Printivo is reminiscent of a rising trend the African technology ecosystem. Of technology complementing and enabling existing offline business models. But the story wasn’t always six-figure funding, and exponential growth.
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There are at least four of these kinds of websites (in Nigeria) that we now know of – Kosava Deals, Picodi PromoHub, and now FreeJaja.
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Ridebliss is the latest Nigerian ride-sharing service, but there is nothing to see here. Not really.
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Tucked in the Section 29 of the Cybercrime Act is a provision that could be the cornerstone of the NCC’s argument as MTN challenges the NGN780 billion fine imposed on it by the monitoring body. Will NCC play this card? We brought you this and more today.
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Planners are definitely a great idea, but sometimes you just don’t have that big a budget. Or maybe you want be in the of heat of the action. It’s why Iludio is interesting.
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If I were writing my standardized tests in 2015, with this app I just discovered, preparing would be less of torture, I’m sure. It would probably be more like a day in the neighbourhood game truck.
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Lagos-based incubator/accelerator, iDea will host the executives of the Venture Garden Group (VGG) at the next edition of its ecosystem fireside chat
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Padi.ng, an ecommerce website that aggregates inventories of partner stores, is promising to get users’ orders to their location within I hour, 30 minutes.
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The lending service was developed by the Lagos-based IT company, BinCom. It is targeted at Nigerian banks and allows them create a community where users can access soft loans based on their social media reputation.
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The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the U.S. Department of State are taking applications for the 2016 GIST Tech-I competition.
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Slack, the trendy enterprise collaboration tool (that we are so madly in love with), made three important announcements at its press event yesterday. One of them is to back Slack bot developers.
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She Leads Africa, the social enterprise supporting female African entrepreneurs and professionals, will expand its professional bootcamp – SheHive – to more than five cities in 2016.
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Ongair, the Kenyan platform that uses chat apps to provide personal customer care infrastructure for companies has raised an undisclosed amount of funding from Nest VC.
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According to the latest data shared by the Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NiRA), 33,572 .ng domain names were registered, renewed or transferred with the body between January and November 2015.
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2015 is a pretty good year and as it rolls by, everyone is looking back on it – crafting a recap. Facebook and YouTube released their recap videos last week and Google just joined the ranks.
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The story of the former Nigerian National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, and his controversial arms deal continued today. This time, attentions turn to the popular Nigerian blogger, Linda Ikeji for her alleged involvement. We also told you about UberSleigh and an almost-perfect Christmas gift for nerds.
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If you are a big Pulse.ng fan, a sucker for mobile apps, and hate typing in URLs, then your Christmas gift may be coming in early.
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It’s not enough that you can see when people have read your messages on Messenger, or that you can comment on Facebook posts offline, Facebook now lets you see when a friend is writing a comment.
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The latest update to Google Maps for iOS allows you to navigate saved areas offline, view gas prices at nearby filling stations, and see the busiest hours of local stores.
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Barclays Africa launched the programme to foster the growth of financially-directed startups that would be able to scale.
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Three African startups (two from Nigeria and one from Ghana) are currently in the the global female-focused accelerator programme, the S factory.
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The administration of Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari seems primed to play an active role in the country’s growing technology scene.
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At the last MITx Global entrepreneurship bootcamp, five Nigerian startups were part of the 50 that participated from over 24 countries.
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Whatsapp, our favourite escape pod into light hearted conversations, snarky banters and whatever else we use it for these days is getting a major upgrade. No, Whatsapp is not rolling out an update, but a startup is layering a teaching solution on it.
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Facebook and YouTube both posted videos looking back at the events of 2015. Approaches were different of course. While, YouTube’s look back at 2015 is a fast-paced mashups of viral videos, painting the world in cheery sunshiny colours, Facebook’s is a solemn collection of out trials and triumphs. What else happened today?
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Lagos-based incubator and accelerator, CcHub, in partnership with Omidyar Network, Bank of Industry and Venture Garden Group will soon launch a NGN 1 billion social innovation fund.
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WordPress 4.4 is out. If you are waiting for intrepid trendsetters to clear the way before you get with the programme, it’s fine. But you should know this release is one to get excited about. Here are four reasons why.
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And that’s for good reason – these stores are taking deals away from them.
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The recurring mischaracterization of Impact Investing with [venture] philanthropy in Nigeria has led to difficulty in raising capital, according to a GIIN report on impact investment in Nigeria. Here are six more facts about the local impact investment landscape.
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With the customizable rewards scheme that SlimTrader is calling Mo’Rewardz, guests will get loyalty points for each reservation, and hotel staff will receive points for creating reservations on the MoBiashara.
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Ghanaian tech entrepreneur, Rasheeda Mandeeya Yehuza emerged the winner of the 2015 Future Awards Africa 2015 prize in technology at the event that held over the weekend in Lagos.
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It’s Tuesday 8th November. Today, BitX announced an investment round from Venturra Capital. iROKOtv began work on curating video content for Francophone Africa and the Social media bill is still raising a fair amount of dust. Check all the tech stories from today.
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A lesser percentage of Nigerian consumers’ expenses on TV and media entertainment now goes into buying pirated materials as reasonably-priced VOD and pay TV services become available in the country.
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It’s not the first time the Nigerian Senate under the present administration has attempted to censor a part of the internet – albeit with a shoddily thought-through strategy.
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It’s iROKOtv’s biggest deal to date.
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IsUhuruInKenya.co.ke; the Kenyan website that tells if president Uhuru Kenyatta is in the country, is back in operation after it went offline yesterday.
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ROK Studios, headed by Mary Njoku, a former actress and Jason Njoku’s wife is working on an animated series for children.
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The World Computer Literacy Day is an annual event to create awareness and drive digital literacy in underserved communities worldwide.
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We share more of our learnings from A4AI Nigeria coalition event.
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After four years of operation, Venia Hub is getting an upgrade.
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