ShopAfrica53, An SMS-Based Shopping Service For Africa

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A new SMS-based shopping solution for Africa has been launched which offers a revolutionary way and serves as an intermediary between small enterprises and customers.

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Mobile Social Network, Eskimi Reaches 5 Million Users; Crosses 2 Million Users in Nigeria

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Lithuania-based mobile community, Eskimi has crossed 2 million users in Nigeria as it marks a major milestone of 5 million users in its presence in emerging markets. With more than 250, 000 users reached in other markets such as South Africa, Kenya, Namibia, Tanzania and Zimbabwe, Eskimi now adds 30, 000 new users on its community per day.

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Hotel Listings And Reviews Site, Hotels.com.ng Launches With N5 Million Funding

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If you are going to a town or city you have never been to, how do you know the hotel to stay at? A new hotel listing and reviews site for Nigeria has launched today to solve this problem with the aim of helping you find all of the hotels in Nigeria, in one place.

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Nigeria’s Fastest Growing Internet Companies of 2011

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TechLoy’s inaugural list of the fastest growing Internet companies in Nigeria takes a look at the companies that are disrupting their industries, changing consumer’s lives and building the most market share. From e-commerce services to online entertainment hubs, here are Nigeria’s fastest growing Internet companies of 2011.

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Africa’s Own Techmeme-like Site Launches

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Africa’s own Techmeme has been launched to organize the must-read stories in technology across hundreds of news sites and blogs in Africa. In case you don’t know, Techmeme is a tech news aggregator that arranges all of the best technology-related news stories around the world into a single, easy-to-scan page.

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Facebook Blocks Njorku ‘For Being Spammy, Unsafe’

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Facebook has blocked Njorku, an African job search engine on its website, saying that its content is spammy and unsafe. Njorku is Africa’s first job search engine that crawls the web (especially job and classified sites in Africa) to help users find jobs based on keyword searches in Nigeria, Cameroon, Kenya, South Africa, Ghana, Uganda and Egypt.

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Google To Mocality: We Are Mortified. We Messed Up. We Are Sorry

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Today, the news broke that Google’s Kenyan operation was caught with evidence of scraping Mocality’s database of businesses and lying about its relationship with Mocality while contacting those businesses. In an unexpected show of techmanship, Google has apologised to Mocality saying that they were “mortified” by the recent anti-competition allegations.

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JOBSdey!, An SMS-Based Job Search Market Launches

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A new job search tool called JOBSdey! that uses SMS to help you find the most relevant jobs has just been launched. JOBSdey! describes itself as an electronic labour market that connects Nigerian workers with good jobs and employers to Nigerian workers of every level in both skilled and unskilled labour.

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iROKOtv Attracted About 1 Million Visitors in Its First Month [STATS]

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Nollywood movie streaming platform, iROKOtv recorded significant growth in its first month of launch, as visitors turned to the platform to watch Nollywood movies for free. The platform which launched on December 1, 2011 attracted 962,000 visitors and 4,971,000 page views with about 20,000 unique views daily during the month of December.

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