Odunayo Eweniyi

Applications Are Now Open For SeedStars World Lagos

Seedstars World is a global pitch event organized by Swiss investment company, Seedstars, and the third pitch event in Africa has begun taking applications. Lagos hosts the pitch event following two events in the series already, held in Maputo and Johannesburg. Interest...

Odunayo Eweniyi

8 years ago

General

Interswitch Partners PCI Security Standards Council to Improve Payment Data Security Worldwide

African integrated payments and transaction switching company, Interswitch announced today that it has joined the PCI Security Standards Council on the improvement of data security globally. The partnership entails Interswitch working with the Council to achieve and i...

Odunayo Eweniyi

8 years ago

General

BudgIT Launches Paid Model For Businesses, Budgit.co

Civic technology organization, BudgIT has launched BudgIT for Business, a paid model of its current data analysis and infographics design offerings. BudgIT Cofounder Oluseun Onigbinde, says the model is a strategic move aimed at raising revenue for the non-profit start-...

Odunayo Eweniyi

8 years ago

General

Applications For The Second Cohort of The Leadpath Nigeria’s Accelerator Program Have Begun

LeadPath Nigeria is a technology startup accelerator which launched in March 2014 and then threw open its doors for technology startups to apply for enrolment in the first cohort of the accelerator program. The accelerator program had a 3 month tenure, during which enro...

Odunayo Eweniyi

8 years ago

General

U.S Twitter In A Few Tweets

Yesterday, an official Twitter account for the President of The United States was opened. The name of the new account is @POTUS, and the account immediately attracted thousands of followers. Especially since its first tweet was really funny: Hello, Twitter! It's B...

Odunayo Eweniyi

8 years ago

Ecosystem

Startups Can Win Up To $500,000 At The African Entrepreneurship Award

Applications are now open for the African Entrepreneurship Award (AEA), the competition sponsored by The Moroccan Commercial bank BMCE Bank, reports Disrupt Africa. We seek all Africans, around the world, who want to create jobs and improve lives in Africa. Is it hard...

Odunayo Eweniyi

8 years ago

Social Media

President Barack Obama Joins Twitter. Finally.

He’s a Dad, husband, and 44th President of the United States and he’s just now getting his own twitter account. President Obama released his first ever official tweet about twenty minutes ago: Hello, Twitter! It's Barack. Really! Six years in, they'r...

Odunayo Eweniyi

8 years ago

General

One Reason To Use GTBank’s New Instant Mobile Phone Money Transfer

GTBank sent me this very good news in an email in the middle of the night. i swear I wasn’t even mad because it was such good news. The bank has launched a first of its kind mobile channel through which GTBank customers can conveniently perform third party trans...

Odunayo Eweniyi

8 years ago

General

One Reason To Use GTBank’s New Instant Mobile Phone Money Transfer

Odunayo Eweniyi

8 years ago

Mobility & Logistics

Uber Hit With Billion Dollar Law Suit. And There’s A Trailer Video For It.

See when you have been in the world of technology for a while, a lot of thing just don’t surprise you. But there will be some times when some occurrences will leave you speechless. This is one of such times. Yesterday, the Pando Daily reported that a billion dolla...

Odunayo Eweniyi

8 years ago

Opinion

5 Pro-Tips To Up Your Twitter Game

Nubi Kay is a digital media strategist at Wild Ripples. The digital brand experience lab recently launched INSIGHTS to share social media knowledge. You can tweet Nubi at @NubiKay and check out more knowledge packets from Wild Ripple’s INSIGHTS here. Twitter is o...

Odunayo Eweniyi

8 years ago

Ecosystem

AFB Acquires Weza Tele For $1.7m – The Largest Acquisition Of A Tech Startup In Kenya

In what is reported by Disrupt Africa to be the largest acquisition of a tech startup in Kenya so far, Financial Technology startup, Weza Tele was acquired by financial services giant, AFB for $1.7 million. Weza Tele is an international company that provides multiple va...

Odunayo Eweniyi

8 years ago

eCommerce

Classifieds site, Vendito is Rocket Internet’s answer to OLX, Ady

So I’m just going to go ahead and say what everyone is thinking: Rocket Internet is in absolutely everything these days. Along with its ability to give companies quirky, yet appropriate names, Rocket Internet has perfect the art of launching clone companies. Rocke...

Odunayo Eweniyi

8 years ago

Governance & Policy

Connectivity In Nigeria At Risk As Pinnacle Sues The NBC

Signal distributor, Pinnacle Communications has filed a lawsuit against Nigeria’s National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) for 1.2 trillion naira (whoa!) over an alleged breach of a contract. According to Pinnacle, the NBC had agreed on a deal in which one of the te...

Odunayo Eweniyi

8 years ago

Apps & Gadgets

3 Coolest Features Of eTranzact’s PocketMoni App

Last week, at an invite-only event held at the CcHub, eTranzact launched the new PocketMoni Mobile payments application, a retake of what mobile money can be with a new mobile experience, and some new features on its mobile money network. Of all the features, 3 really s...

Odunayo Eweniyi

8 years ago

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