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…
19 January 2023
- MENA’s BNPL platform Tabby, has raised $58 million in a Series C round from Sequoia Capital India, STV and PayPal…
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19 January 2023
- The gaming market in Africa continues to grow as more creators, gamers and other stakeholders make significant investments in the industry. In a report published in 2021, South Africa led the continent in the population that plays games at 40%. That…
19 January 2023
- Flow, a South African proptech startup, has raised $4.5 million in a pre-Series A funding round to support its mission to revolutionize the real estate industry's approach to digital marketing.The platform utilizes APIs to connect property portals…
19 January 2023
- Digital payments app, PhonePe, owned by Walmart, has raised $350 million at a valuation of $12 billion in a funding round led by private equity firm, General Atlantic. PhonePe, which was acquired by Walmart in 2018, plans to use the new funds to "…
19 January 2023
- South African proptech marketing startup Flow has raised $4.5 million in pre-Series A funding to conclude its pre-Series A investment round. The pre-Series A…
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19 January 2023
- Last week, Google launched the Nigeria Elections Trend Hub, which it said would empower voters, but from all indications, the hub serves the interests of contesting politicians, not voters. However, here are 5 tools from Google that actually empower…
19 January 2023
- Chinese fast fashion retailer, Shein is in talks to raise up to $3 billion, at a reduced valuation of $64 billion, down from the $100 billion the company was reportedly valued at in a funding round last year, the Financial Times reported on…
19 January 2023
- Uber, the global ride-hailing app, has resumed its services in Tanzania after settling drivers’ commission cap dispute with the government....
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19 January 2023
- – Seven African tech companies including Uganda’s MobiPay , an agrotech company that aims at improving people’s lives through innovative solutions to drive…
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19 January 2023
- The job market was already in the midst of a period of tremendous change before the Covid-19 pandemic. Even though Covid-19…
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19 January 2023
- In 2020, the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) implemented a directive allowing for free money transfers from banks to mobile money wallets. However, this was not well received by both banks and mobile money providers. Late last year, the CBK announced…
19 January 2023
- Délégation de l’Entrepreneuriat Rapide (DER) has been described by many as one of the catalysts behind the growth of the Senegalese entrepreneurial and tech ecosystem.
19 January 2023
- Lonestar MTN has announced that they are installing solar-hybrid generators across Liberia to reduce the impact of fossil fuels.
19 January 2023
- Ooredoo has announced that they are going to be offering Google Workspace to their businesses in Qatar.
19 January 2023
- e& has reportedly increased it's shares in the Vodafone group. They now hold more than 3.272 billion shares that is 12% of the company.
19 January 2023
- It has been a couple of months ever since the Ruto Government took over Kenya’s administration. There have been many promises, many of which are long-term and will be realized, hopefully, in the future. Ruto’s Government has also promised a lot in…
19 January 2023
- Fintechs in Africa are the centrepiece of the continent’s startup ecosystem. For most of them, the mission is to bank Africa’s 57% unbanked population. But is this thinking small? Should more startups look to exporting their solutions beyond the…
19 January 2023
- According to a Mordor Intelligence report, telcos across the continent are moving towards the mobile virtual network operator (MNVO) model through the sale and leaseback agreements of mobile towers with tower companies, and South Africa is no…
