At the TEDxIfe event in Nigeria, polish entrepreneur and managing director of Jovago.com -Africa’s largest online hotel booking platform- Marek Zmyslowski talks about his unusual entrepreneurial journey in Lagos and what it is like to build a start-up in Nigeria. Marek Zmyslowski, the managing director of Jovago – Africa’s largest online…
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Airtel Africa has announced the appointment of Daddy Mukadi Bujitu as the as Chief Regulatory Officer for Airtel Africa. Daddy Mukadi Bujitu, the new Chief Regulatory Officer, joins Airtel Africa from the Vodacom Group where he was the Executive Head, International Regulatory and the Executive, International Commercial Legal. Before joining…
The first episode of Airtel Touching Lives TV series was aired on Sunday 4th January. Launched in July 2014, Airtel Touching Lives is a Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) project co-ordinated by Airtel Nigeria to enrich Nigerians and provide succour to the under-privileged members of the society. With OAP Wana Wana…
Sony has unveiled some new products at the current CES 2015 currently taking place in Las Vegas, USA. Here are some of the products: 1. Sony HandyCam FDR-AX33 The new Sony Handycam FDR-AX33 is the most compact 4K Handycam camcorder to date. It features impressive Balanced Optical SteadyShow (B.O.SS) image stabilization which ensures…
The annual Consumer Electronics Awards is scheduled to hold January 6-9, in Las Vegas, Nevada. According to the organisation behind the CES, Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), the 2015 International CES will feature the largest ever showcase of products, services and technologies that make up the “Internet of Things” (IoT), with…
Bharti Airtel has announced the appointment of Farhad Khan as the new Chief Commercial Officer of Airtel Africa. Farhad Khan will be taking over from Andre Beyers, the former Chief Marketing Officer. Farhad’s most recent role was at MTN South Africa, where he held the position of Chief Sales &…
MTN South Africa has just launched a subscription based Video on Demand service named MTN FrontRow. MTN FrontRow is a premium entertainment network where you have access to movies and TV series, even if you are not an MTN subscriber. From only R179 a month, you can sign up to…
Nigerian Ecommerce Company, Konga.com, disclosed that it closed the 2014 year with remarkable successes across its top business metrics for the year in view. According to the company’s Head of PR, Olatomiwa Akande, “Konga started the year 2014 with a renewed focus on satisfying our customers. With this end…
The Application portal for the Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Programme, #TEEP, is now open. On December 1st 2014, Tony O. Elumelu, CON announced the $100 million Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Programme (TEEP) to the world. This is the flagship entrepreneurship programme of the Tony Elumelu Foundation, with the mission to identify and…
For those who are familiar with Spiderman, they would know Dr. Octopus; the super villain with a couple of electro-mechanical appendages. It seems that Elon Musk, the South African born CEO of Tesla Motors is borrowing a leaf from Dr Octopus, in terms of using appendages. He just twitted about…
CEO of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, is asking Facebook fans to give him ideas for his 2015 personal challenge. Every year, Zuckerberg takes on a challenge to broaden his perspective and learn something about the world beyond his work at Facebook. In past years, some of his challenges have been: Learning…
The video below is “the unboxing of the Infinix Hot X507 smartphone. The Infinix Hot is from the stables of Infinix Mobility; the company that brought you the Infinix Zero. The phone currently retails for N13,400 on Konga.com. It was launched in partnership with Konga.com and Etisalat on the 14th…
The video below is “the unboxing of the Infinix Hot X507 smartphone. The Infinix Hot is from the stables of Infinix Mobility; the company that brought you the Infinix Zero. The phone currently retails for N13,400 on Konga.com. It was launched in partnership with Konga.com and Etisalat on the 14th…
2014 has been a record breaking year for e-commerce and Jumia in Nigeria, and to end the year, the Jumia team have released an infographic with amazing facts, figures and records broken in 2014. Since Jumia’s launch in 2012, the team has been committed to empowering Nigerians, building trust in…
Tony Elumelu’s Heirs Holdings has invested an undisclosed amount in a Silicon Valley based start-up, Wonderloop Wonderloop is an iPhone app that allows users connect through first-person short-form video. This app, founded by Norwegian entrepreneur Hanna Aase, allows people connect through short 10 to 15 second video profiles, replacing the static images…
Here is Matt Might’s illustrated guide to a Ph.D Every fall, I explain to a fresh batch of Ph.D. students what a Ph.D. is. It’s hard to describe it in words. So, I use pictures. Read below for the illustrated guide to a Ph.D. Imagine a circle that contains all…
Apple has now announced that Sony Pictures’ “The Interview” is now available on iTunes. This is 4 days after the film was released online via Google’s YouTube, Google Play, Microsoft’s Xbox and a dedicated website – www.seetheinterview.com. The humour-laden movie depicting the travails of two journalists played by Seth Rogen and James Franco who…
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Just when we were settling down to the fact that “The Interview” was only going to be available on Christmas Day in a few theatres, Google announced that it was contacted by Sony Pictures to make the movie available online. And it consented. https://twitter.com/google/status/547802252292157441 https://twitter.com/google/status/547814312484421632 According to David Drummond, SVP Corporate Development…
Premium Times claims that the APC Presidential candidate, Muhammadu Buhari, joined social media because PDP labeled him a “semi-literate jackboot”. Whether this is true or not, all that counts is that the 72 year old, one – time Military ruler is now on Social media. He posted his first tweet on…