Loy Okezie
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Here’s what Techloy.com’s mobile site looks like on a Samsung Galaxy Note. The MTN ad you see above runs on the TwinPine Network.
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Omatek is building a multi-billion naira factory powered by solar in Nigeria. The new solar-powered factory expected to take off immediately is the first of its kind in Africa and would be a major income revenue for the company providing 24-hour power to homes, offices, schools, hospitals and hotels.
An Italian Professor named Massimo Marchiori has released a test version of a search engine that allows users to connect with others interested in the same subjects. According to Marchiori, Volunia, is “a new radical idea of what a search engine
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With the goal of becoming a global digital leader, New York City has strived to create a better civil society and stronger democracy with the use of technology – engaging, serving and connecting New York since 2010. Through its Road Map for the Digital City, the city is revolutionising access to technology, encouraging open government, engagement and supporting industry.
According to Financial Times, Facebook is reportedly working on displaying ads on its apps for Android, iPad and iPhone devices as early as March 2012. The ads may appear as featured stories in the mobile news feed. If this is true, Facebook could be looking to gain an additional source of revenue before it goes public.
Arianna Huffington has announced The HuffPost Streaming Network, a 24/7 live-streaming TV network to launch this summer and feature 12 hours of original programming, five days a week. The network will spotlight the biggest, hottest, most engaging stories HuffPost is covering at any given moment and use them for conversations, commentary, and comedy.
Skype for Windows version 5.8 is out, bringing several interesting features, including full HD video-calling, group screen sharing and Facebook integration. But you will need to have a HD webcam to enjoy the Full HD video calls. On the other hand, video calling for Facebook works even with users who don’t use Skype.
Country Manager for Google Kenya, Olga Arara-Kimani, was reportedly fired last week, following investigations over allegations of data scraping and misrepresentation of Kenyan start-up, Mocality. Now, she claims the decision to leave Google was hers alone.What I think? She was asked to resign or get fired. She chose to resign.
President Obama’s re-election campaign announced this week that it will begin using the mobile device credit card reader attachment Square to accept campaign donations. My take: Mobile payments is about to change political fundraising, but whether this tool can be used in African politics is yet to be seen.
Google’s social network, Plus has just over 75,000 users in Nigeria since its launch in June 2011, according to a recent report. But it seems that Google+ growth is very slow or stalled when compared to Facebook growth between June 2011 to December 2011. Facebook has added about 700,000 users, while Google+ only has an estimated 75,000 users in Nigeria since June 2011.
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- Guess What Rocket Internet’s Amazon Clone For Nigeria Will Be?
- EXCLUSIVE: Bandeka Co-Founder, Tunde Kehinde Joins Rocket Internet Nigeria
- EXCLUSIVE: iROKOtv Launches Nollywood/Celeb News SMS Service in Nigeria
- BREAKING: Nigeria’s NCC Fines Telcos In Billions Over Poor Quality of Service
- TechCrunch
- Still Smiling, Eduardo? Senators Schumer, Casey Want To Collect Your $67M In Facebook Taxes Anyway
- The Weather Channel Beautifies And Socializes Its iPhone App
- AppHarbor Launches Its Azure Competitor In Europe
- Rakuten CEO On The $100M Pinterest Round: We Want Pinterest Users To Pin Images And Buy Using Our ID
- Quora Investor Peter Thiel: “The Samwers Are Never Going To Clone Quora,”
- TheNextWeb
- US Senator investigates Google, NASA over use of private airfield for company jets
- Confirmed: Pinterest raises $100 million from Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten, previous backers
- Second Indian ISP reportedly blocks video and torrent sites, citing a “court order”
- India tipped to overtake the US to become the world’s biggest Facebook market by 2015
- Facebook co-founder Saverin: Renouncing US citizenship “nothing to do with taxes”
- VentureBeat
- Everyme, the truly private social network, arrives on Android and the web
- Facebook to reengineer the IPO with all-night hackathon
- 6 multibillion dollar businesses Facebook would do really well at
- Spotify is pressing play on a new $220M round at a $4B valuation
- Epic unveils Unreal Engine 4 for eye-popping next-generation game graphics
