20 January 2023
- Google’s parent company Alphabet Inc announced on Friday plans to lay off 12,000 or 6 per cent of its workforce...
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20 January 2023
- Indian food delivery giant, Swiggy, announced that it will lay off 380 jobs and shut down its meat marketplace as the company navigates the market downturn.In an email to employees, Swiggy CEO Sriharsha Majety stated that the company had advanced…
20 January 2023
- Flow's product is essentially a proptech marketing platform that enables agencies and property developers and agents to market themselves automatically to reach people on these digital channels.
20 January 2023
- Airtel Uganda has announced that they have flagged off a fleet of 59 vehicles to ease service delivery for its offices in Bugolobi.
20 January 2023
- Africa Data Centres has officially broken ground on an additional data centre facility in Nairobi. The new build will see...
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20 January 2023
- In June 2022, South Africa-based on-demand home cleaning startup, SweepSouth, expanded to Nigeria after months of scoping out the market. Five months later, it told customers that it was shutting down operations. It also closed shop in Kenya,…
20 January 2023
- Rocket Health has appointed Dr Jacquiline Kitulu as the new Chairperson Board of Directors, to take a step to raise...
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20 January 2023
- Late November WhatsApp was rumored to be testing the ability of Voice Notes as statuses. This is no longer a rumor as WhatsApp for Android beta version 2.23.2.8 has brought Voice Status updates to some beta users, allowing them to upload vanishing…
20 January 2023
- In this guest article for TechCabal, Emmanuel Mogaji discusses why the new cash withdrawal limit policy by the CBN is a good thing and how banks, POS operators, and developers can take advantage of this to innovate.
20 January 2023
- Reed Hastings, the co-founder of video streaming service Netflix and its CEO for 25 years, is stepping down from his role in a leadership change at the top of the corporation. Hastings stated in a blog post that he has been gradually transferring…
20 January 2023
- Rohde & Schwarz, an internationally recognized electronics group specializing in the fields of electronic test equipment, broadcast and media, cyber...
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20 January 2023
- Takura Malaba has been named the new Bolt Regional Manager for East and Southern Africa, beginning on January 1st, 2023. He will be taking over for Kenneth Micah, who held the position of Regional Manager for Eastern Africa since October 2019.…
20 January 2023
- Elon Musk’s satellite internet company, Starlink, has announced plans to venture into the Kenyan market with the launch expected in the second quarter of the year. The company powered by SpaceX said it is awaiting service coverage and regulatory…
20 January 2023
- Eutelsat has announced that they have decommissioned its EUTELSAT 5 West A satellite after its 20+ years of fruitful in-orbit operation.
20 January 2023
- As anyone who has ever dealt with a hard drive knows, they can be painfully slow. That’s why solid-state drives…
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20 January 2023
- Uber has today announced the resumption of its services in Tanzania following a pause that was instituted in April 2022.…
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20 January 2023
- In the African funding landscape, startups raised a record $4.8 billion in 2022, after a pretty solid first half of the year, however, funding slowed down in the second half of the year.The Western African region remained firmly in the lead, despite…
20 January 2023
- Jacobs Douwe Egberts has announced that they have deployed Orange Business Services for its secure end-to-end connectivity solutions for its 120 locations worldwide.
20 January 2023
- Africa Data Centre has announced that they have broken ground on an additional data centre facility in Nairobi.
20 January 2023
- Following a record year in 2021, private investment in the space sector declined by 58% to $20.1 billion in 2022, the lowest annual total since 2015, according to a new Space Investment Quarterly report from the firm Space Capital.The report cited…
20 January 2023
- The secondary school students who sat for their KCSE exams towards the end of 2022 will know how they performed in the exams later today. This is because the Kenya National Examinations Council is set...
20 January 2023
- With an ever-increasing global demand for technological expertise as the world makes a shift towards technological transformation, software skills are becoming an ever-needed skill set for aspiring developers or software technology experts.The…
20 January 2023
- Telecommunications company, Mitel, and distributor, Mart Networks have re-affirmed their commitment to leverage on technology to improve the telecommunications sector...
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20 January 2023
- In many African countries, access to financial services is limited, and many individuals do not have bank accounts or access...
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20 January 2023
- Kenyan electric bus startup BasiGo has announced the arrival of fifteen new electric buses into the Port of Mombasa. Basi...
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20 January 2023
- Indian social media startup ShareChat, which is backed by investors such as Twitter, Google, Tiger Global, and Temasek, has laid off 20% of its workforce, or over 400 employees.The decision comes just a month after the company eliminated over 100…
20 January 2023
- How to check KCSE 2022 Results OnlineGo to “www.knec-portal.ac.ke”Check for the “KCSE Results” tab and click on itSelect the required ‘Examination Year’ which is 2022Enter your Index numberYour KCSE results...
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20 January 2023
- Today, the Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) is set to release the results of the Kenya Certificate for Secondary Education (KCSE) exams taken by 884,263 candidates in 2022. This is exactly one month after the KCPE 2022 results were…
20 January 2023
- European startups saw a decline in funding in 2022, with venture and growth investors investing $90 billion, a 25% decrease from the previous year's peak of $119 billion.
20 January 2023
- Noah Amoke has been appointed as the CM.com Sales Manager for Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). CM.com is a global company that specializes in cloud-based software for conversational commerce, which helps businesses improve customer experience. Their…
20 January 2023
- Ten Kenyan agri-circularity startups have been selected for the second edition of the O-Farms accelerator programme, which will award two peer-selected companies with milestone-based grant funding of up to EUR25,000 (US$24,000). Led by Bopinc and…
20 January 2023
- South African prop-tech startup Flow has secured a US$4.5 million pre-Series A investment round to drive its international expansion. Founded in 2019 by Daniel Levy and Gil Sperling, Flow goes straight to the source of the largest social platforms…
20 January 2023
- A couple of days ago, we learned that third-party Twitter apps were not working. Users reported that the likes of Fenix, Flamingo, and more were experiencing an outage, and at that time, no explanation or communication was made from Twitter…
20 January 2023
- Tanzania's transport regulatory authority has reversed the 15% cap on commission fees collected by ride-hailing apps. Now, Tanzanian ride-hailing drivers will pay up to 25% in commission fees to operators like Bolt and Uber.
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20 January 2023
- Although trends really have nothing to do with the growth of industry, we think they are essential to cultivating knowledge of a particular set. In 2022, we saw trends that were good and bad, the toxic one being the shutting down of startups and…
20 January 2023
- Africa Data Centres has officially broken ground on an additional data centre facility in Nairobi. The new build will see the existing facility on the adjacent piece of land expanded up to an extra 15MW of IT load. The new site will be completed in…
19 January 2023
- Organisations must ensure data is secured when employees leave the business, and that it has not been transferred onto personal devices How will GDPR regulations present new challenges for cyber security teams? GDPR legislation for both the UK and…
19 January 2023
- AVEVA, a global leader in industrial software, today announced the completion of its acquisition by Schneider Electric, a leading global industrial company specializing in digital automation and energy management. Since its foundation, AVEVA has…
19 January 2023
- The CIO role has undergone a seismic shift. No longer relegated to just “keeping the lights on”, today’s CIO is now synonymous with “key decision maker”, in charge of many parts of the business, wielding massive influence within the C-suite and…
19 January 2023
- The United States Treasury Department has designated Bitzlato, a Hong Kong-based cryptocurrency exchange, as a primary money-laundering concern and charged its founder for allegedly facilitating money laundering for criminals, according to a report…
19 January 2023
- The South African company Flow aims to change the interactions between real estate brokers, developers, and clients. The websites of real estate agencies and property developers can be integrated with Flow’s APIs to automate their social media…
19 January 2023
- MTN Ghana, a subsidiary of the MTN Group, was penalized by the Ghana Income Authority with a fine of almost $773 million for allegedly underreporting its revenue. The fine includes penalties and interest. The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), according…
19 January 2023
- According to a report by IT consulting and research firm, Gartner, global IT spending contracted by 0.2% in 2022, reaching a total of $4.38 trillion. This marked a rare instance of corporations spending less on digital business tools than in the…
19 January 2023
- In order to more closely align with a name that is already well-known and regarded by the clientele of the company, TeamApt, a well-known commercial banking platform in Africa, has been relaunched as Moniepoint, the name of its main product. The…
19 January 2023
- Six months after issuing fintech startup Fincra an approval-in-principle, Nigeria’s central bank has awarded the fintech a PSSP license, enabling it to operate as a payment solutions service provider within the country.
19 January 2023
- Carry1st will use the financing to develop, license, and publish new games, as well as further expand Pay1st, the company’s monetization-as-a-service solution.
19 January 2023
- The African Continental Free Trade Area is expected to open up promising opportunities in the agriculture and agro-processing sector.
19 January 2023
- Global cybersecurity spending (including enterprise products and services) will increase by 13.2% in 2023 and remain a key growth sector for channel partners, according to Canalys’ latest cybersecurity forecasts.The IT market intelligence group…
19 January 2023
- At the World Economic Forum , Administrator Samantha Power announced that USAID will launch the Enterprises for Development, Growth, and Empowerment (EDGE)…
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19 January 2023
- This article was contributed to TechCabal by Andrew Garza. Garza is the COO/co-founder of Lifestores, a Nigerian healthtech company democratizing access to quality and affordable primary healthcare in Africa. Nigerian and African healthtech has…
