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By Tefo Mohapi Facebook has been through a tumultuous couple of days, from the Initial Public Offering to having shareholders lodge lawsuits against them within 4 days of the IPO. Though[...]
By Ruben Corbo With the advent of the internet information age, there is not a more important platform for business nowadays than the internet. That fact has been well known[...]
Nigeria, South Africa and Egypt topped Africa’s Facebook rankings in 2011. With over 9 million users, Egypt ranks number 1 in Africa followed by South Africa and Nigeria with 4.8[...]
By Tefo Mohapi The rumours have started again. The alleged news of the Facebook phone to be built on HTC hardware running a modified version of Android are all over the[...]
In its bid to interact effectively with Nigeria’s tech savvy youths in the upcoming elections, INEC recently released its Blackberry PIN and SMS reports hotline. Its PIN is: 2687A1CA Also all[...]
We had earlier featured Revoda, a mobile application entirely built from scratch by Nigerians for the upcoming elections. You can read about/listen to our exclusive interview with one of the[...]
Nine months ago, President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria joined the popular social networking site, Facebook. In just 12 days, the President attracted about 100,000 fans, a number that soon accelerated[...]
A few days ago, Malcom Gladwell had a bone to pick. In a The New Yorker blog post titled “Does Egypt Need Twitter?” he wrote: “Please. People protested and brought[...]
“Google Internet balloons” to bring Internet access to rural and remote parts of the worldJune 17, 2013
Johannesburg and Lagos are Africa’s most popular destinations with over 4.6 million visitors expected in 2013June 7, 2013
Infographic: E-commerce in Africa – Preferences of African consumers in Nigeria, Kenya & South AfricaJune 3, 2013
Broadband Investment Plan: Nigerian Government targets 80 percent nationwide Internet coverage by 2018June 1, 2013
Google invests $12 million in South African Solar Project; project to power 30,000 homesMay 31, 2013
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