Afrocentric Luxury e-Commerce Startup, Jendaya Secures $1.2 Million in pre-Seed Funding
Fashion items are among the most popular, if not the most popular, on many e-commerce platforms. In Africa, for example,…
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Opera is Integrating ChatGPT Into its Sidebar
Opera is expanding its sidebar with a ChatGPT-powered tool that generates brief summaries of webpages and articles. You can activate…
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Sophos Investigates Two Active Cyberfraud Operations
Sophos, a global leader in innovating and delivering cybersecurity as a service, today released details of two expansive, still operational,…
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Infopercept Appoints Jitendra Bulani as CMO
Infopercept Consulting Pvt Ltd, a global cybersecurity solutions and services company, today announced the appointment of Jitendra Bulani as Chief…
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Nigeria Top 50 Digital Economy Enablers 2023 to be Unveiled this Tuesday in Lagos
The Nigeria’s Top 50 Digital Economy Enablers 2023 holds this week in Lagos February 14, 2023 at the prestigious Providence…
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Microsoft Introduces new AI-powered Classroom Tools, Learning Accelerators to Enhance Public Speaking, Math
Today, Microsoft announced new AI-powered classroom tools. As children prepare for an increasingly technologically advanced world, the company believes that…
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File-Sharing Service, WeTransfer is Set to Enter the NFT Industry
Digital file-sharing service WeTransfer is partnering with blockchain platform Minima to launch non-fungible tokens (NFT) on the network, allowing users…
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The Bank of England is Planning to Launch a Digital Pound
The “digital pound,” often known as “Bitcoin,” a central bank digital currency (CBDC) for the UK, will “likely” materialize. A…
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Egyptian Healthtech Startup, Yodawy Completes $16 Million in a Series B Round to Promote Growth
Yodawy, a pharmacy benefits platform established in 2018 with the goal of restructuring Egypt’s drug supply chain, has secured $16…
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Alphabet’s ChatGPT Rival, Bard Makes a $100 Mistake in its First Ad
After a presentation of its brand-new artificial intelligence chatbot, Bard, raised worries that the tech titan has fallen behind in…
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Nigerian Blockchain Payments Startup, Bingtellar Announces Crypto-to-fiat Conversion Service
Nigerian blockchain payments firm Bingtellar has announced the availability of its quick crypto-to-fiat conversion service, allowing individuals and organizations to…
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Global VC Firm, Partech Secures Largest Africa-focused Fund at $263 Million
The largest Africa-focused fund to date, Partech Africa II has reached its first close at €245 million (about $263 million),…
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Umba, Nigerian Digital Bank Opens Office in Kenya
In order to grow across the continent, Umba, a digital bank for emerging countries that has only previously operated in…
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Building for Scale: How to Architect and Manage Complex Product Ecosystems
Amarachi Nnochiri clearly understands that product management is not just about executing features; it is about building ecosystems that can…
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Gameball Secures $3.5M to Promote its CRM Platform for Consumer Brands
Customer relationship management (CRM) solutions have become increasingly popular over the past several years, and it is predicted that the…
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2Africa, World’s Largest Internet Cable Lands in Mzansi
The largest fiber optic cable in the world, 2Africa, has arrived in Amanzimtoti, south of Durban. The 45,000 km cable,…
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ThinkYoung Collaborates With Boeing to run Coding Schools in Kenya, Rwanda, and Ethiopia
In spring 2023, the ThinkYoung Coding School, which operates coding schools for teenagers and young people in Kenya in collaboration…
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Google Releases New AI program, Bard, to Rival ChatGPT
Alphabet, the company that owns Google, plans to compete with Microsoft by introducing a chatbot service and more artificial intelligence…
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Cellulant Partners WIth Money Q to Facilitate Cross-Border Payments Across Africa
With the help of a partnership with a financial solutions provider based in Dubai, Cellulant, Africa’s leading provider of payment…
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African Tech Startup Funding Crosses the $3bn Mark in 2022
In 2022, funding for the African digital startup ecosystem crossed the US$3 billion threshold for the first time, and the…
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Kenyan Mobility Startup, eWAKA Secures $540,000 in Funding
A Kenyan business called eWAKA that seeks to enhance sustainable mobility has received strategic investment from the State Secretariat for…
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3 African Agri-tech Startups Emerge Winners of $1.5m AYuTe Africa Challenge
The AYuTe Africa Challenge has identified three African agri-tech firms as winners. These companies, ThriveAgric of Nigeria, DigicCow of Kenya,…
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Lulalend Secures $35M in Series B Funding Round to Unveil Lula, a Digital Bank for South African SMEs
Lulalend, a digital business lender based in Cape Town, South Africa, raised $35 million in a Series B funding round…
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OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Plus, a Paid Subscription Plan, Starting at $20 per Month
The owner of ChatGPT OpenAI said on Wednesday that it is introducing a $20 per month test subscription plan for…
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10 South African Startups Join GrindstoneX, Naspers Labs Female-led Accelerator
The three-year GrindstoneX accelerator program, which seeks to empower female entrepreneurs while generating jobs, has chosen ten South African firms….
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Afrigo: How the New Domestic Card by the CBN will drive SME growth
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), in conjunction with the Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement System Plc (NIBSS), recently introduced the card…
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Sophos Details First Fake Apps Found on Apple’s App Store Used by Cybercriminals for CryptoRom Schemes
Sophos, a global leader in innovating and delivering cybersecurity as a service, today released new findings on CryptoRom scams—elaborate financial fraud schemes that prey…
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12 Startups Qualifies for the $120k ARM Labs Lagos Techstars Accelerator Programme
The inaugural ARM Labs Lagos Techstars accelerator, which offers access to up to US$120,000 in equity capital and other sorts…
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Apply for Google for Startups Accelerator Program for Women Tech Founders
The first-ever Google for Startups Accelerator: Women Founders Africa Program is now accepting applications. The program’s goal is to empower…
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Amazon is set to Launch a Gaming-centered NFT Initiative
A suspected NFT initiative appears to be paving the way for e-commerce behemoth Amazon to join the Web3 community. Although…
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