Tech

02 June 2022 - The startup affirms to have distribution partners including YouTubers, influencers, newsletters, crypto exchanges, and telecoms to promote NFT drops – allowing the creatives to tap a wider audience, and not just their fanbase. This means celebrities do…

02 June 2022 - DriveMe is asserting the launch of a revamped one-stop exquisite platform, particularly developed to centralize access for merchandise and carrier vendors in the logistics and mobility industry. The new platform presents four main products: DriveMe for…

02 June 2022 - The MTN Group announced that it will be an anchor sponsor at the upcoming Commonwealth Business Forum (CBF) scheduled to take place from 21 to 23 June 2022, in Kigali, Rwanda. The Commonwealth Business Forum is part of the official CHOGM programme and…

02 June 2022 - The seed round of funding was led by leading African venture capital investor HAVAÍC, 4Di Capital and several prominent fintech angel investors. While the Talk360 app is seeing rapid growth on the continent, with a growing number of paying users,…

02 June 2022 - The African Development Centre (ADC), Microsoft’s engineering hub, has announced the appointment of Catherine Muraga as its Managing Director effective 01 June 2022. Catherine, an IT professional with over 15 years of experience, succeeds outgoing MD…

02 June 2022 - GetFundedAfrica’s Fundraising Cohort Program, began today, Tuesday, May 31, 2022, with 11 founders, nine GetFundedAfrica staff and an online orientation session. The theme of this cohort is rain mainly GetFundedAfrica will be breaking the record and…

02 June 2022 - There’s so much going on on Twitter. Elon Musk bought it for $44 billion thus making Twitter a private company in a deal expected to close later this year. The incendiary tech mogul continues to troll the company’s policies around harassment and speech…

02 June 2022 - May "may" have crawled by, but that didn't slow Africa's tech ecosystem down. From African startups raising $437,100,000 to Starlink's upcoming entry into Mozambique and Nigeria, here are the top 10 leading happenings from May 2022.

02 June 2022 - Cuemath, an India-based edtech firm focusing on math tutorials has secured $57 million in its new funding round led by Alpha Wave. The funds will be used to build out its products and for acquisitions and partnerships, the firm claims. Cuemath offers…

02 June 2022 - Slice, an India-based firm providing credit card alternatives has raised $50 million in its Series C funding backed by Tiger Global, Moore Strategic Partners, and Insight Partners. Slice enables students and salary-earning professionals to access…

02 June 2022 - HyperPay, a Saudi Arabia-based fintech firm has raised $36.7 million in its new funding round led by Mastercard. The funds will be used to improve its tech team, build out new products, and support its expansion into Egypt, Qatar, and Oman. HyperPay…

01 June 2022 - Swvl has announced that it is pausing its daily and city to city rides in Kenya.  The mass transit and shared mobility provider has been offering three services in the country, this includes SWVL Daly, City-City and Business-Business. SWVL Daly was…

01 June 2022 - By selling carbon credits in the International Voluntary Carbon market, Africa’s clean-energy providers can shore up their revenues, expand their product offerings and serve more people.

01 June 2022 - Talk360  an easy-to-use calling app that helps people around the world to make reliable and affordable calls to any landline or mobile phone worldwide , has secured $4 million  in funding as it prepares to launch a new pan-African payment platform in…

01 June 2022 - While the new $2m funding is cause enough for celebration, Foondamate's founding story, the experiences that served as inspiration for the startup, are just as important. 

01 June 2022 - WhatsApp is currently working on a new feature that will let users edit messages they have already sent. This can be useful if you have a typo or when you just want to edit any...

01 June 2022 - IHS Towers, one of the largest independent owners, operators, and developers of tower infrastructure, has completed the acquisition of 5,701 towers from MTN South Africa for a cash consideration of ZAR6.4 billion.The deal will see IHS Towers provide…

01 June 2022 - “I looked around and I saw that women were struggling to fundraise. There were no other women leading or running their own funds. And I thought, 'Well, you can't be what you can't see.'”

01 June 2022 - KnowBe4, provider of one of the world’s largest security awareness training and simulated phishing platforms, today announced it has partnered with the Centre for Cyber Safety and Education to launch the KnowBe4 Women of Colour in Cybersecurity (South…

01 June 2022 - We have done a lot of smartphone reviews here on TechArena; however, each of them has a story to tell. The top three that we recommend at the start of June 2022 are listed below...

01 June 2022 - The Built With Bitcoin Foundation, a humanitarian organization powered by Bitcoin, announced that it has constructed two new schools in the Motherwell township, near Port Elizabeth, South Africa thanks to a generous donation of 1 BTC. Currently, 1 BTC…

01 June 2022 - People are slowly giving up on television and are solely relying on online sources for entertainment, hence why online media streaming platforms are becoming increasingly popular. For one, it is more convenient, easy to navigate and access to varieties…

01 June 2022 - Dimension Data, one of the leading technology service provider in MEA, announced the appointment of Alan Turnley-Jones as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Dimension Data Middle East and Africa (MEA), effective from Wednesday, 1 June 2022. Turnley-Jones…

01 June 2022 - For Africa to achieve its energy access, decarbonization, affordability, independence and security goals, women’s participation across the entire oil and gas value chain needs to improve. However, progress needs to start at an educational level with…

01 June 2022 - FNB says an additional 525,000 customers will be eligible to earn eBucks when its annual earn rules and account pricing becomes effective from Wednesday (1 July 2022). Monthly account fees for FNB customers who use FNB Easy Zero and FNB Easy Pay-As-You…

01 June 2022 - What do you look for in a laptop when you want one? The Laptop market is ever-growing here in Kenya, with many brands trying to beat each other to the core. Whether it is for...

01 June 2022 - What do you look for in a laptop when you want one? The Laptop market is ever-growing here in Kenya, with many brands trying to beat each other to the core. Whether it is for...

01 June 2022 - Through tokenization and Blockchain, Ellamediate, a PropTech company, has now facilitated the ease of “Fractional Ownership” and “Co-Ownership” of real estate assets. Here’s everything you need to know about blockchain, tokenization, and how it applies…

01 June 2022 - TikTok is testing a new interface that changes the viewing experience on its app. Clear Mode lets you have a distraction-free viewing experience for the videos. This mode declutters the unnecessary icons present when watching a video including the…

01 June 2022 - Videos have emerged on social media of researchers from the University of Johannesburg (UJ) using 3D printing technology to show off a new technique in which a six-room home can be constructed in a single day in around 5 hours. With Africa’s enormous…

01 June 2022 - Adaverse, a Cardano ecosystem accelerator established to foster the growth of crypto-native projects in Africa has announced its investment into a seed funding round for Cassava Network, a blockchain infrastructure that empowers African content…

01 June 2022 - WhatsApp is bringing the edit button feature to its app. You’ll soon be able to edit text messages you’ve already sent. This has been one of the most requested features on the Meta-owned messaging platform. For now, users have to add an asterisk to fix…

01 June 2022 - Meta, the parent company of Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp, announced on Tuesday that it is changing its ticker symbol from “FB” to “META” prior to the market opening on 9  June 2022. The company founded by Mark Zuckerberg rebranded from Facebook to…

01 June 2022 - Digital Africa is an impact-driven initiative, backed by the French government, on a mission to support African tech entrepreneurs.

01 June 2022 - CEO of Rwanda-based food distribution company shares his experiences and highlights growth opportunities in the region.

01 June 2022 - Meta’s super-popular chat app WhatsApp is reportedly working on adding new features to its messaging, including a new “Edit” feature that is in the pipeline for an upcoming update in the near future. According to WABetaInfo, WhatsApp was thinking about…

01 June 2022 - Warren Buffet is known for discovering and investing in great deals. One of such is an insurance company called Markel and, as always, financial analysts are aware of it. Markel is a specialty insurance company, focusing primarily on reinsurance and…

01 June 2022 - MTN Group's executives recently concluded a 2-day market visit to Iran meeting with stakeholders and MTN Irancell senior management.

01 June 2022 - Vodafone Qatar has announced the launch of its Assets Tracking solutions which is going to help businesses maximise the efficiency of their operations.

01 June 2022 - IHS Holding Limited has announced that they have completed the acquisition of 5701 towers in South Africa from MTN SA.

01 June 2022 - Orange Business Services has announced the launch of its global supervision solution for network services, Service Manage-Watch.

01 June 2022 - Chinese electric car start-up WM Motor, also known as Weltmeister, has filed documents to go public on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, although it didn't disclose pricing information.WM Motor claims to have sold 83,495 electric cars as of December 2021,…

01 June 2022 - South African e-commerce platform Shopstar has secured third round funding as it begins the next phase in its strategy to scale.  Founded in 2014, Shopstar is a cloud-based e-commerce platform that enables local entrepreneurs to build online stores and…

01 June 2022 -   African Institute of Mathematical Sciences – Ghana  has signed a Masters Sponsored Research Agreement (MSRA) with Google Research aimed at advancing the frontiers of scientific research in areas of specialization like artificial intelligence .  The…

01 June 2022 - MTN South Africa has completed a sale of $410-million in an IHS Holding Limited (IHS Towers) acquisition of 5,701 towers in South Africa from the mobile telecommunications company. Under the agreement, IHS Towers is also providing Power Management…

01 June 2022 - About a week ago the mainstream media reported of a case where a senior police officer lost more than Kshs 597 thousand to a fraudster. Although the nitty gritty details... The post Do not become a fraudster victim, whitelist yourself against SIM Swap…

01 June 2022 - Copenhagen-based Legal Desk, a startup that aims to be the leading provider of legal documents for businesses and consumers, announced that it has raised $3.3M (approximately €3M) in a Series A round of funding. The round saw participation from a group…

01 June 2022 - Nigerian digital banking startup Grey has announced the expansion of its service to East Africa, starting with Kenya, in partnership with fintech company Cellulant. Launched in 2021 by Idorenyin Obong and Femi Aghedo, who wanted to help Nigerians…

01 June 2022 - Aiming to tap into what it calls a ‘second wave gig economy’, the Utrecht-based startup that connects those with a camera to visitors at over a million identified public locations and attractions, Smiler has raised $8 million in a seed round.  The…

01 June 2022 - Seven months after a $14 million seed round, Berlin-based B2B BNPL player Mondu has announced a $43 million Series A round raise led by Valar Ventures.  The capital will be used to further scale Mondu’s product offer and hone in on customer…