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Bozoma Saint John has been appointed the new Chief Marketing Officer of streaming company, Netflix. She is expected at Netflix this August and she will be reporting to chief content officer Ted Sarandos. She is replacing  Jackie Lee-Joe, who had only been at Netflix for 10 months and is leaving…

Ecocash, the mobile money business of Econet Wireless Zimbabwe is not heeding to the government of Zimbabwe’s order for mobile money operators. On Friday, June 26, the government suspended most monetary transactions on mobile-phone platforms and trade on the Zimbabwe stock exchange in an effort to stabilize its currency. President…

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Facebook announced today that it is ending the sales of Oculus Go headsets this year and it will be doubling up on its offerings for Oculus Quest and Rift. Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg unveiled the Oculus Go standalone Virtual Reality (VR) headset at Oculus Connect 4 in San Jose, California, USA in…

Today the African Union launched an online medical supplies marketplace to enable the supply of COVID-19-related critical medical equipment in Africa. South African President, Cyril Ramaphosa launched the new platform enabling the procurement, coordination and distribution of COVID-19 medical supplies for all African Union member states. The Africa Medical Supplies…

MIT Technology Review has just released its 35 innovators under 35 and there are two Africans on this list – Nigerian Inioluwa Deborah Raji and Tunisian Mohamed Dhaouafi. Her research on racial bias in data used to train facial recognition systems is forcing companies to change their ways. Based in the US, Inioluwa…

Vivo Smartphone is all set to launch its first-ever Dual Punch Hole Camera phone on June 24th in Kenya. According to the official statement distributed by the company, vivo V19 will hold an L-shaped quad rear camera with a LED flash and a dual punch front camera at the right…

Temie Giwa-Tubosun, CEO and founder of LifeBank Nigeria, has been selected as the 2020 Sub-Saharan Africa recipient of Cartier’s Women’s Initiative. She is one of the seven regional winners selected from over 1,200 applications from 162 countries. The announcement was made online on Monday by the President and CEO of…

International money transfer service, TransferGo, has raised an additional $10 million and launches in eleven markets including Ghana, Japan, New Zealand, Saudi Arabia, Singapore. The funding round was co-led by Seventure, and Vostok Emerging finance, Hard Yaka, Revo Capital and Bootstrap Europe This sees the London-based company expanding in Africa…

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Orange, France’s largest telecom operator, is considering a move into two of the largest economies in Africa – Nigeria and South Africa. According to Orange Chief Executive Stephane Richard in Les Echos, a daily French financial newspaper, “It could make sense to be in economies such as Nigeria and South…

Nigerian telehealth startup, MobiHealth International, has emerged one of the five winners in the 2020 edition of the Sanofi AfricaTech challenge. Other winners are EYONE, MamaPrime, Teheca and the University Agency Innovation. These five techpreneurs emerged from the 11 shortlisted startups who pitched before an online jury and audience at the…

Applications are now open for the 2020 edition of the Hague Institute for Innovation of Law (HiiL) Innovating Justice Challenge. Based in The Hague, HiiL is a social enterprise devoted to user- friendly justice. That means justice that is easy to access, easy to understand, affordable, and effective. HiiL has…

The Nigerian Investment Promotion Commission (NIPC) has approved the pioneer status applications of MainData Nigeria Limited and seven other companies in the first quarter of 2020 according to its report released recently. Industries that qualify for the Pioneer Status Incentive (PSI) are given a 3-year holiday from paying company income…

Craig Fenton (Strategy and Operations Lead for Google’s business in UK, Ireland, and Southern Europe) has joined Connected Analytics (ThankUCash) as an investor and advisor. Though he took up this role in February 2020, it was just announced by co-founder, Simeon Ononobi. Craig Fenton is a business leader and entrepreneur…

Messenger Kids, the chat and messaging app from Facebook, is now in Africa. The app helps children connect with friends and family in a fun, parent-controlled space. The messaging app was first introduced three years ago and rolled out in US alone. It was then extended to 70 countries (excluding African countries)…

Getting around by public transport can be risky during this COVID-19 pandemic because most commuters may not comply with the social distancing guidelines. Google is lending a hand to ensure that commuters are aware of these travel restrictions by alerting users of COVID-19 related guidelines. It has integrated such information…

Ride sharing giant, Uber, is launching a digital wallet feature, Uber Cash, across Africa this week. This is made possible through a partnership with Nigerian based payment fintech company, Flutterwave. This digital wallet feature is expected go live within the next couple of days in Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Nigeria,…

As a service that every brand in every industry requires, it would seem that it would be easy to find success in the digital marketing agency, but this is certainly not the case. Digital marketing is incredibly competitive and an industry that is flooded with large agencies, small companies and…

Leading private equity firm, Tana Africa Capital has announced its investment into Mabaret Al Asafra (“Mabaret”) a leading hospital operator in Alexandria, Egypt. The investment was done through its second fund Tana Africa Capital II (“TAC II”) and made directly into Alexandria for Healthcare Investments (“AHI”), that owns the majority…