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Loy Okezie

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  • Technology Writer and Editor, TechLoy
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As seen in: TechLoy, CNN International, Medium, HuffPost, VentureBeat, Memeburn, YNaija
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Techloy | African technology news and startup culture

Techloy | African technology news and startup culture

Techloy — Techloy is a digital publication covering technology and innovation in Africa, since 2008.
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Web savvy Africans fuel growth in online shopping - CNN

Web savvy Africans fuel growth in online shopping - CNN

CNN International — Armed with just her mobile phone, Temioluwa Akinremi embarks on her daily online routine, scouring the internet to keep up with happenings in Lagos, Nigeria.
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10 African startups that rocked 2014 - CNN

10 African startups that rocked 2014 - CNN

CNN International — This year, African entrepreneurs built businesses to solve the continent's problems. Here are 10 of the best.
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No scam: Nigerian company building an Android tablet

No scam: Nigerian company building an Android tablet

VentureBeat — A rumored tablet computer being built by a company in Nigeria became more credible over the weekend, when the company posted photos of a prototype on Facebook. (In case you're unaware: Nigeria's national language is English, and the country's population is roughly half Muslim and half Christian.
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Major shake-up in Nigerian web hosting industry - Memeburn

Major shake-up in Nigerian web hosting industry - Memeburn

Memeburn — The news broke in the early hours of Sunday, December 5th that a major acquisition in the African web industry had just taken place. Web4Africa Ltd, a leading web hosting company headquartered in Accra, Ghana has just acquired 100% control of Nairahost, a top web-hosting firm based in Lagos, Nigeria for an undisclosed fee.
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Nigerian shoppers warm to online retailers

Nigerian shoppers warm to online retailers

BBC — Funsho Lawal beams as she strides towards the Jumia delivery van parked outside her house in Surulere, a Lagos neighbourhood. The delight on her face soon fades as she struggles to fit into the bright red high heels she had ordered.
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Mark Zuckerberg Wedding Ring Absent At TechCrunch Disrupt (PHOTOS)

Mark Zuckerberg Wedding Ring Absent At TechCrunch Disrupt (PHOTOS)

HuffPost — Mark Zuckerberg’s long-awaited first public interview on stage since Facebook’s IPO took place Tuesday afternoon in San Francisco. But it wasn’t something he said that quickly grabbed attention; it was what he wasn’t wearing. Digital media entrepreneur Loy Okezie was one of the first to notice: “Why’s Zuckerberg not wearing his wedding ring? #TCdisrupt”
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25 of the best bloggers operating in Africa today - Memeburn

25 of the best bloggers operating in Africa today - Memeburn

Memeburn — The blog is dead. Except it's not. It's just become so fundamental to our every day experience of the web, that we tend to take it for granted. It's therefore occasionally worthwhile taking a moment to acknowledge that there are still really good bloggers out there who are influencing their respective fields.
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The class of 2015: Nigeria's 100 most innovative persons in Technology

The class of 2015: Nigeria's 100 most innovative persons in Technology

YNaija — Loy Okezie is the founder of Techloy.com, a technology news and research startup.
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Meet The People Who Popularized Blogging In Nigeria - WeeTracker

Meet The People Who Popularized Blogging In Nigeria - WeeTracker

weetracker.com — Blogging has been in vogue for a while now, but Nigerians only recently started keying into the development. The rate at which Nigerian create blogs is now on the increase, because of the widespread opinion that blogging is one of the most lucrative online businesses and can be a cash-spinner.
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The Draft: Google is betting $50 million in African startups

The Draft: Google is betting $50 million in African startups

TechLoy — Welcome to The Draft, a weekly series by Techloy that highlights the most interesting business and financial stories in the technology industry across emerging markets globally.
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The Draft: India's Apna secures $100 million for expansion plans into Africa

The Draft: India's Apna secures $100 million for expansion plans into Africa

TechLoy — Welcome to The Draft, a Techloy weekly series that highlights the most interesting business and financial stories in the technology industry across emerging markets globally.
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Africa's largest fintech app hits 50M active users; 500K businesses transact more than $7B every ...

Africa's largest fintech app hits 50M active users; 500K businesses transact more than $7B every ...

TechLoy — Welcome to The Draft, a Techloy weekly series that highlights the most interesting business and financial stories in the technology industry across emerging markets globally.
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Africa's latest fintech unicorn, Opay has 8 million active users

Africa's latest fintech unicorn, Opay has 8 million active users

TechLoy — Welcome to The Draft, a Techloy weekly series that highlights the most interesting business and financial stories in the technology industry across emerging markets globally.
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The Draft: MTN's tower sale could generate as much as $747 million

The Draft: MTN's tower sale could generate as much as $747 million

TechLoy — Welcome to The Draft, a Techloy series that highlights the most interesting business and financial stories in the technology industry across emerging markets globally.
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The Draft: Weekend Edition

The Draft: Weekend Edition

TechLoy — Welcome to , a Techloy series that highlights the most interesting business and financial stories in the technology industry across emerging markets globally. This weekend's edition was curated by Loy Okezie.
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Decagon is piloting merit-based loan financing for tech talents in Nigeria

Decagon is piloting merit-based loan financing for tech talents in Nigeria

TechLoy — The last time we covered technology training institute Decagon in May 2021, it had just announced that it wasbuilding a 23-hectare technology park in Benin City, Edo State near the University of Benin, in collaboration with the Edo State government.
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The Draft: China's #realme is now the fastest smartphone brand to reach 100 million shipments

The Draft: China's #realme is now the fastest smartphone brand to reach 100 million shipments

TechLoy — Chinese smartphone brand, realme shipped its 100 millionth smartphone worldwide during June 2021, making it the fastest brand ever to reach 100 million shipments in the history of the global smartphone market, at 37 months, ahead of Xiaomi, Apple, vivo, OPPO, Huawei, and Samsung.
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The Draft: China's Xiaomi becomes the world's second-largest smartphone brand

The Draft: China's Xiaomi becomes the world's second-largest smartphone brand

TechLoy — Keep up with the business and financial stories that matter in the technology industry across emerging markets globally on The Draft, curated by Techloy Editor, Loy Okezie.
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UK-based fintech startup Sendit wants to fix remittance inequality across the world

UK-based fintech startup Sendit wants to fix remittance inequality across the world

TechLoy — For years, people living in developed countries have enjoyed low money transfer fees when sending funds to their families and friends in developing countries. Unfortunately, for those living in developing countries, this is not the case. That's why London-based fintech startup Sendit is launching to fix this remittance inequality anomaly.
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