Apple is extending Self Service Repair beginning from today for MacBook Air and MacBook Pro notebooks with the M1 family of chips, providing repair manuals and genuine Apple parts and tools through the Apple Self Service Repair Store. Apple launched the Self Repair Service for iPhone earlier this year and…
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Electronics and technology giant Samsung is rolling out its Samsung Internet 19.0 beta which provides new powerful features to help protect users against online threats from trackers and makes the browsing experience more convenient than ever. The beta version is available for download on the Google Play Store and Samsung…
Egypt’s advertising technology company ArabyAds has raised $30 million in pre-Series B funding from AfricInvest. Founded in 2013 in Egypt, with headquarters in the UAE and tech hubs across Egypt, Tunisia, and Jordan, ArabyAds helps advertisers in customer acquisition, retention, and monetization by leveraging its technology platforms for influencer marketing,…
Film and television students in the West and Central Africa region can now apply for the Netflix Creative Equity Scholarship Fund (CESF). Following this update, Applications are now open for students to apply to study at institutions in Nigeria, Ghana, Benin and Gabon. Netflix’s global Netflix Creative Equity Fund, which…
It can be tempting to tell a lie in your curriculum vitae because you want to land a big job. However, the short-term gains you might make in landing the job through deception can have long-term consequences that may do serious damage to your career. Without further ado, we share…
Airbnb has introduced new anti-party tools in the US and Canada to help identify potentially high-risk reservations and prevent those users from taking advantage of its platform. In June, the American company that operates an online marketplace for lodging, primarily homestays for vacation rentals, and tourism activities, announced that its…
Dutch-based social enterprise, PreMal has launched MTego, a solar-powered mosquito trap in Kenya. Founded in 2019, PreMal is focused on the development and commercialisation of high-performance mosquito trapping systems. The enterprise is driven and motivated by the ambition of reducing mosquito-borne diseases, thus stimulating economic growth and empowering people. According to the…
Kenya’s tech-driven logistics services company, Lori Systems has secured funding from tech giant Google’s $50-million Africa Investment Fund. The logistics startup secured an undisclosed investment from Imperial Logistics in 2020 after raising $30 million in a Series A funding round led by Chinese investors in 2019. Lori Systems was founded in…
Klasha, a Lagos and San Francisco -based technology company transforming cross-border African commerce has appointed Ayman Jawhar as its Chief Product Officer. Ayman who has a degree in computer engineering from the American University at Beirut and an MBA from INSEAD will work from the United Kingdom and has over…
Airtel Africa has secured a $125 million revolving loan facility from Citibank through its branch subsidiaries in sub-Saharan Africa. Airtel Africa’s Group Company Secretary, Simon O’Hara made this known in a corporate filing on the Nigerian Exchange Limited (NGX). The company is a leading provider of telecommunications and mobile money…
Egypt-based social commerce platform Sharwa has closed a $2 million pre-seed funding round, co-led by Nuwa Capital and Hambro Perks Oryx Fund, among other investors. The pre-seed investment will be spent on the continued development of the technology platform and expanding the team. According to the company, inflation has put…
Crypto Exchange Platform, Binance has appointed Co-Founder Yi He as the new head of Binance Labs, the venture capital (VC) arm and incubator of Binance. Binance Labs is the largest crypto VC in the industry by assets Under Management (AUM) with a multiple on invested capital (MOIC) of 21.0x, a…
English football club, Manchester United has entered into a multi-year global partnership with Qualcomm Technologies. Snapdragon platforms power many of the world’s premium smartphones, PCs, gaming devices, connected cars, smart wearables and more. The arrangement will bring together the world’s most popular football club with a global leader in technology…
MTN Nigeria Communication has launched Home Broadband services to speed up broadband penetration in concordance with the Federal Government’s plan to achieve over 70% broadband penetration by 2025. The launch will make MTN Home Broadband services available to millions of Nigerian households. Nigeria has over 200 million people and currently boasts…
Leading integrated energy provider, Zener has secured €16.2 million from the International Finance Corporation to help Togo transition towards cleaner and safer energy sources. Proceeds from the funds will also be channeled towards reducing the use of polluting fuels for cooking in the West African country and mitigating climate change.…
If you’re responsible for the security of a network, then you know how important it is to have a network vulnerability scanner. Scanners that inspect your network for flaws may help you discover vulnerabilities that hackers can use. We’ll go through what network vulnerability scanning is and the many sorts…
Digital Realty has completed the acquisition of Teraco, a leading provider of colocation data centres and interconnection platforms in Africa after acquiring a majority stake in company from a consortium of investors, including Berkshire Partners and Permira. With the acquisition, Teraco will be known as Teraco: A Digital Realty Company.…
Kenya-based startup Lami Technologies has raised a US$ 3.7m seed extension to expand its insurtech product across Africa. The extension was led by Harlem Capital, an early-stage venture firm that invests in seed-stage tech-enabled startups, focused on minority and women founders. Participating in the round were early-stage venture capital firm,…
Ubenwa, a pioneering developer of diagnostic software for the rapid detection of medical anomalies in infant cry sounds has secured $2.5 million in pre-seed financing led by AI-focused Radical Ventures and AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio, with participation from returning investor AIX ventures, entrepreneurs Pieter Abbeel and Richard Socher, Canadian politician…
Seedstars has launched Seedstars International ventures, its second emerging market seed stage fund. Seedstars also announced the first close of the fund with $20 million committed by notable investors including the International Finance Corporation (IFC), Visa Foundation, The Rockefeller Foundation, and Symbiotics. Seedstars will invest in 100 pre-seed and seed…