Google on Friday graduated the Class 2 of its Launchpad Accelerator Africa programme in Lagos. The Country Director, Google, Mrs. Juliet Ehimuan-Chiazor disclosed this at the graduation ceremony of 11 participants that made it to the Class 2. Ehimuan-Chiazor while giving an overview of Google’s Launchpad Accelerator Africa programme described…
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Johnson & Johnson has launched the Champions of Science Africa Innovation Challenge 2.0, the second continent-wide competition calling on African innovators to submit ideas for innovative technologies, products and solutions that have the potential to create positive impact for African communities. The challenge focuses on identifying scalable and sustainable solutions…
The African business terrain is quite tough. It is not for the weak, but for the persistent and dogged. This is exactly the story of Jumia which started in Nigeria in 2012. Today, Jumia is not just an eCommerce company, it is a marketplace and an ecosystem spanning 14 African…
Tesla announced Robyn Denholm has taken Elon Musk’s place as chair of the company’s board. She will also be leaving her role as CFO and Head of Strategy at Telstra, Australia’s largest telecommunications company, after a six-month notice period there, to focus on her work as Tesla chair full-time, the company said in…
South African pharmaceutical temperature monitoring solution PharmaScout has raised Series A funding from Knife Capital to accelerate the rollout of its product and develop new ones for the international market. PharmaScout, a single point solution developed by Cape Town-based Internet of Things (IoT) startup 5nines Technologies, helps healthcare professionals mitigate…
On Saturday, November 10th, 5 female entrepreneurs will be pitching for N3.5 million in funding at the Demo Day of the She Leads Africa Accelerator. The Demo Day is the closing ceremony for the 3-month program designed to identify, support and fund the next generation of Nigeria’s brightest entrepreneurs. During the…
Exactly one week after the launch of its Black Friday campaign, Nigeria’s number one online shopping destination, Jumia has revealed that lower price point Asian smartphones remain the most searched items by Nigerians across desktop and on the Jumia mobile App. The Chief Executive Officer of Jumia Nigeria, Mrs Juliet…
Samsung Electronics Co Ltd has Launched its much-anticipated foldable phone at a conference for developers in San Francisco, urging Android programmers to start writing apps for the product. Reuters reports that the South Korean electronics giant also unveiled a new flexible mobile screen technology for its foldable phones, called infinity…
Facebook Messenger for iOS has said that the ability to “unsend” messages will be coming soon the application. The upcoming version (191.0) of the messaging app says that users will soon be able to remove a message from a chat thread after it’s been sent. The unsend option will allow…
Public voting has opened for the first Google Impact Challenge Nigeria, a competition to find the most innovative not-for-profit Nigerian organisations using technology to solve societal problems. This was announced via a statement on Monday by the Country Director for Google in Nigeria, Juliet Ehimuan-Chiazor. Ehimuan-Chiazor said: “It is important…
Thanks to technology, employees from all over the world can work together as one business unit. However, the same tech tools that allow for remote work can also serve as a distraction for many. Company chat rooms can become more gossip-filled than productive, smartphone notifications can interrupt meetings and social…
There is no easy path to making money. You have to work extremely hard and even engage in additional jobs that can sometimes be stressful to earn a living. However, with the gig economy becoming ever more popular, you can still keep your 9 to 5 job and still earn…
Lagos-based edtech startup Edves, has announced that it has raised $120 000 from two Nigerian investors: Chinook Capital and Co-creation Hub’s (CcHub) innovation fund Growth Capital. The startup, which was founded in 2016 by CEO Dimeji Falana and COO Dare Adebayo, announced the investment in a post on Twitter. https://twitter.com/EdvesSuite/status/1058435899158073344 The startup has developed school management software…
After being free to use for years, details are starting to come out about just how Facebook will monetize WhatsApp, the popular mobile messaging app it purchased for $19 billion in 2014. WhatsApp vice president Chris Daniels revealed that the company is going to start putting ads in the “Status”…
Spotify’s latest quarterly earnings are in, and the streaming service now boasts 87 million paid Premium subscribers and 191 million total active monthly users. That’s up from the 83 million paid Premium subscribers Spotify announced back in July. It’s not the biggest jump in subscribers for the streaming service, but it still…
Volvo Cars and Chinese internet giant Baidu have partnered to develop and mass produce self-driving electric cars in China. The Swedish carmaker, which is owned by Chinese auto manufacturer Geely, will offer its expertise in advanced technologies in the auto industry, while Baidu provides its autonomous driving platform Apollo, the two companies…
The LHoFT Foundation strongly believes that financial technology is crucial to advancing financial inclusion, empowering groups that have been left behind by the traditional financial system. Whether it’s financing for rural farmers, point of sale technology for underbanked merchants, or specialised insurance products, the positive impact being driven by entrepreneurship is…
The Mastercard Foundation and African Leadership Academy have announced that 22-year-old healthcare entrepreneur Melissa Bime has won the US$25,000 Grand Prize at the 8th annual Anzisha Prize awards gala. She is the founder of INFIUSS, an online blood bank and digital supply chain platform that ensures patients in 23 hospitals in Cameroon have life-saving blood…
Airbus Bizlab has launched the #Africa4Future accelerator program with the aim of helping African aerospace startups with their business. The new program is in partnership with GIZ Make-it, InnoCircle, and MEST Africa. The program will find and connect African aerospace startups with staff at Airbus who will work with the…
Google, one of the world’s leading technology company developing AI software is launching a global competition to help spur the development of applications and research that have positive impacts on the field and society at large. The competition, called the AI Impact Challenge, was announced at an event called AI for Social…