Black Friday: Outdated online listings may undermine retailers — Google
By Juliet Umeh Nigerian retailers preparing for Black Friday may lose ready-to-buy customers if their Google listings carry outdated opening hours, unanswered phone numbers or old product photographs. Google’s Director for East and West Africa, Olumide Balogun, gave the warning as Nigeria prepare for Black Friday and December festive shopping season. Black Friday falls on […]
A hotline to God: Nigerian creates vernacular Bible apps
On the streets of Lagos and across God-fearing southern Nigeria, it’s not uncommon to see people with a leather-bound Bible in one hand and a mobile phone in the other.
Microsoft acquires Nokia devices, services business
Microsoft Corp has announced it has completed its acquisition of the Nokia Devices which allows the two companies to come together as one to deliver a family of devices and services that will delight consumers and empower businesses.
Facebook profits nearly triple to $642 mn; mobile soars
Facebook profits nearly tripled in the first quarter to $642 million on a 72 percent surge in revenues, helped by strong gains in mobile users and mobile advertising.
Telecom activities may keep Nigeria’s rebased GDP green
Information and Communications Technology, ICT, once again, showed its economy- boosting potentials when the statistician-general of the Federation, Dr. Yemi Kale recently released the rebased Gross Domestic Product, GDP data for 2013.
Nigerian telecom sector needs competition in fresh ideas — Etisalat CEO
The new acting Chief Executive Officer of Etisalat Nigeria, Mr Mathew Wilsher has been in Nigeria for the past nine months. In all of this time, Wilsher says he is studying the environment and the entire Nigerian telecom landscape. As a result he has not made much of a public outing.
