Social Media

VENTURES AFRICA – Swiss multinational pharmaceutical company Novartis and Malaria No More, a leading global charity, have announced a partnership – Power of One campaign – geared towards reducing the treatment gap and accelerating progress in the fight against malaria. Over the next three years, Novartis will support the campaign financially and also donate up [...]

VENTURES AFRICA – Running a business in today’s tech savvy world requires constant engagement with customers i.e. feeding clients with info and getting the required feedback. And the role of social media in this two-way street is crucial as it creates an informal platform where businesses and customers relate. Social media has come to stay. [...]

VENTURES AFRICA – The poor adoption of Nigeria’s domain name, .ng, and the purchase of foreign domain names such as .com, .org, .net, and .co.uk etc, by Nigeria’s website owners, has resulted in a capital flight of about 3.76 billion naira ($23.8 million) in the last five years. As Punch reported, the “figure is expected [...]

VENTURES AFRICA – Following a successful MTN Cloud pilot project, the South African telecommunications giant has announced it would launch its cloud services Wednesday, 10th of April, 2013 to boost ease of business operations. Cloud technology provides clients with virtual data servers (online memory spaces and softwares) that can be accessed on any device – mobile [...]

VENTURES AFRICA – Across nations, many firms and governments face the increasingly complex challenge of resolving international poverty, variations of political instability, and global climate change. With United Nations experts projecting the world population to reach 10.1 billion by 2100 some of these problems may worsen before they are improved. Both firms and governments are [...]

VENTURES AFRICA – Having worked with SMEs for 12 years there is a sense of “give me a sleeping tablet” when they tell me they need a website. So after chatting to Push Digital CEO, Stephen Gorman, I have a clear sense of who will be setting up my company website. More exciting is that [...]

VENTURES AFRICA – The 2013 Economist Nigeria summit has come to an end. The event had in attendance global economic icons such as former Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, under whose helm the country’s economy significantly improved; founder and CEO of Acumen Fund, Jacqueline Novogratz; and Robert Neuwirth, author of Stealth of Nations [...]

“Consumers should desist from just consuming social media and become content creators. We too can create something. We have things to say and stories to tell.” - Ato Ulzen-Appiah, CEO of Museke Inc.   VENTURES AFRICA – People from all walks of life gathered in Lagos for one week to participate in the Social Media week [...]

VENTURES AFRICA – Africa’s first ever social media week took place in Lagos this February 2013. How did Nigeria get the right to host the event? What exactly happened during the social media week? What plan are the organizers putting in place to improve next year’s edition? How can those who were not able to [...]

VENTURES AFRICA – Mara Online and Plingm, the Swedish mobile VoIP application provider, have formed a strategic partnership to market a free mobile VoIP app called Mara ConnectTM, allowing smartphone and tablet users across Africa to call and text for free, both domestically and internationally. In spring this year, the mobile application Mara ConnectTM will [...]

VENTURES AFRICA – SliceBiz (Ghana), Prowork (Nigeria) and Ffene (Uganda) have been announced as the winners of the 2012 Apps4Africa competition funded by the US government and the World Bank. The winners who were chosen from nearly 300 applications by an international panel of judges were awarded $10,000 each with the possibility of top-up funds [...]

VENTURES AFRICA – Amazing things can happen, when a small group of people leverages the power of social media and the internet. They can literally change the course of history. As the saying goes – “A tree cannot make a forest, but it can make an oasis.” In this digital age you don’t need a [...]

Editor’s Note : Frrole, an India based social local newspaper, has launched its much awaited iPhone and Android apps. Frrole has been growing at 40 percent month and month and is expected to cross a million monthly unique visitors on the web in March. The apps are expected to further speed up the pace of [...]

VENTURES AFRICA – Africa-based social networking site, Yookos has upgraded its platform to suit the social networking requirements of its over 10 million social media users. This came at the heels of the release of its mobile web version in Johannesburg late last year. By offering the mobile version meant especially for phones, the company [...]

VENTURES AFRICA – As technology continues to play a major role in Africa’s healthcare system, mobile and web-based health communication platform, FolUp, was officially launched in South Africa to provide patients with a secure platform on which they can actively participate in their health management process. The innovative social online healthcare tool allows physicians and [...]