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.

A former Google employee who worked as Programmes Manager for the search and advertising giant’s operations in Lagos, Nigeria has left to join leading online retailer, Konga, Techloy has exclusively learnt.

By now, it is no longer news that SPARK is putting $1 million into local Internet start-ups this year in what can be described as the most audacious bet on the early-stage Nigerian Internet space. But as the news gradually filters through the fabric of the tech ecosystem, Techloy has exclusively learnt (after a tip-off from [...]

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.

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.

After it signed an agreement with Rocket Internet to jointly develop franchises in the online sector in Latin America and Africa in a €340 million deal last August, Millicom, a global telecommunications group with mobile telephony operations in 13 countries in Latin America and Africa has invested an additional €35 million in Rocket’s operations in Africa.

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.

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 [...]

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.

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.

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.

A new animation film titled Simi Visits Grandma and produced by a Lagos-based animation company, Ostudiolabs is set to be released in December 2014. The full-length animation film would be based on the story of a young girl named Simi who was born in Lagos to a yuppie parent. According to the synopsis, “She goes to [...]