minute short film also starring Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey, among others wants you to learn about a new “superpower” that isn’t being taught in most schools around the world, especially in [...]

Nigeria’s fourth largest mobile network operator, Etisalat may be experiencing a major DNS poisoning attack which redirects some websites to other websites, Techloy has learnt.

For some time now, the local tech space has been buzzing with conversations around the hottest topics from e-commerce to mobile payments, following coverage from technology and mobile-focused blogs. But there has been a missing link: a radio talk show that brings together all of these conversations and provides the growing community of tech enthusiasts a place to get their voice heard.

Whogohost has been ranked the 2nd largest domain name and web hosting company in Nigeria with over 2,600 domain names hosted on its servers, according to WebHosting.Info, as at February 18, 2013. The company which was founded in 2006 claims to have over 5,000 domain names under management to date, although it seems that half of that [...]

When Google browser, Chrome overtook Firefox for the first time globally in December 2011, it became obvious that the fast-growing web browser would become a real rival to the world’s dominant browser, Internet Explorer.

TechLoy has received an invitation to an exclusive Microsoft event in Nigeria where the company would be announcing ‘something big’ on February 5, as it celebrates its 20 years in Africa.

In what seems like a validation of the growing technology community in Nairobi, Kenya, the Chairman and former CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt has suggested that the East African country may become the Silicon Valley of Africa.

China’s domestic software industry has started to attract more local consumers, with revenues reaching $311 billion (USD) in the first ten months of the year, The Economic Times reports, citing Chinese official media.