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 Uber to double down on safety and roll out Safety Toolkit for riders and drivers across 38 countries, including Nigeria; Features to include Safety Centre, Trusted Contacts, Share Trip, emergency assistance button and customisable speed alerts This week Uber announced the new Safety Toolkit which, over the next few weeks, will be…

Huawei launched the new Huawei Mate 20 pro in London on the 16th of October 2018. One key feature about this phone is the fact that it offers reverse wireless charging to Qi-compatible devices. This means that you can use a Mate 20 Pro to wirelessly charge a Note 9 or an iPhone…

Recently Facebook announced that there was a security breach on its platform in September 2018 and that 30 million people affected were affected. According to Facebook, attackers had exploited a vulnerability in Facebook’s code that impacted “View As” a feature that lets people see what their own profile looks like to someone…

Google has just launched new products and programs to help grow the Kenyan economy. According to Google, since it opened its doors 11 years ago, it has been focused on making information accessible and useful to Kenyans and it has initiated programmes to connect people, equip young Kenyans with digital…

Celestine Omin, Senior Consultant at Andela Nigeria has left the company to become the first Engineering Manager at Paystack, a technology company solving payments problems for businesses. Celestine made this announcement via a post recently. According to him, he “will be leading a bunch of the engineering effort here; hiring,…

Current Green Visor Capital Chairman & General Partner and Former Chairman and CEO of Visa, Joe Saunders has joined the board of Flutterwave, an online payments Technology solution company based in San Francisco. This is on the heels of its announcement of its completion of its Series A “extension” round…

Iyinoluwa Aboyeji is stepping down as the CEO of Flutterwave. He is handing over to the CTO and co-founder, Olugbenga Agboola. The ex-Andela co-founder made known in a press statement as detailed below. Olugbenga Agboola is a Financial Technology Engineer, with core financial services technology experiences with Paypal, Google, GTBank, Access…

Nigeria’s foremost innovation centre,  Co-Creation Hub (CcHUB) has partnered with Nigerian Institute of Medical Research (NIMR) to launch a digital patient care tool to promote adherence to treatment. The digital tool is an app called NimCure. The launch, which held at the NIMR complex in Yaba was attended by key stakeholders in the…

Truecaller today announced the launch of its instant messaging (IM) platform ‘Truecaller Chat’. With the aim to make communication safer to prevent fake news from circulating, the IM platform will allow users to report links, ensuring that fake news is not circulated unchecked by users. With social media’s rapid adoption globally,…

Adam Mosseri, the Current VP of product and a former high-ranking product exec at Facebook is now the new “Head of Instagram”. This announcement was made yesterday a week after Instagram co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger announced in a corporate blog post that they were leaving the company. Kevin and Mike…

For the 7th edition of DEMO Africa, Microsoft continues a leading role as a key sponsor and partner for the 2018 edition of DEMO Africa to be held in Casablanca, Morocco on October 18–19, and is teaming up with the Lions@frica initiative of the African Technology Foundation to empower the…

Nigerian healthcare startup, LifeBank recently emerged as a winner at the 2018 MIT Solve Global Challenge. The startup won under the “Frontlines of Health” Challenges category which is targeted at how communities invest in frontline health workers and services to improve their access to effective and affordable care. LifeBank beat seven other…

In a world of rising nationalism, international travel takes on greater importance—breaking down barriers, broadening our horizons and driving economic impact felt throughout the world’s cities. For the past decade, Mastercard’s Global Destination Cities Index has offered important analysis of travel to and within cities. This year’s global top cities Bangkok, London and Paris,…

Opacus Technologies has emerged the winner at the Merck Accelerator Lagos Satellite Program hosted by Seedspace Lagos. Their product, ProNov, is a technology innovation that provides a holistic business solution for pharmacies in frontier markets – inventory management, supply chain, digital payment via smartphone. ProNOV enables pharmacy store owners to monitor…

Ten speakers have been lined up to speak at the upcoming edition of “The Platform Nigeria”. They are ‘Bosun Tijani, co-founder of Co-creation Hub; Iyinoluwa Aboyeji, CEO & Co-Founder, Flutterwave; Dr. Victor Oladokun, Director of Communications, African Development Bank Group;  Adepeju Jaiyeoba, Founder, Brown Button Foundation; Mosunmola Umoru, Founder & CEO, Farmshoppe; Evon Benson-Idahosa, Founder/ED, Pathfinders…

Helios Investment Partners, one of the leading Africa focused private investment firm, has acquired a 76% stake in TPAY Mobile, a fast growing direct carrier billing provider in the Middle East and North Africa region from A15, a leading tech investment fund based in Egypt. Terms of the transaction were…

No need to go into details about the number of weddings that happen in this side of the world every weekend and the extravagance that goes into it.  If we go by CNN’s report, sometimes-Nigerian wedding can cost up to N100m with guest lists matching the super-sized budgets. It’s no secret…

The much awaited first trailer of Captain Marvel has dropped in case you missed it. Though the film is coming to the theatres on the 8th of March 2019, many people are really waiting to see how she would change the fate of the Avengers who were more of less…

Publiseer has just announced that it is now distributing songs on YouTube Music. So artists using Publiseer have a one-stop-shop for reaching the biggest and most popular digital music retailers on the planet. Publiseer’s digital content distribution platform makes ‘making things easy’ look easy. All streaming and download sales and royalties…

Uber has quietly introduced the use of the 3-wheeled vehicle (popularly known as Tuk Tuk in Kenya) in Mombasa. The service is known as uberPOA. This same vehicle is known as Keke Napep or Keke Marwa in Nigeria. According to Loic Amado, General Manager for Uber East Africa, “Tuk Tuks are a…