Author: Staff Writer

It seems this dinosaur franchise still has some life and can still be mined. The first trailer of the sequel to the 2015 Jurassic World, has been released by Universal Studios. It is Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. It retains some of the old cast such as Owen (Chris Pratt) and Claire (Bryce…

The growth of the world’s number one virtual currency by value, Bitcoin, seems unstoppable. It is now currently trending above $15,000. Two weeks ago it was $8,000. The price is currently trading at $15,201 on Bitfinex and $17,857 on Quione. How high can it go? Not many people seem to know.…

Series C funding round brings the total amount raised to $220m Leading digital money transfer service WorldRemit has raised $40m to drive its next phase of global growth, aiming to serve 10 million customers connected to emerging markets. Half of these customers will be in Africa. As part of the expansion, WorldRemit…

WaraCake.com which is arguably Nigeria’s premier 4-5-hour cake delivery service just launched a new service called WaraGifts.com.  WaraGifts.com is an online gifting platform, committed to providing high quality gifting products at affordable prices. It places a lot of emphasis careful selection of merchants who retail unique gift items only. WaraGifts…

Pete Cashmore’s Mashable is being sold to Ziff Davis for less than $50million. This was the same company that was valued at $250 million last year when Time Warner’s Turner led a $15 million investment round. This deal will also see Mashable refocusing on tech and tech-lifestyle content and the…

Following the newly launched 6-inch Full-screen OPPO F5, OPPO has announced the release of the sister version, OPPOF5 Youth today, days earlier than expected and placed on pre-order on Jumia, marking continuous trend of Full-screen era led by OPPO in Kenya. Priced at a more affordable price of Kshs. 26,990,…

Mastercard has launched a digital ordering system called Kionect, that empowers small kiosk owners in Nairobi to order and pay for products from wholesalers via SMS. Orders submitted via a feature phone helps create a digital record for kiosk owners to get access to micro-loans to stock inventory and grow…

Direct Pay Online Group (DPO) has announced the acquisition of SID Instant EFT South Africa, the original and leading instant electronic funds transfer (EFT) solution in the region. The deal will complement DPO’s comprehensive suite of payment solutions which includes all major cards, mobile money and e-wallets. Commenting on the…

And the awards just keep coming! Leading online classifieds site, OLX.com.ng added two new awards to its rack. OLX won the award for Classified Ad Website of the year for the third time in a row and for the first time the  Mobile App of the Year at the 3rd…

The Tecno Spark K7 competition closed on Thursday 30th of November 2017. We had 1,557 entries and after the Rafflecopter draw, the lucky person drawn is …Aminat Adeogun We have contacted her and she will be receiving the smartphone very soon. Congratulations Aminat  ? To all those who entered the draw, better…

Google has released the best and most popular apps, games, music, movies books on GooglePlay in 2017. Interestingly the best app of 2017 is Socratic, an app that uses Artificial Intelligence technology to help students with their homework by providing educational resources like videos, definitions, Q&A, and more Here is the…

Konga, one of the leading eCommerce companies in Nigeria has sacked over 300 members of staff. Most of these people received their sack letters yesterday, 30th of November. The news was first reported by Quartz Africa and verified independently from some of the affected staff. A medium post by the CEO,…

Affelka, majority shareholder of Nigeria’s Seven-Up bottling company, has offered $60 million (19.33 billion Naira) to buy out current minority shareholders. The buyout is aimed at restructuring the struggling company. Affelka is the privately held investment firm owned by the Lebanese El-Khalil family and it has offered to pay 112.70 naira per share for…

After months of testing, Google is rolling out Datally globally. Datally is an app that helps to understand, control and save mobile data. Google says it recognises that mobile data is expensive for many people around the world and it’s hard to figure out where it all goes, hence the need for…

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has granted a Commercial Super-Agent license to Interswitch Financial Inclusion Services (IFIS), a subsidiary of Interswitch Group. IFIS has fulfilled all Approval-in-Principle requirements and has a business mandate to grow an active Agent Network of 150,000 by 2020. Trading as Quickteller Paypoint, IFIS aims to increase the…

In the recently published 9 months results for Rocket Internet, its African eCommerce property Jumia grew its Gross Merchandise Volume (GMV) by 32.4% year over year to €236 million in 9 months ending September 2017. (Gross merchandise volume, or GMV, refers to the total volume in dollars of sales over a…

A new trailer for “The Avengers – Infinity War” movie has been released by Marvel Studios. In the trailer, the Avengers, the Guardians of the Galaxy and almost every other Marvel superhero unite to fight the mighty villain “Thanos”. Thanos possesses vast superhuman strength the full limits of which aren’t known. Watch the trailer below…

Someone has discovered a vulnerability on the new macOS High Sierra. The macOS High Sierra, a successor to Sierra, was announced at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference in June and has been rolled out The vulnerability was published on Twitter by software engineer Lemi Orhan Ergin . The bug allows anyone gain admin access to a Mac. So…

South African media giant, Naspers, has reported a 39% revenue growth year on year in its latest financial results for the six months to 30 September 2017. The report also stated that businesses outside South Africa contributed 82% of revenues, up from 80% a year ago. Core headline earnings grew 65% to…

Folorunso Alakija is one of a handful of successful female entrepreneurs on the continent listed as one of Forbes most powerful women in the world. The 66-year-old business magnate has persistently championed the causes of women in Nigeria from her work with widows and orphans through the Rose of Sharon…