Tech

13 June 2022 -   Different fantastic elements and the nature of Bitcoin in investment grew a lot in 2021. The digital money has maintained the motivational points and given quite sensible reasons for the people to invest in the current year. The Naturals system of…

13 June 2022 - Toprankers, an India-based edtech firm offering online test preparation services has raised $4 million in its new funding round led by Sixth Sense Ventures. The fund will be used to introduce new categories in its online test preparation provisions…

13 June 2022 - Yokogawa Electric Corporation based in Tokyo has invested an undisclosed amount in the equity round of Waylay, an IT firm offering digital unification software in Belgium, to expand services in digital technologies. The investment will enable the…

13 June 2022 - QueueBuster, an India-based fintech startup offering POS services has raised $8.16 million in its Series A funding round led by Chiratae Ventures, Omidyar Network India, and Flourish Ventures. The fund will help the startup to develop its products,…

13 June 2022 - The United Bank for Africa (UBA), a financial services group, on Wednesday, redeemed its $500 million 5-year Eurobond notes, with a maturity date of June 8, 2022. Issued in 2017, the five-year bond was offered at a coupon rate of 7.75%. As part of UBA’…

13 June 2022 - Realme is set to unveil yet another smartphone in Kenya in the coming weeks. The realme C35 will be unveiled soon but the company has not confirmed the exact date. When unveiled in Kenya, the...

13 June 2022 - FundBae ,a Nigerian company which build and preserve wealth through its value offerings; savings, investments and payment has  has crossed a major milestone – 50,000 Users. FundBae has always been about User satisfaction, which reflects in its…

13 June 2022 - A proptech startup based in Vietnam, Houze has raised $2 million in its new funding round led by the DKRA group. The fund will be used to scale its services, develop its leadership team, and strengthen its core products, the firm claims. Houze plans to…

13 June 2022 - Orange Telecom, the French, pan-African telecommunications Group has partnered with Moroccan e-health startup DabaDoc to launch the Orange Santé (“Orange Health”) platform in Côte d’Ivoire, West Africa. Orange Santé is a platform dedicated to the…

13 June 2022 - The initial way of getting into the magnetic elements and industry of cryptocurrency is to understand the services and significance of the currency. The establishment of digital money guarantees success only if the person has compassion. Digital…

13 June 2022 - The technological sector is improving with the best implication of software, and the investing sectors are taking the opportunity to increase the payment further. Digital cryptocurrencies are leading the market with the massive change in the concept of…

13 June 2022 - Bitcoin is a financial game-changer that has changed the meaning of global Finance in shallow time. The tender is in the market with a significant role, and the economy is finding it more exact to overcome the obstacles. The precise position of…

13 June 2022 - EcoCash has announced that they have increased the security measures of its platform to protect their customer's data.

13 June 2022 - Bethesda Softworks, the game developer behind the Elder Scrolls Series and Fallout 4, has released the first-ever gameplay video for the company’s new mega-huge open-world roleplaying game, a sci-fi called Starfield, at the Xbox and Bethesda Games…

13 June 2022 - There are about 2 million bitcoins left, Solana rose from $1 to $194 in a year, Ethereum, DOGE, and many other cryptocurrencies are currently hyping. But are they worth it? We’ll try to provide answers so that you can decide and maybe find your own way…

13 June 2022 - Bumpa ,an e-commerce startup, providing easy business management for SMEs has joined with Google in an initiative aimed at empowering Africa’s small and medium businesses in Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya and South Africa. The Google Hustle Academy, seeks to…

13 June 2022 - Netflix, giant streaming service and production company, has confirmed the comeback of ‘Squid Game’ for a second season. According to a message by Hwang Dong-Hyuk writer, director, producer, and creator of the popular series, Gi-Yun and The Front Man…

13 June 2022 - Sophos recently released the “Active Adversary Playbook 2022,” detailing attacker behaviors that Sophos’ Rapid Response team saw in the wild in 2021. The findings show a 36% increase in dwell time, with a median intruder dwell time of 15 days in 2021…

13 June 2022 - 27 years after it went live, Microsoft has announced that is now officially shutting down its oldest browser, Internet Explorer. Microsoft says will officially end support for the Internet Explorer desktop application on June 15, 2022. The company…

13 June 2022 - As we have come to learn, the August polls are gaining more momentum in terms of campaigns, and assurances that aspirants want the electoral management body, the IEBC to clarify before Kenyans can pick their leaders. Most of the issues are technology-…

13 June 2022 - MoMo Rwanda has announced the launch of a new web portal for businesses and merchants, MoMoBusiness.

13 June 2022 - Mickey Mashale, the CEO of Vodacom's subsidiary, Nexio has announced her resgination from the company.

13 June 2022 - Bitcoin has plunged to its lowest level in 18 months today. The world’s largest cryptocurrency dropped by as much as 8/9% to $24,903.49. This is its lowest level since December 2020 and has impacted other...

13 June 2022 - Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems have undergone significant evolutions and revolutions over the past few years. From increased capacity, scale, and agility to refined business functionality, ERP is changing how companies manage disruption,…

13 June 2022 - Africa, just like the rest of the world, is undergoing intense digital transformation. The transformation is happening so fast that... Source

13 June 2022 - Airduka,a Kenyan online marketplace  has beat other competitors to become the overall winner of E-Commerce Startup of the year in this year’s annual Kenya E-Commerce Summit and Awards sponsored by Finserve Africa. The company had been nominated…

13 June 2022 - Carbon, a pan-African digital bank has announced the launch of a Zero Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) solution called Carbon Zero.

13 June 2022 - Tech megacorp Google has suspended an engineer after he published conversations with an AI chatbot on a project he was working on, in which he claimed that the AI chatbot had become sentient. Blake Lemoine said the AI system had developed consciousness…

13 June 2022 - Employees who receive 30-60 external emails per day could be wasting 11 hours every year looking through and identifying spam... Source

13 June 2022 - This August, millions of Kenyans will head to the polls to decide who will lead them. But a storm is brewing. Close to half of Kenya’s 47 counties risk becoming violence hotspots. We discuss why tech platforms must commit to making Kenya’s social media…

13 June 2022 - In this episode, we discuss Safaricom’s latest Globalpay initiative where they’ve partnered with VISA to launch a Virtual CARD tied to your M-Pesa account. The M-PESA GlobalPay Visa Virtual card will allow Kenyans to securely make cashless payments at…

13 June 2022 - MTN has released its intent to accelerate the application of 5G in the African continent.

13 June 2022 - The elections are incoming, and Kenyans will have a chance to vote for leaders who will serve them for the next half a decade. During the polls, a lot of things can go wrong. Most of these concerns are technical, and this is because the polling…

13 June 2022 - MTN Group have announced their new plan to accelerate digital connectivity in Africa by launching their new plan called CHASE.

13 June 2022 - Boomplay has announced that they have opened an office in Côte d’Ivoire in attempt to enhance music streaming of Ivorian artists.

13 June 2022 - African Development Bank has announced the creation of a virtual academy catered towards building a public financial management capacity in Africa.

13 June 2022 - Ride-hailing services, such as Uber, are transforming the way we move around. A few clicks on a smartphone can have you on your way in no time, meeting the modern consumer’s need for on-demand, accessible and convenient services. According to a recent…

13 June 2022 - Pressure continues to mount on Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta to reject the controversial ICT Practitioners Bill 2020 which sailed through... Source

13 June 2022 - A few weeks ago, we reported that Facebook is being sued in Kenya by a former employee citing poor working conditions. The multinational now wants the case dropped, arguing that Kenyan courts don’t have jurisdiction to hear and determine it. According…

13 June 2022 - Kenya's ICT Practitioners Bill—which seeks to regulate tech professionals in the country—is one step away from being enacted. Read more in #TCDaily.

13 June 2022 - TECNO Wallet: Chinese phone manufacturer Tecno Mobile came to Africa and gained grounding with its Africa-centric mobile devices. The company seems to have taken the time to understand the market and launched corresponding products. The newest…

12 June 2022 - Fahari Aviation this week launched the first drone enclosure facility in Kenya. The facility, termed as the Fahari Drone Cage will be used for training and testing of drones and drone equipment. Through the construction...

12 June 2022 - source MFS Africa agreed with GPT Partners to buy the company for $34 million to facilitate payment processing in Africa. More than 80 African financial institutions, including Ecobank, Zenith Coris, BIA, Stanbic, and UBA, use the platform provided by…

12 June 2022 - With a 38% share of renewables in its electricity mix and a 50% target by 2030, Mauritania is a top regional performer in the race towards low carbon power. Not long ago, the nation only had a 35% renewables target for 2035— and yet amidst its further…

12 June 2022 - In 2021, phishing attacks increased by 7.3% according to the ESET Threat Report, and the Cisco 2021 Cybersecurity threat trends report revealed that around 86% of organisations had at least one person click a phishing link. This echoes the findings of…

12 June 2022 -                                         Source The Nigerian Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy, along with its agencies such as the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), will collaborate closely with Nigerian startup…

11 June 2022 -                       Source Due to the current state of the economy, businesses in South Africa are under increasing pressure to take preventative measures to safeguard against the possibility of network outages and unforeseen downtime.It affect…

11 June 2022 - Moringa Initiative has established itself as a substantial international bulk supplier of dried moringa leaves as well as branded products that contain the nutritious superfood.

11 June 2022 - Kenyan-based ICT Solutions company, DownToEarth Technologies (DTE Technologies), has set on a journey to give back to the local community... Source

11 June 2022 - What happened in Africa's tech ecosystem this week? Well, South Africa has plans to fight locust infestation with AI; and Kenya plans to tax loan apps.