Before now, free delivery service on Jumia had only been restricted to Lagos and for orders above N15,000. However, following growing customer demands for this service to be extended to other cities in the country, Jumia has announced the extension of Jumia Express to some other cities. Cities like Abuja, Port Harcourt, Ibadan and Abeokuta […]
Cloud accounting startup, Accounteer, came first in the MEST Africa Challenge which held on Saturday at the MEST Africa’s Lagos incubator in Ikoyi. They emerged winner amongst seven other non-MEST startups. As a result of this, Accounteer is guaranteed a place at the MEST Africa Summit in Cape Town which would come up in June. […]
Who knew that Dropbox, who got their first investment check from Y Combinator on June 26, 2007 would go public this soon. Well, here they are. Cloud storage company, Dropbox, upon its initial public offering surged by as much as 44% during its trading debut on Friday. This marks a very strong start to what […]
Spotify, the world’s largest music streaming subscription service, which has a community of over 159 million users, including over 71 million Spotify Premium subscribers and now across 65 markets worldwide has extended its tentacles further. They have launched in South Africa, alongside some other countries deemed to be great markets. According to a press release, […]
In what would before now seem unlikely, Truecaller have partnered with Paystack in a bid to allow more merchants across Africa accept payments online in a frictionless and secure manner. This would be by leveraging Truecaller’s mobile identity product, Truecaller SDK. Before now, Paystack as a mandation, requires all merchants who wanted to accept payments […]
Just on the heels of the sale to Zinox, Konga, Nigeria’s leading e-commerce giant, has announced the appointment of Olusiji Ijogun as Chairman. While it is expected that leadership batons must be exchanged, maybe no one would have guessed who’ll receive the baton. This appointment takes effect from April 1st, 2018. Ijogun is an expert […]
After operating solely in Nigeria for about five plus years, Hotels.ng, Nigeria’s largest hotel-booking platform, is set to take on Africa with the launch of two new platforms Fly.africa and Hotel.africa This announcement is something we had been anticipating for a while from this Travel Tech Startup; recall that In May 2015, Techcrunch reported that […]
Do you consider yourself an innovator? Do you have what it takes to win? Apply for the 2018 GIST Tech-I Competition. GIST Tech-I is a global pitch competition which seeks to identify, select, train and encourage exciting innovations by young scientists and great minds all over the world. Since 2011, innovators from around the globe have […]
The Launchpad Accelerator is a six-month acceleration program that matches top growth-stage startups from emerging ecosystems with the best of Google – its people, network, and advanced technologies – to help scale great products. Joining its fifth class, are two startups from Nigeria – electronic medical records startup Helium Health and FinTech startup Paylater. Also, South African startup, Aerobotics […]
TEDxYaba is holding on Saturday August 19th at Hall 1 Ozone Cinemas, E-Centre, Yaba. The Yaba area of Lagos houses the famous technology cluster in Lagos widely regarded as Nigeria’s Silicon Valley and is a melting pot for some of the finest innovators in the country, who in true TED spirit have built the ecosystem into what it […]