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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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It’s Official: Barcamp Nigeria 2010

By Loy Okezie On March 22, 2010 · 9 Comments

Described as “the best technology event that has ever happened in the history of the Nigerian web industry”, Barcamp Nigeria 2010 has been officially announced.

Born out of the desire to build connections between technopreneurs and…

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Will Yarnable Be Just Another Twitter Clone?

By Loy Okezie On March 3, 2010 · 14 Comments

Earlier in January, Yrn.me’s founder, Ahmad Mukoshy described his “next big thing” as  ”a micro discussion platform that allows you to create discussion threads of topics of interest in fewer than…

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Yrn.me – Nigeria’s first URL Shortener Service

By Loy Okezie On February 8, 2010 · 20 Comments

Nigeria has made its own mark in the url shortening space with the launch of Yrn.me on February 4th, 2010.

Since Twitter limited web users to publishing not more than 140 characters, url shortening services have continued to populate…

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Nigeria is 9th Largest Country in Opera Mini Usage

By Loy Okezie On January 26, 2010 · 3 Comments

In the recently released State of the Mobile Web Report by Opera.com, Nigeria is the 9th largest country in the world in terms of Opera Mini usage pushing out Poland to become one of the Top 10…

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Nigerian Computer Student Seeks to Improve Google’s Search Results

By Loy Okezie On December 9, 2009 · 1 Comment

A Nigerian MSc in computing student based in the UK has found a new way to improve the performance of Google’s search results. By the way, Google just launched real-time search after a deal with Twitter.

Using…

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Another 1st from Starcomms!…Isn’t that MTN’s line?

By Loy Okezie On October 26, 2009 · 1 Comment

After about two weeks of announcing the launch of a new feature that allows their subscribers send Twitter updates via SMS on their mobile phones, Starcomms has today announced a new feature called Facebook…

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Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) Live Webcast Launched

By Loy Okezie On October 5, 2009 · 8 Comments

It seems you can now find out about breaking news and the latest and top stories of the last 24 hours from all states of Nigeria, as NTA Live Webcast, a ‘Free to watch’ service has…

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Exclusive: Preview and Screenshot of Nigeria 2.0 Events Platform Released

By Loy Okezie On September 19, 2009 · 4 Comments

If you have been wondering what the term ‘nigeria 2.0′ (coined by Francis Oghuma) is, let me announce to you that Startups Nigeria in collaboration with Qubestreet has just released the screenshot and…

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MTN Nigeria, Arik Air Tunes to Twitter

By Loy Okezie On September 17, 2009 · 9 Comments

It seems that Nigerian companies have started going crazy for social media platforms especially Twitter. I’m not surprised since Twitter has enjoyed a lot of global press coverage and positive reviews, even though they’ve been having…

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