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LinkedIn, a business- and employment-oriented social networking service, has launched a lighter version of its flagship product, LinkedIn Lite mobile web and Android app in more than 60 countries across the world including Nigeria and South Africa. The Microsoft owned company says it will help level the playing field for all its members when…

Helpling, Europe’s leading marketplace for booking household services like home cleaning, has announced today that it has secured an investment from Unilever Ventures. The investment by Unilever, one of the world’s largest consumer goods companies, marks an important milestone in the home service industry. The investment of Unilever Ventures follows…

Flutterwave announced that it has raised over $10 million in a Series A round of funding led by Greycroft Partners and Green Visor. This new funding is in addition to previous investments by the company’s current investors which include, Omidyar Network, Social Capital, CRE Venture Capital and HOF Capital amongst others.…

Five schoolgirls from Kisumu High School in Kenya’s western city of Kisumu will be representing Africa in Google’s Technovation challenge after they developed an app, iCcut, to end Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). The five teenagers, aged 15 to 17, Stacy Owino, Purity Achieng, Ivy Akinyi, Synthia Otieno and Macrine Atieno are…

Google Instant is a feature that suggests terms users might be searching for and puts them in a box below the search bar. Google Instant was Google’s response to the fact that a lot of users are slow typers. Launched in 2010, It estimated that Google Instant would save people an…

SystemSpecs has released the full version of its Remita Mobile Application, for both Android and Apple users, to help individuals and businesses manage their accounts across multiple banks, settle bills of various kinds and generally stay in control of their finances. The release of the full version of the app…

Nigerian based Private Equity firm, Verod Capital Management (Verod), has announced  that it is acquiring a significant minority stake in Greensprings Educational Services Ltd (Greensprings). The investment will be made through Oreon Education, Verod’s education investment vehicle set up as a platform to take advantage of the continued growth in…

It is estimated that the value of unused yet good quality items stored in Nigerian homes is worth N512 billion. This situation is as a result of people not realizing the value of the unused items in their homes and also not knowing how to sell. Some people also have…

SimilarWeb, the leading digital market intelligence company, recently announced that it has raised $47M in growth equity funding.  With this investment, SimilarWeb increased its total funding to date to $112M and has evolved into one of the fastest growing SaaS companies in the world. The round was led by Viola…

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…