Chibawanye Ene, a Nigerian-born US-based doctor, has won the 2019 Ronald L. Bittner Award on brain tumour research. According to the Applied Radiation Oncology, a quarterly journal on cancer, Ene received the award at the 2019 American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) annual scientific meeting which held from April 13…
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Social media has been blocked in Eritrea in order to present a planned protest. People have thus been forced to turn to Virtual Private Networks, VPN, to exchange messages. In Eritrea, the internet cannot be accessed via mobile phones, the report added. The government is said to have taken the measure…
Huawei Technologies Co Ltd and 70 other affiliates have been blacklisted by the United state over national security concerns. A move that many perceive is targetted at China. The ban slammed on the telecom giant means that U.S. companies won’t be able to buy parts and components from the blacklisted companies…
Instagram has announced that it will shut down its standalone Direct messaging app. This means that users will no longer be able to slide into someone else’s DMs via the Direct for Instagram app. It appears the photo-sharing social media platform is cutting off support for the Direct app “in the…
Uber drivers are independent contractors, not employees of the ride-hailing company, the federal labour board’s general counsel said in an opinion released May 14th. This opinion comes on the heels of drivers demanding Uber reclassify them as employees. The opinion, authored on April 16th by Jayme Sophir, associate general counsel at…
Jumeni, a Ghanaian-based software provider for the field service industry has announced the launch of their integrated waste management platform for waste management and recycling companies. The Jumeni team has built a cloud platform that makes waste management operations more efficient, in a single solution. This platform offers six core…
Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital, and the city of Cape Town South Town have been listed among the top 50 most Instagrammed destinations in the world. The report was recently released by Hoppa and interestingly, the two are the only African destinations on the list. The southwestern state is Nigeria’s largest…
Disney which will launch its own streaming service Disney + on November 12 has sealed a deal to assume full control of Hulu. The deal puts a minimum future value on the streaming service of $27.5 billion while laying the groundwork for the creation of a powerful competitor for Netflix…
Female-focused startups have been invited to apply for the fourth Vodafone F-LANE accelerator, which offers access to mentoring and funding. The Berlin-based F-LANE is a seven-week acceleration programme for up to fives high-potential digital impact ventures focusing on female empowerment. Impact-driven entrepreneurs are invited to work, learn and live in Berlin,…
Mercedes Benz South Africa has established an Information Technology (IT) hub, focusing on data analytics, software development, and business analysts. The new IT Hub is one of three within the IT Mercedes-Benz Car operations, which will work closely with the different center of competence (COC) divisions in Germany to provide…
Huawei Technologies has overtaken Apple Inc and claimed the 2nd world biggest smartphone company after Samsung at the top of the market. The networking giant appears to have shrugged off a barrage of accusations that it aids Chinese espionage. Outside of China, Huawei’s increasing brand recognition newly allowing it to…
The University of Nigeria has unveiled plans to host the National Innovation Summit and first-ever university-led competition for startups tagged “Venture Cup Nigeria”. The summit, which is slated to hold in June this year at the Nsukka campus of the university, is being organised in collaboration with the Lion Science…
Bolt (formerly Taxify), a ride-hailing company has launched its operations two Nigerian states namely-Uyo and Calabar. It is the first ride-hailing service to connect passengers with drivers in these cities. The expansion move brings Bolt’s cities in Nigeria to a total of seven: the service is already well established in…
Finding the right business idea is the single most important thing in building a successful business; raising capital is the second most important if you must nurture the idea of growth. While the sources of capital still remain largely the same – as they were in the last 2 decades,…
Chipper Cash, an African cross-border payment startup has raised a $2.4 million seed round led by Deciens Capital. Also joining the funding round are 500 Startups and Liquid 2 Ventures. Co-founded by Ham Serunjogi (Uganda) and Maijid Moujaled (Ghana) in October 2018, Chipper Cash offers no-fee, P2P, cross-border mobile-money payments in Africa. The payment startup…
Samsung may have goofed when it comes to Foldable Phones. Regardless, it is not stopping other companies from looking into the technology. Ahead of its I/O developer conference, Google says it’s also looking into foldable tech and has been prototyping foldable displays for quite some time, according to CNET. “We’re definitely prototyping…
Kenya ePharmacy startup, MyDawa has received a $3 million funding round to scale its operations. The investment was made by Africa HealthCare Master Fund and it is the first round of external financing that the company has received since it began operations in 2017. “I am delighted to add the…
Online marketplaces such as Jumia could create 3 million new jobs in Africa by 2025 according to a report by the Boston Consulting Group, in which Jumia (NYSE:JMIA) made some significant contributions to the report, and has already created 5,000 direct jobs on the continent. According to the World Bank,…
Students of Bowen University has developed a security app that will address security issues on campus. The students launched the app during their Innovation and Entrepreneurship Week that ended recently. The one-week-long entrepreneurial programme was full of activities that exposed the students on entrepreneurial skills. Two major highlights were: the…
Ten Francophone African tech startups have been selected to take part in the second residency organised by the World Bank’s L’Afrique Excelle accelerator, which will see them take part in venture showcases at the Afrobytes and VivaTech events in France. The World Bank Group launched L’Afrique Excelle, the Francophone edition of the XL…