01 December 2022
- Jingle Pay has announced a partnership with Mastercard in an effort to drive financial inclusion in the UAE.
01 December 2022
- Chinese auto chip maker SemiDrive has secured RMB 1 billion yuan ($140 million) in a Series B+ financing round led by Wuxi SAIC Jinshi Innovation Industry Fund Partnership.In July 2021, the Nanjing-based chip firm completed a round-B financing…
01 December 2022
- In its latest mobility report, Ericsson has forecasted that By the end of 2022, 5G subscriptions are
expected to reach 1 billion.
01 December 2022
- Datacentrix recently announced that OpenText has named them the "African Reseller of the Year" for 2022.
01 December 2022
- MTN Limpopo has announced that they have stepped up its battery and generator deployment with the rise in loadshedding and theft of batteries.
01 December 2022
- Synatic, a South African data integration and automation startup has secured an additional $2.5 million in a seed extension round led by Allan Gray E-Squared Ventures and UW Ventures, to expand to the United States.Launched in 2017, Synatic has…
01 December 2022
- Eutelsat has announced that they have selected Thales Alenia Space to build a new Flexible Software-Defined Satellite.
01 December 2022
- Badili, a Kenya-based smartphone re-commerce startup, has raised $2.1 million in a pre-seed funding round which had The Venture Catalysts, V&R Africa, Grenfell holdings, SOSV, and angel investors from Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa and India in…
01 December 2022
- The winning individual or team will be awarded $1 million, with an additional $1 million disbursed throughout the competition as finalists progress and field test ideas. There is no cost to apply, and the competition is open to any innovator across…
01 December 2022
- The beneficiaries of the seed funding include Ayilara Assurance Oluchi, CEO of OnePad Reusable Pad, Nigeria; Lamin Ceesay, CEO of Karakunku Farm, the Gambia; Aminu Moses Rex, CEO Delfak Nigeria Ltd; Claude Albert Moghomaye, CEO, Bertec,…
01 December 2022
- According to a press release by the company, the acceleration of digital transformation and the rising demand for cloud services has made Nigeria an appealing investment for Liquid Intelligent Technologies.
01 December 2022
- Global VC firm 500 Startups has partnered the Egyptian IT Industry Development Agency (ITIDA) to run various programmes as part of a comprehensive ecosystem strategy that also sees it open an office in the country and appoints Amal Enan as partner…
01 December 2022
- Nigerian restaurant cloud operating system provider Orda has raised a US$3.4 million seed round to further digitise food businesses across the continent. Founded by Guy Futi, Fikayo Akinwale, Mark Edomwande, Kunle Ogungbamila, and Namir El-Khouri…
01 December 2022
- Kenya-based energy leasing company, Solarise Africa, has raised $33.4 million. The Facility for Energy Inclusion led the round with $21.4 million while Oikocredit and Lion’s Head’s AfricaGoGreen Fund also participated in the round.
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01 December 2022
- It’s a new month and the festive season is here with us and it’s prime time to upgrade your current smartphone either for yourself or a loved one. We have compiled a definitive list of the best under 20K smartphones for you to choose depending on…
01 December 2022
- Leading African digital payments company DPO Group launched DPO Pay Mobile, a new version of their payments app. With several new features, DPO listened to merchant feedback to redesign and redevelop the payment app. DPO...
30 November 2022
- Pay Television Company StarTimes Media has introduced a bouquet upgrade campaign for its subscribers ahead of the festive season. The new campaign will see subscribers on both terrestrial and satellite platforms enjoy automatic access to higher…
30 November 2022
- Despite inflation and geopolitical crises that have continued since the beginning of this year, the global smartwatch market shipments increased 30% YoY in Q3 2022, according to Counterpoint Research.During the quarter, India’s market grew 171% YoY…
30 November 2022
- Global smartwatch market shipments increased 30% YoY in Q3 2022, despite inflation and geopolitical crises that have continued since the beginning of this year, according to a report by Counterpoint. During the quarter, India’s market grew 171% YoY…
30 November 2022
- Binance, the world's largest crypto exchange by trading volume, has entered the Japanese market with the acquisition of Sakura Exchange BitCoin (SEBC), a Japanese crypto exchange regulated by the country's Financial Services Agency (FSA), for an…
30 November 2022
- Ventures Platform Fund (VP Fund), a leading early-stage fund in Africa, appoints Damilola Teidi as its new Head of Platform and Networks. In her new role, Teidi will lead a team focused on delivering expertise-driven and post-investment support to…
30 November 2022
- Smartphone shipments in Southeast Asia hit the lowest level in the region since Q1 2020, as it fell 4% year on year in Q3 2022 to 23.5 million units, according to Canalys.Samsung widened its lead, shipping 5.9 million units for a 25% market share.…
30 November 2022
- Solarise Africa, a Kenya-based energy leasing company has raised $33.4 million in debt financing to expand its portfolio in Kenya and other selected African countries.Founded by Patrik Huber, Jan Albert Valk and Sakkie van Wijk in 2017, the company…
30 November 2022
- Nigerian food-tech platform Orda announced has raised a $3.4 million seed round to further digitize food businesses across the continent. Orda, which provides a cloud-based restaurant operating system was founded by Guy Futi, Fikayo Akinwale, Mark…
30 November 2022
- The creation of the Hustler Fund was President William Ruto’s main campaign promise and as soon as he got into Office, he created the fund with a Ksh 50 billion allocation meant for personal loans, and micro, small and medium enterprises. The…
30 November 2022
- The Kenya National Bureau of Statistics survey released in 2018 indicated that approximately 400,000 Micro Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) do not celebrate their second birthday, and very few reach five years of on-going business...
30 November 2022
- Spotify today announced the arrival of Wrapped 2022, its yearly look back at what songs, artists, albums and playlists people listened to throughout the year. Drake has clinched the top spot once more as the most streamed artist on Spotify in Kenya…
30 November 2022
- Software company, VMware has announced that VMware Cloud on AWS is now available in the AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region.VMware Cloud on AWS is an integrated cloud offering jointly developed by Amazon Web Services (AWS) and VMware, allowing users to…
30 November 2022
- This article was submitted to TechCabal by Sam Sturm, Chief Venture Architect, Founders Factory Africa At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the world was primed for a substantial increase in health and biotech spending and investment.…
30 November 2022
- The Board of Directors of the African Development Fund have approved a grant of $6.12 million to help strengthen public finance governance in low-income African countries. The funding is for Phase 2 of the Regional Institutional Support Project in…
30 November 2022
- VMware today announced VMware Cloud on AWS is now available in the AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region. With VMware Cloud on AWS, customers across Africa can run workloads across VMware vSphere-based hybrid cloud environments with optimised access to…
30 November 2022
- On this episode of My Life in Tech, Andrew Mori speaks on his foray into cloud computing, the rather amorphous meaning of “the cloud”, and his most surprising lesson as a startup CEO.
30 November 2022
- 4Di Capital, a South African early-stage venture capital firm, announced today the second closing of its new US$ 25 million seed fund, created in partnership with DotExe Ventures in Mauritius, with an undisclosed raise from Mauritian conglomerate,…
30 November 2022
- Twitter CEO Elon Musk this week alleged that tech giant Apple is threatening to ban the microblogging app from its AppStore, which may suggest that the company was pressuring Twitter over content moderation demands.Musk, however, did not provide…
30 November 2022
- We are living in an age of digital transformation, and there’s no doubt that it has touched different sectors. Across...
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30 November 2022
- The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is all set to launch its first pilot, for retail digital rupee (e₹-R), in select locations in closed user group (CUG) comprising participating customers and merchants on December 1.In an official release, the central…
30 November 2022
- NopeaRide, Kenya's first fully electric taxi service has said it's shutting down over the inability of its Finland-based parent company, EkoRent Oy to secure additional funding to keep the business running.According to the company, EkoRent Africa,…
30 November 2022
- If you want to get ahead in the new year, this edition of #EnteringTech🚀 talks about the top five soft skills for 2023 you should be acquiring now.
30 November 2022
- Swift today reported significant progress in 2022 toward the G20’s goals for enhancing the cross-border experience. In the processthey have...
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30 November 2022
- Liquid Intelligent Technologies has announced the launch of its operations in Nigeria. As a one-stop shop technology company offering high-speed...
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30 November 2022
- Payments firm DPO Group, which has since been licensed to run its operations in Kenya, has announced that launched DPO Pay Mobile. This is a new version of their payments app. With several new features, DPO listened to merchant feedback to redesign…
30 November 2022
- Investors are searching for a solid investment that offers a healthy ROI in a reasonable time frame, as well as a founding team that is confident in its ability to achieve its objectives. Many factors influence that decision, but the choice to…
30 November 2022
- Mobile (SIM) subscriptions have undergone ups and downs this year. At the end of the fourth quarter of the previous financial year, it emerged that SIM subscriptions dropped by 200K, but the reason for this was that there were some cards that had…
30 November 2022
- Kaspersky has contributed to INTERPOL’s Africa Cyber Surge Operation (ACSO) by sharing data, comprising of indicators of compromise (IoCs) on...
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30 November 2022
- MTN Ghana has announced that are going to be disconnecting all the not fully registered SIM cards from December 1, 2022.
30 November 2022
- Saudi Telecom Company and Huawei have reached a 10Gbps bandwidth for traditionals bands on a single-antenna link with SuperLink.
30 November 2022
- Dubai cloud kitchen platform Kitopi has reportedly let go 93 of its head office staff, amid a deteriorating economic climate.The job cuts represent a 10% cut of head office staff and 1.86% of its entire workforce number of 5,000, the report stated…
30 November 2022
- Africa faces a significant challenge when it comes to the availability and distribution of cybersecurity talents and secure IT infrastructures. This is important because as the continent continues to undergo digital transformation, the need for…
30 November 2022
- It has emerged that many Kenyans are still hanging onto their feature phones. This has been the case for an extended period of time, but there are several factors why it has been so. First of all, feature phones are cheap, and considering the…
30 November 2022
- Technology plays an all-important role in how today’s healthcare providers handle resources and manage medical centres. Foremost, is the handling of patient safety and comfort, staff shortage, access to real-time data, physical and cybersecurity,…