Nigeria

In the last couple weeks I’ve had the opportunity to be in Nigeria (Maker Faire Africa), followed by South Africa (AfricaCom). Along with Kenya, these countries represent the biggest technology countries on the continent. They are the regional tech hub cities at this point in Africa.In both places I was ...

Building an ecommerce business in Africa is a markedly different process from other, more developed parts of the world as well as other emerging markets. The business models, operations and marketing solutions that work for Amazon, for example, probably won’t work in Africa which is evolving very differently in terms ...

Looks like things aren't exactly rosy at ecommerce cloning giant Rocket Internet at the moment. A couple of weeks ago, he company revealed that it was scuppering its Chinese operations. Now it's downsizing in Nigeria.Rocket Internet only launched its Nigerian presence a couple of months ago, but is reportedly ...

Naspers is shutting down Dealfish, its Nigerian and Kenyan free classified sites, and replacing them with OLX.The move comes as the emerging markets giant attempts to make the most of the service which it owns a 71% stake in.According to Nigerian tech news site Techloy, the two major ...

When Rocket Internet launched its Nigerian Amazon clone, it was always just going to be a matter of time before it launched another site in the country.The German-based startup incubator's latest ecommerce property is called Sabunta -- a shoe and fashion site that runs along the same model as ...

German cloning giant Rocket Internet has officially launched Kasuwa, its Nigerian Amazon-style ecommerce site.The company made its first big forays onto the continent with a number of properties in South Africa. These include a stake in Groupon, shoe and clothing site Zando, and make up testing service Glossybox.Prior ...

German-based cloning giant Rocket Internet is set to open up an Amazon-style ecommerce site in Nigeria.The company made its first big forays onto the continent with a number of properties in South Africa. These include a stake in Groupon, shoe and clothing site Zando, and make up testing service ...

Online video-sharing titan YouTube has launched a dedicated localised site for Nigeria. The announcement comes just days after a similar launch in Uganda.According to YouTube, the new site will "promote content that is most relevant to Nigerians"."Content uploaded by Nigerian users will show up as “browse pages” on the ...

An increasingly crucial part of our daily lives, social media is changing the way we interact, work and live. As a truly people-oriented medium, it is even altering our concept of society and democracy. Governments, from Iceland to Nigeria, are coming up with innovative solutions for meeting the needs of ...

Although investment in Africa has traditionally focused on commodities rather than technologies, the explosion of mobile usage has opened up opportunities for small-business development.Memeburn explores some of the continent's incubators for entrepreneurs to consider before taking the next step. It's worth remembering that the investor climate is often make ...