News Jack Ma's Africa Netpreneur Prize Initiative (ANPI) opens for applications The Jack Ma Foundation’s Africa Netpreneur Prize Initiative (ANPI) has been officially launched and entries can be submitted from now till June 30, 2019.
Ingressive Recap of "The Economics of Blockchain", an Ingressive Ecosystem Hangout, January 2019 edition The "Economics of Blockchain – Cryptocurrency, Fintech, and the Entrepreneur", was the theme of the first Ingressive Ecosystem Hangout in 2019.
Ingressive How to build a sustainable business model—an empowerment workshop for women In partnership with EDG Africa and Ingressive, Fempower Africa will be holding a workshop on how to design a sustainable business model using the BMC.
Clickatell Count your blessings: Clickatell scoops 4 awards in 2018 Clickatell's successful roll-out of chat banking solutions to legacy African institutions like UBA, and GTB has earned it four awards this year.
Ingressive Recap: "Finance and Regulatory Techniques to Accelerate Startups and Businesses" brought to you by Ingressive The November edition of the Ecosystem Hangout by Ingressive addressed the knowledge gap in the areas of Finance and Regulatory Techniques to Accelerate Startups and Businesses.
Google How tech giants—Google and Microsoft are driving a digital inclusion future for all #IDPD "We hope more technology companies would think accessibility-first the way they think mobile-first when building digital products".
Events Full recap of TechCabal's FinTech 2.0 Town hall [with HD pictures!] With over 120 people in attendance, here is everything that went down at the TechCabal FinTech townhall sponsored by Softcom Limited, makers of Eyowo.
Google GIC: Google does not believe the winner should take all The maxim, everyone is a winner, has never been more true with the first Google Impact Challenge in Africa - Kenya, South Africa and Nigeria. 12 Nigerian social impact startups will share up to $1.75 million.
News Per Blockchain in Nigeria, Innovation comes before regulation as Interswitch announces Microsoft partnership Interswitch, Nigeria’s most prominent switching company and payment processor is on a mission to create solutions that enable individuals and communities prosper across Africa. In accordance with this mission, they recently launched
FirstBank Everything that happened at FirstBank's Fintech 2.0 Summit Everything that happened at the Firstbank Nigeria Limited Fintech 2.0 Summit held at Oriental Hotel on October 17, 2018.
Opinion Commentary on the 3 winning solutions from FirstBank Nigeria's Hackathon In a two-day hackathon, FirstBank Nigeria through her Digital Innovation Lab hosted a competition to find intelligent solutions to the challenges of the financial services industry. The hackathon was organised to coincide with
Opinion From Nigerian prince scam to Nigerian startup funding Nigeria has been designated as the hub of Internet fraud and scam. But, the exploits of some netpreneurs are obnubilating the "Nigerian Prince Scam" narrative. These startup founders and developers have caught investors’ interest.
Twitter Twitter goes back in time to the (reverse) chronological feed Twitter users are tired of seeing tweets from people they do not follow. Also, they do not want to see old tweets first. On September 18, Twitter made a commitment to provide its users with an easy way to switch between latest tweets first or best tweets first. Here is what you need to know.
Events What to expect at the 2018 Lagos Startup Week Besides hosting the opening ceremony on Monday, Landmark Towers will host the closing party on Friday, too. Zone Tech Park will host the sessions on Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday.
Events "Get Started" at the 2018 Lagos Startup Week With three successful editions held, this year's Lagos Startup Week would focus on getting started as an entrepreneur in tech. This follows last year's Visionary theme that talked about how startups can challenge the status-quo, and how innovators can shape the future.
Google Everything Google for Nigeria plus what the media won't tell you On July 27 and 28, 2017, Google held its first Google for Nigeria event. It was a time of many firsts, as the CEO, Sundar Pichai, would be visiting Nigeria for the first
Google Can Osinbajo's visit to Google be tied to the launch of Google Station in the country? No doubt, the launch of Google Station, their public WiFi service was a major highlight at the just concluded Google for Nigeria event. This makes Nigeria the first country on the continent and
Financial Services Chat banking takes off in Africa via Whatsapp, Clickatell at the helm Chat banking in South Africa and Nigeria took off in 2016 and 2018, respectively. This happened primarily on Facebook Messenger. Yesterday's announcement by Nigerian banks will see it extend to Facebook's Whatsapp. The
