Author: Staff Writer

If you don’t want the usual uberX or UberSELECT options in Kenya, Uber has introduced another option called uberCHAPCHAP. Why uberCHAPCHAP you might ask? For one is cheaper for the customer. Check out the comparison in the three options According to an Uber spokesman in a statement, “With the launch of…

LifeBank, Nigeria’s digital blood bank, has raised $200 000 for expansion nationwide. Investors in this seed round include EchoVC Partners, a Lagos-based venture capital firm and Fola Laoye, an angel investor with over 20 years of experience in Nigeria’s healthcare industry. Co-Creation also participated in this funding round. Before this funding,…

In an update on its Advertising Policies page, Facebook has created a new policy that prohibits ads that promote financial products and services that are frequently associated with misleading or deceptive promotional practices, such as binary options, initial coin offerings and cryptocurrency. According to Rob Leathern, Facebook’s Product Management Director in a…

Marvel has just released a new trailer of the upcoming movie – Ant-Man and the Wasp. This new film is more or less a sequel to the 2015 Ant-Man movie featuring Paul Rudd as Ant-Man. In this movie, he gets a partner in the form of The Wasp acted by Evangeline…

The United Nations, in collaboration with the Civic Innovation Lab, is organising a Hackathon on 5-7th of Feb 2018 in Abuja. They are calling all developers and problems solvers to register their interest to help us to create a solution that would enable Nigerian Government to efficiently roll out the…

nChain Group, the leading blockchain research and development firm, has taken an equity stake in Centbee, a Bitcoin wallet provider that makes it easy for a global consumers to acquire, hold and spend Bitcoin with retailers and other merchants.  The funding deal was made through the nChain Group’s investment entity, nChain…

A New Year is here once again and you’ve realized that you had way to much fun  and spent all your Christmas bonus. You have lots of new items, gifts from your loved ones, and not a lot of available space. Not really a good start to the year, eh?…

An African based solar system startup, Off Grid Electric, has raised $55 million in Series D round led by Helios Investment Partners, including GE ventures, the venture capital subsidiary of General Electric Company. According to the company, the money raised will, in part, fund its expansion into Ghana, where it will…

Mike Ogbalu III is the new CEO of Verve International, one of the subsidiaries of Interswitch Group. He replaced the former CEO, Charles Ifedi, one of the pioneer staff of the company. Mr Ifedi, a first class graduate of Computer Science from the University of Ilorin, Nigeria and an MBA…

The Nigeria’s e-commerce industry is estimated to be worth over $12 billion with over 300, 000 daily orders via various online platforms. However, many online businesses in Nigeria are going through ‘Hell on Earth’ because of poor, unreliable and in some cases non-availability of instant delivery services. Painfully, countless numbers…

The Nigerian bobsled female team that will be participating at the 2018 Winter Olympics is the focus of the latest advert of Beats By Dre’s global Above the Noise campaign. The trio comprising of driver Seun Adigun and brakewomen Ngozi Onwumere and Akuoma Omeoga make history by being the first African…

Ex-Vodacom SA Executive, Mzamo Masito, has joined Google as its new Chief Marketing Officer for Sub-Saharan Africa. Before taking up the job, Mzamo was the Managing Executive, Brands and Comms Africa Group. He was also a lecturer at the AAA School of Advertising and serves on the GIBS advisory board.  He previously…

Google has announced that staring in 2018, page speed will be a ranking factor for mobile searches. According to Google, “The “Speed Update,” as we’re calling it, will only affect pages that deliver the slowest experience to users and will only affect a small percentage of queries. It applies the same…

Instant messaging service provider, WhatsApp Inc., has launched a new app for small businesses to connect and chat with their customers. It is called WhatsApp Business app. Here are the features of this new app: Business Profiles: Help customers with useful information such as a business description, email or store addresses,…

Guangzhou Automobile Company (GAC Motor), one of the top five biggest Chinese automobile manufacturers, has secured the exclusive rights for the flagship FORBESAFRICA television show, My Worst Day with Peace Hyde. The partnership comes after the successful launch of the first season, which profiled some of the leading business moguls including Aliko Dangote, Folorunsho Alakija, Tonye Cole, Herman Mashaba, Emir Sanusi Lamido Sanusi among many others. “We are very pleased to have this new partnership with GACMotor. The show has one of the highest viewerships on the Pan-Africanbusiness channel, CNBC Africa, and has set the benchmark as the…

The XOOPAR Boy Mini Speaker giveaway closed on Friday 5th of January, 2018. We had 1,154 entries and after the Rafflecopter draw, the lucky person drawn is …Emmanuel, D; Hussaini A, and Romiluyi, O. We have contacted them and they will be receiving the Speakers very soon. Congratulations ? To all those who…

Whatsapp is currently testing a feature whereby users can now switch from an ongoing voice call to a video call without dropping the call. The feature was first reported by Wabetainfo.  The report mentioned that there is a now a video call switch button which appears on the screen when making…

Twitter has come out to say it won’t ban world leaders. The social media giant made this assertion in a post published yesterday. Interestingly, it said “Blocking a world leader from Twitter or removing their controversial Tweets would hide important information people should be able to see and debate. It…

App store customers globally, did $300 million in purchases on New Year’s Day 2018. This is a new record During the week starting on Christmas Eve, customers made purchases or downloaded apps from the App Store, spending over $890 million in that seven-day period. “We are thrilled with the reaction…

Facebook’s CEO, Mark Zuckerber, says his personal challenge for 2018 is to protect Facebook’s community from abuse and hate, defend against interference by nation states, or make sure that time spent on Facebook is time well spent. He made this announcement on his Facebook page a while ago. 2017 witnessed an…