Apple Acquires Nigerian Tech Entrepreneur's Startup HopStop

Nigeria could probably use more Engineers and less MBA's. I just hope it doesn't twists the local populations mind into thinking that MBA degrees are useful.

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Post by norswap » Sat, Jul 20, 2013, 8:27 PM UTC

I thought it was an Nigerian startup, but it's just that the entrepreneur is Nigerian. Somehow that feels less newsworthy.

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Post by skc » Sat, Jul 20, 2013, 8:30 PM UTC

Bittersweet for me. I love hearing good news in the tech space out of Africa. Yay!. But then as a Windows Phone fan, I see that with this announcement they've promptly canned their support for the platform. Boo!

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Post by jkuria » Sat, Jul 20, 2013, 8:40 PM UTC

norswap wrote: post #6

I thought it was an Nigerian startup, but it's just that the entrepreneur is Nigerian. Somehow that feels less newsworthy.

Why? TechCrunch publishes stories every day about US companies acquiring US companies. These stories are newsworthy. But if an entrepreneur who happens to have been born in Nigeria sells his company to Apple it is not newsworthy? Did he have to be living on a tree and subsisting on wild fruits and nuts in the Niger Delta swamps for it to be newsworthy?

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Post by cncool » Sat, Jul 20, 2013, 8:55 PM UTC

jkuria wrote: post #8

norswap wrote: post #6

I thought it was an Nigerian startup, but it's just that the entrepreneur is Nigerian. Somehow that feels less newsworthy.

Why? TechCrunch publishes stories every day about US companies acquiring US companies. These stories are newsworthy. But if an entrepreneur who happens to have been born in Nigeria sells his company to Apple it is not newsworthy? Did he have to be living on a tree and subsisting on wild fruits and nuts in the Niger Delta swamps for it to be newsworthy?

He said "less newsworthy", not "not newsworthy".

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Post by clark-kent » Sat, Jul 20, 2013, 8:58 PM UTC

jkuria wrote: post #8

norswap wrote: post #6

I thought it was an Nigerian startup, but it's just that the entrepreneur is Nigerian. Somehow that feels less newsworthy.

Why? TechCrunch publishes stories every day about US companies acquiring US companies. These stories are newsworthy. But if an entrepreneur who happens to have been born in Nigeria sells his company to Apple it is not newsworthy? Did he have to be living on a tree and subsisting on wild fruits and nuts in the Niger Delta swamps for it to be newsworthy?

He means that it's not newsworthy to include that the founder is Nigerian in the headline. The big news is that Apple acquired HopStop.