The Premier HealthTech Event in Africa Returns – Secure Your Sponsorship Today
The Healthcare Innovation Summit Africa (HISA) returns on the 17 and 18 November 2021. There is simply no other event in Africa…
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Telkom SA Further Slashes Data Prices for Summer
Telkom South Africa has launched a new set of postpaid promotional deals and prepaid LTE deals offering more value to…
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MTN Group Announces New Digital & FinTech CFO
MTN Group has announced the appointment of Adekunle Awobodu as its new Chief Financial Officer for Digital and Fintech. According…
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The Zimbabwe dollar drops 89 cents as the national bank cracks down on unlawful forex trade
The central bank of Zimbabwe has added 47 more people to its blacklist for allegedly using social media to advertise…
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Ghana Startup Ecosystem Program to provide digital skills to 7000 youth
Ghana Tech Lab has partnered up with a number of partners for the fourth edition of the Ghana Startup Summit,…
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AppsFlyer Report Finds 55% increase in spending as eCommerce grows across Sub-Sarahan Africa
AppsFlyer, the marketing measurement and experience platform, has released their 2021 edition of its State of eCommerce App Marketing report, outlining key…
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Orderin CEO Gives 5 Simple Ways SMMEs Can Become Competitive in eCommerce
A few years ago, the majority of South Africans had never made a single purchase online. Today, the local e-commerce…
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7 African startups selected for inaugural Last Mile Money Accelerator
Seven African startups are among the eight selected to take part in the inaugural cohort of the Last Mile Money…
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Moroccan B2B e-commerce startup Chari raises $5m seed round for expansion
Moroccan B2B e-commerce and fintech startup Chari has raised a US$5 million seed round which values the company at US$70…
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SA prop-tech venture builder Castle One secures significant investment
South African prop-tech venture building group Castle One has received a “significant investment” from HL Hall and Sons Holdings in…
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Nigerian fintech startup Bitmama closes $350k pre-seed funding round
Nigerian fintech startup Bitmama has closed a US$350,000 pre-seed funding round to grow its operational presence, expand its team, and…
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Online tools to help you keep track of your finances
Keeping track of your finances can be one of the most important things you do. It allows you to manage…
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Mobile contactless payments set to nearly double by 2023
Contactless payments made using mobile phones will almost double over the next two years – twice as fast as the…
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Kenyan agri-tech startups invited to apply for O-Farms accelerator
Kenyan agri-tech startups have been invited to apply for the O-Farms accelerator programme, which is focused on circular agribusiness with…
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With tablets, Google still cares more about the iPad than Android
Much like my compadre, Jerry Hildenbrand, I buy tech across a wide range of popular brands. For me, there’s really no…
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Tunisian big data startup Biware raises $1.2m funding round
Tunisian data management and analysis startup Biware has raised a MAD3.5 million (US$1.2 million) seed funding round to help it…
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SA industry 4.0 solution business Stone Three raises expansion funding
South African startup Stone Three, a leading industry 4.0 solution business that combines expert services with the power of machine…
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Facebook Explains Largest-Ever crash: 10-point Guide to What Went Down
Facebook had its largest outage ever that took down WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger and even Facebook’s internal tools for over six…
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Peer-to-peer trading is driving Africa’s digital money revolution
Peer-to-peer (P2P) cryptocurrency trading platforms are now the engine of growth as Africa pulls ahead of the rest of the…
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Nigerian Businessman Appointed CEO of Airtel Africa
The Airtel Africa Group has announced the new appointment of Olusegun “Segun” Ogunsanya, as its Managing Director (MD) and CEO….
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YouTube making ads on connected TVs more shoppable
YouTube announced on Monday that it’s expanding video action campaigns (one of Google’s interactive ad types for video) to connected…
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Facebook engineering team reveals underlying causes of October 4th outage
The Engineering team at Facebook has revealed the underlying factors that led to six hours of global outage that also affected WhatApp…
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These African countries have fully vaccinated 10% of their populations
Less than a third of African countries have achieved the global goal of vaccinating 10% of their populations against Covid-19…
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Nigeria’s smallChops plans expansion after strong post-COVID growth
Lagos-based startup smallChops is planning on expanding to other cities in Nigeria and across Africa having seen an average 20…
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Why Digitisation is Key to Rescue SA’s Water Infrastructure
South Africa’s water system is in trouble. In the 2020/21 financial year alone, there were over 55,800 pipe bursts, over a…
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A new Pinterest-like app is curating pretty places into a global social network
People who visit a fancy place for the first time tend to take pictures to document the memory, sometimes by posting…
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Why The Biggest Challenge Start-ups Face Is Not Access To Funding
According to a report published by the World Bank, it was observed that while Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) create…
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Germany has pledged €100 million to SEFA in order to promote private investment in renewable energy
The German government has pledged €100 million to the African Development Bank’s (AfDB) Sustainable Energy Fund for Africa (SEFA), demonstrating…
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COVID-19: World Bank approves $11.5bn for Nigeria, others
The World Bank has approved $11.5bn in lending to Western and Central African countries for 98 operations. The World Bank made this…
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9th Angel Fair Africa set for Mauritius in November
The ninth edition of the Angel Fair Africa event will take place in Mauritius in November, with Dr James Mwangi…
