Imanah Oluseyi

iDEA Nigeria teams up with Rocket Internet to host ecosystem fireside chat

iDEA Nigeria and AIG (Africa Internet Group) which is also known as Rocket Internet, a leading Internet Group in Africa, are partnering to put together a meet-up event. The Managing Directors of 6 AIG companies, which include; Carmudi, Jovago, Lamudi, Easy Taxi, Hell...

Imanah Oluseyi

8 years ago

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N2.1 million up for grabs at the CcHub Enterprise Technology Challenge

The Co-Creation Hub, in partnership with Oracle and Tenece, invites web/mobile app developers to the Enterprise Technology Challenge as a total of N2.1 million stands to be won by the top 3 teams. The Enterprise Technology Challenge is designed to mobilize ...

Imanah Oluseyi

8 years ago

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Want to code? The Codeplus Software Academy will pay you to learn

Codeplus Software Academy’s vision is to make Nigeria a Global Software Development and Outsourcing hub. By 2020 they want to have trained 10,000 youths: " Our mission is to create wealth and employment by empowering youths with software engineering knowledge”, sa...

Imanah Oluseyi

8 years ago

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Discover and follow live events as Twitter debuts Moments

Following tweets and happenings on Twitter can be a challenge especially for the average user. In order to help veteran users and maybe attract new ones, as of today Twitter has launched a new feature called Moments which lets you know about the latest happenings on the...

Imanah Oluseyi

8 years ago

General

MTN zero-rates data usage on Jumia app

You can can now enjoy free browsing on the Jumia shopping app, thanks to MTN and Jumia Nigeria, who have once again partnered to make this possible. MTN subscribers can download the Jumia app on their phone to start enjoying your free data. However, users only enjoy t...

Imanah Oluseyi

8 years ago

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Moroccan medical startup, DabaDoc expanding to Nigeria and SA

Moroccan medical appointment booking startup service DabaDoc has announced it is launching in Nigeria and South Africa, in the next phase of its pan-African expansion, Disrupt Africa reports. The service which is used by quite a large number of patients each month to co...

Imanah Oluseyi

8 years ago

General

WeChat Ideathon review committee unveiled. Application deadline is tomorrow

If you have a startup or are you a developer, you should be preparing to attend the first Africabeta and WeChat Ideathon event taking place on the 3rd of October in Lagos. The WeChat Ideathon is a parallel event within the Africabeta conference that will demonstrate out...

Imanah Oluseyi

8 years ago

General

Instagram hits 400 million monthly active users

Photo sharing service Instagram recently announced that it now has more than 400 million active monthly users, a huge leap from 300 million the Facebook owned service achieved just 9 months back. "Our community has evolved to be even more global, with more than 75 perc...

Imanah Oluseyi

8 years ago

General

MEST to host first Africa Technology Summit

Come November, Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST) will be hosting its first Africa Technology Summit (ATS) in Ghana. The three-day event, which will run from November 3rd to 5th, will be focusing on the area of investing and supporting of startups. ...

Imanah Oluseyi

8 years ago

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African Renewable Energy Fund reaches it $200 million target

African Renewable Energy Fund (AREF) has concluded its funding after meeting its $200 million target. Disrupt Africa reports that the funding, which is aimed at supporting both small and medium scaled renewable energy projects in Africa, came to a close with final fu...

Imanah Oluseyi

8 years ago

General

Latest Chrome update is now less of a memory and power hog

Memory space is one thing we look out for when using PCs. But as time goes on, we begin to feed it with applications that might end up making these machines run slow especially when low on memory. And so, for those of us who surf the web regularly on PCs, the least th...

Imanah Oluseyi

8 years ago

General

What a PR Hack means for startups

The dictionary defines hack as 'to cut or chop with repeated and irregular blows' and that's exactly what PR will not do for you. This is actually a common misunderstanding that many startups face. They think the day they take PR help, be it from a person or an agency, ...

Imanah Oluseyi

8 years ago

General

LinkedIn Improves It's Messaging Service with Chat-like Features

LinkedIn, like every other social networking platform has a messaging service that most people hardly ever use or knew existed. To change this school of thought, the business-oriented social platform is adding emojis, GIFs and stickers to encourage its users in using ...

Imanah Oluseyi

8 years ago

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AIA Accelerator Programme now open for African Healthcare startups

The AIA Accelerator programme, which launched last year and ended with a demo day in June that saw about eight startups successfully secure funding, will be taking place in Hong Kong. AIA Which is an insurance company will be patnering with startup accelerator, Nest, fo...

Imanah Oluseyi

8 years ago

General

Have a close look at Blackberry's upcoming Android-powered device - The Blackberry Venice

Some months back there were rumors of BlackBerry coming out with an Android device. Well, since then nothing much has been heard of the upcoming device until now as videos of the upcoming smartphone seems to have surfaced courtesy @evleaks. Eye candy. pic.twitter.com/Gt...

Imanah Oluseyi

8 years ago

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