Author: Staff Writer

A year ago, WhatsApp celebrated the fact that one billion people were using Whatsapp every month. Now the messaging company led by by Jan Koum has just announced that one billion people around the world now use WhatsApp on a daily basis to stay in touch with their family and friends. The monthly…

Nigerian Fintech startup, Paystack, just announced that it has hit 1 billion Naira ($3.2 million) in monthly transaction volume. The news was tweeted by Co-founder and CTO, Ezra Olubi. https://twitter.com/0x/status/889953350422216704 The transaction that got the company to the ₦1 billion/month milestone was a payment of ₦6,000 made in Ikoyi using a Mastercard…

Google CEO, Sundar Pichai, is currently in Lagos. He tweeted this some minutes ago https://twitter.com/sundarpichai/status/890491356392562688 He is here for the #GoogleForNigeria event currently taking place at Landmark events centre in Lagos. Expecting exciting product announcements coming up. Here are some pictures of him in Nigeria

Apple’s Beats By Dre has teamed up with French fashion house Balmain to introduce a special edition of its Studio Wireless Over-Ear Headphones and Powerbeats3 Wireless Earphones. Reality Star Kylie Jenner is the face of the campaign for the gadgets. Both the Beats Studio Wireless headphones Powerbeats3 Wireless earphones come in…

Well it was Dwayne Johnson that said it, not me! He tweeted yesterday on his handle that we should expect the biggest, coolest, sexiest, funnest, movie ever. https://twitter.com/TheRock/status/889187172905103360 Lo and behold it is not a movie but an Apple Siri advert.  In the ad, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson shows how…

South African based e-health startup, hearX Group, is planning to launch the world’s first smartphone otoscope, hearScope, on Indiegogo on August 1, 2017. An otoscope is an instrument designed for visual examination of the eardrum and the passage of the outer ear, typically having a light and a set of lenses.…

Innovation Village is giving away another smartphone. This time, it is the new Infinix Note 4 smartphone. This smartphone was launched on the 3rd of July in Lagos, Nigeria and we were there to capture the event. We also have one unit to give away to one lucky reader The…

The 2017 Comic-Con International: San Diego just ended at the San Diego Convention Centre yesterday, Sunday, July 23 2017. It started on Thursday, July 20 2017. This marks the 48th year for the show, making it the country’s longest continuously-run comics and popular arts convention. As usual, one of the highlights…

This seems like another Susan Fowler case which caused the chaos that led to the resignation of Uber CEO, Travis Kalanick. On Saturday, July 22, Ushahidi – a Kenyan non-profit software company that develops free and open-source software (LGPL) for information collection, visualisation, and interactive mapping, fired its executive director, Daudi Were, accused of…

A new trailer of the upcoming Marvel movie, Thor Ragnarok, has just hit the internet. The first one was released in April 2017. This is the second trailer from Marvel and it was released at the ongoing 2017 Comic-Con taking place at the San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, California, United…

The Samsung Engineering Academy in Lagos recently graduated another 72 technicians from its class of 2016. They join the 257 graduates who have passed through the institution over the last five years, and who are expected to deepen the pool of well-trained technicians in the country. With over 170 million…

Early this week, luxury auto manufacturer introduced the first Mercedes Benz pickup truck under the Mercedes Benz X-Class. The unveiling was done in Cape Town, South Africa on Tuesday. The new Mercedes-Benz X-Class is uniquely versatile in terms of its area of application – it can be used as a…

According to a recent research report ‘VC4A Venture Finance in Africa’ released by Venture Capital for Africa (VC4A), a strong team of founders is the key driver of startup success in Africa. VC4A is a network-building organisation with 50,000+ member community in 159 countries, including 1.000+ investors. The 2017 research sought to…

Ex-Starta General Manager, Yele Bademosi, has announced the launch of Microtraction, an investment platform that provides seed capital to technical entrepreneurs at the very earliest stages of their venture. Microtraction will invest $65,000 in two stages. The first investment is $15,000 for 7.5% equity stake, followed by an additional $50,000 convertible note…

Out of the total of 2500 applications for the 2017 Innovation Prize for Africa (IPA), Aly El-Shafei of Egypt emerged as the Grand Prize winner of US$ 100 000. The patented innovation, Smart Electro-Mechanical Actuator Journal Integrated Bearing (SEMAJIB), by Dr. El-Shafei is a smart bearing that significantly improves turbine performance in single…

In the recent financial report published by Netflix, total membership now stands at 103.95 million. Curiously the international market (outside US) accounts for more subscribers, with 52.03 million. Netflix says its streaming membership grew more than expected, from 99m to 104m, due to its amazing content. International revenue also rose…

Ten teams of 21 budding African social entrepreneurs have been selected as winners of the Resolution Social Venture Challenge at the Baobab Summit in Johannesburg. Winning teams earn a fellowship that includes seed funding, mentorship and access to a network of young global changemakers to pursue impactful projects in their…

Creative Media Works, operating as BBM, has launched Football365 inside Discover in partnership with Planet Sport Publishing, a global, independent publisher of quality sports news and information. Football365, now available in the BBM Discover menu, serves up the latest information covering all the leagues, teams, and goals worldwide. Football fans…

Esoko, a pioneering social enterprise in the field of mobile agriculture, is pleased to announce that it has restructured the company and spun-off its m-commerce and data collection businesses into two new companies. This new structure allows for greater focus and growth in divergent products developed by Esoko. Tulaa, the…

HMD Global, the company behind Nokia phones has introduced the Nokia 105 and 130 with new designs. Earlier in the year, the same company introduced a new look Nokia 3310. It is obvious that the company is targeting more than 1.3 billion feature phone users around the world, many from markets…