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There are thousands of mobile apps, and the total continues to rise every day. Making money from a mobile app is more difficult than traditional software because many people aren’t willing to pay that much for a mobile-based solution. Alternative strategies to upfront payments are used to make a profit,…

Afropolitan, a community-as-a-service startup that wants to build a digital nation for Africans, announced that it has raised $2.1 million. Over 25 Angel investors were involved in the raise including Balaji Srinivasan, a high-profile figure in the crypto space and the ex-CTO of Coinbase, Elizabeth Yin of Hustle Fund, Shola Akinlade of…

At the Innovation Village – Live webinar on “how to increase funding for startups in the healthcare sector”, held a couple of days ago, Ikechukwu Anoke talked about the reason he started Zuri Health. Launched by Ikechukwu Arthur Anoke and Daisy Isiaho in 2021, Zuri Health provides its mass-market customers…

WhatsApp announced some new features for its group call service some days ago. The Meta-owned messaging platform announced the new features on its Twitter page and they include: the ability to mute othersthe ability to message specific people and seeing a banner when someone joins offscreen Will CathCart, head of…

eCommerce giant, Amazon, is said to be planning to enter into Africa and South Africa in 2023. As reported by Business Insider, this is part of its expansion plans into Africa, Europe, and South America. The report stated that Amazon intends to expand into Belgium, Chile, Colombia, Nigeria, and South…

ThriveAgric, a Nigerian Agritech startup has emerged the winner of Visa Everywhere Initiative beating four other finalists to represent the CEMEA (Central Europe, Middle East, Africa) region at global finals event taking place in Qatar in November 2022. ThriveAgric also goes home with $25,000 as the grand prize. The five…

Roofs are a key part of your everyday life, and ensuring they’re protected keeps your life running smoothly. In a commercial setting, protecting your roof makes sure your operations go as they should. One way to protect a commercial roof is with coatings, so what should you know? 1. What…

Did you know that it’s possible to get a credit card with cash advance or loans even with bad credit? Yes, that’s right. To do that you have to do a lot of deep research to find the lenders offering relatively low interests. These interests will however not be as…

When you are building a business identity it is very important to get your materials right. It may seem like something that can be done at the last minute, but an effective business card or letterhead, if designed well, can set you apart from your competitors. With letterhead examples to…

Yesterday, June 16, 2022, Innovation Village held its Innovation Village – Live event where three subject matter experts talked about “How to increase funding for startups in the Healthcare Sector”. The three subject matter experts were Abimbola Adebakin, CEO of Advantage Health Africa; Ikechukwu Anoke, CEO of Zuri Health ; Ifeanyi Nsofor, MD, Senior Vice President…

Everybody should think critically and be creative in order to get the greatest outcomes. Something considered original content is anything that has rarely been seen before in any way on the web. A company’s ability to climb the ranks is directly related to its use of content marketing. You can’t…

Launch Africa Ventures, a Pan-African venture capital fund, announced the close of its $36.3 million fund, which it has primarily used to invest in B2B and B2B2C startups across Africa.  Since inception, Launch Africa has backed 108 startups across 21 African countries including Nigerian neobank Kuda, Kenyan B2B e-commerce retail platform MarketForce and…

Fresh from acquiring US-based Global Technology Partners (GTP) for $34 million, MFS Africa announced that it has secured an additional $100 million in its series C extension to $200 million. The company raised $100 million initially in 2021. The additional US$100 million in equity and debt funding was led by…

As the story goes, Google suspended engineer Blake Lemoine because he claimed that one of Google’s AI, LaMDA, is “sentient”. LaMDA, which stands for “Language Model for Dialog Applications,” is one of several large-scale AI systems that has been trained on large swaths of text from the internet and can…

Telegram is launching a premium service later this month. According to Pavel Durov, Telegram founder in a post on his telegram channel, the messaging company’s premium service will be “a subscription plan that allows anyone to acquire additional features, speed and resources. It will also allow users to support Telegram…

Tech giant Apple announced that it would launch its Buy Now Pay later (BNPL) service – Apple Pay Later – along with its new operating system, iOS 16 later this year. The announcement was made at its annual developers’ conference (WWDC) event early this week. Apple Pay Later, to be…

Access Bank Holdings announced that it has entered an agreement with Centum Investment Company Plc (‘Centum’) to acquire its 83.4% stake in Sidian Bank Limited. This will be Access Bank’s second acquisition in Kenya in recent times. The Pan-African bank acquired Transnational Bank in 2020. According to Sunday Ekwochi, Company…

MFS Africa, an Africa-focused digital payments company, announced that it has acquired US-based Global Technology Partners (GTP) for $34 million in a combination of cash and shares. The Dare Okoudjou – led company said that the acquisition will enable MFS Africa further deepen its offering to Africa’s gig economy, the…

Guaranty Trust Holding (GTCO) Plc fintech subsidiary, HabariPay, has just launched Squad, a digital payments platform to provide customers with the tools to do business digitally. According to the company, “At Squad, we provide business owners with the tools they need to thrive in a digital economy while also promoting…

Kenyan telecoms giant, Safaricom partnered with Visa to launch the first M-PESA GlobalPay Visa Virtual card. With the M-PESA GlobalPay Visa Virtual card, M-PESA customers can shop online globally and make payments at merchant locations in over 200 countries through Visa’s network globally. The M-PESA GlobalPay Visa Virtual Card will…