17 November 2022
- Angola Cables has announced that they have established Telcables in an effort to deploy localised ICT solutions in Nigeria and West Africa.
17 November 2022
- Cellulant has announced that they have come into a partnership with Solv Kenya to help MSME partners with digital payment services.
17 November 2022
- OPPO Kenya is kicking off the holiday shopping season early with its Black Friday Sale, which will be running from November 4th to November 30th, 2022. During the annual Black Friday Sales, OPPO says consumers will get to enjoy Luxury design and…
17 November 2022
- Electric vehicle company Roam manufactures fully electric motorcycles and buses in Kenya.
17 November 2022
- Google hosted software developers and technical industry professionals to a full-day event of talks and workshops in Nairobi. The Google Sandbox program seeks to activate partnerships to deepen relationships within the local tech community and…
17 November 2022
- Kenyan e-pharmacy startup MYDAWA has launched a telehealth solution tailored to HIV prevention with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Founded in 2017, MYDAWA enables consumers to conveniently purchase authentic high-quality…
17 November 2022
- Mastercard has announced that they have introduced the Samsung Wallet in Qatar to elevate cardholders’ purchasing experience.
17 November 2022
- UNESCO and Huawei have announced that they have come together to launch the "Technology-enabled Open Schools for All" project.
17 November 2022
- The Executive Vice Chairman of NCC, Professor Umar Danbatta has said that the 5G auction is driven by pursuit of better quality of life, not revenue.
17 November 2022
- At AfricaCom, DigitalVirgo has announced that they enabled 25 Million Africans with access to digital content and services in 2022.
17 November 2022
- Black Friday is here, and as usual, you can grab a lot of nice stuff from retail stores and online shops if you can look for a good deal keenly enough. This is the period when people can buy electronics cheaply, including phones and other home…
17 November 2022
- Hibret Bank has announced a partnership with Mastercard in an effort to launch an E-Commerce Payment Solution.
17 November 2022
- Centenary Bank in partnership with the Ministry of ICT and National Guidance, together with the United Nations Development Fund (UNDP),...
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17 November 2022
- It’s now emerging that the collapse of American crypto platform FTX last week has had an impact on Nigeria’s Web3 startup Nestcoin, even as its effects continue to be felt across the world. Nestcoin CEO Yele Bademosi said that his startup held cash…
17 November 2022
- Members from the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) are in Uganda to deliberate on the use of machine-readable travel documents,...
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17 November 2022
- A study by Mozilla Foundation has revealed that social media platforms Facebook, TikTok and Twitter performed poorly in their efforts to stop the spread of misinformation during the Kenyan 2022 elections. “The platforms failed to recognize some…
17 November 2022
- Last night, ASUS unveiled the Expert Series Business Laptops in the Kenyan market. The series is made up of a number of business products that promise reliability, flexibility, and enterprise-grade security. Asus says these new...
17 November 2022
- African tech leaders, corporates and investors will connect at the London Stock Exchange for the sixth annual Africa Tech Summit London on November 24th. The annual Africa Tech Summit London will share insights from leading industry players…
17 November 2022
- Smartphone companies spare no details when it comes to their flagship devices. They go all in on their apex devices – rocking them with high-grade hardware and software features. Some even go and switch form factors to bring foldables to the table…
17 November 2022
- The International Finance Corporation (IFC) has launched a $225 million venture capital subsidiary to invest in early-stage startups across Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia and Pakistan. The global financial institution under the World Bank…
17 November 2022
- OAO Investments is a black-owned, South African company whose growth model includes start-up joint ventures, partnerships, as well as acquisitions of both growing and mature companies.
17 November 2022
- With four million South Africans and counting owning cryptocurrencies, according to a report by Finder’s Cryptocurrency Adoption Index, Centennial Schools’ crypto course could prove to be a good future bet for parents who would like to see their…
17 November 2022
- The last couple of months have seen the CBK provide licenses to two companies to operate as Payment Service Providers (PSP). The first one was Virtual Pay International Limited, which received the document in July. Days later, DPO Group also …
17 November 2022
- LG Electronics on Tuesday announced its commitment to champion the overall expansion of digital laundromats across the country and formalize the informal “mamafua” industry. This follows a growing demand for laundry services among an increasingly…
17 November 2022
- Epson has announced that it’s ending sales of laser printers citing the technology’s limited ability to make meaningful sustainability advances. The technology company announced on Thursday that Epson it’s now committed fully to inkjet printing,…
17 November 2022
- Nigerian startup Haul247 is connecting haulage or storage orders with available solutions using an Airbnb-style model. Founded by Sehinde Afolayan, Tobi Obasa and Akindele Phillips during the COVID-19 lockdowns of 2020, Haul247 is a marketplace…
17 November 2022
- FTX has lost its financial services trading licence in South Africa.
South African cryptocurrency market maker Ovex cancelled has cut off the international exchange’s access to its local Financial Service Provider (FSP) licence.
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17 November 2022
- Vodacom Tanzania has unveiled 5G Fixed Wireless Access routers that will connect homes and businesses to the company’s 5G network that promises seamless and fast connections. In September 2022, Vodacom Tanzania launched the country’s first 5G…
17 November 2022
- Productivity and task management app Evernote has been acquired by Bending Spoons, a leading European technology company based in Milan, Italy, for an undisclosed fee.Founded in 2000 by Russian-American entrepreneur Stepan Pachikov, the company…
16 November 2022
- Nvidia and Microsoft have announced plans to build an AI supercomputer in the cloud, which will add tens of thousands of Nvidia GPUs to Microsoft Azure.The multi-year partnership will make Microsoft Azure the first public cloud to incorporate…
16 November 2022
- Trellix, the cybersecurity company delivering the future of extended detection and response (XDR), today released The Threat Report: November 2022 from its Advanced Research Center, home to the world’s most elite security researchers and…
16 November 2022
- Why should your geographic location limit your ability to send and receive money? Why should it affect your ability to buy goods and services from around the globe? And why should someone from Lagos or Kampala not have the same kind of access to…
16 November 2022
- Today’s leading manufacturing companies are adept at change. They have to be in order to survive. Innovating, modernising and continual refinements of operational processes are driving factors in today’s complex market manufacturing landscape. It…
16 November 2022
- LG Electronics has announced its commitment to champion the overall expansion of digital laundromats across the country and formalize the informal “mamafua” industry. This follows a growing demand for laundry...
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16 November 2022
- Asus has unveiled the Expert series of laptops for the Kenyan market. The tech company has been selling its PCs in the local market for some time, some of which we have reviewed on this platform and on our YouTube channel. The Expert series of…
16 November 2022
- Asus on Wednesday announced a handful of new ExpertBook laptops in Kenya targeting business users. The new range of laptops include the ExpertBook B7 Flip (B7402FBA), ExpertBook B5 Flip OLED (B5302FEA), ExpertBook B3 Flip (B3402FEA) and ExpertBook…
16 November 2022
- Pan-African payments startup Paystack, which was acquired by Stripe in October 2020 for $200 million, has been granted a Payment Service Provider license by the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) to enable it kickstart operations in the East African…
16 November 2022
- India-based employee volunteering platform Goodera has announced the close of a $10 million financing from Zoom Ventures, Elevation Capital, Nexus Venture Partners, Omidyar Network India, and Binny Bansal among others.Founded by Abhishek Gumbad in…
16 November 2022
- develoPPP Ventures has launched a new €100K funding grant for startups in Kenya and Tanzania to get a chance to scale their impact-driven companies.On behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), implemented…
16 November 2022
- The European smartphone market continued to suffer from a global economic slowdown and ongoing geopolitical tensions, with shipments declining by 16% year-on-year in Q3 2022, according to the latest research from Counterpoint.However, Apple’s…
16 November 2022
- WafR, a Morroccan startup that helps retail brands to deliver promotions to grocers, has raised a further $120,000 in funding to expand its network of grocers.Founded in 2021, WafR is an app that enables retail brands to broadcast and deliver smart…
16 November 2022
- Twitter is working on end-to-end encryption for direct messages sent over the social network, according to app researcher Jane Manchun Wong.Wong said in a tweet with a picture of the code strings highlighting references to encryption keys.&#…
16 November 2022
- Mexico-based digital fraud prevention and identity verification startup, Trully has raised a $4.1 million seed round led by Costanoa Ventures.According to this report, the financial cost of fraud in 2021 was $5.38 trillion worldwide. In Latin…
16 November 2022
- In 2020, Facebook announced that its Lagos office would be the first to house engineers on the continent. The next year, Twitter announced that it was building an office in Ghana. We explored what will happen to these giant tech offices now that…
16 November 2022
- In 2016, Judith Okonkwo founded Ìmísí 3D, an extended reality (XR) creation lab on a mission to drive XR adoption in in Nigeria, and Africa.
16 November 2022
- LG has expressed interest in seeing increased adoption of digital laundromats in Kenya. With this, the company hopes to formalize the informal “mamafua” industry. This follows a growing demand for laundry services among an increasingly...
16 November 2022
- Interviews are two-way streets.
Companies appraise applicants' value and history, and applicants get to learn about the company too.
This edition of #EnteringTech🚀 talks about what recruiters wish every job applicant would know about interviewing.
16 November 2022
- Baraka, a two-year-old stock trading app has announced the close of a $20 million Series A round led by Valar Ventures to expand across the Middle East and reach more users.Founded in 2020 by Feras Jalbout, Baraka started out as a content platform…
16 November 2022
- Former KCB CEO Joshua Oigara has picked the same role at Stanbic Bank Kenya and South Sudan, effective from December 1, 2022. This follows a period of inactivity since he left his post at KCB back in April 2022. He was replaced by Peter Russo.…
16 November 2022
- Video streaming service, Showmax, has seen the number of paying subscribers grow by 50% this year compared to the same period last year. This is quite a jump for the industry that has faced stiff...
