The Nigerian economy has been doing badly since the global oil market went berserk. While everyone is fixated on the bigger picture, the impasse in the economy is fast destroying the tech business scene. The whipping boy in the tech ecosystem is the eCommerce sector. This sector is the loftiest […]
Elon Musk has a real reason to be happy. His Model 3 pre-order made a grand slam home run. Tesla [NASDAQ: TSLA], raked in a minimum of N325 million from 325,000 people who funded their orders with an average of $1,000 each. If the orders are finally fulfilled before they all […]
Impossibility is nothing. A dream has finally become a reality. SpaceX finally surprised doubters. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket was successfully landed on ‘Of Course I Still Love You’, a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean. The imaginations of Elon Musk and his SpaceX team is now an achievement. At exactly 9:43 […]
Today is a big day for Spacex. By 9:43 PM Nigerian time, today, SpaceX will carry out a critical launch of its rocket. The launch which is scheduled to take place at Cape Canaveral, Fla, United States, will be SpaceX eighth attempt at going to space and landing the Falcon 9 rocket […]
Verizon Communications and Google, the main division of Alphabet are considering bids to buy Yahoo’s main business next week, according to those in the know. First-round bids for the company’s main Web assets are due April 11, according to inside source. A Bloomberg report shows Verizon and its AOL subsidiary […]
The northern part of Nigeria has been in the local and international news headlines for many negative and ‘not so good’ reasons. However, it seems some folks up north are keen to see things change pretty soon. Nasir el Rufai, the Governor of Kaduna state, has put his full weight […]
Just about a week after Tesla [NASDAQ: TSLA], started its much-awaited pre-order of its entry level Model 3, Elon Musk has many things to be happy about. First, we can now confirm to you that according to Tesla’s order statistics, over 325,000 pre-orders have been recorded. This is more than all […]
One of the leading lights in the tech news and Internet journalism community, Mashable, has announced mass layoffs even after the company just raised $15 million from Turner Broadcasting. Turner Broadcasting was acquired by Time Warner [TWX:US] As part of its decision to further refocus itself, Mashable will be doing […]
While there seems to be a fixation with eCommerce, some other folks are thinking of how they can diversify the Nigerian tech startup community. Sliide Airtime, an app that delivers target relevant, but well curated contents to its users has launched itself into the Nigerian digital marketing space. Basically, Sliide is […]
Facebook, the world’s largest social network is giving Periscope, Snapchat, and even the television industry a run for their money. To prove to billions of people how thoughtful it is about ‘live video’, Facebook announced on Wednesday,an update to its mobile app that puts its live-streaming services at the nucleus […]