Web Trends Nigeria

Catchin’ up with the Co-Founders – Pledge51

P1! — Sat, 18 May 2013 10:08:25 +0000

Catching up with Bayo and Zubair is not a task you want to embark on if you do not have time on your hands (thank God for emails though). They travel very frequently and once you don’t get to the hub before 6pm, you can’t guarantee Bayo’s presence so it requires precise timing to an [...]

Girls, apply for the BlackBerry Scholars Program!

P1! — Sat, 18 May 2013 07:42:38 +0000

Every day, women around the world are helping to lead, transform and innovate in the fields of technology and science. BlackBerry and Alicia Keys want to celebrate these leaders and help encourage young women to explore the opportunities presented in the STEM fields. Earlier this week at the BlackBerry Live event, BlackBerry and Alicia Keys [...]

Internet Banking Makes Banking Transactions So Easy

Olamide Egbayelo — Thu, 16 May 2013 11:41:36 +0000

Internet banking or E-banking allows customers of a financial institution to conduct financial transactions on a secure website operated by the institution, which can be a retail or virtual bank, credit union or building society. I am someone who doesn’t love stress and I am sure most of you don’t too. I HATE bank queues and I try to avoid them as much as I can. [...]

Rocket Internet’s ventures get €35m investment

P1! — Wed, 15 May 2013 19:29:38 +0000

Jumia.com, Africa’s fastest growing online retailer, confirmed that global telecommunications group Millicom International Cellular S.A plans to increase its stake in Jumia.com’s holding company from 20 to 35%. This additional €85 million investment in the parent group is part of a €340 million agreement signed in August 2012. Of the €85m, €35m will be invested [...]

BlackBerry Jam Nigeria holds on July 3rd

P1! — Tue, 14 May 2013 19:29:23 +0000

BlackBerry® is kicking off a fresh series of BlackBerry® Jam Sessions for developers in Africa that aim to provide new skills, support the development of locally, relevant content and give budding entrepreneurs more opportunities to reach BlackBerry customers around the world. The events will provide attendees with the latest resources, training and best practices for creating BlackBerry® [...]

Catchin’ up with the Co-Founders – Jobs In Nigeria

P1! — Tue, 07 May 2013 11:29:55 +0000

In line with our promise to always try and catch the co-founders no matter how busy they are. After quite a lot of emails and messages, we were finally able to pin down the brains behind fast-rising job search app – Jobs in Nigeria – Tayo Olufuwa and Dele Bakare. I remember when I first [...]

Introducing… Jambito! Check your JAMB/UTME result.

P1! — Sun, 05 May 2013 16:55:59 +0000

Since the announcement of the release of this year’s JAMB/UTME result, very few candidates have been able to check it as usual. Every the servers are unable to handle the high traffic thereby causing them to crash and the candidates unable to check their result for days after the announcement. Enter Jambito, a simple light-weight [...]

Facebook adds Trusted Contacts Security for Hacked Account Recovery

Information security@fehinto — Sat, 04 May 2013 21:11:12 +0000

SOCIAL NETWORK Facebook has launched a security feature called Trusted Contacts to make it easier for users to recover hacked accounts. Facebook announced the new account recovery feature on Thursday and has already added it for all of its users. The social network explained that Trusted Contacts are essentially emergency contacts for its service, [...]

Opera sues former employee for sharing trade secrets with Mozilla

Information security@fehinto — Wed, 01 May 2013 14:19:14 +0000

Opera has accused a former employee of sharing trade secrets with its browser rival Mozilla. The software company has filed a lawsuit against former employee Trond Werner Hansen in Norway. Hansen stands to lose 20 million krónur ($3.4m) if Opera wins the case. Opera’s lawyer, Bing Hodneland advokatselskap partner, Ole E. Tokvam told V3: “Opera [...]

Google launches Now for iOS

Information security@fehinto — Wed, 01 May 2013 10:24:17 +0000

Google has launched its Now predictive search platform for Apple’s iOS. The company is bringing the platform to Apple’s mobile operating system as a feature on the new version of Google’s Search application for the iPhone and iPad. Users will be able to access Now through the Search app itself. The update will allow users [...]