We usually do not cover this type of company, but what they offer is such in a high demand and if they can deliver on time, they will surely find success. We are aware of delays in incorporating in Nigeria. So OutBoxNigeria has got to help put some speed in that process of legalizing entities. Great idea. This is what it is …   Why use outBox Outboxnigeria.com is Nigeria’s premier business formation and registration [...]

New York Times reported three years ago that Nokia had acquired Plazes – a German social media company.   Nokia said Monday that it has inked a deal to buy Plazes, a German social network, as part of the mobile phone giant’s push to transform itself into a next-generation entertainment company.   Nokia is positioning itself as a promoter of social networking, with photo and video sharing and games for users of its cellphones. That [...]

YarnPad is a Twitter like service developed in 2010 by the due  of   Victor Sylva and Deji Kadri. It offers a real-time information network that let people share and discuss things that interest them. The etymology of their name comes from ‘yarn’ which is a slang in Nigeria meaning ‘talking or talk about”.   People Connect with other nigerians around the globe to network, share ideas and collaborate. Topics Solicit real-time feedback and benefit from [...]

Microsoft joins the industry practitioners on the crusade against illegal software which we support, 100%. The Vanguard reports  that  “unless sound IP policies were put in place to help  reduce software piracy and counterfeiting which threaten legitimate businesses and expose consumers to the risks that come from using non-genuine software, the fight against piracy may be far fetched”. This reasoning was attributed to  Emmanuel Onyeje, General Manager Microsoft Anglophone West Africa.   This is very [...]

We are noticing that many startups in Nigeria are going down. They come to business and register their domains, but as soon as it is time to new the domains, they go .gone. Nwalla  is no more online and we just checked Netaviva and noted that it is not available also. We hope these are hosting issues and not that these firms are out of business.   We got this from Netaviva website in case [...]

  ActivSpaces is an open innovation and collaboration platform in Cameroon. It is similar to iHub in Kenya.  Based in Buea, it works in many areas of technology – social media, hardware and creativity. It has a Fellows program which is very popular – readers in Cameroon could give it a try.   The ActivSpaces Fellows Program is an opportunity for talented, enthusiastic people to come to Cameroon and work beside equally talented and highly [...]

Africa’s first registered ccTLD (.EG) still tops. Yes, when you look at the world from the number of population online, Egypt rules and Nigeria comes second, in Africa. The above graph was adapted from Bytelevel and it gives visualization of ccTLDs in Africa. The bigger the size, the more the number of the nation’s citizens are online. Notice that this map was generated from the top level domain in the nation.   A whole new [...]

The Nigerian government is seeking for new ideas on the educational sector . We saw it in Facebook few minutes ago. They are looking for a new roadmap and asking citizens to submit ideas to help create a better educational system in Nigeria. Since we saw the ad today, we think it is still open though we noticed that the last date in the official website was April 24, 2011   Note: You can forward [...]

Where is nwalla.com – the old classified Nigerian website? We could not see any content when we visited the site (we got the cached page). Did it move? Or has it done the unfortunate? Gone .gone? Let us know. We want to know what is going on with this classified website that has a lot of promise when it started.  

The website is very scanty but it communicates in few words all it needed to do. Identified (good name guys) is a social media career building and development tool that harvests professional data across all the social ecosystem and then presents all the data in a cool nice way. Using the data, one can form a professional opinion about the subject. In their website, they used the Facebook analogy:   Your Facebook network is full [...]