OAU Graduates Developed A Mobile News App.
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OAU Graduates Developed A Mobile News App.
Two graduates of Obafemi Awolowo University, Tolu Ajewole and Babajide Owosakin are taking the battle for news discovery to Internet giants, Facebook & Twitter with their innovative mobile news app, Newspepa
According to Stargist.com, the application enables users discover top news from their favourite sites all in one place. It features news from top sources such as Punch, Vanguard, Nigerian Monitor & Daily Post.
Entertainment sites such as Stargist, Linda Ikeji ,City People,BellaNaija and Kokofeed. Sports lovers have Complete Sports and Goal.com to read from.
The fresh graduates of computer engineering developed the app to organise the overwhelming amounts of news information in a useful way for Nigerians.
Babajide said they achieved this by developing software algorithms to rank and recommend the most important stories to users.
Tolu made mention of the fact that they had gotten over 40,000 users within one month of launch which is well beyond their expectations.
“The feedback has been very encouraging and we’re improving the site daily for users”; she said.
According to Stargist.com, the application enables users discover top news from their favourite sites all in one place. It features news from top sources such as Punch, Vanguard, Nigerian Monitor & Daily Post.
Entertainment sites such as Stargist, Linda Ikeji ,City People,BellaNaija and Kokofeed. Sports lovers have Complete Sports and Goal.com to read from.
The fresh graduates of computer engineering developed the app to organise the overwhelming amounts of news information in a useful way for Nigerians.
Babajide said they achieved this by developing software algorithms to rank and recommend the most important stories to users.
Tolu made mention of the fact that they had gotten over 40,000 users within one month of launch which is well beyond their expectations.
“The feedback has been very encouraging and we’re improving the site daily for users”; she said.
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