Billionaire investor Peter Thiel nabs another $1.3 billion for Founders Fund
Peter Thiel’s decades old Founders Fund pulled together another $1.3 billion dollars today for Founders Fund VI. Thiel, a billionaire investor in Facebook and SpaceX and co-founder of PayPal, will...
View ArticleWhat marketers can learn from the economy of convenience
If you think about it, money is a ridiculous concept. Without going into a William Jennings Bryan gold standard history lesson, let’s just say the idea that I can hold this thing, this little cloth...
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Life without filling stations? FueledUp.co will deliver fuel to anyone in Lagos
On-demand fever is sweeping across the technology space, and domain experts are falling over themselves to “Uber-ify” their respective industries. Forget that the model doesn’t necessarily translate...
View ArticleGhana’s Government has lost over $900,000 to SIM boxing in the past five months
Communications experts in Ghana say that it took just five months for Ghana to lose over $900,000 because of the activities of SIM box operators. We remember that only 2 months ago, the Police...
View ArticleSoutheast Asian mobile Internet company Garena announces $170M Series D
Garena, a Singapore-based company that makes mobile gaming, e-commerce, and payment apps, said today that it has raised a $170 million Series D. The funding was led by Khazanah Nasional Berhad, the...
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Google April Fools’ Day prank cost people their jobs…
This year’s Google’s April Fool’s Day went horribly wrong with Google users. Google included a Mic Drop Button yesterday to their email service. After an immediate backlash, the feature was taken down...
View ArticleNigeria Heritage Bank has collaborated with the CBN and NYSC to provide...
Heritage bank in collaboration with CBN and NYSC has created a sustainable development programme tagged YIEDP (Youth Innovative Entrepreneurship Development Programme). A platform where business loans...
View ArticleIntroducing The Marketplace…
It heralds an exciting new dawn across Nigeria and beyond. It cuts through the clutter, bringing to the fore a whole new perspective and real all-round, business-transforming value. It’s everything...
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Hardware is hard: How we built a hardware startup with two engineers and some...
Hardware is hard. Building a hardware startup is even harder. The good news is that the staggering amount of innovation in rapid prototyping, 3D printing and backend-as-a-service platforms has made...
View ArticleNigeria: China helps Nigeria with $6 Billion amist national financial crises.
China has offered Nigeria a loan worth $6 billion to fund infrastructure projects. The announcement came as both countries signed a currency swap deal to boost trade. Nigeria has been in talks with...
View ArticleGreek Debt Relief – Prime Minister wants vicious cycle broken
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has said it is time to end the “vicious cycle” of cuts and to start talks with the eurozone on debt relief. The measures are needed to unlock further international...
View ArticleTwo airlines pull out of Nigeria
Two international airlines are pulling out of Nigeria as the country grapples with its worst economic crisis in decades. Spanish airline Iberia cancelled all its flights last month and the US carrier...
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Chinese park turns abandoned buses into Hello Kitty, Mickey Mouse hotels
Abandoned vehicles may not shout holiday charm, but a resort in northern China is attracting customers with its unique, cartoon-filled bus hotels. Owners of the Tai Tai Mountain Park in the city of...
View ArticleOver 236 flights cancelled at Dubai airport
Traffic at Dubai airport remained disrupted Thursday with 237 flights cancelled, a day after an Emirates plane crash-landed and shut down the Middle East’s busiest airport for several hours. Dubai...
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