Author: Francis Ebuehi

One of the most frustrating things you will experience as a Product Manager is Top Management’s unenthusiastic attitude towards having in place a process for product development and management. I remember some time back while as a Product Manager in a bank, I got a call from my CEO telling…

Having worked for over 25 years in over 6 companies, I have realised success in the workplace goes beyond just being technically good at your job. There are just some skills that you need to have but unfortunately, they are not taught in the regular classrooms. These skills are more…

An English-proverb says “Necessity is the mother of invention” and this seems to be the fate of Huawei at the moment. The world’s second-largest smartphone maker, is reportedly working an Android replacement called ‘HongMeng’. The report suggests that the company has been working on the replacement to Google Android for…

I had dumped Bose when I wanted to buy the last noise cancelling headphones. I had gone for the Sony MDR-1000X instead of the Bose QuietComfort 35. I wasn’t quite pleased with the performance of my previous headphones – Bose QuietComfort 25. Now I am tired of the Sony MDR-1000X and I am on…

The call for applications for the 8th Orange  Social Venture Prize in Africa and the Middle East opens today and will run through 31 May 2018, under the “Orange Social Venture Prize” section on the http://EntrepreneurClub.orange.com/en. This prize, awarded by Orange, rewards innovative projects based on Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) which improve…

Mara Corporation Limited (MC) is set to release an Android One phone, Mara X, in partnership with Google, for the African market in the second quarter of 2018. The Mara X will be a one-of-a-kind high-quality, smartphone. The Mara X will be launched as part of Google’s Android One portfolio, getting…

If you have a YouTube account and do not have up to 1000 subscribers and did not have 4,000 hours of watch time within the past 12 months, you would have received an email from YouTube by now. Check out a sample of the email you would have received from the…

According to Forbes, the number of billionaires in Africa grew from 21 to 23, collectively now worth $75.4 billion. Nigerian Aliko Dangote still remains the richest African worth $12.2 billion, up $100 million from a year ago. This is the seventh time in a row. The second on the list is…

Ringier Africa Digital Publishing (RADP)  has entered into a digital content license agreement with The New York Times News Service  and Syndicate, the licensing and syndicate division of The New York Times. This means that RADP will publish New York Times journalism under its new media brand Pulse in Ghana, Kenya and…

Global payment technology company, Flutterwave says it processed $2billion in transaction value in 2017, up from $200 million the year before. The first thought that came to my mind when I saw this, was “Who was processing these transactions before the company was set up? Did the company get business from already existing…

Alexander Nwuba is indeed a man of many parts. I first met him in 1998 when I was in charge of Electronic Banking in the defunct Liberty Bank in Nigeria. He was then the President/CEO of SmartPay Global Inc. He was one of the people that helped to create the…

While I am still enjoying my MDR-1000X, Sony decided to come up with an even better noise cancelling set of headphones called the WH-1000XM2. Visually, there is really no difference between the two sets of headphones. But Sony says the WH-1000XM2 adds compatibility with Sony | Headphones Connect app (Google Play…

On the PitchDrive tech tour, the startup founders met with Tom Ilube in London. Now for those who do not know Tom, let me give you a brief introduction. Thomas Segun Ilube (born July 1963) is a British entrepreneur and educational philanthropist. He is of Nigerian descent. He is ranked first in…

Imagine this! A South African wakes up one day in December and tweets: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/810108760010043392 Then he actually says the name of the company would be “The Boring Company” https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/810126376871297024 He adds https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/810126493326209025 He then goes ahead to create the company. The site clearly states the objective of the company. “To…

I came across an article written by Gibson Biddle which I think is very instructive to the role of the person in charge of Products in any organisation. More often than not, the role of the Product Management office is misconstrued and is not accorded the right importance. Gibson Biddle grew…

When my Bose QuietComfort 25 acoustic noise cancelling headphones stopped working, I decided to shop for another set of noise cancelling headphones. I checked out the Bose QuietComfort 35  and it was retailing for £329.95 on Amazon UK. By chance, I was passing through Johannesburg and found a new brand of headphones I…

My friend, Inderpal Mumick, CEO of Kirusa, the company behind Instavoice, shared a scary incident that happened to him at the Murtala Muhammed International airport on his way out of Nigeria to the US last week. It was a case of a smoking MacBook. The MacBook was a MacBook Pro Retina…

During periods of recession, the natural course of action for companies is to cut costs and focus on sweating existing performing revenue lines. During these times, Innovation efforts are seen as unnecessary expenses that can be curtailed. Is this wrong or right? This is one of the decisive times you…

This was bound to happen. It was just a matter of when and which country will it start with. It has just been revealed that Whatsapp is entering into the digital payments space. And it is starting with India. With Whatsapp being the most popular instant messaging app in India…

For April Fools’ day, Google has introduced “Ms. Pac-Man in Google Maps to make your journey more interesting. If you open your Google Maps app on your phone now, you will see a pink button with a yellow image you have never seen before. It is “Ms. Pac Man”, a relative…