According to reports, Meta’s widely used cross-platform instant messaging service WhatsApp is developing a new iOS feature that will enhance the sharing of WhatsApp statuses in Facebook stories. Recently, the company was seen developing a new feature that would let users publish status updates to Facebook stories without leaving the app. Also, it will provide…
Several challenges confront young individuals as they pursue their college education. Where to find money is one of them. They aspire to adulthood and independence. Learning how to make money on your own is one of the important tasks. Some people want to start their own businesses. As a result, a lot of them are…
With the aid of artificial intelligence (AI) and live-learning technology, Nigerian company VarsityScape makes it simpler for cohort-based course instructors to acquire all the resources they require to run a successful course. VarsityScape, a platform for students at higher education institutions that was founded in 2019 by Daniel Idiare and Kenney Erimakonosine, has now expanded…
According to recent reports, seven of the biggest names in banking, including Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, and Wells Fargo, are working on a digital wallet that will allow people to shop online. Since PayPal and Apple Pay enticed hundreds of millions of users to their digital wallets, big banks have been looking for ways…
Sophos, a global leader in innovating and delivering cybersecurity as a service, today published a new survey report, “The State of Cybersecurity 2023: The Business Impact of Adversaries on Defenders,” which found that, globally, 93% of organizations find the execution of some essential security operation tasks, such as threat hunting, challenging. These challenges also include…
As technology advances at a breakneck pace, it’s transforming nearly every aspect of our lives, including the way we work. The traditional 9-to-5 office job is no longer the only option, as remote work, gig work, and flexible schedules become increasingly popular. In this article, we’ll explore the future of work and how technology is…
Former British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli is cited in American author Mark Twain’s autobiography as saying: “There are three sorts of lying: lies, damned lies, and statistics.” Nevertheless, it’s possible that Twain misquoted Disraeli. Artificial intelligence brings all three together in a neat little package, which is a fantastic advance. The massive datasets collected from…
Recently, the digital transformation has continued to rebuild industries and redefine operational efficiencies. One of the most important innovations is the establishment of digital twins, a technology that provides organisations to create evolving, real-time virtual replicas of physical systems. From healthcare to manufacturing, urban planning to energy management, digital twins are transforming the method businesses…
The Bing chatbot is now available on Android devices using the SwiftKey keyboard, thanks to Microsoft. This will enable users to chat with Bing on any SwiftKey-compatible app. SwiftKey beta users are beginning to receive the new feature. With the most recent integration, users will be able to search the Web and edit any text…
Twitter has started a mass unfollowing and is currently following “no one,” suggesting that the process of removing old verified accounts may finally be starting. The following has fallen to its absolute lowest point and is now “Zero” on the “Twitter Verified” account. Earlier, Twitter followed over 420,000 legacy verified accounts. Twitter had already issued…
During a roundtable meeting with Mastercard in the capital of Zambia, Lusaka, US Vice President Kamala Harris called on leaders in the public and private sectors to fund national financial inclusion strategies in order to bridge the continent’s digital divide. Just 33% of people in Africa are believed to use the internet, while only 55%…
In order to promote entrepreneurs developing agricultural and climate solutions, Novastar Ventures, a pan-African venture capital business, has received a $25 million equity investment from the US International Development Financing Corporation (DFC). The $80 million East Africa Fund and the $108 million Africa Fund II, which allowed the company to enter West Africa, are followed…
By delivering online and offline payment solutions, Cellulant, a payments technology company, promises to redefine how businesses in Africa make payments and get paid. Due mostly to improvements in peer-to-peer (P2P) and consumer-to-business (C2B) payment systems, the payments market in Africa is expanding quickly. Yet, for companies looking to expand into Africa, the fragmentation of…
Applications are now open for the first Femintech Innovation Challenge from Amazon Web Services (AWS), the cloud computing division of the largest e-commerce company in the world, Amazon. The challenge is designed specifically for women-led startups in Africa and aims to promote innovation, networking, and investment opportunities. The Femintech Innovation Challenge will highlight and honor…
IamtheCODE and the UN Women Regional Office for East and Southern Africa have joined forces to address the gender gap in digital technology in Africa. A two-day hackathon that just ended in Johannesburg, South Africa, had as its goal providing 102 high school girls from townships in the province of Gauteng with digital literacy skills…
The British oil giant BP has announced a global partnership and charging arrangement with Uber. Under this partnership, BP will provide “bespoke” charging options to Uber drivers across its EV charging network. By 2030 in the United States, Canada, and Europe and by 2040 in the rest of the world, Uber wants to have a…
The second iteration of the “VC Grow” program for new VCs has been introduced by prominent development partners GIZ Egypt, FMO, and AfricaGrow. The program aims to invest equity or venture loans between the seed and series A stages and targets new and rising fund managers operating in Africa or the Middle East, with a…
The PepsiCo Greenhouse Accelerator: MENA Sustainability edition is now accepting applications with the goal of partnering with entrepreneurs with a mission to develop novel and ground-breaking agricultural solutions. Six firms and entrepreneurs with ground-breaking sustainability agriculture technologies will be chosen to participate in the 2023 PepsiCo Greenhouse Accelerator: MENA Sustainability edition program. At the closing…
The third Egypt’s Entrepreneur Awards (EEA), which will honor, recognize, and connect Egypt’s most creative, prosperous, and resilient businesspeople, is now accepting applications. The EEA is the first forum in Egypt to honor budding entrepreneurs and established, prosperous companies equally. It will give these business owners a platform, give them leverage, and help them advance…
The “missing middle” of East Africa will be addressed by a new EUR20 million (US$22 million) fund that Goodwell Investments and Oxfam Novib have announced. This fund will invest in early-stage development businesses that are having trouble obtaining financing from banks and investment funds. Goodwell Investments is an impact investment company that focuses on inclusive…
Between January 1 and March 31, 2018, African tech companies raised US$649,303,000, a decrease of 57.2% from the total raised during the same period in 2022 as the industry starts to suffer the effects of the global economic climate. The most recent edition of Disrupt Africa’s annual report on funding for African tech startups, which…
With its Growth Talent Accelerator Programme (GTAP) 2023 designed to upskill key startup team members into knowledgeable Growth Engineers for their firms, alGROWithm, a Nigerian-based growth talent accelerator, has opened applications to entrepreneurs from Nigeria and Kenya. Since its launch in 2019, alGROWithm has collaborated with tech companies, venture capital firms, and ecosystem builders to…
The term “generative AI” refers to a new class of Natural Language Processing (NLP) foundational models, such as the OpenAI ChatGPT and DALL-E, the Google BARD chatbot, the ERNIE Artificial Intelligence (AI) model from Baidu, and others. With the help of these models, users can create text and code, make predictions and summaries, translate across…
Elon Musk defended his contentious wage structure for Twitter on Friday, asserting that any social media site that didn’t adopt it would perish due to a bot invasion. On the eve of Twitter’s April 1 ultimatum that verified accounts with the prized blue tick that had not paid up would lose it, Musk made his…
The DFS Lab Stellar Africa Fund I, which will support high-potential builders and teams in Africa looking to revolutionize the landscape of digital payments and beyond by building on the Stellar network, has been unveiled by DFS Lab. Early-stage investor DFS Lab invests in founders that are generating possibilities for everyone while concentrating on Africa’s…
African companies have been invited to submit applications for the third Green Changemakers Challenge, a global innovation contest looking for products that give people the skills and mentality to help create a sustainable and just world. The Green Changemakers Challenge, which is being run by Ashoka in partnership with HSBC, will fund initiatives that assist…
Samsung Electronics has unveiled the Galaxy A54 5G and Galaxy A34 5G, two innovative smartphones that advance Samsung Galaxy’s commitment to designing awesome mobile experiences. These new additions to the popular Galaxy A series will help users shoot steady and crisp videos, see clearly even in bright conditions, and do more of the things they…
UmojaHack Africa 2023, a 2-day event for data scientists that aims to solve Africa’s toughest challenges through machine learning, was hosted by Zindi, the network for data scientists, on March 18–19, 2023. It brought together over 1000 students from 345 universities in 36 countries to create machine learning models for climate change. With over 1000…
The annual conference and awards are now accepting registration, according to the Africa Women Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum (AWIEF). The AWIEF event, now in its ninth year, will take place on November 9 and 10, 2023, at the Kigali Convention Centre (KCC) in Kigali, Rwanda. More than 1,300 entrepreneurs and startups, industry experts, thought leaders,…
The Nigerian Internet Registration Association (NIRA), the registry for .ng Internet Domain Names, responsible for and maintainings the database of names registered in the .ng country code Top Level Domain, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), to provideon cyber security trainings for the personnel of the…