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Yep! You read right. Tesla’s online shop went down for a few minutes yesterday after Elon Musk tweeted about the arrival of its limited edition “S3XY” shorts on Sunday afternoon. He replied after the incident saying “Dang, we broke the website”. Well you may ask, what has an innovative tech…

In its “The rise and rise of African Agritech” report, Disrupt Africa highlighted the problems plaguing Africa’s agriculture sector and how entrepreneurs are building solutions to these problems. While the number of these solutions have increased year on year and are having a huge impact across the continent, more still…

Tech giant Microsoft is partnering with LinkedIn, GitHub to launch an initiative to help 25 million people worldwide acquire the digital skills needed in a COVID-19 economy. The initiative will bring together every part of Microsoft, combining existing and new resources from LinkedIn, GitHub, and Microsoft.  It will be grounded…

OPay, Opera’s fintech startup, has shut down some of its businesses including ORide – the ride hailing business, OCar, OFood – the food delivery business and its OExpress – the logistics business in Nigeria. This is according to a report in an online newspaper published this afternoon. The report stated…

The World Bank Group has appointed two Vice Presidents to oversee its efforts in Africa as it seeks to increase its focus on the continent. The Vice Presidents are Hafez Ghanem, for Eastern and Southern Africa and Ousmane Diagana for Western and Central Africa. Hitherto, Hafez has solely been in charge of Africa…

Honoris United Universities, an African Actis-backed education group, has added Nile University of Nigeria, a private university based in Abuja, to its extensive network. The group already owns private universities in Mauritius, Morocco, South Africa, Tunisia, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. This is its first acquisition in West Africa Actis launched Honoris…

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…

Combining Technology and Style, vivo V19 offers Industry-leading Selfie Capabilities and Stunning Design

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…