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Sterling Bank, one of commercial banks in Nigeria, released a new ad this week which seemingly throws shade at some of the bigger banks – Union Bank, First Bank, Access Bank and Guaranty Trust Bank and this has brought about epic clapbacks. As can be seen in the ad image…

Ahmad Mokhles has joined Liquid Telecom as the new Group Chief Operating Officer. Before his appointment, he was the COO for Airtel Nigeria. Before that, he served as Executive Vice President of Consumer and Digital Business for du, overseeing the company’s Smart City business, and has also served as CCO for…

Kenyan start-up Apollo Agriculture has received $500,000 from Dutch Development Bank FMO and the Rabobank Foundation. Apollo Agriculture supplies small Kenyan farmers with high-quality farming inputs on credit, crop insurance and voice-based training. The startup uses a unique ‘high tech, low touch’ model by leveraging advances in mobile money, machine…

Africa.com has completed its acquisition of iAfrica.com, South Africa’s oldest and most iconic news portal from South African media giant, Primedia (Pty) Ltd and telecoms powerhouse, MTN (Pty) Ltd. The terms of the agreement were not disclosed. iAfrica was founded in the late 1990s, and remains one of South Africa’s…

Farmcrowdy, Nigeria’s first and leading digital agriculture platform yesterday won the Digital Business of the Year (2018) award in Africa. The award was granted at the annual Global African Business Awards (GABA) ceremony in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Launched in 2017, GABA, the world’s premier annual business award was created to…

Online retailer, MallforAfrica has partnered with delivery giant, DHL to launch an e-commerce site, MarketPlaceAfrica.com. MarketPlaceAfrica is an e-commerce site for select African artisans to sell wares to buyers in any of DHL’s 220 delivery countries. MallforAfrica is currently vetting sellers for MarketPlace Africa online and through the Africa Made Product Standards association (AMPS), to…

Recently Promoth Manghat, Executive Director of Finablr and Group CEO announced the rebranding of UAE Exchange’s Africa operations to Unimoni. UAE Exchange is a leading global money transfer, foreign exchange and payment solutions brand of the company. The announcement was made at an event held in Nairobi, Kenya, in the presence…

DEMO Africa innovation tours took to Central Africa seeing Cameroon, Douala start-ups embracing the opportunity and showing up in numbers to pitch. The event was held at ActivSpaces who have been actively involved in the planning of the tour as partners of DEMO Africa. Vibrant start-up teams Zuoix, Dikorah and…

As a further testament to its leadership and popular acceptance as the foremost music content distribution platform, Boomplay Music, Africa’s fastest growing music streaming and download platform has recorded a milestone 10 million installations off Google Play store. Boomplay Music’s unique and user-friendly application has made it a top choice…

Startup Grind Lagos will be hosting Onyeka Akumah, co-founder of Farmcrowdy – referred to as Nigeria’s first Digital Agriculture platform, in her fireside chat for the month of July Meetup. This month’s Meetup is themed “Are you investor ready?” and will also feature a Learning Session by Leadership & Lifestyle Coach…

Techpoint and CcHub, in collaboration with DEMO Africa, kickstarted the Western African Tour seeing Lagos tripling the number of winning startup teams. Accounteer, E-pump and Termii emerged top of the pool other country champs in the semi-final battles for regional representatives. Accounteer is a smart cloud accounting platform that allows SMEs to…

Nigeria’s popular digital content distribution platform, Publiseer, gets into MIT Solve Global Challenges. MIT Solve is a business incubator from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that advances solutions from tech entrepreneurs to address pressing global issues by connecting innovators with resources such as expertise, human capital, technology, and funding. Since…

The South African innovation tour held by DEMO Africa in partnership with Legazy saw a surprising turn of events having two teams qualify for the second round to compete for South Africa’s national spot. The amicably start-ups Get Hosted and Loyall came first in an event that took place at…

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Naspers’ two separate online fashion businesses, Spree and Superbalist will be merging to create a “larger, more focused and economically sustainable platform on which to build a substantial online retail, footware and apparel business” This announcement was made by Media24 and Takelot. The new venture will be held 51% by Media24,…

Techcrunch has announced that its Startup Battlefield Africa will be in Lagos Nigeria. Last year, its first event in Sub-Saharan Africa took place in Nairobi, Kenya where Lori Systems won the competition. Techcrunch is once again teaming up with Facebook to make this event happen. Early-stage startups are welcome to…

Tech giant Google has announced that it will invest $550 million in Chinese e-commerce company, JD.com, as part of a strategic partnership. Google and JD plan to collaborate on a range of strategic initiatives, including joint development of retail solutions in a range of regions around the world, including Southeast Asia, the…

Startup Grind Lagos is set to host the Founder of SmartBcamp and Business Coach, John Obidi later this month. SmartBCamp is a community dedicated to closing the knowledge gap among working professionals in Nigeria. This event will also feature a Startup Clinic to help entrepreneurs and founders find solutions to…

Ant Financial, an affiliate company of the Chinese Alibaba Group, has raised $14billion in its latest funding round. The Series C funding is to accelerate the global expansion of Alipay and the development of new technology to further enhance the Company’s ability to deliver inclusive financial services to unbanked and underbanked…

AfriLabs; The largest network of technology and innovation hubs across Africa has admitted 40 new hubs; its largest hub admission to date into its network making it a total of 100 hubs across 30 African countries. This also extends our reach to 6 new countries; Morocco, Algeria, Somali Land, Cote…