BBM users with a Nigerian bank account can now request for money, airtime and payment for services from their BBM contacts, all thanks to a Quickteller Mini app mow available for smartphones running on Android, BlackBerry and iOS. Quick teller Mini app, a collaborative effort between Interswitch, a digital payments and commerce provider and BlackBerry […]
Smile, Samsung in Nigeria’s LTE voice service on smartphone pact
Smile Communications Nigeria Limited, a provider of broadband service in Nigeria has joined forces with Samsung Electronics West Africa to launch its first Long Term Evolution (LTE) voice over broadband service on smartphones. According to the companies the new product promise to offer high quality and improved voice and video communications, enabling faster, better video calls, […]
IDC: Nigeria, emerging markets fuel world smartphone growth in Q1 2015
A global mobile phone tracking report has revealed that growth in smartphone markets in the second quarter of 2015 was fuelled by increased demand in Nigeria like other emerging markets. Preliminary insights from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly shows that vendors shipped a total of 337.2 million smartphones worldwide in the second quarter of […]
Yudala, Nigeria’s tech billionaire’s e-commerce unit debuts Saturday
Yudala, a major e-commerce unit owned by a team of Nigerians including tech billionaire Leo Stan Ekeh, owner of the Zinox Group is promising a range of freebies at next Saturday’s launch of four stores in Lagos. Yudala, a spinoff of Ekeh’s Zinox Group, alongside other investors under the tech conglomerate’s plan to expand its […]
