14th May 2024

Multilingual SEO for Dummies

So, you're noticing more international traffic on your website. Great news! Now, it's time to capitalize on this opportunity by implementing multilingual SEO.

This guide will help you learn what multilingual SEO is and how to do it right.

Published • 28th October 2024

Subdomain vs Subdirectory for SEO Localization

The "subdirectory vs. subdomain debate is a serious head-scratcher for website owners. And even more so for owners of localized websites.
Today, I’ll try to put the issue to rest and help you choose the best option for your multilingual website.

28th October 2024

How to Fix a Hacked Android Phone

Worried your Android phone might be hacked? It's a scary thought, knowing someone could access your personal information remotely and wreak havoc on your life. You need to fix this. And you need to do that fast.

MUO • 23rd July 2022

The New Slack Pricing Plan and What It Means for Users

Slack has announced that it's adjusting its prices in September. This is Slack’s first price increase since its 2014 launch and will only affect subscribers on the Pro Plan. The social networking app is also changing parts of its free plan offerings, and the internet is buzzing.

14th May 2024

Numbers Localization: Currency, Date & Time

Ordering a pizza and getting a thousand pizzas instead? Unfortunately, that's not a bonus. That’s a number localization bug.

Localized numbers might seem like a small part of your localization project, but getting them wrong can cost you money, trust, or even customers.

This article breaks down the nuances of numbers localization and offers tips to get numbers right for every audience.

Published • 14th May 2024

Multilingual SEO for Dummies

So, you're noticing more international traffic on your website. Great news! Now, it's time to capitalize on this opportunity by implementing multilingual SEO.

This guide will help you learn what multilingual SEO is and how to do it right.

Multilingual SEO is the practice of improving the search engine rankings of a website across its multiple language versions. It allows people in overseas markets to find your website by using their local search. Multilingual SEO optimization involves translat

TechCabal • 6th July 2021

Netflix and chill just got a whole lot cheaper for Africa

Our people have a saying, when two elephants fight, the grass suffers. This is indisputable. Six tons of hard muscle and bones will do a cruel number on any lawn, no matter how stubborn the grass is—it just has to bow down to the ancestors.

But what happens when the elephants in question are not two, but three of the biggest Subscription Video-On-Demand (SVOD) platforms in Africa!

Well, the grass just got greener on the Netflix side of town.

Published • 14th May 2024

Ecommerce Localization: How to Start?

Understand why comprehensive e-commerce adaptation must go beyond translation. And how to do it.

14th May 2024

UX/UI Localization: The Beginner’s Guide

Picture this: an eager German user downloads your app but finds everything designed with an English audience in mind. Unfamiliar dates, incomprehensible currencies, and words that don't fit on buttons.

Now imagine these UI issues being replicated worldwide.

These are challenges that can be solved with a proper user interface localization.

What is UI and UX localization, anyway? And how can this essential strategy help make your product a natural fit for users around the world?

What is UI and

28th October 2024

Can Opening an Email Give You a Virus

Can opening an email give you a virus? Technically, yes, if the email contains malicious code, like HTML-rendered scripts. However, most modern email clients protect against this. The real threat lies in the attachments and phishing links within these emails.

This guide will teach you the risks of opening suspicious mail, how to protect yourself, and why you need Clario Anti Spy's Data breach monitor to keep your inbox free from spam mail.
A virus is a type of harmf...

28th October 2024

Clario vs Certo

In 2023, over 438,000 malware installation packages were detected on mobile devices worldwide. And the numbers are still rising. You need anti-spyware software, and you need it fast. But which one should you pick? In this article, we’ll compare two popular options—Clario Anti Spy vs Certo AntiSpy—and help you make an informed decision between them.

Or simply secure your phone with Clario Anti Spy now.
Clario Anti Spy is simple and effective security software designed...

Published • 12th February 2023

OneRoute Blog

Customer success is important for the growth of any business, including fintechs. And with the rising cost of customer acquisition, African fintechs need to be more intentional about customer success.

In this article, we highlight crucial customer success metrics to track, and how OneRoute makes it easier for you and your team to track them.

TechCabal • 22nd July 2021

How to navigate Africa’s thriving second-hand smartphone market

Last year, there were a lot of scary numbers speculating the great smartphone decline in Africa, *waves hands dramatically*. Well, turns out Africans found a way around that problem: Second-hand phones.

TechCabal • 13th July 2021

Move over TikTok, YouTube Shorts is in Nigeria

*Cue the classic YouTube intro*
Remember how you’d spend hours tweaking and zhuzhing up your MUA videos and dance tutorials before uploading them on YouTube, only for some rando to comment something annoying? Well, we can’t help you with the random nasty comment – yet – but YouTube just launched something short and exciting to their Nigerian users.

TechCabal • 6th July 2021

Instagram launches Reels ads in Sub-Saharan Africa

Imagine scrolling through Reels of your favorite celebrities trying—and most times failing—to dance amapiano, then boom: an ad pops up.

Well, heads up Africa! You’re going to be seeing a lot of that soon, because Facebook’s rolling out a sizzling new update, Reels ads, to help businesses widen their audience reach.

Last year Instagram released Reels, a TikTok clone, to counter TikTok’s growing domination of the short-form video space. Already, TikTok has been downloaded over 2 billion times ac

TechCabal • 2nd July 2021

7 amazing things you didn’t know your smartphone could do

Last month, a viral TikTok video by What’s Inside blew people’s minds. It was about a guy who could control 15 gadgets in his smart home from his phone. The video was both fascinating and somewhat intimidating — you know it was. So, it got us wondering: what other cool things can you do with your smartphone?

Mentally Aware Nigeria Initiative (MANI) • 20th February 2019

LOOKING THROUGH THE LENS OF ADDICTION

Most times when people hear the terms “substance abuse” and “drug addiction”, they think they are the same thing and are synonymous to each other. Well, they aren’t. This article will give an insight on their actual meanings and their relationship with each other.