Category: Business
JUMIA Celebrates One Year Anniversary
Jumia, Nigeria’s #1 online retailer celebrates one year anniversary. In June 2012, Jumia started the largest ecommerce website in the country. Twelve months later, the company has served over half a million customers – changing the way people shop in Nigeria. This has made in less than 1 year, Jumia the 4th most visited Nigerian website: www.jumia.com.ng. Recently, Jumia secured with its affiliated companies a further $35M in funding from Millicom. This [...]
Microsoft Releases Office Mobile for Office 365 Subscribers on iPhone
Today, Microsoft is releasing Office Mobile for iPhone and it will be available at no extra charge from the Apple App Store for Office 365 Home Premium and Office 365 ProPlus subscribers. Similar to its free Office Mobile for Windows Phone that ships with every handset, the iPhone app enables great Office content viewing and on-the-go content [...]
OpenApps Crosses 1 Million Collective Visits with Interesting Outcomes
The Co-Creation Hub, in a bid to improve the quality of digital business in the local space, launched an initiative – Open Apps, and having gotten support from a few players has been able to cross the first million collective visits from different sites, analysing data such as browsers, devices, and operating systems. Open Apps, a market [...]
Jumia Nigeria Brings Fashion Show, Reinvent, To Instagram
Nigeria’s biggest online retailer, www.jumia.com.ng is set to dazzle Nigerian fashionistas with the country’s first ever Instagram Fashion show tagged “Reinvent” scheduled to hold at 4pm on Friday, 14th June, 2013 on their newly launched Instagram account, www.instagram.com/jumiafashion During the Reinvent fashion show, Jumia Nigeria will be showcasing its topmost fashion brands and outfits ranging from [...]
Panabiz Nigeria Launches Document Management Solutions
Panabiz International Limited, an authorised Canon Business solutions Partner has launched a document management solution, to foster digitisation and managing of paper documents for organizations. The General Manager, Panabiz Internationl Limited, Diwakar Yadavalli explained that, “With paper documents generated growing at 22 per cent per annum, there is a growing concern of where to store [...]
Solva Global Business Consulting Presents The CEO’s Network
Africa, specifically Nigeria, is currently enjoying dynamic economic expansion with GDP growth of more than 5% per annum. This growth is expected to attract more foreign direct investment interest from developers and investors in the real estate and construction, agriculture, manufacturing and other sectors. Business networking is an effective low-cost marketing method for developing sales [...]
Samsung Introduces GALAXY S4 Zoom – The First Smartphone to Offer 10x Optical Zoom
Samsung Electronics announced the launch of the Samsung GALAXY S4 zoom, a powerful new device which combines the stylish heritage of the latest GALAXY S4 smartphone with advanced photographic capabilities. Part of the GALAXY S4 family, the GALAXY S4 zoom is the realization of Samsung’s mission to create a single device that can fulfill the [...]
FXTM Launches Over-The-Weeekend Account
Any experienced trader knows that one of the downsides of executing a medium-to long term forex trading strategy is the necessity of leaving positions open overnight – this is when trades incur rollover charges, also known as forex swap rates. In response to this, international forex broker ForexTime Ltd (FXTM), has just announced that they [...]
Kaymu Launches SafePay, for e-Commerce Transactions In Nigeria
Nigeria’s fastest growing online marketplace, Kaymu in her bid to empower Nigerians through e-Commerce has just launched a revolutionary payment solution called SafePay™. According to the MD, Lukas Zels; “Kaymu SafePay™ is a necessary step in the Nigerian e-Commerce industry. We introduced Kaymu SafePay™ to make transactions across Nigeria safe for buyers and sellers. This [...]
Jumia Surpasses 500,000 Fans on Facebook
Nigeria’s number 1 online retailer, Jumia.com.ng, has in typical fashion attained yet another landmark in its 1 year of providing Nigerian shoppers with their best-in-class shopping experience. Coming from their launch in June 2012, jumia.com.ng has achieved the feat of over half a million friends on the social media platform Facebook, reportedly the fastest achievement [...]
