YouTube has unveiled its top 10 list of trending videos along with the top 10 music videos of 2017. The music videos list is topped by Luis Fonsi’s Spanish song Despacito (featuring Daddy Yankee) which has is the most watched video on YouTube with over 4.4 billion views. It broke the…
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Travelstart, an African online travel booking website, has announced that it has acquired a majority stake in SafariNow-South Africa’s largest accommodation booking website. The worth of the deal which has not been revealed will see Travelstart taking on SafariNow’s 40-person team. According to a statement from Travelstart, SafariNow, which was founded…
With Donald Trump’s aggressive and boisterous use of Twitter and the refusal of the social media platform to take action, the president of America’s tweets did not make the top 9 retweeted tweets of 2017. Since Trump is controversial, it should not surprise anyone that he is the most tweeted…
In a new move designed to reduce price and ease logistics inherent in the purchase of its products, the management of Dangote Cement Plc has signed a pact with the e-commerce platform Jumia Nigeria to offer for sale its cement to customers online. At the unveiling of the deal in…
Spotify has revealed the most streamed artists of 2017. Ed Sheeran, Dua Lipa, and Kendrick Lamar had a good 2017 and definitely, they will hope this fit will continue in 2018. Ed Sheeran was named as the most streamed artist globally, after an awesome year that saw him achieving huge success with…
China is obviously and definitely making sure that it is not left behind when it comes to technology. Whatever tech the West and America is developing, it ensures that it has its own version. China has its own version of Google (Baidu), and Whats App (WeChat). Now, according to reports,…
The first wind I got about the Startups4Africa Manifesto came in an email I received last week from a friend who works in an European international development agency. The manifesto is a product of Startup Europe supported by the European Commission. It was co-authored by a Portuguese Professor, a Spanish bureaucrat/investor with advice from an…
South African based tech firm, Sagarmatha Technologies has launched an Artificial Intelligence Challenge for African startups for a chance to win an investment of $1-million. Sagarmatha Technologies said in a statement that the company will provide $1-million in development funding, as well as more than $2-million in marketing value-adds and prizes to…
In the concluding part of our exclusive interview with the two African startups that attended the Kickstart Accelerator, Innovation Village brings you Malcolm Gray, one of the co-founders of Libryo. Malcolm shares Libryo’s encounter at the Swiss based accelerator and much more. Excerpts. Malcolm Gray My name is Malcolm Gray and…
Innovation Village earlier this year reported that two Africans startups namely Ghana’s Farmerline and South Africa’s Libryo were shortlisted to attend the Kickstart Accelerator. The program, an initiative of digital Switzerland and operated by Impact Hub Zurich, is one of Europe’s largest zero equity, multi-corporate accelerators with the aim of putting the Swiss…
Remember the pix that Beyonce shared to announce that she is expecting twins? Well, that picture has been received the most likes of 2017 on Instagram with 11.1 million people double-tapping the post. She was also the 4th most followed celebrity with 108 million followers behind singer Selena Gomez who…
Not all startups have the luxury of getting investors from the very beginning. So, you have to fund your business out of your own pocket. This is what is called bootstrapping. While this is a good way to start a business, bootstrapping is more difficult than it might seem especially…
Facebook is starting to roll out Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based tools to help identify when someone might be expressing thoughts of suicide, including on Facebook Live. The initiative – that will use pattern recognition to detect posts or live videos where someone might be expressing thoughts of suicide to help authorities…
Self-driving cars are ever more becoming a reality day by day as tech giants deploy all their technology and innovation in the works to ensure that they become the market leader when it comes to autonomous vehicles. One of such companies aggressively taking on this responsibility is Google’s Waymo. Now,…
Time Magazine, one of the most reputable and evergreen magazines in the world has been sold to a rival media company, Meredith Corporation for $2.8billion. The deal is valued at $1.84 billion based on the offering price and the number of shares of Time outstanding on September 30. Meredith said it values the…
Bitcoin tagged by many as the currency of the future has continued to rise passing $9,000 for the first time. Since setting this new high, prices climbed more or less steadily until finally passing $9,000 to hit a new record of $9,043.21. Bitcoin’s amazing gains have helped drive the combined…
It is that time of the year where global companies begin to release their much-anticipated adverts. It seems Apple is the first among the tech giants to unveil its Christmas unveil its 2018 Christmas Ad. https://m.youtube.com/watch?t=15s&v=1lGHZ5NMHRY The ad displays both the iPhone X and the AirPods, featuring a woman (Lauren Yatango-Grant)…
The unemployment rate in Nigeria is on the high side. Hence, there is no gainsaying that there are very limited jobs available to accommodate the thousands of graduates churned out by Nigeria’s higher institutions. Since jobs are in short supply, it follows that internship opportunities will also be limited. Unfortunately, when…
Google and several leading Russian search engines have completely removed 786 ‘pirate’ sites from their search results. That’s according to Russian telecoms watchdog Rozcomnadzor, which reports that the search providers delisted the sites after ISPs were ordered by a Moscow court to permanently block them. In July, President Vladimir Putin signed a new…
Tesla Inc, owned by Elon Musk, has completed construction of the world’s largest lithium-ion battery in Australia, putting it on track to meet a 100-day deadline for getting the battery packs to work in South Australia. Tesla won a bid in July to build the 129-megawatt-hour battery for South Australia, the…