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South Africa based company, ERADA Technology Alliance Ltd (ERADA), has announced the receipt of €288 000 foundation grant from the De Beers Group to support our Saliva-based Malaria Asymptomatic and Asexual Rapid Test (SMAART) test, known as SALVA!, the world’s first ever saliva-based rapid diagnostic test for malaria. The foundation grant will prove instrumental in the final…

Vodacom invests over USD 150,000 to empower aspiring youth in Tanzania

Kuda, formerly known as Kudimoney, has raised  $1.6 million in pre-seed funding. The funding was led by investor Haresh Aswani along with Ragnar Meitern and other angel investors. Based on the investment, Aswani will take a position on Kuda’s board. The digital-only retail bank plans to use its seed funds to go from beta…

The new Apple iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max feature a triple-camera system, a marked difference from last year’s iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max which have only two rear cameras. It is also the same difference with the iPhone 11. The new phones were unveiled at the…

Apple unveiled the latest in the watch series – the Apple Watch Series 5 – at an Apple event in Cupertino today. Three key features of the new Apple Watch Series 5 include the following: an Always-On Retina Display – This means the phone never sleeps. So it’s easy to…

Apple introduced the new iPhone 11 with a powerful dual-camera system, offering an intuitive camera experience with the highest quality video in a smartphone and Night mode for photos.  The 6.1″ Apple iPhone 11 sports an all-screen Liquid Retina HD display (1792‑by‑828‑pixel resolution at 326 ppi). It measures 150.9mm (H)…

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…