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Google is celebrating this year’s International Women’s Day with an animated Google Doodle. This truly International Women’s Day doodle features a host of over a 100 inspiring women from around the world. According to Google, “women have historically been underrepresented in almost all fields: science, school curricula, business, politics —…

Sim Shagaya, CEO of Konga.com will be part of a discussion on the breakfast morning show “Sunrise” on Channels tv(DSTV Channel 254) holding this Saturday March 7, 2014. The discussion will be centered on how Nigeria can use the opportunity of hosting the World Economic Forum on Africa to attract…

Global property player Lamudi at the forefront of women’s revolution in tech industry This International Women’s Day, ladies everywhere will celebrate breaking the glass ceiling in industries of all kinds. And while the global tech industry has copped its fair share of criticism as being male-dominated, in the heart of…

National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) has raised concerns over cybersecurity in Nigeria. At a workshop organized by the commission in Abuja, Chris Onyemenam, DG of NIMC spoke on the theme “Applying big data analytic and active cyber defence in large scale identity management system”. He said the commission decided to…

Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NiRA) said it plans to register more than 250,000 .ng domain names before the end of 2014. According to the president of the association, Mrs. Mary Uduma, as at December 2013, more than 50,000 .ng domain names had been registered through NiRA’s registrars. “We are expecting…

Federal government of Nigeria yesterday (Thursday) announced major reforms and costs for all the categories of the Nigerian e-passport. According to the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), the reforms are aimed at forestalling identity theft and conforming to international standards. The reforms are contained in a statement signed by the comptroller-general…

Ad Dynamo has announced it has more than 50,000 publishers on its paid content platform. The publishers get paid by advertisers for the content they produce on their sites. According to the South Africa-based ad network, its content marketing platform “allows brands explore thousands of publishers, negotiate a price to…

SanDisk, the global leader in flash memory storage solutions has introduced 128GB SanDisk Ultra® microSDXC™ UHS-I Card, the memory card with the world’s largest capacity. The card was unveiled at the Mobile World Congress and works exclusively on Android devices. “Want to record a full 24 hours of HD video,…

The LeadPath Accelerator Programme is launching today, 7th of March 2014. Led by Olumide Soyombo, a technology entrepreneur based in Lagos, the LeadPath Accelerator will help startups take advantage of opportunities that they see. Its mission is to power legendary companies in Africa by bridging the gap between start-up to market dominance.…

An online stockbroking platform has been launched by Meristem Securities, a major stockbroker. The virtual trading platform is called Meritrade. It comes with mobile apps and will help users to trade stocks on the Nigerian Stock Exchange from anywhere in the world. Speaking at the launch held at the Nigerian…

The website of Kenya’s ministry of transport has been by a Turkish Muslim group that calls itself Ayyildiz Tim. It said it decided to hack the website following the actions of the government in Kenya that it found as not respecting Islam. “All the Muslims are together. The CYBER-WAR will…

Dr. Eugene Juwah, Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has said that the commission will license 2.5 and 2.6GHz spectrum bands before the end of the year. This he said is in addition to other retail services. “We are also going to license more retail services and…

Bosun Tijani, Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Lagos-based Co-Creation Hub has described telecoms companies as the biggest players in the nation’s mobile application space. According to him, the various networks are focusing more on contents. “The biggest player in the mobile application space is actually the telcos. We have…

Olufunbi Falayi and Taiwo Ajetunmobi, two Nigerians who have led project and startup teams and corporations are set to launch The Passion Incubator in the city of Lagos, the hub will be launched in the first quarter of 2014. The founders hope to launch five new startups out of its…

SWIFT Networks, Nigeria’s leading provider of high speed broadband internet and data services to enterprise and consumer customers has announced today, the formal launch of its portable, nomadic and personal wireless hotspot modem branded as “The Nomad”. “The Nomad” was designed to continue to provide SWIFT 4G LTE customers with…

Time to fuel your shopping craze! From new arrivals in Fashion to long awaited new gadget releases, from top device makers like Samsung (Samsung Galaxy S5), HTC (New HTC One), Nokia (Nokia X series), March promises to be a crazy month for Nigerian shoppers. Forget the downside of fuel scarcity,…

Symantec  today announced the latest version of its NetBackup solution, bringing new functionality to protect the largest scale VMware-based environments as enterprises move to a software-defined data center architecture. NetBackup 7.6 is the only backup product designed for enterprise level scale, which can accommodate hundreds of thousands of virtual machines…

The Africa Finance Corporation (AFC or the Corporation), a multilateral development financial institution headquartered inLagos, has today secured its first International credit rating from Moody’s Investors Service (Moody’s).  Moody’s has assigned the Corporation an A3 (long term) /P2 (short term) foreign currency debt rating, making the AFC the second highest…

iKaaz, a Bangalore based mobile payments provider has entered the rapidly growing African market with the launch of its innovative tap and pay offering in Nigeria. Very soon Nigerian consumers will be making NFC payments at select merchant outlets thanks to iKaaz’s NFC powered mobile payments platform running on the cloud. “It is…

 VeriFone Mobile Money has been selected by Teasy Mobile (“Teasy”) in Nigeria to widen mobile money services and make them more relevant to local needs. VeriFone Mobile Money is a joint venture between VeriFone Inc. and Mobilis Networks Limited to drive the adoption of mobile money and wallet solutions globally. VeriFone Mobile…