04 November 2022
- Lenovo South Africa has released its Q2 results wherein they have seen their complete domination of the local PC market.
04 November 2022
- Cellulant has announced that they have created a contiguous cloud experience that enables to meet data and cloud sovereignty across Africa.
04 November 2022
- The Co-Founders Statistics show that 4.5% of strategy potential is lost to poor action planning. Strategic planning can help startup businesses to grow by making sure that staff and investors are all on the same page, working toward achieving your…
04 November 2022
- Eutelsat Communications has announced they have successfully launched the EUTELSAT HOTBIRD 13G satellite.
04 November 2022
- South African ed-tech startup FoondaMate has launched operations in Nigeria on a bid to democratise learning and close education inequality gaps with its AI-powered study chatbot. Founded by Dacod Magagula and Tao Boyle in August 2020, FoondaMate …
04 November 2022
- Ever heard of the "Jollof Wars" – a West African cultural debate about which country makes the best Jollof rice, a quintessential West African dish simmered in tomatoes, onions, peppers and regional aromatic spices?Simply put, Jollof rice is to…
04 November 2022
- AfyA Care is a healthcare group providing integrated healthcare services including hospital care, health insurance and health technology services in Nigeria. The investment reflects CCA’s strategy of backing high-potential growth businesses with…
04 November 2022
- Nigeria's information regulatory agency, NITDA, has approved its latest Code of Practice.
The Code requires all online platforms with more than 100,000 users to get licensed, pay tax, and delete prohibited content within 24 hours.
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04 November 2022
- Nigerian digital lender Payhippo has acquired Maritime Microfinance Bank, a financial institution that offers loans, supports investments and accepts deposits and savings. Although the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) is yet to approve this…
04 November 2022
- Safaricom has revealed a partnership with music streaming service Boomplay, which lauds itself with over 85 million local and international tracks and podcasts. The collaboration will see customers access the service through daily, weekly, and…
03 November 2022
- Payhippo, a Nigerian credit-led SME fintech company, has said that it wants to buy Maritime Microfinance Bank (MFB). This bank specializes in saving products, demand deposits, investments, and micro and SME loans. The deal, which is more of an “…
03 November 2022
- The cryptocurrency platform Luno and the non-profit group FoodForward SA have joined forces to make it possible for South Africans to give money to charity using bitcoin. Andy Du Plessis, who is the managing director of FoodForward SA, says that…
03 November 2022
- West African private equity fund manager CardinalStone Capital Advisers (CCA) has invested $6 million in AfyA Care as part of the company’s Series A capital raise. AfyA Care is a healthcare group that offers hospital care, health insurance, and…
03 November 2022
- Safaricom (NSE: SCOM) has partnered with Boomplay, a popular music streaming service with over 85 million local and international tracks and podcasts, to avail the service to Safaricom customers via affordable...
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03 November 2022
- Kenya will next year host the 10th Edition of the Digital Rights and Inclusion Forum (DRIF). The forum, whose theme is Building A Sustainable Internet For All will take place in Nairobi from...
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03 November 2022
- “Informal markets are huge and emerging, and also account for over 65% of our country’s GDP,” said Tosin Eniolorunda, TeamApt’s CEO at the recent Future of Commerce (FOC) conference.
How is the informal economy driving commerce in Africa?
03 November 2022
- The Africa Investment Forum ran from 2nd to 4th November in Abidjan, Ivory Coast and focused on building Africa’s ICT...
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03 November 2022
- Seeing the industry coming together in Kigali for the first edition of MWC Africa was amazing. The TechAfrica News team had the opportunity to witness the fantastic strides being made […]
03 November 2022
- Seeing the industry coming together in Kigali for the first edition of MWC Africa was amazing. The TechAfrica News team had the opportunity to witness the fantastic strides being made […]
03 November 2022
- In 2017, Lesley Marange, a young food scientist in Zimbabwe, quit his job at a local sugar processor citing poor remuneration. Today he is the founder and CEO of Glytime Foods, a healthy food start-up with over 40 employees.
03 November 2022
- If you want to be swung into the Safaricom element, as far as Internet services are concerned, there is no exciting part besides the 5G story. To what end? Well, there are way too many stories. But what happens after that? And then again, the 5G…
03 November 2022
- Founded in 1995 by Sean O’Sullivan and formerly known as SOS Ventures, SOSV is a global venture capital firm that offers multi-stage investment, starting with pre-seed start-up development programs designed for founders with breakthrough…
03 November 2022
- Makerere University College of Veterinary Medicine, Animal Resources and Biosecurity (COVAB), in partnership with the International Research Institute- Kenya (ILRI),...
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03 November 2022
- Apple’s strong performance stood out among other Big Tech companies whose Q3 numbers weren’t as favourable after it announced an 8% revenue growth in its financial results for its fiscal 2022 fourth quarter, which ended September 24, 2022, an 8%…
03 November 2022
- Kenyan telecommunications operator, Safaricom has launched its 5G high-speed internet service in the country, making it the first company to roll out the technology at a commercial scale in the East African region.The 5G service, which is backed by…
03 November 2022
- Twitter CEO, Elon Musk, has said in a tweet that Twitter will not allow anyone who was banned for violating Twitter rules back on the platform before there is a clear process to do so, adding that it would take a few weeks, possibly after the US…
03 November 2022
- Amazon is set to delist Appario Retail, one of its largest sellers on the online marketplace in India in the next 12 months, in a statement issued by the two firms, this comes not long after Amazon ended ties with Cloudtail, its biggest seller on…
03 November 2022
- Chargebee, an Indian Software as a Service (SaaS) startup has laid off about 10% of its 1,420-person workforce in what it termed a "reorganization effort" due to ongoing global macroeconomic challenges and growing operational debt.The startup…
03 November 2022
- B2C rooftop solar startup SolarSquare, has raised $12 million in a Series A funding round led by Elevation Capital and existing investor Lowercarbon, the US-based Chris Sacca’s climate-tech fund. This latest capital infusion is coming on the heels…
03 November 2022
- Cyber-security education, through the use of anti-phishing training programs, is vital in a world where humans remain the weakest link in the cyber-security chain. Cyber-security is a term on every businessperson’s mind, as the legal, financial and…
03 November 2022
- Meta-owned and global messaging platform WhatsApp is bringing a new feature to its app – Communities. The popular messaging platform has been busy this year and the latest feature addition is a new Communities tab that sits next to the regular…
03 November 2022
- Nutanix, a leader in hybrid multicloud computing, today announced new features in its Cloud Platform to accelerate the adoption of Kubernetes running both at scale and cost-effectively. The company announced broad support for leading Kubernetes…
03 November 2022
- Deshni Harricharan, the Head of Enterprise Sales at SEACOM has released an article highlighting the importance of "baked-in" cybersecurity measures.
03 November 2022
- Safaricom has announced a partnership with Boomplay in an effort to get its customers seamless and affordable access to Boomplay.
03 November 2022
- MTN Group has announced that their alliance with Sanlam has kicked off as transaction is approved.
03 November 2022
- Smart Africa and MTN have announced a partnership to help develop capacity for Africans to utilise ICTs in an ICT-driven economy and society.
03 November 2022
- ICASA has announced that they are going to be holding workshops on Television Broadcasting Service Licensing Process.
03 November 2022
- MTN Group has announced that they hosted Africa's first virtual concert in Africa's Metaverse in Ubuntuland.
03 November 2022
- AfriLabs has announced that they have come into a partnership with the Smart Africa Alliance.
03 November 2022
- Mapping out budgeting, saving, spending and making smart investments can help to provide you with enough funds to make your financial life better and secure your future financially. Investment plans are financial products that allow you to build…
03 November 2022
- South Africa-based digital payments gateway Peach Payments and API fintech Stitch have partnered to enable online merchants across South Africa to accept secure, low-cost instant EFT payments. Peach Payments provides a complete toolkit to help…
03 November 2022
- Chickin Worx founder talks about his journey so far and the nuances of Egypt's restaurant industry.
03 November 2022
- The latest Kaspersky report reveals that 24% of companies globally with 50 to 999 employees are ready to use pirated...
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03 November 2022
- In Partnership with PharmAccess foundation, Northwestern University, and the County Government of Kisumu, M-TIBA has put an effort to promote...
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03 November 2022
- Africa’s first decentralised autonomous organisation for tech founders – Pando DAO – has launched, while also becoming the official community partner of the Silicon Zanzibar initiative. Pando DAO is a decentralised community of top African tech…
03 November 2022
- Kenya’s digital taxi app Little has complied with the new government regulations. The company is the first among many digital...
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03 November 2022
- South African ed-tech startup FoondaMate has launched operations in Nigeria on a bid to democratise learning and close education inequality gaps with its AI-powered study chatbot. Founded by Dacod Magagula and Tao Boyle in August 2020, FoondaMate…
03 November 2022
- UNLOCK, MENA’s first AI-powered and fintech-enabled B2B marketplace for professional services, is proud to announce the closure of a USD 6-figures angel investors’ round, led by Tarek Roushdy of UI Investments, together with a group of angel…
03 November 2022
- Morocco-based open finance startup Spotter has raised an undisclosed amount of funding from UM6P Ventures. The announcement was made through professional networking platofrm, LinkedIn. The startup took part in the first Plug and Play acceleration…
03 November 2022
- Facebook, has announced that all Facebook ads in Kenya will be subject to the country’s 16% value-added tax (VAT) starting November 1.
The tax will be added whenever advertisers run business or personal ads.
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