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Thu, September 25th, 10:00 · Paul Adepoju

Q&A: Oluranti Efunwoye, Chief Administrative Officer, FresHires.com

FresHires is an online socio-academic and socio-professional self-branding platform for college students, university students and fresh graduates with little or no work experience. Efunwoye spoke to HumanIPO on the uniqueness of the platform and how it is filling the vacuum created by LinkedIn and Facebook. → Read more
Tue, September 23rd, 12:00 · Paul Adepoju

FresHires.com launched for students and graduates with little or no experience

Online social and professional self branding platform FresHires.com has been launched with the aim of allowing college and university students and fresh graduates with little or no working experience to enjoy exposure, self-branding and showcasing. → Read more
Mon, September 22nd, 14:06 · Paul Adepoju

South Africa’s national soccer association, teams verified on Twitter

The South Africa Football Association (SAFA) has announced its official Twitter account and those of the male and female national football teams have been verified thus removing the confusion often encountered when seeking official updates from the football association and teams → Read more
Thu, September 18th, 15:00 · Paul Adepoju

Internet, consumers driving growth in South Africa’s entertainment, media industry – PwC

Vicki Myburgh, Entertainment & Media Industries Leader for PwC South Africa, has described the Internet and consumers as the major drivers of the growth of the entertainment and media industry in South Africa. → Read more
Tue, September 9th, 17:00 · Paul Adepoju

Facebook monthly users in Africa hit 100 million

Facebook has announced the number of its monthly users in Africa is about 100 million out of the continent's 200 million active internet users. Nicola Mendelsohn, Facebook vice president for Europe, Middle East and Africa, said more than 80% of Facebook users in Africa access the social media platform via mobile devices. → Read more
Tue, September 9th, 15:00 · Paul Adepoju

Nigeria’s Frienditeplus.com records over 600,000 registered users

Social networking site Frienditeplus.com today announced it has recorded more than 600,000 registered members. This achievement, the platform said, makes it the fastest growing social networking site in Africa. → Read more
Tue, September 9th, 12:00 · Paul Adepoju

Online female cheaters remain traditional in their romantic perspective – Victoria Milan

Discreet social network for men and women seeking a secret affair Victoria Milan has said its female members are traditional in their romantic perspective even though a good number are turned on by naughty picture messages according to a survey conducted by the network. → Read more
Fri, September 5th, 13:00 · Susan Mwenesi

Nairobi’s SocialAdept keen on enhancing companies’ online visibility

A Nairobi-based advertising company, Social Adept, has taken on the task of enhancing online visibility for both local and international companies using the now quite popular tool of social media. → Read more
Fri, September 5th, 09:00 · Paul Adepoju

Twitpic shutting down this month

Photo and video sharing platform Twitpic has announced it will be shutting down on September 25. → Read more
Thu, September 4th, 16:00 · Susan Mwenesi

M:lab to host first Africa YouTube & Internet Personalities forum

The first Africa YouTube & Internet Personalities forum/seminar will be held at the m:lab, Bishop Magua Centre, 3rd floor from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm on September 6th 2014 and will tackle issues such ashow to run successful internet personas on online media platforms such as YouTube → Read more
Mon, August 18th, 16:00 · Paul Adepoju

Airtel Nigeria offers unlimited chat with WTF Bundle

Airtel Nigeria has launched the WTF Bundle, which offers the network’s subscribers unlimited chat on WhatsApp, Twitter, Facebook and BlackBerry Messenger (BBM). → Read more
Fri, August 15th, 09:00 · Gabriella Mulligan

Q&A: Okeke Emeka, founder of Friendite.com and Frienditeplus.com

Nigerian online dating platform Friendite.com and sister social network Frienditeplus.com intend to become Africa’s biggest dating and social networks within the next three years, and have already gathered over 75,000 and 600,000 users respectively. Founder and chief executive officer (CEO) Okeke Emeka spoke to HumanIPO about the platforms, the online dating space in Africa, and his plans to raise US$500,000 VC funding while also attracting 2.5 million users before the end of the year. → Read more
Thu, August 14th, 17:00 · Paul Adepoju

FEATURE: Concerns over Facebook mandatory Messenger app

Following Facebook’s decision to require its mobile users who want to continue to use its messaging service to install its latest messenger app, experts and users alike have raised security and privacy concerns over the mandatory app. → Read more
Fri, August 1st, 08:00 · Paul Adepoju

Mobile accounts for 78% of Twitter users, 81% of revenues

Twitter’s second quarter report has revealed mobile accounted for 78 per cent of users and 81 per cent of revenues. → Read more
Fri, July 25th, 19:33 · Susan Mwenesi

Kenya’s Deputy president’s Twitter account hacked

Kenya’s Deputy President William Ruto is the latest victim of the Anonymous Group who have claimed that they have hacked the Integrated Financial Management Information System http://www.ifmis.go.ke/ , Immigration and Registration of persons and Western.go.ke as well. → Read more
Thu, July 24th, 17:00 · Paul Adepoju

Twitter acknowledges lack of diversity in workforce

Twitter has followed Facebook, Yahoo! and Google in acknowledging a lack of diversity in its workforce, reporting around 70 per cent of its worldwide workforce is made up of men while 90 per cent of its United States (US) employees are either White or Asian. → Read more
Thu, July 24th, 12:00 · Susan Mwenesi

Kenya police, military hunt Twitter account hackers

The Kenyan police and military are collaborating to hunt down the hackers who two days ago hacked the Kenya Defence Forces Twitter account and sent offensive messages. → Read more
Wed, July 23rd, 12:30 · Susan Mwenesi

Nominations open for Kenyan social media awards

The second annual OLX Kenya Social Media Awards (SOMA) ceremony is slated for October 2, 2014, and is now calling for nominations from Kenyans with influence in the digital space. → Read more
Mon, July 21st, 15:00 · Gabriella Mulligan

Kenya Defence Forces Twitter account hacked by Anonymous

The official Twitter account of the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) has been hacked and has begun tweeting anti-corruption, anti-tribalism and anti-poaching messages while also criticising the country’s elected officials, with the Anonymous group claiming responsibility. → Read more
Wed, July 16th, 14:00 · Susan Mwenesi

Google+ removes name restrictions

Google+ has removed restrictions on names in an effort to make the social medium more welcoming and inclusive. → Read more