Tech
- 19 Jan 2026 - After years of quietly bootstrapping its consumer fintech business, Nigerian startup Cardtonic has raised $2.1 million in seed funding to launch Pil, a standalone platform…
- 19 Jan 2026 - In a bold move to strengthen national security and enforce accountability in Nigeria’s expanding space sector, the Director-General, National Space Research and Development…
- 19 Jan 2026 - Kenya’s rapid adoption of electronic invoicing, driven by the Kenya Revenue Authority’s Electronic Tax Invoice Management System (e-TIMS), is shaping a new era in tax ......
- 19 Jan 2026 - Digifarm, a subsidiary of Safaricom, is set on empowering Kenyan farmers through technology, drawing inspiration from the success of M-PESA in driving financial…
- 19 Jan 2026 - Namibia has taken a major step forward in its digital and communications landscape, with Radio Electronic (PTY) Ltd, through its licensed subsidiary Blue…
- 19 Jan 2026 - The strategy targets 10 macro-influencers and 20 micro-influencers, who would be paid quarterly retainers of KES 100,000 ($775) and KES 50,000 ($387.6), respectively, to…
- 19 Jan 2026 - OpenAI plans to begin testing advertising in ChatGPT’s free and entry-level subscription tiers as it expands access to the platform,... Source
- 19 Jan 2026 - Thumbay College of Management & AI in Healthcare, a constituent college of Gulf Medical University (GMU), announced the signing of a landmark Memorandum of…
- 19 Jan 2026 - Mastercard has joined forces with Aafaq Islamic Finance (Aafaq) to introduce a new variant under its World Elite portfolio – the Aafaq World Elite credit ......
- 19 Jan 2026 - This announcement is made as the platform celebrates its 25th anniversary.
- 19 Jan 2026 - The great irony of the current regulatory wave is that it aims to make digital tokens safe by making them look exactly like the banking system people were trying to avoid.
- 19 Jan 2026 - OpenAI is moving forward with plans to make ChatGPT more widely accessible while introducing advertising in a controlled and user-focused way. Since August, the…
- 19 Jan 2026 - Safaricom has appointed Sylvia Anampiu as the new Director of Fixed Business. The telco plans to roll out flexible, prepaid fibre and tokenized Wi-Fi access, bringing daily…
- 19 Jan 2026 - On January 15, 2026, CAMTEL (Cameroon Telecommunications) and the Cameroon Baccalaureate Office (OBC) signed a strategic partnership aimed at advancing the…
- 19 Jan 2026 - The Ministry of Communication, Digital Technology and Innovations has strengthened the operational capacity of the Narcotics Control Commission (NACOC) by…
- 19 Jan 2026 - Tanzania-based fintech startup, NALA has announced a strategic partnership with global payments infrastructure provider Noah. This collaboration aims to modernize cross-…
- 19 Jan 2026 - White label link building is more than a fulfillment model—it’s a growth engine.
- 19 Jan 2026 - Kirinyaga County is taking major strides in embracing the digital economy, with key government interventions aimed at improving connectivity, education, and youth…
- 19 Jan 2026 - The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and Tunisie Telecom, Tunisia’s national telecom operator, are partnering to improve the country’s…
- 19 Jan 2026 - Cloud outages now arrive as routine events in a system built at planetary scale. A misconfigured database, an automated rollback that misfires, a dependency loop nobody…
- 19 Jan 2026 - When Perplexity submitted a $34.5 billion unsolicited offer for Google Chrome in August 2025, the timing mattered more than the price. Google had just lost a major US…
- 19 Jan 2026 - The bids circling Warner Bros. Discovery remain proposals, not outcomes. No merger has closed. No assets have moved. What exists is a contest of intent, financing structures…
- 19 Jan 2026 - The telecom industry enters the new year under strain that feels familiar but heavier. Economic expansion remains weak by historical standards, with global GDP growth…
- 19 Jan 2026 - Rising component costs are beginning to weigh heavily on the global smartphone market, with higher prices on new models expected to create clear production headwinds ......
- 19 Jan 2026 - The Chairperson of the African Union Commission (AUC) , H.E. Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, has congratulated the People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria following the…
- 19 Jan 2026 - Safaricom has appointed Sylvia Anampiu as Director of Fixed Business, reinforcing its strategy to accelerate the evolution of Kenya’s fixed broadband sector through…
- 19 Jan 2026 - Orange Jordan announced that it achieved the best score in the mobile Data Services Benchmarking and Optimization (DSBO) Test for 2025, according to the results ......
- 19 Jan 2026 - Granite Financial Holding, a digitally enabled asset management company, announced that it has received the Fintech license from the Financial Regulatory Authority (…
- 19 Jan 2026 - In today's edition: Nigerian SEC’s capital requirements || MAX gets funded || Kuda rekindles expansion plans
- 18 Jan 2026 - The Africa GoGreen Fund (AGG), managed by Cygnum Capital, has raised €30 million ($33 million) from Germany’s development finance institution DEG to expand financing for…
- 18 Jan 2026 - Nigerian mobility technology company Metro Africa Xpress Inc (MAX) has raised $24 million in a mix of equity and debt to accelerate its expansion into electric mobility and…
- 18 Jan 2026 - An African mobility fintech used trip data and rent-to-own financing to expand in India with Uber, scale EVs, and secure $10M in debt funding. The post Moove Expands to…
- 17 Jan 2026 - Table of contents 1. 120Hz high-refresh-rate 2. Four-year fluency guarantee 3. IP64 dust and water resistance 4. Strong battery life with a 5000mAh battery 5. AI…
- 17 Jan 2026 - Table of contents 1. 120Hz high-refresh-rate 2. Four-year fluency guarantee 3. IP64 dust and water resistance 4. Strong battery life with a 5000mAh battery 5. AI…
- 17 Jan 2026 - I’m not sure exactly when it happened but at some point I fell in love with reading about all things business and technology as a young adult. As you can imagine, this was…
- 17 Jan 2026 - Africa's 2025 healthtech rules tighten: founders must secure licences, enforce data privacy, and adopt HL7/FHIR to operate and scale across borders. The post Healthtech…
- 17 Jan 2026 - Tunisian startup uses solar-powered atmospheric water generators to produce 20–30 L/day of mineralized drinking water, cutting plastic waste and CO₂ across 140+ deployments…
- 17 Jan 2026 - Digital security is becoming more important than ever in the growing business world.
- 17 Jan 2026 - Muvment survived the loss, with Arinze learning lessons the hard way that insurance was non-negotiable. Today, if you asked her about Africa's tech ecosystem, she’d tell you…
- 17 Jan 2026 - Deal teams across Eastern and Southern Africa have learned to read the order of documents. Term sheets first, then diligence, then filings. The Comesa merger notification…
- 17 Jan 2026 - The public image of online creation still leans toward freedom and upside. Work from anywhere. Publish often. Let the internet do the rest. Yet the income patterns emerging…
- 17 Jan 2026 - Climate infrastructure looks slower and heavier by comparison because it involves hardware, warehouses, manufacturing, complex logistics, and blended capital stacks.
- 17 Jan 2026 - Digital credit in Kenya has crossed a threshold where it no longer feels optional. With more than 3 million active digital credit accounts and monthly disbursements…
- 17 Jan 2026 - When the International Finance Corporation commits equity capital, it usually does so with an unusually long memory. The institution tends to avoid momentum trades and…
- 17 Jan 2026 - M-Pesa confirmation messages sit in a strange place in Kenya’s economic life. They are treated as proof, habitually displayed, sometimes demanded, yet rarely examined as…
- 17 Jan 2026 - Nigeria’s push to legislate artificial intelligence reflects less a fascination with new tools than a mounting discomfort with how deeply they have already settled into the…
- 17 Jan 2026 - A Defining Moment for Africa’s Tech Workforce Africa’s technology workforce is entering a decisive moment. What once felt like a future conversation about artificial…
- 17 Jan 2026 - Paystack has made its entry into Nigeria’s banking industry through the acquisition of Ladder Microfinance Bank, representing a significant strategic expansion from payment…
- 17 Jan 2026 - Metro Africa Xpress (MAX), a mobility financing company based in Nigeria, has closed a $24 million funding round comprising both equity and debt as it progresses with its…
- 17 Jan 2026 - Nigerian fintech company Cardtonic has closed a $2.1 million seed funding round to develop Pil, an independent business spending and expense management platform. This…