Author: Paul Adepoju

One of Nigeria’s major real estate startup Tolet.com.ng today announced they’ve revamped their website and starting from today, the platform will showcase both rental and sales properties. “Therefore, you can now post and search for properties for rent and for sale,” the company said in an email sent to its…

Nigeria’s immediate past finance minister and coordinating minister for the economy, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has gotten two new major appointments.  She has been named a Senior Advisor for Lazard the world’s leading financial advisory and asset management firm, that advises on mergers, acquisitions, restructuring, capital structure and strategy. The appointment is…

TeamNaija’s team of cyber security professionals is heading to Washington DC in USA to represent Africa at this year’s Cyberlympics. Members of TeamNaija are Wale Obadare (Digital Encode), Uchenna Aka (FirstBank), David Abolusoro (FirstBank), Rotimi Akinyele (BDO UAE), Bimbo Jaiyeola (Union bank) and the team captain Oluseyi Akindeinde (Digital Encode).…

Facebook advertisers will soon be able to pay for ads only when they are scrolled through from top to bottom on its news feed. This is because the social media giant is planning to launch a new service called 100 percent in-view impressions” which will include text, photo, link and…

Huawei has said it is seeing lot of potential in the wearable market and plans to focus more on the wearable device market hoping it picks up as much as its smartphone market. Jerry Huang, Huawei head of marketing communications said this during a media tour held at the Huawei…

Google Street View which enables users to explore places around the world through a 360 degree, paranomic and street-level imagery, now features Samburu National Reserve with more than 10,000 still photos on its platform. According to Google Kenya country marketing manager Farzana Khubchandani, Google has brought Google Street View to…

Even though people are talking more about Apple’s iOS9 launch, the company at the same event also unveiled its first ever Android app – a content migration tool that would help Android users to seamlessly move to iOS. As its name implies, Move to iOS is designed simply to migrate…

After more than a decade of digital disruption, the African entertainment and media industry has entered a new landscape – one where the media is no longer divided into distinct traditional and digital spheres, according to a report from PwC titled Entertainment and media outlook: 2015 – 2019 (South Africa…

In the world of high-performance sport, “get your game face on” is not just a casual comment made between teammates. In order to excel as a professional or Olympic athlete, self-regulation in both practice and especially on “game day” is critical. The ability to maintain physical and mental composure is…

Africa’s largest hotel booking portal, Jovago.com is set to host this month’s edition of the business forum, Startup Grind on Saturday, the 19th of September, 2015. This event which will bring together disruptive thinkers across the nation’s socio-economic ecosystem in a bid to actively educate, connect and inspire entrepreneurs will…

AGC Nigeria a healthcare innovation startup was on Monday, September 14, 2015 crowned the startup of the year at the maiden edition of NigeriaCom Entrepreneurs hub held at the Lagos Oriental Hotel, Lagos Nigeria. The startup will be representing West Africa at the AfricaCom Entrepreneurs Hub Pitch & Win event…

Rocket Internet this morning announces a EUR 75 million funding round for HelloFresh GmbH (“HelloFresh” or “the Company”) valuing the Company at EUR 2.6 billion, an increase in the valuation from the last funding round in March 2015 of almost EUR 2 billion. HelloFresh is the largest fresh meals at…

Africa is playing a significant role in Mobile App development, and not only with applications aimed at improving the user’s social media experience. Rather, Africa-centric Apps are aimed at making a positively tangible intervention in the daily lives of people on the continent. Many areas in Africa are less advanced…

WorldRemit has announced the appointment of Skype’s Gabriella Poczo as its Chief Technology Officer. Poczo for those that don’t her, oversaw the movement of Skype from desktop to mobile, making her one of Silicon Valley’s most respected engineering leads. She also served as CTO at messaging service textPlus, Senior Director…

The CEO of Supermart.ng, Raphael Afaedor has said that his goal in starting an online grocery store is to make life easier and better for households in Africa starting with Lagos state in Nigeria. He made this known while speaking at the 2015 SME conference organized by the Lagos Business…

CA Southern Africa has revealed details of a recent study released by CA Technologies  titled, “DevOps: The Worst-Kept Secret to Winning in the Application Economy.” The results made available to Innovation Village this morning show that having a DevOps strategy helps drive tangible business benefits to enterprises. DevOps (a clipped…

Yesterday at NigeriaCom 2015, Vodacom shared insight into how technology can help small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Nigeria to adapt to market changes, increase productivity, and improve competitive advantage. Speaking at the forum, Wale Odeyemi, Vodacom’s Executive Head of products and services at Vodacom Business, highlighted the benefits of…

Grants totaling $70 million have been announced to support seven African researchers working on issues such as mental health in Zimbabwe, HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis in South Africa and malaria in Mali. The grants were announced by the Alliance for Accelerating Excellence in Science in Africa (AESA), based at the African…

Afrimax Group’s plan to rollout its LTE-based business across Africa has received a major boost when it secured growth funding totalling US$120 million. The fund was provided by a consortium of investors led by Mitsui & Co. Afrimax was founded by mobile telephony entrepreneurs Jay Metcalfe (Chairman), Peter Langkilde (Chief…

Caesar Sengupta, VP Product Management at Google has told Innovation Village that Google through Android is enabling the creation of a smartphone ecosystem, an important aspect of which is Android One. “Android One is part of a broader Android ecosystem. With Android One we are getting OEMs to get the…