The plans by Elon Musk-Tesla and SpaceX CEO-to use technology to offer solutions to problems and at the same time make money are absolutely incredible and unusual. You think he is daydreaming. He is building Electric cars, he has launched a venture to merge humans with computers, he also has plans to…
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China is a country that tends to use what it has to get what it wants. The Asian giant has a viable alternative for nearly every tech available in the western world. Interestingly, the companies offering these services are strongly and solidly supported by the Chinese government. Not to be…
The updated version of Uber will now allow riders to add up to 2 additional stops during their ride. Before this, you either had to manually navigate your driver to a stop, or update your destination mid-ride. The multiple destinations feature will make it much easier to pick up and drop off…
Twitter added 4 million new active users last quarter according to Twitter’s earnings report. The company now has 330 million monthly users, up from 326million last quarter and 317 million this time last year. The report further reveals that the social media network posted a revenue of $590 million, down from $616 million this…
Zimbabwean Startup, Road Rules, aimed at educating drivers about Zimbabwe’s highway laws, has won the Southern African leg of Hague Institute for Innovation of Law (HiiL) Boostcamp challenge. Road Rules wins a 5000 Euros cash prize and a place at HiiL’s Justice Entrepreneur School (JES) in The Hague this December.…
The U.S. city of Honolulu in Hawaii has become the first city in the world to fine people for looking at their phones or other digital devices while crossing roads. The bill, which comes into force today after being approved by the Hawaiian city’s mayor in July, states that “no pedestrian…
Chinese Twitter-like social network, Weibo, is raising $700 million to fund acquisitions. The Beijing-based company which is worth $21 billion, announced that it will offer up to $700 million in convertible senior notes in order to finance working capital needs and potential acquisitions of complementary businesses. Weibo currently has 159 million daily…
Many thought that Nigeria’s wedding industry is a multimillion naira industry. Apparently, it is worth much more. In this exclusive interview, Oyetayo Oyewolu, the co-founder and CEO of Palmfront tells us how much Nigeria’s wedding industry is worth and much more. Excerpts. Can we meet you? My name is Oyetayo…
Japanese electronics powerhouse Toshiba has reported that it expects to post a net loss of 110 billion yen ($970 million) this financial year following the sale of its memory chip business. The loss will come instead of its previously forecast net profit of 230 billion yen due to taxes incurred…
Facebook is testing splitting its News Feed into two where space will be dedicated to friend updates and another space that will contain posts from pages. The test is currently ongoing in six countries namely Bolivia, Cambodia, Guatemala, Serbia, Slovakia, and Sri Lanka. Under this impending arrangement, the main News Feed…
The trend now is to request an Uber to commute. This mode of transportation has been accepted worldwide including Nigeria because you can request a ride via your phone app. So, it will not be out of place to say that every tech savvy individual has requested a ride. As such, there…
Mastercard announced that it will be opening up access to its blockchain technology via its API published on Mastercard Developers. Mastercard’s blockchain solution provides a new way for consumers, businesses and banks to transact and is key to the company’s strategy to provide payment solutions that meet every need of financial institutions…
Google has launched a new payment service it tags Pay with Google, which aims to simplify the purchasing process on Android devices. Back in May, Google shared a sneak peek of how paying with Google will. Today, the tech giant threw more light into how Pay With Google works saying: “When you pay…
Nigeria has quite a handful of talented and upcoming artists who are in search of platforms to produce and distribute their songs. Although there are so many music studios domiciled in the nooks and crannies of the country, these platforms are sceptical about giving young artists the opportunity to produce…
G7 countries and tech giants including Google, Facebook and Twitter have agreed to work together to block the distribution of extremist content over the internet. The accord which was agreed to after a two-day meeting in Italy is aimed at removing jihadist content from the web within two hours of…
Land and landed properties are valuable. Due to this, Nigerians who want to buy or perform any real estate business are very scared and sceptical. Some of the problems they are likely to encounter include buying the property from a disgruntled family member who did not seek to perform to sell…
There are thousands of talented designers and graphic artists across Nigeria that desire a platform where they can showcase their skills and talent in order to get more clients. This said, you can count the number of these platforms with your fingers. This is because they are very few. Well,…
Snapchat and NBCUniversal are partnering to float a Hollywood studio that will create programmes or shows for mobile phones. The shows will be between 8 and 10 minutes. To make this a reality, the companies will establish a studio Joint Venture to produce programming exclusively for the social-messaging and media…
Safaricom is consolidating its market position in Kenya as the nation’s largest telecom company and provider of the nation’s mobile money service, M-Pesa by launching a new innovation centre to evolve new products or businesses the company can venture into. The Chief Innovation Officer, Kamal Bhattacharya, the objective of Safaricom…
Making the decision to become an entrepreneur is a fearless step from being an employee of a business to the leader of your own business. One of the first challenges they are likely to face is that they no longer have line managers to set goals and deadlines for them.…