Black Friday: Outdated online listings may undermine retailers — Google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Umeh Nigerian retailers preparing for Black Friday may lose ready-to-buy customers if their Google listings carry outdated opening hours, unanswered phone numbers or old product photographs.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 […]
Local content in IT procurement: NITDA to enforce compliance of MDAs
Effort to encourage local capacity will soon start yielding the expected results as the the National Information Technology Development Agency, NITDA, has disclosed said that it has put measures in place to enforce compliance with the executive order on support for Local Content in IT Procurement by the the government Ministries, Departments and Agencies, MDAs.
Samsung boosts user’s confidence in S8 series with 5 security technologies
While innovation remains endless, security of content in the mobile devices has always been a major consideration by mobile phone users when making choice of purchase.
Al Jazeera, 20 other websites blocked in Egypt
Egypt on Thursday blocked 21 websites, including Qatari news network Al Jazeera and Islamist-affiliated platforms, following in the footsteps of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
2017 Imagine cup: 6 teams to represent MEA in global contest
By July this year, six winning teams from Middle East and Africa, MEA, will fly the continent’s flag at the world wide finals of the 2017 Microsoft Imagine Cup competition.
Opera to invest $100m in Africa’s digital economy, $30m in Nigeria
THE developer of popular mobile browser, Opera, has made public its plan to invest $100 million, the equivalent of N30 billion, over the next two years to facilitate the growth of Africa’s digital economy.
