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Google’s CEO, Eric Schmidt Funded Identified.com, A Startup By Nigerian Founders

By Loy Okezie On October 30, 2010 · 5 Comments

At a time when Nigeria’s tech scene is gradually becoming the centre of the world’s attention, a Silicon Valley based startup, Identified.com, founded by Nigerian tech entrepreneurs has received seed funding from some of the Valley’s finest angel investors.…

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Google Is Launching A New Service (Baraza) For Knowledge Sharing Across Africa

By Loy Okezie On October 2, 2010 · Leave a Comment

In a bid to help bring more local content online, Google is launching a new service, built to enable knowledge sharing among people across Africa via the Internet.

The new service would allow people in countries across Africa to…

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OnePage co-founder Osita Nwoye Launches Lotaar

By Loy Okezie On July 29, 2010 · 7 Comments

Last month, Nigerian-born-UK-based, Osita Nwoye quit OnePage, a startup he helped found in 2009 along with British-born Joel Gascoigne. Yesterday, he announced the launch of Lotaar, which he is co-founding with his friend, Roland Ukor.

Lotaar (pronounced Lo-taar,…

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Yarnpad.com – Twitter Gets Cloned. Again.

By Loy Okezie On July 29, 2010 · 8 Comments

With so much love for Twitter, yet another Twitter-clone has been launched on the micro-blogging space. This time, YarnPad! has emerged from Nigeria and lets you “see wetin people they yarn about“, that is, what people are talking about.…

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OnePage’s Co-founder, Osita Nwoye Quits Startup

By Loy Okezie On June 23, 2010 · 1 Comment

Nigerian-born co-founder of OnePage, Osita Nwoye has quit the startup he helped found in 2009 along with British-born Joel Gascoigne. The announcement came as a surprise to me considering the…

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Nwalla – Nigeria’s Version of Gowalla?

By Loy Okezie On May 21, 2010 · Leave a Comment

With so much information on the web, it is hard to find local and relevant content in one place. Thanks to location-based services such as Foursquare and Gowalla, people are now finding it easier to discover and…

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DokitaSays – Ask Real Health Questions. Answers By Real Doctors

By Loy Okezie On May 10, 2010 · 7 Comments

Do you feel embarrassed when asking questions to a doctor pertaining to your health. Many people do. Now what if you stumbled upon a site that makes it easy for you to obtain reliable answers to your health-related questions without any feelings…

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Yarnable Goes Into Private Beta (Invites)

By Loy Okezie On May 6, 2010 · 15 Comments

With Twitter’s success in providing real-time information to users around the world, we’re left second-guessing what the future of the web would become. At the time of writing this, Twitter is the 11th most visited site in the world…

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10 Nigerian dotcom start-ups that are dotgone

By Loy Okezie On May 3, 2010 · 11 Comments
10 Nigerian dotcom start-ups that are dotgone
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Exclusive: Screenshots and Photos of the Encipher Tablet

By Loy Okezie On April 30, 2010 · 33 Comments

Earlier this week, I announced here on this blog that a Nigerian technology company, Encipher Limited is set to unveil the prototype of their Andriod powered tablet this weekend.

Today, the unveiling commenced as the photos of the Encipher tablet…

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