American multinational semiconductor and telecommunications equipment company, Qualcomm has been slapped with a fine of $1.23 billion by the European Union for paying Apple to use Qualcomm chips and ignore that of rivals like Intel. Qualcomm had hit a deal with Apple in 2011 that vowed massive payments if Apple…
Author: Oluwasegun Olukotun
Do you have the arsenal to pitch at a startup event? If your answer is YES then you don’t want to miss the Nairobi Innovation Week (NIW) 2018. Potential applicants have until next week Wednesday (31 January) to register with NIW Startups to take part in the event. In all 100…
Netflix’s subscriber base just got wider as the company announced yesterday it added over 8 million subscribers in the last quarter; the biggest surge in quarterly subscription in the company’s history. According to Recode, Netflix hit a record 117.6 million subscribers last quarter, thanks to an addition of 1.9 million…
American multinational technology company, Apple has entered into partnership with the Malala Fund, a charity organization that helps underprivileged girls secure education. The Malala fund was set up by Nobel peace laureate Malala Yousafzai, who was shot by the Taliban when she was 15 for advocating education for girls in…
The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) has reorganised the process of registering and certifying indigenous Information Technology (IT) Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs). The Agency made the announcement yesterday craving the indulgence of all IT OEMs, Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs), the organized private sector and the general public on…
Music and Video streaming service Spotify has launched ‘Spotlight’ a visual podcasts about news, politics and entertainment. Spotlight is a new multimedia format that will introduce visual layers such as photos, video and text to supplement listening experiences for podcasts, audiobooks, news and other audio content. The launch of spotify will include content from partners…
A captivating resume sells a job seeker, creating a positive impression of the candidate to the potential employer (s)even before an interview is scheduled. However, one of the problems many job seekers face is drafting one that sells hence we have many brilliant graduates roaming the streets as a result…
If you are an African Entrepreneur with a healthtech startup or health research project having a cutting edge health solution, then you stand a chance to win up to $1-million in prize money, with the launch this week of the Al-Sumait Prize for African Development. The annual Al-Sumait Prize honors individuals or…
Partech Ventures today announced the launch of its Partech Africa fund, which has secured above €57M (US$70M) commitments toward its target size of €100M ($120M), making it the first technology fund of such size from a top tier international VC to be exclusively dedicated to the fast-growing tech ecosystem in…
Race-Car Maker Ferrari has revealed plans to make Electric cars and SUVs opening rivalry in the electric car making space with Tesla. CEO Sergio Marchionne disclosed on Tuesday at the Detroit auto show that the automaker plans to build an electric supercar, according to a Bloomberg report. Ferrari venturing into…
Coming after a surge in value to almost $20,000 per coin less than two months ago, Bitcoin, fell below $10,000 on both the Coinbase and Bittrex exchanges for the first time since early December. According to the price index run by the news site Coindesk ,The value of one bitcoin…
The Director General of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Dr. Isa Pantami has revealed that the agency comes second to the oil and gas sector in terms of contributions to the nation’s Gross Domestic product (GDP). Pantami who made the assertion in a media chat disclosed that ,“In…
Are you an avid shopper, a lover of gadgets seeking the best of deals at reasonable prices and mouth-watering discounts? Look no further as Gearbest an online shopping site is more than ready to attend to your cravings with all kinds of tech ranging from retro style to the absolute…
Google has added a new feature to its Google Arts & Culture App (iOS and Android) which has thrown the social media into bouts of excitement. The new feature which has shot the app to the most-downloaded free on the App Store compares a user’s selfie with the company’s catalog…
Nigerian Startup Dropque has launched a one way video interviewing platform to help companies create their interviews (also called selfies interviews) and invite candidates to respond to them anywhere with timed video responses unassisted and unsupervised. Launched last year, the platform allows interviews to be conducted anywhere, at anytime. Speaking…
Are you an African scientist, an innovator or a startup founder looking to take that career or business to a larger scale with some monetary injection? Then the Challenge of Invention to Innovation competition (Ci2i) might just be what you need. The Next Einstein Forum (NEF), an initiative of the African…
Nowergian Accelerator Pangea is currently looking for African Startups for its recently launched accelerator in Kenya. The Oslo-based investment platform and accelerator programme opened applications to its Pangea Accelerator Programme last week Friday (5 January) and will close on 19 February. A total of 40 startups will be selected to…
Eleven Nigerian Startups and several others from Africa have been named to take part in the Make-IT Accelerator programme to be hosted by The Co-Creation Hub (CcHub) in Lagos, Nigeria, and NaiLab in Nairobi, Kenya. The Make-IT in Africa focuses on promoting tech entrepreneurship for sustainable and inclusive economic development…
For children born in the nineties Gameboy was a thrill and if you didn’t have one back then then you weren’t a cool kid. For those who were not born during that time Nintendo is giving another opportunity to experience and feel the aura of that gaming era. 28 years…
Registration is currently on for Batch 2 of the global venture capital seed fund and US-based accelerator 500 Startups ‘MENA Dojo’ (Middle East and North Africa (MENA) based startups) Series A Program. The programme is a late-seed stage program for companies gearing up for Series A fundraising. In 2016, the…