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| Aug 8, 2018 | Artificial Intelligence In Nigeria Is An Infant Space With Huge Potential | Since the 1950s when MIT computer scientist John McCarthy first coined the term “artificial intelligence”, the technology has grown in leaps and bounds across the globe. Today, AI permeates several strata of the digital experience – from we... |
| Sep 7, 2017 | Nigeria is exporting tech talents, but there is a problem | Share this article:
There has been much talk about diversifying the Nigerian economy especially since the fall in oil prices that plunged the country into a recession. The tech industry is regarded by many as the future of the Nigerian econ... |
| Aug 30, 2017 | Renewable energy company plans to invest $800 million on solar-powered telecom towers across Africa | Here’s everything interesting in African technology today. Not subscribed? Click here to get this goodness in your mailbox every day at 7am (GMT + 1).
Hello.
1. Greenwish Partners, a renewable energy company run by a former Morgan Stanley e... |
| Aug 29, 2017 | Nigerian Army to begin monitoring activities on social media | Here’s everything interesting in African technology today. Not subscribed? Click here to get this goodness in your mailbox every day at 7am (GMT + 1). 1 – Profiling mobile internet users in Africa ?
Since we’ve established that Kenyans enjo... |
| Aug 28, 2017 | 9 things we learnt from Yele’s AMA | Yele Bademosi’s Radar AMA was held on Friday, the 25th, and it was a blast from start to finish. For an hour and thirty minutes, Yele, responding to a series of questions, shared useful insights into his market ideology, interests, and the ... |
| Aug 28, 2017 | Kenya ranks highest in Africa in broadband internet speeds
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Last Friday was proof that my enemies are out to get me. One moment, I was riding... |
| Aug 24, 2017 | Ogavenue launches in Kenya
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People,
I am writing this from a small island off the coast of East Africa, and I noticed... |
| Aug 23, 2017 | 10 Nigerian startups selected for Seedstars World pitch | Here’s everything interesting in African technology today. Not subscribed? Click here to get this goodness in your mailbox every day at 7am (GMT + 1). Hello…
The global seed-stage startup competition for emerging markets, Seedstars World, i... |
| Aug 22, 2017 | African healthtec startup Helium Healthcare presents at Y Combinator’s 25th Demo Day | Here’s everything interesting in African technology today. Not subscribed? Click here to get this goodness in your mailbox every day at 7am (GMT + 1). Hello, here’s what’s happening in tech in Africa…
iRokoTV, M-Pesa, BarefootLaw, Ushahidi,... |
| Aug 21, 2017 | Nigeria Electronic Fraud Forum releases its 2016 annual report | Here’s everything interesting in African technology today. Not subscribed? Click here to get this goodness in your mailbox every day at 7am (GMT + 1). Hello.
I’m writing this newsletter from Lagos, Nigeria, the second worst city to live in,... |
| Aug 21, 2017 | Top startup events in South Africa, Africa you should know about this week [21/08/2017] | Looking to get into the South African startup scene or catch up on some of your skills? Well, you’ve come to the right place. There are loads of competitions, networking sessions and workshops happening around South Africa and the rest of t... |
| Aug 21, 2017 | Top startup events in South Africa, Africa you should know about this week [21/08/2017] | Looking to get into the South African startup scene or catch up on some of your skills? Well, you’ve come to the right place. There are loads of competitions, networking sessions and workshops happening around South Africa and the rest of t... |
| Aug 17, 2017 | She Leads Africa opens applications for beauty accelerator programme | Here’s everything interesting in African technology today. Not subscribed? Click here to get this kind of email every day at 7am (GMT + 1).
The owners of Jobberman and Brighter Monday, One Africa Media, have created a pan-African platform f... |
| Aug 16, 2017 | Zenith Bank takes provision on 30% of its loan to 9mobile | Here’s everything interesting in African technology today. Not subscribed? Click here to get these stories in your mailbox every day at 7am (GMT + 1). We’re sorry. ?
Yesterday, we told you Cranium One was hiring a General Manager, but forgo... |
| Jul 12, 2017 | Printivo Launches Printivo Store
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1. Printivo has launched its designer marketplace, Printivo Store, where an... |
| Jul 10, 2017 | R.I.P. Mubarak Abdulwahab
Good morning.
What else is going on?
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One of us is no longer with us. Mubarak was one of Nigeria’s best designers, and well-love... |
| May 25, 2017 | Akwa Ibom State Government Launches Factory for Pencil Production
Vital signs. | Vital signs.
Hello, it’s me again, Lil’ Trafficate*, AKA Yung Hatchback. Q: Why can’t cars play football? A: Because they only have one boot [Ba-dum-tsss ??]. Oh, and I found a tweet (?) yesterday, that perfectly captures the Nigerian ride-... |
| May 23, 2017 | Jobs Weekly: Check out these interesting tech job openings this week | Share this article:
There are a number of tech job openings this week and we have made a list of some of them. Be sure to apply for any role you are interested as soon as you can Business Manager at NowNow
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| May 18, 2017 | Truecaller Set to Starting Serving Ads to Users in Africa
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It’s me again, Hot Doggy Dogg, AKA the Cereal Whisperer. Miss me?
1. ??... |
| May 4, 2017 | TechCabal Daily: What is Public Transport? | Hey there! Here’s everything interesting in African technology today. Not subscribed? Click here to get this goodness in your mailbox every day at 7am (GMT + 1).
Good morning.
1. What is public transport? – It may seem like a weird question... |
| May 2, 2017 | We are back! | Hey there! Here’s everything interesting in African technology today. Not subscribed? Click here to get this goodness in your mailbox every day at 7am (GMT + 1).
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| Apr 20, 2017 | What is the future of YabaCon Valley? | Share this article:
Business clustering is a common trend all over the world. With similar businesses located in a common geographical location, members of these clusters typically gain competitive advantage and increased productivity as th... |
| Mar 31, 2017 | TechCabal daily: Mo’ funds, mo’ services | Hey there! Today’s TechCabal digest is brought to you by DIYlaw; get N2000 off your next company incorporation here with our coupon code – DIYLAWTC. Here’s everything interesting in African technology today.
Major stuff happening…
1. Fintec... |
| Mar 30, 2017 | TechCabal daily: One book to rule them all | Hey there! Today’s TechCabal digest is brought to you by DIYlaw; get N2000 off your next company incorporation here with our coupon code – DIYLAWTC. Here’s everything interesting in African technology today.
Major stuff happening…
1. The Fe... |
| Mar 29, 2017 | TechCabal Daily: Say hello to barter
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Major stuff happening…
1. Say he... |
| Mar 27, 2017 | TechCabal Daily: Pay on delivery needs to die
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Monday. Let’s get it.
1. Two Nig... |
| Mar 24, 2017 | TechCabal Daily: Flashback Friday | Hey there! Today’s TechCabal digest is brought to you by DIYlaw; get N2000 off your next company incorporation here with our coupon code – DIYLAWTC. Here’s everything interesting in African technology today.
Friday!
1. Mara Social Media has... |
| Mar 17, 2017 | TechCabal Daily: Uber’s peace offering | Hey there! Today’s TechCabal digest is brought to you by DIYlaw; get N2000 off your next company incorporation here with our coupon code – DIYLAWTC. Here’s everything interesting in African technology today.
It’s Friday
1. Uber Kenya has in... |
| Mar 16, 2017 | TechCabal Daily: ‘Buy Kenyan, build Kenya’ | Hey there! Today’s TechCabal digest is brought to you by DIYlaw; get N2000 off your next company incorporation here with our coupon code – DIYLAWTC. Here’s everything interesting in African technology today.
Today’s Thursday
1. SA media com... |
| Mar 14, 2017 | Join us for our AMA session with Greentree Investment’s Abis Soetan on Thursday, March 16 | On Thursday, March 16, 2017, we will be hosting another exclusive interactive AMA on Radar. This time, our guest is none other than Abis Soetan, a Director in charge of treasury and investment management on Greentree Investment’s executive ... |
| Mar 9, 2017 | TechCabal Daily: Unpaid debts and takeovers | Hey there! Today’s TechCabal digest is brought to you by DIYlaw; get N2000 off your next company incorporation here with our coupon code – DIYLAWTC. Here’s everything interesting in African technology today.
Today’s Thursday
1. Three Nigeri... |
| Mar 8, 2017 | Here’s a simple personal expense tracker anyone can use | I finally created a personal expense tracking spreadsheet that I might actually use. The basic idea was a spreadsheet that I could stick my expenses in, you know, to see what was going on. And without really doing a lot, I can see the thing... |
| Mar 3, 2017 | TechCabal Daily: Bricks and mortar | Hi there! Here’s everything interesting in African technology today. If you’re reading this, you’re probably not subscribed to TechCabal’s daily digest. Click here to get this goodness in your mailbox every day at 7am (GMT +1). First off, m... |
| Mar 2, 2017 | TechCabal daily: Here, there be IPOs | Hey there! Today’s TechCabal digest is brought to you by Tizeti; they are offering Lagos residents unlimited internet for N5,000, and you can sign up for that here. Here’s everything interesting in African technology today. If you’re readin... |
| Mar 1, 2017 | TechCabal Radar AMAs are back! | Konnichiwa!
I’ve been working on this for a while, but I feel like it’s now at a point where we can share. You might be aware that we’re hosting an AMA with Fola Olatunji-David of Ventures Platform. That is actually the first of a full-fled... |
| Feb 27, 2017 | TechCabal daily: Where is Nigeria’s president? | Hey there! Today’s TechCabal digest is brought to you by Tizeti; they are offering Lagos residents unlimited internet for N5,000, and you can sign up for that here. Here’s everything interesting in African technology today. If you’re readin... |
| Feb 17, 2017 | TechCabal daily: Peeping Toms and monitoring spirits | Hey there! Today’s TechCabal digest is brought to you by Tizeti; they are offering Lagos residents unlimited internet for N5,000, and you can sign up for that here. Here’s everything interesting in African technology today. If you’re readin... |
| Feb 16, 2017 | TechCabal Daily: Showmax’s first step into Europe | Hey there! Today’s TechCabal digest is brought to you by Tizeti; they are offering Lagos residents unlimited internet for N5,000, and you can sign up for that here. Here’s everything interesting in African technology today. If you’re readin... |
| Feb 14, 2017 | TechCabal daily: 10,000 hours of startup-ing | Hi there! Here’s everything interesting in African technology today. If you’re reading this, you’re probably not subscribed to TechCabal’s daily digest. Click here to get this goodness in your mailbox every day at 7am (GMT +1). First off, m... |
| Feb 13, 2017 | TechCabal daily: You’re too old to dab, sah | I CAN’T UNSEE THIS, FAM
Hi there! Here’s everything interesting in African technology today. If you’re reading this, you’re probably not subscribed to TechCabal’s daily digest. Click here to get this goodness in your mailbox every day at 7a... |
| Feb 2, 2017 | Tech Events have become a waste of time. Here are 3 things organisers get wrong | For tech entrepreneurs, events are sometimes the ‘juice that keeps us going’. We think they’re great because they provide us excellent networking opportunities, insights from startup ‘thought leaders’, information on cool things happening, ... |
| Jan 30, 2017 | Gov Ambode’s visit to Yaba startups — What could be different this time? | Share this article:
9 out of every 10 Nigerian startups fail. As disheartening as it is, it is our reality.
You see, with the level of intelligence and creativity the youths of today exhibit, we should be turning out successful startups yea... |
| Jan 18, 2017 | Top African technology news for January 18, 2017 | 14. The Nigerian Communications Commission is planning to impose a N5 million fine on any mobile operator that violates the Do Not Disturb code
This was announced by the Commission’s Executive Vice Chairman, Prof. Umar Dambatta. He said the... |
| Jan 17, 2017 | Top African technology news for January 17, 2017 | 10. Genii Games has released an update to its Igbo 101 learning app for kids
The update features an adventure quest to encourage kids to learn by letting them play to acquire a piece of land defined as ‘Ala’. Users have to play through a do... |
| Dec 1, 2016 | TechCabal Radar will be back up shortly | source – hegeekshegeek.com
As most of you (especially our ever-faithful Radarians) have noticed, Radar has been down for a while. It’s all due to enemies a temporary glitch and we’re working (very) hard to fix that.
Thanks for all your mess... |
| Sep 8, 2016 | LockMyCash will lock your cash until your online transactions are completed | E-commerce in Nigeria keeps thriving, and it’s probably because payment on delivery is an option most online merchants make on their platforms. There is a low level of trust (on the part of customers) that exists here, but not many people t... |
| Sep 2, 2016 | Check out Nairabot, an exchange rate “mallam” that lives in Facebook Messenger | Yesterday, I read this post by Jason Njoku titled Zuck and the rise of the bots. TL;DR? He believes in the “Rise of the Planet of the Bots”. Nigeria is the most mobilised country in the world today, and A LOT of our communication happens vi... |
| Aug 24, 2016 | Why Nigerians will spend over ₦327 billion shopping online outside Nigeria in 2016 | Share this article:
“Early evidence suggests that Nigerians are well on their way to becoming some of the biggest online shoppers in Africa.” This was the prediction in September 2012.
Four years on, with the introduction of online stores, ... |
| Aug 10, 2016 | Adios, Andela: Iyin Aboyeji is leaving to start a payments company | Your reaction when you read that headline is the same one I had a few weeks ago. ?
Iyinoluwa Aboyeji is saying goodbye to Andela, the talent accelerator he co-founded in 2014 and one of Nigeri-scratch that, Africa’s flagship startups. His l... |
| Aug 8, 2016 | 12 things you need to know about driving an Uber in Nigeria | Last Friday, we had a Radar AMA session with Gbenro Ogundipe, an Uber driver/partner who’s based in Abuja. Everyone who was interested in knowing what driving an Uber in Nigeria is like asked all their questions and got some witty answers i... |
| Jul 27, 2016 | After pivoting to e-commerce last year, VConnect has brought back business listings | For four years, Vconnect operated as a Nigerian “Yellow pages” of sorts. That is, a directory full of contact information for (mostly small) businesses in these parts. Vconnect slowly but steadily amassed location, contact data, as well as ... |
| Jul 4, 2016 | This is how we will bring “Esusu” informal loan groups to the 21st century | Sometimes, ‘Africa is indeed a country’.
Take for example, Esusu. You have it in Nigeria, however you can find variations of it in several places. It’s known as Nago in Ivory Coast, Yesyes in Togo and Susu in Ghana. For the uninitiated, Esu... |
| Jun 28, 2016 | Here are the 12 startups pitching at TechCircle’s Drinks with Hiro Mashita event later today | TechCircle is organising a meetup with angel investor, Hiro Mashita later today, and a few startups were invited to pitch for the chance to win $2,500. These startups were selected from a list of startups that pitched at the TechCircle x Ra... |
| May 27, 2016 | How the new Communications Minister can use tech to make Governance cool | Share this article:
One of the highlights of the last administration is the revolution in the ICT space. The records of success achieved by Dr. Omobola Johnson as Minister of ICT are enviable. These included the Nigeria Broadband plans, Dig... |
| May 13, 2016 | Dear Nigerian founder, crushing marketing is way more important than product development | So, I had a big argument with some friends who recently got bitten by the entrepreneurship bug and have been building their product for the past 5 months. I asked if they had sealed any deals yet (“nope”) or if they had done marketing for a... |
| May 12, 2016 | There is an impending Payments revolution in Nigeria. Are you ready? | Share this article:
Interswitch used to be the only online payment gateway we had in Nigeria. Fast forward to today, there are several of them. It is easier to break them into categories as follows: NFC Enabled – PayAttitude and PayWithCapt... |
| May 9, 2016 | Please help us caption these Radar Offline pictures | We posted pictures from the Radar Offline event. But some of them were so good that they deserved to be made into memes.
We’re not particularly good at this meme stuff…not as good as these people…so don’t smirk at what we came up with. Here... |
| Apr 18, 2016 | Game Labs is hosting G3, a mobile game developer meetup on April 20 | I’m going to attend the G3 Mobile Game Developer meetup at 6:00PM on April 20, at Whitespace in Ikoyi, Lagos. The copy on their Eventbrite page says that programmers, publishers, illustrators, sound engineers and everyone else in the indust... |
| Apr 1, 2016 | Here’s a list of the most brain-dead April Fool’s jokes, because get creative, you unimaginative hacks | So it’s April 1st, and it’s the only day in the year when people are allowed to get away with playing pranks on everyone else. Nothing is real, and everything is terrible, but some people have taken it a notch too far.
Today is the one day ... |
| Mar 24, 2016 | Open letter: 2 things the new CEO of Konga should pay attention to | Share this article:
Editor’s Note: This is an open letter to the new CEO of Konga, Mr. Shola Adekoya as originally published on SpokenTwice. Remember, we published the announcement of Sim Shagaya’s stepping down for an interim who was later... |
| Mar 8, 2016 | Interested in Fintech in Nigeria? Then you should read this | This article was written by Ade Olabode, and was first published on his Medium page.
If there’s one area that a lot of people agree has the potential to impact a lot of Nigerians; it’s Fintech. While there’s no universally accepted definiti... |
| Feb 18, 2016 | Piggybank.ng just made it a lot easier for you to save | Mobile technology is a double-edged sword. Surely, the convenience of having a smartphone/tablet – with which you can (instantly) buy almost anything on earth – has to have telling consequences on the debit column of your financial ledger.
... |
| Jan 26, 2016 | 5 Strategic Business Lessons from BlackBerry Messenger | Share this article:
Once upon a time, BBM was the king of instant messaging. With the global push of WhatsApp and WeChat, the market size of BBM has reduced considerably leaving Nigeria and South Africa as the biggest market for the app. In... |
| Jan 16, 2016 | Angani’s Former CEO And CTO Are Venturing Back Into The Cloud Computing Space With Node Africa | After a board meltdown that shook Kenya’s first cloud infrastructure startup Angani, its former CEO Phares Kariuki and CTO Brian Muita are returning with a new venture within the cloud computing space.
The Angani saga, as it came to be know... |
| Dec 30, 2015 | Review: The Gionee S Plus Punches Way Above Its Weight | To be honest, I wasn’t expecting much from this phone when I unboxed it. Afterall, it was yet another Android phone from yet another Chinese OEM. My approach to the device was pretty phlegmatic. I totally forgot it existed for about three d... |
| Dec 11, 2015 | ChatClass is a teaching solution that lets high schoolers take classes on Whatsapp | Whatsapp, our favourite escape pod into lighthearted conversations, snarky banters and whatever else we use it for these days is getting an upgrade. Kinda. A startup is layering a teaching tool on it.
Meet ChatClass, a product attempting to... |
| Dec 4, 2015 | Figma Is The Killer of Photoshop’s Killer | I didn’t think anything could top Canva. Democratising design by making it cheap and bringing it to the web. I thought Canva had done it. We love Canva so much that it’s at the top of our list of design alternatives to Photoshop.
Then these... |
| Dec 2, 2015 | Online Payments In Nigeria Needs A Saviour | I received hope from a podcast.
Yes, from a podcast. To be specific; from episode 4 of the weekly Crudcast podcast hosted by Ezra Olubi and Uzo Olisemeka, which I was listening to on the 2nd of November by 9.05pm.
I remember the exact time ... |
| Nov 4, 2015 | Payment on delivery is not the enemy | Anyone watching the ecommerce space in the past few months would notice how payment on delivery (POD) has come under a certain amount of scrutiny.
The argument is that, POD doesn’t insulate the seller from returns and usually, they are left... |
| Oct 30, 2015 | Forget the Harvard MBAs; 5 free alternatives to learning how to Growth Hack your startup | Share this article:
There is a famous quote that is attributed to Albert Einstein:
“Once you stop learning, you start dying”.
However, for many startup founders with limited skills in growth hacking, dedicating time to pursue this new knowl... |
| Oct 28, 2015 | UNICORN: Can a startup from Nigeria grow to $100 billion? | The spark for this post came from a discussion on Radar.
Despite the dominance of US, the rest of the world also produces their unicorns with global or regional relevance. For example, AliBaba came out of China; MyTeksi a Malaysian car hail... |
| Oct 6, 2015 | Why Paga Must Always Be Raising | Tayo Oviosu, founder and CEO of Paga was one of the speakers at the angel investor bootcamp hosted by ABAN at DEMO Africa. An angel investor himself, he was there to speak to other angels, some of whom had just taken up the funding halo, ab... |
| Sep 30, 2015 | 6 Movies Every Techie should have seen by now | Movies? Are you kidding me? I don’t have the time.
Look, I know your startup is going to disrupt (insert whatever industry) and for you, failure is not an option. You’re behind schedule, you have investors breathing down your neck, and so o... |
| Sep 29, 2015 | TechCabal editors try to guess the next Nigerian Technology minister; and we should all be worried | This is what a coffee overdose does to you at work.
So, according to the interwebs, Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari is done compiling the list of ministerial-nominees that will fill his cabinet and has forwarded it to the Senate for con... |
| Sep 18, 2015 | How to market your app | Apps are everywhere. Only three years ago, we had about 800,000 thousand apps on Google Play and Apple’s appstore combined. As at the time of this writing, however, there are 1.6 million apps on Google Play alone, followed closely by the Ap... |
| Sep 7, 2015 | Sopuru: Enugu’s Diamond In The Rough | Engineering whiz kids (L-R) Sopuru and Tochukwu
Crowds. They draw people in, even against their own better judgment. Like the one that pulled Henry in at Enugu Polo Park Mall on a June afternoon.
Right there, in front of the mall, a boy sat... |
| Sep 2, 2015 | Ask DIYLaw founders, Odun, Funkola and Bola, Anything on Radar this friday | Odunoluwa Longe, Funkola Odeleye and Bola Olonisakin are the co-founders of DIYLaw, a technology company that uses technology to make legal processes accessible, transparent and convenient for everyone, especially entrepreneurs.
Think of DI... |
| Aug 31, 2015 | Reggie Rockstone invests in mobile photo app, Suba | Suba, the location-based photostream app developed by Ghanaian developers, Nelson Klutse and Eric Hackman, has received investment from Reggie Rockstone, the influential Ghanaian musician.
The terms of the investment were not made public, b... |
| Aug 24, 2015 | The Guys from A.C.E., Tunde and Ercin, are coming to the Radar; Bring your questions | Tunde Kehinde and Ercin Eksin are the co-founders of Africa Courier Express (A.C.E.), an African indigenous logistics and courier services firm. A 2-year old startup that, judging from reports, is poised to disrupt the logistics scene in We... |
| Aug 14, 2015 | 20th August: We’re Discussing Payment Solutions With Access Bank On Radar | In July, we reported that Nigerian commercial bank, Access Bank Plc released a mobile payments application that allows users make payments with a mobile phone’s camera and QR codes. It’s called PayWithCapture.
PayWithCapture allows users fo... |
| Aug 3, 2015 | Ask Andela co-founders, Iyin and Jeremy, anything: An Interactive chat on Radar | Iyin Aboyeji and Jeremy Johnson are the co-founders of Andela, the Lagos-based talent accelerator. Perhaps you’ve heard of it, the firm is democratizing access to coding skills by paying talent in Africa to learn to code.
This is an unusual... |
| Jul 21, 2015 | Exclusive: SimplePay picks up new funding from Nigeria’s Bank of Industry | Lagos-based mobile payments company, SimplePay has raised new funding from Nigeria’s Bank of Industry (“BOI”). Managing Director and CEO of BOI, Olaoluwa Rasheed will now join the company’s board as part of the investment deal.
SimplePay ex... |
| Jul 20, 2015 | Five Ways Your Kids Can Acquire Coding Superpowers Over The Holidays | Photo Credit: Simon Laroche_8 via Compfight cc
Coding is one of the most important skills to have in the world right now, as it is the language that drives the digital universe. In the next twenty years, even jobs without a direct link to c... |
| Jul 14, 2015 | 6 usability mistakes you should not make on your next web design project | Usability mistakes — they have become a routine for web designers and developers. Though the web has revealed the importance of website usability, web designers and developers rarely get with the programme.
Usability in web design is regard... |
| Jul 8, 2015 | 16 things we learned from the AMA with Paga's CEO | Paga’s CEO, Tayo Oviosu was on Radar last week for an interactive AMA session and it was everything we imagined and then more.
We knew he’d be dropping essential nuggets of advice from many years navigating the entrepreneurship and investin... |
| Jul 8, 2015 | 16 things we learned from the AMA with Paga’s CEO | Paga’s CEO, Tayo Oviosu was on Radar last week for an interactive AMA session and it was everything we imagined and then more.
We knew he’d be dropping essential nuggets of advice from many years navigating the entrepreneurship and investin... |
| Jul 2, 2015 | 7 Things That (Probably) Made iROKOtv Wildly Successful Where Most Startups Have Failed | This is what got me thinking:
We have such a fantastic ecosystem in Nigeria where several startups fantasize about their startups becoming the next big thing in startup wonderland. In fact, here is a recent list of possible winners for 2015... |
| Jul 1, 2015 | What's This NFC Thing, And How Will It work In Nigeria? | Recently, a contactless payment product, PayAttitude, was launched by Unified Payment Systems. The payment system relies on Near Field Communication (NFC) technology that enables virtual payments independent of a telecommunications network.... |
| Jul 1, 2015 | What’s This NFC Thing, And How Will It work In Nigeria? | Recently, a contactless payment product, PayAttitude, was launched by Unified Payment Systems. The payment system relies on Near Field Communication (NFC) technology that enables virtual payments independent of a telecommunications network.... |
| Jun 29, 2015 | Writerack’s New Interval Feature Should Supercharge Tweetstorming | If you use WriteRack, you should be pleased to learn that the app (web and Android) has gotten a new feature that enables you to set intervals between the tweets in your storm. Which interestingly is closer to how a regular tweetstorm works... |
| Jun 26, 2015 | Former Jumia and Konga executive, Onyeka Akumah invests in Waracake | Former Konga executive, Onyeka Akumah has invested in the Nigeria-based confectionary startup, Waracake.
The company announced the development via a presser made available to TechCabal.
The details of the investment were not made public.
On... |
| Jun 5, 2015 | The Nigerian Who Would Go To Mars | The Mars One mission aims to establish a colony on Mars. In February, the news that made the headlines everywhere in the world was that of the ‘longlist’ of 100 hopefuls (if we can call them that) who are like to launch out of earth, on a r... |
| Jun 5, 2015 | Why did Emmanuel Adetutu Put 3D Printers in a Suitcase? | Three days after the campaign went live on Kickstarter, Emmanuel’s mobile/suitcase 3D printer, TeeBot had hit its funding goal with funds still pouring in.
After that story, TechCabal caught up with Emmanuel Adetutu to talk about TeeBox, wh... |
| Jun 4, 2015 | Why Does Everybody Hate Rocket Internet? | View image | gettyimages.com
That’s the question, but first of all; What is Rocket internet?
(Editor’s note: This is for the uninitiated, in fact, this whole article is for the uninitiated, so OGs can simply call it a read right here).
“We ... |
| Jun 2, 2015 | Jekalo’s Lagos Carpooling App Is Exactly What I Wish Someone Would Have Built Three Years Ago | First, let me tell you a story. The year is 2012
January.
President Goodluck Jonathan in his genius has decided to abruptly remove the petrol subsidy. In the aftermath of nationwide protests, getting from place to place has not only become ... |
| Jun 1, 2015 | Sheriff Shittu Is Launching Yet Another Venture, An Uber For Home Services | Sheriff Shittu, former business analyst at Nigeria’s e-tailer, Konga, is working on yet another venture. Dubbed Lokoso, Sheriff describes it as “Uber for home services”.
Sheriff has been a busy bee of late. In 2014, he left his role as a bu... |
| May 26, 2015 | After New Funding, Hotels.ng Could Be Worth Up To $4 million | Yesterday, we reported that Hotels.ng has secured a $1.2 million series A investment round from the Omidyar Network and EchoVC. Thoroughly exciting news, because the three year old Nigerian startup founded by Mark Essien in 2012 is definite... |
| May 26, 2015 | Mark Essien Just Raised a Million Dollars, Ask Him Anything | TC announced that Hotels.ng raised $1.2 million in series A round from international investors Omidyar Network and EchoVC.
Now TC will be bringing you closer to the techie behind hotels.ng, the company founder, Mark Essien, in a Radar “ask ... |
| May 25, 2015 | Exclusive: Hotels.ng Raises $1.2 Million Series A From Omidyar, EchoVC | In what will likely be one of the most talked-about African startup funding events of 2015, Hotels.ng has secured $1.2 million from international investors Omidyar Network and EchoVC.
The Series A round comes after a previous seed investmen... |