Author: Rowland Osahon

The Mall of Africa opened its doors to the public yesterday and there were human and vehicular queues to the super regional super mall located in Midrand, South Africa. Some Twitter users poked fun at this asking if South Africans had not been to a mall before. Here are some…

At Auto China auto show this week in Beijing, Audi unveiled its Connected Mobility Concept, a trucklet based on the production Q3, the brand’s urban compact SUV The car comes complete with an electrically powered multifunctional longboard integrated into the rear bumper of the car for convenient storage and removal. The 1.05 m…

GIST Startup Boot Camp South Africa has announced EcoAct Tanzania as the winner of the Boot Camp held from April 12 – April 15 in Johannesburg. The Boot Camp team was held to teach 32 young African teams how to effectively get out of the building and interview potential customers in…

Google is celebrating the 50th release of the Chrome browser. It also shared some statistics which are noteworthy. Google launched the Chrome browser in 2008 and it has steadily become widely used browser in the world. It currently boasts of 1 billion mobile users every month and 771 billion pages…

The BMW M4 GTS gives BMW M GmbH a new and exclusive technological showpiece which elevates the potential of the BMW M4 Coupe to another impressive new level. BMW M GmbH is launching the BMW M4 GTS in a special edition limited to 700 units to celebrate the 30th anniversary…

Tecno mobile recently launched the Boom J8 in the Country. It’s a successor to the best music phone from Tecno mobile last year; Boom J7. When you look at the Boom J8, you will agree with me that the Boom J8 is a complete upgrade in almost all departments compared…

Snapchat is an app targeted towards the young generation between the ages of 13 – 23 so you can be excused if you are not on Snapchat. But you cannot sniffle at the statistics – 9,000 snaps per second,  8 billion video views a day, more than 100 million daily active…

Apple today introduced the all-new 9.7-inch iPad Pro.  Weighing under just one pound and 6.1mm thin, it features a new pro Retina® display with greater brightness, wider color gamut, lower reflectivity, Night Shift™ mode and introduces new True Tone® display technology to dynamically adjust white balance. The new iPad Pro…

Acting CEO Shola Adekoya who took over after Founder Sim Shagaya was appointed as the Chairman of Konga.com, has been confirmed as the CEO of the eCommerce company. According to Techcabal, this was announced via a release from the company listed below. Shola has already updated his LinkedIn profile to…

Smile Communications Uganda (“Smile Uganda”) has announced the introduction of two 4G LTE innovations to its customers in Uganda – SmileVoice and SmileUnlimited. This makes Smile, the first operator to offer its customers Voice over LTE services in East Africa. This gives Ugandans access to the fast growing Global standard for…

2016 is the year Africa builds products that the world finally takes notice of, and the Pocket Presents team have come up with TechInSV to help us learn how. In Nigeria today, over 200 blogs are opened daily, dream start-ups in technology, fashion, food, blogging, makeup, etc are opened and…

Have you seen Airtel’s new visual ad? It seems overtly yellow and your first opinion would be “Why would Airtel do an ad that is conspicuously yellow?” Then you see the red hat and the luggages are the ones that are indeed yellow. Then you realise the mischievousness. Airtel is…

Have you tried to search for a job on LinkedIn recently? It is now very messy and confusing. It seems that they have changed the whole process. LinkedIn has started aggregating from job sites. However one thing that you must know is that you must verify that the sites indeed…

This new captain America trailer was shown at the Super Bowl and it whets your appetite waiting for the actual film which would hit the theatres on the 6th of May. It shows Team Iron Man versus Team Captain America. Watch out for the first glimpse of Ant Man. No Spiderman…

So this is how the story goes. Falz the Bahd Guy has come to a bank and wants 9 million Naira to buy a car. He needs to change his car because his girlfriend does not like the “jalopy” he is currently using. He says he does not have a…

#Ekitigate has been trending on Twitter since yesterday with the disclosure by Ekiti State’s PDP secretary that $37 million was used to get Ekiti state. The Ekiti State PDP secretary, Dr Temitope Aluko, made this allegation on Channels TV, citing that former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan gave Governor Ayo Fayose of…

2015 is a year we saw some smartphone makers become really scared and changed their marketing style to reach out to more markets than their home market. It was the year some of the smartphone makers selling in Nigeria started to push better products. Some makers who never made phones…

Innovation Village recently discussed with Potential VC’s Dotun Olowoporoku who is currently working a new platform called Starta, a resource platform for African entrepreneurs. Here are excerpts from the interview: Innovation Village: In your write-up from your last visit to Lagos, you mentioned the word “Starta”. What is this? What gap is…

There was a lot of activity and interest in the African startup space this year. It would seem that people are getting more comfortable in investing in startups in Africa. Well, who wouldn’t? With the sheer size of the population, the growing ease of doing business and the potential for huge…

It was just a matter of time but it is now certain. Tesla Motors is coming to Africa. Even though it is an American company, the Chairman and CEO is South African Elon Musk. According to Htxt, the office will be run by Evan Rice, the current CEO of GreenCape,…