Author: Staff Writer

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…

Hotels.ng releases its international hotel booking and its flight booking website. In 2013, there were only 300 Nigerian hotels listed online. Mark Essien, CEO of Hotels.ng, saw an opportunity in building an African focused OTA to give hotels in most obscure areas visibility and to help consumers find a place…

Zimbabwe-born software guru, Dakarai Mshoperi, has launched a new auction web app, named Preloved. The app was launched on the 1st of January in South Africa and users have already started posting items on the site. Preloved is a term used in Southern Africa for used items. According to Dakarai, “people…

The application portal for the annual Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Programme is now open. The foundation is now accepting applications for business ideas that can transform Africa.  This is the fourth (4th) cycle of the programme. TEF Founder, serial entrepreneur and philanthropist Tony O. Elumelu, committed to a 10-year, period to make available $100…

Long time executive Chairman of Alphabet, Eric Schmidt, is stepping down from the post of executive chairman of Alphabet’s board of directors. He will become a technical advisor to Alphabet. In a statement, Eric confirmed this stating that “Larry, Sergey, Sundar and I all believe that the time is right in Alphabet’s…

This month of December, we are giving away three (3) units of the XOOPAR (pronounced Super) Boy Mini Speaker with Selfie function. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6ZAlXFLPV8 Here are some of the features of this cute gadget: High Quality Sound: It provides incredible sound quality performance by a speaker driver for rich deep sound and…

ProvidusBank launches the World Elite Mastercard offering in Nigeria, providing affluent consumers and frequent travelers with a range of priceless travel benefits and lifestyle privileges both at home and abroad. This is the first launch of World Elite Mastercard in Sub-Saharan Africa. During an impressive launch ceremony held in Lagos…

When it comes to raising capital for their businesses, it is a mixed picture in Africa. On the one hand, more money is flowing into Africa than ever before. 2016 was a record breaking year with the Venture Capital funding raised by African start-ups totaling $366.8M, according to a study by…

iflix the world’s leading entertainment service for emerging markets, is thrilled to share its latest milestone – 10 billion minutes streamed across its platform in 2017. The achievement, equivalent to more than 19,000 years of content streamed, marks an incredible uptake in user engagement, with cumulative viewing minutes up well over…

Creative Media Works, operating as BBM Messenger, has partnered with Uber, the world’s largest on-demand ride-sharing company, to launch the Uber ride-on-demand service within BBM Messenger. Users around the world will have access to this new service, including Indonesia – BBM’s largest market – Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, and…