The new era of education is high-tech and high-touch
We’ve heard a lot about the role of technology in pandemic education, and for good reason: Digital solutions enabled school…
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Netflix acquires its first games studio, “Oxenfree” developer Night School
Night School Studio, the independent game developer known for narrative-driven titles like “Oxenfree,” announced today it has been acquired by…
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Facebook’s Effort To Attract Preteens Goes Beyond Instagram Kids, Documents Show
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Wall Street Journal : Facebook has come under increasing fire in recent…
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Afreximbank launches pan-African payment platform to ease cross-border transactions
African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has launched the pan-African payment and settlement system (PAPSS), a financial market infrastructure, to enable cross-border payments…
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Nigeria’s Awaited eNaira Website Goes Live, Here’s all you Should Know
Exactly three days before the official launch of Nigeria’s digital currency called eNaira, the Central Bank of Nigeria opens the…
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2Africa Cable Extends to India: Now Longest Subsea Cable in the World
The 2Africa consortium, comprised of China Mobile International, Facebook, MTN GlobalConnect, Orange, STC, Telecom Egypt, Vodafone and WIOCC, announced today…
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$280-Billion Investment Needed to Tackle Climate Change in Africa, Report
An investment of about $280-billion will be needed for 35 cities across South Africa, Kenya, and Ethiopia to cope with the…
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Nearly Half of SSA Consumers Are Using Mobile Money Services – Ericsson
A major new consumer and market insight report from multinational networking and telecommunications firm Ericsson titled Mobile Financial Services on the…
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WhatsApp Testing to Expand Multi-Device Feature to Secondary Android, iOS Devices: Report
WhatsApp is found to be working on expanding its multi-device feature to let users access the instant messaging app on…
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LinkedIn is testing a new, paid ticketed events service
LinkedIn earlier this month unveiled a new push around creators to bring more original content (and engagement) to its platform, but that’s…
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YC-backed Malloc wants to take the sting out of mobile spyware
Mobile spyware is one of the most invasive and targeted kinds of unregulated surveillance, since it can be used to…
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Do you need another app to discover beautiful places when you travel?
In the summer of 2019, Timilehin Ajiboye became intrigued with the idea of building a travel app after conversations with a circle of friends….
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Egyptian auto-auction platform Sa3ar acquired by Contactcars
Egyptian startup Sa3ar Technology Solutions, a platform that digitises auto-auctions deals, has been acquired by automotive marketplace Contactcars, a subsidiary…
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Moroccan e-health startup DataPathology raises $223k funding
Moroccan e-heath startup DataPathology has raised MAD2 million (US$$223,000) to help it transform the pathological diagnosis system and improve services…
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Abuja Municipal Council introduces new license for Uber/Bolt drivers, to begin enforcement by October 1
It appears that the authorities of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja are set to commence a regime of licensing…
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Zoom Update Adds Option to Stop Incoming Video in Meetings: How to Use
Zoom has added a new feature called ‘stop incoming video’ that allows users to block video feeds of other participants…
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Top 7 Ways Cyberscammers, Malware Operators Abuse Google Forms – Sophos Research
Sophos, a global leader in next-generation cybersecurity, has published research, “Phishing and Malware Actors Abuse Google Forms for Credentials, Data…
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The Five Customer Types In Nigeria And How To Sell To Them
The lifeline of every business is enmeshed in the number and interactions of stakeholders as well as their activities in relation…
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Meet Kyari Abba Bukar . ABU Zaria graduate leads Inlaks Africa operations as CEO
Foremost ICT infrastructure and systems integrator in Sub-Saharan Africa, Inlaks Africa, last Friday announced the appointment of Kyari Abba Bukar as the new MD/CEO, Africa…
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YouTube May Soon Let You Download Videos From Your Browser
YouTube is currently testing an official way to download videos on your desktop web browser saving you the hassle (and…
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Top 10 Types of Cryptocurrency You Ought to Know
Cryptocurrency became a mainstream term when Bitcoin exploded in the early twenty-tens, a term that continues to gain relevance as…
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Input Output launches $6M fund for startups to build on Cardano in Africa
Input Output has launched a six million dollars (USD) blockchain fund in Africa, to invest in the most innovative blockchain projects, who…
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Absa Launches Facial Recognition Tech in South Africa
Absa, one of South Africa’s largest banks and a pan-African lender, has officially launched facial recognition technology in its Android…
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Facebook’s wearable glasses can succeed where Google Glass flopped
Facebook recently announced its highly anticipated wearable sunglasses that can record video from a user’s perspective. Despite many of our legitimately squeamish…
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Aiming to create a gender-equitable startup landscape?
When it comes to gender equality in the business world, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg hit the nail on the head: “Knowing that…
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31 African startups selected for Smart Cities Innovation Programme
Thirty-one African tech startups have been selected to take part in the Smart Cities Innovation Programme, which will help them…
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How Nigeria’s NucleusIS is building the rails for African health insurance adoption
Nigerian startup NucleusIS is building the technology to deepen insurance adoption, drive access to healthcare and improve health outcomes. Founded…
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Yahoo has built a new calendar app called Day, and it’s recruited the co-founder of Sunrise to design it
When it comes to online calendars and calendar apps, services like Google Calendar and Outlook from Microsoft rule the roost…
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Fintech dopay Raises US$18 Million Series to scale in Egypt
Dopay, the B2B2C payments platform serving 1.7bn unbanked workers in emerging markets, has closed a US$ 18 million Series A…
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More African countries dive into a cashless future with new MTN, Flutterwave deal
MTN’s new deal with payments technology firm, Flutterwave is set to deliver cash to mobile wallets of more Africans via MTN Mobile…
