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Lawyers and domains: Rocket Internet and Konga to face off

We told you things in Nigeria’s ecommerce space were about to heat up and at the center of the brewing storm is Konga and everyone’s favourite cookie-cutter company, Rocket Internet. It seems there can be only one in Africa’s ecommerce space and both companies want the title. Rocket is the owner/investor of Jumia, Konga’s biggest competitor.
According to Konga, there is systematic “action being taken to stifle the growth Konga.com” by Rocket Internet. It seems that the Berlin-based ecommerce maker has bought and kept on the domain names of Konga across the continent.
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