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Uber is set to introduce a new transportation option – UberBus – for customers in Lagos, the most populous city in Africa. This was confirmed by Uber’s general manager for sub-Saharan Africa Alon Lits in a discussion with Quartz Africa at the recently concluded World Economic Forum in South Africa. This…

Reach Robotics, makers of the MekaMon robot, is shutting down, at least in its current form – in the consumer Robotics business. This announcement was made by the Nigerian CEO and co-founder, Silas Adekunle on his LinkedIn page. He however said the company will continue in the Non consumer Robotics…

A Nigerian, Joel Kachi Benson, has won The Lion Award for Best VR Story at the 2019 Venice Film Festival for his Virtual Reality documentary “Daughters of Chibok.” Joel Kachi Benson is the founder and Creative Director of JB Multimedia Studios based in Lagos, an independent production company committed to creating,…

DappRadar, a global platform for discovering and analysing blockchain-based decentralised applications (“dapps”), announced that it has raised $2.33 million in seed funding. Naspers, through its Naspers Ventures division led $2.33m fundraise along with Blockchain.com Ventures and Angel Invest Berlin. DappRadar says it will use the investment primarily for R&D, developing…

ABAN, the largest network of Angel Investors in Africa and AfriLabs, the largest pan-African network of technology and innovation centers, are proud to introduce Catalyst, an initiative to support the African start-up ecosystem and deliver real, measurable impact to stakeholders. Catalyst is a cross-stakeholder initiative that aims to increase the pool…

LG G8X ThinQ debuts today at the ongoing IFA 2019 event in Berlin. An interesting feature of this phone is the dual screen attachment which makes it look like the Samsung foldable phone – two screens. The LG Dual screen is an improvement on the first LG dual screen introduced…

Triple lens camera with critically acclaimed Eye AF technology from Sony’s Alpha™ cameras, continuous burst shooting at up to 10 fps AF/AE tracking (Auto Focus and Auto Exposure) with increased calculations up to 30 fps

HMD introduced 5 new Nokia phones at the ongoing IFA 2019 in Berlin. They are: Two new smartphones: the Nokia 7.2, a class-defining smartphone with a powerful 48MP triple camera featuring ZEISS Optics, and the Nokia 6.2, where the breath-taking PureDisplay meets an advanced triple camera setup powered by AI experiences, all…

– Award of US $300,000, Extensive Mentoring and Connection Network Building to Support Expansion and Sustainability of Businesses and Programs

South African based payments enabler, Tutuka, announced that Apis Partners has acquired a majority stake in Tutuka. Apis acquired their stake from Paycorp, who invested in Tutuka in 2015, and helped the company grow their international presence and more than triple in size since their initial investment. Tutuka is a…

Global non-profit, Accion announced that its seed-stage investment initiative, Accion Venture Lab, has added $33 million to its initial capital pool, with the launch of a new $23 million fund and an additional, separate $10 million investment from Accion. The new fund brings together a group of third-party impact and…

Africa cross-border payment startup, Chipper Cash, has expanded into Nigeria. It has hired a country manager, Abiodun Animashaun, to help spread the word in Africa’s most populous country. The San Francisco based startup will be doing this in conjunction with PayStack, the payment gateway company. Abiodun Animashaun, co-founder of Gokada…

Android 10 is now available. This is the first time it is stepping away from the dessert naming convention. It is simply Android 10. According to Dave Burke, VP Engineering for Google, the company focused making your everyday life easier with features powered by on-device machine learning, as well as…

Chinese  mobile phone brand, Tecno Mobile, is set to unveil its camera smartphone CAMON 12 series on September 5. Leaked images hint that the Camon 12 series has a 90% perfect edge-to-edge ratio compared to that of the Camon 11 with 87.5% edge-to-edge ratio. A notable change is that this year’s…

– Nigeria is the second biggest market in Africa with over 2.9m DAU

Start-ups SHOPIT, EXPORTUNITY and WAKULIMA from South Africa, Benin and Tanzania respectively, emerged today the winners of the Nestlé Research and Development (R&D) Sub-Saharan innovation challenge. Selected from among a highly competitive group of 174 submissions received from 27 different countries across Africa, these start-ups projects were judged by a panel of Nestlé executives as…

Fresh off launching the Samsung Galaxy Note10 and Note10+, Samsung has launched the first 5G smartphone in its A series – the Galaxy A90 5G. Though it is the first in the A series, it is the fourth 5G phone after the Galaxy S10 5G, Galaxy Note10 5G, and Galaxy Note10+ 5G. The…

Econet Wireless has begun the installation of Tesla’s Powerwalls at its base stations across Zimbabwe. The Telecoms company is installing 520 Powerwalls to ensure that its network is available 24/7 despite frequent power outages that has characterised Zimbabwe in the last couple of months. A self-powered home combines solar energy…

Sun Exchange, the world’s first buy-to-lease marketplace for solar cells, is seeking to raise R7 million ($460,000) via an equity crowdfunding campaign with Uprise.Africa. This is part of the company’s current fundraising round which it seeks to raise up to $3million to grow its business. This R7 million will equate to…

Google Maps has now been updated to allow you pair transit directions with biking and ridesharing options, making it easier to travel that first or last mile with ease. Here’s how it works: Enter your destination in the search box, tap on “Directions” and then on the transit tab. From there,…