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Google Zeitgeist 2011: What the World Searched Most in 2011
Zeitgeist sorted billions of Google searches to capture the year’s 10 fastest-rising global queries and the rest of the spirit of 2011.
Among ...
Twitter Releases 2011 Hottest Topics, Gives Golden Tweet Award to @Wendys
Twitter, the popular social networking platform that enables people share ideas and information in a 140 character micro format has published its list of the most popular and hottest ...
Online Advertising Space in Africa: Why It is Proving Difficult to Take on Google Adwords and What Advertising Companies Can Do
Not too long ago we wrote on Click Search Nigeria, a Nigerian online advertising company that has found it hard to get a sizeable portion of the online advertising revenue in Nigeria’s ...
[PRESS RELEASE] Ad Dynamo Introduces Regional Targetting
Up and coming online advertising company Ad Dynamo has stated on its official blog that it has started implementing regional targeting;
“I’m pleased to say that we’ve just ...
Made in Nigeria Entrepreneurs’ Conference to Hold in Nigeria, January 19th-21st, 2012
Nigerian entrepreneurs, CEOS, business leaders, executives and managers are to gather at Ibadan early next year (Jan 19-21,2012) for the Made in Nigeria Entrepreneurs (MINE) Conference.
The ...
Globacom Nigeria Launches Nigeria’s First Mobile Money Service
Mobile Payment Service in Nigeria got a huge boost with Globacom Nigeria lauching its mobile money service in partnership with UBA and Stanbic IBTC bank.
In its press released Glo ...
2012 Nigeria Budget: Allocations to Technology Sector Almost Doubled (But Is It Still Enough?)
The budget for the 2012 fiscal year has been finally announced by the Federal Government and there was a little bit of something to cheer about for the nation’s technology sector.
from ...
Needed: A Silicon Valley for Nigeria’s Emerging Tech Business Ecosystem
Silicon Valley is a term which refers to the part of San Francisco which is home to major technology corporations of the world.
According to Wikipedia Silicon valley originally was ...
Losing Billions Yearly to Non-Existent Workers; Time to Go Technological
The incidents of ghost workers being paid salaries and allowances in the federal and state civil service has become an something of a recurring enigma.
Most recently Nigeria’s ...
Highest Tweets Per Second: Japanese Movie Sets Record
Previously news of singer Beyonce’s pregnancy got the highest tweets per second (at almost 9,000 tweets). That however is now history as according to Twitter, the TV screening ...
Steve Jobs Biography Tops Amazon 2011 Bestseller List
The 630 page comprehensive biography of late entrepreneur and Apple CEO Steve Jobs has been announced as the Amazon’s highest selling book for 2011.
The book written by Walter ...
Four More Mobile Payment Operators to Get Licenses
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has announced that it will soon issue licenses to four more mobile money operators to deepen the emerging mobile money market and make it competitive.
The ...
AfriTickets: New Website for Buying and Selling Event Tickets Launches in Nigeria
We announce the entrant of a new service based website Afritickets which is a startup poised to provide gateway services for event ticketing in Nigeria.
A lot of challenges face event ...
Prof Bart’s Tweet-Meet: PHCN To Be Closed Down, Power Stations for Enugu, Gombe and Benue
Nigeria’s Minister of Power, Professor Bart Nnaji had an exhaustive tweet-meet yesterday as we initially wrote on. The tweet-meet which was an engagement between the Minister ...
Dealfish Introduces Free Print Edition of its Classified Ads
The coming of competitors like Google Trader and Tradestable into the free classified ads market has certainly got Dealfish thinking outside the box. the free classifed ads site has ...
