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Farmcrowdy, Nigeria’s first and leading digital agriculture platform has introduced a new category of funding small scale farming in Africa by allowing Nigerians to venture and sponsor agriculture; and today, announced the launch of its first app for Android, iOS and Windows mobile devices. Techstars Atlanta alumnus, Farmcrowdy is reshaping…

Startup Grind Lagos is set to host Former Minister of Communication Technology and now Venture Capitalist, Omobola Johnson later this month. Omobola Johnson is a lead general partner for TLcom Capital which recently raised a $40 million seed fund for African startups. This meetup will take place on Saturday, November…

Paul Ziem is the founder and CEO of NerdCore, a digital entertainment studio poised to make very entertaining games, comics and other related products and services. Paul is of the opinion that gaming can change the African narrative. By the kinds of games developed, the story lines, the characters we can…

Startups can now apply for the Google Launchpad Africa Accelerator. Launchpad Africa is an acceleration program that matches the best African startups with the best of Google – its people, network, and advanced technologies – to help build great products. Google is currently accepting applications for the first Launchpad Africa class,…

Apple has confirmed it is working to fix a recent issue of the iPhone X becoming unresponsive in cold weather. An affected iPhone X user shared his experience on a Reddit thread saying I’ve noticed that my iPhone X screen becomes very unresponsive as soon as I step outside. It…

Chinese internet company, Tencent, has purchased a 12% stake in Snap Inc. worth over $2billion. According to the WeChat owner, it says it can help the Snapchat owner publish video games and improve ad sales. The purchase of 145.8 million of its shares on the open market was disclosed by Snap…

The Young Entrepreneurship Day will bring together some of Africa’s most promising entrepreneurs with investors and new partners to help them scale up their ideas and businesses and the most successful start-ups will gain access to a deal room and also a one week tailored course at Stanford HE Paul…

South African based analytics company, Jumo, has received $6 million from Finnish Development Finance Corporation , Finnfund. JUMO is a mobile financial services platform for mobile network operators and banks. The platform facilitates digital financial services such as credit and savings in emerging markets by way of USSD short codes. The…

Having received over 300 entries, the AppsAfrica.com Awards Winners 2017 were announced at a pan-African mobile and tech awards party at Shimmy Beach Club in Cape Town, South Africa last night. The Awards supported by Boomplay Music, Africa Tech Summit Kigali, Basebone, BBM, Mobile Ecosystem Forum (MEF) and Mobile Monday South Africa (MOMO) celebrate the best…

OPPO is gearing to launch its first ever full screen device, the OPPO F5, on November 20th in Kenya. The device that was launched in other markets recently will sport a ‘full screen design’ with a full-HD+ resolution, which means the OPPO F5 will feature a display with an 18:9…

Following the official release of the new iPhone X globally last week friday, Samsung released a new ad dissing about iPhones over the years. It scoffs at the fact that iPhone customers have to wait in long queues to get the phones; the fact that in 2016, the iPhone wasn’t water-proof…

Edem Dotse is the founder and CEO of Swiftly, a disruptive peer-to-peer platform making shipping affordable for everyone. If you are shipping a container, you can find someone to share your extra space. Sending a package by Air, add it to someone who has extra space or yet still collaborate…

VUBIQUITY, the leading global provider of premium content and marketing services, has signed a three-year deal with South African Cellular Operator Cell C, to provide new and exclusive content and entertainment services throughout South Africa. The deal encompasses a substantial linear channel entertainment bundle provided to Cell C via VUBIQUITY…

In developing markets around the world, it is the informal economies that serve as the quietly humming engines of growth. By way of example, the informal economy accounts for over 70% of total employment in sub-Saharan Africa – an economy that includes street vendors, traders in open-air markets, subsistence farmers…

Some people can swear by it; some people do not simply understand it. But the value of the cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, is steadily rising. Today, it broke the $7,000 for the very first time. This means that one Bitcoin is equivalent to $7000 On some exchanges, it surged to a high…

Is it a play on the number 2 or it can actually give you you two days of power from a single charge? Well that is the promise from Nokia about the Nokia 2 phone that was launched on Tuesday in Delhi, India. And it could be true based on the…

Innovation Village is giving away an Infinix Hot 5 smartphone. This smartphone was launched on the 29th of August in Lagos, Nigeria and we were there to capture the event. We also have one unit to give away to one lucky reader Otherwise tagged the first mobile cinema smartphone, the Infinix Hot 5’s…

This appointment comes against the backdrop of the company’s recent transition into a data and marketing technology business, its pan-African expansion plans The Board of Directors of Terragon Group recently announced the appointment of Andrew Bing, former Chief Financial Officer of MTN Nigeria, as an independent non-executive director (NED) at…

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) will advance off-grid energy solutions in sub-Saharan Africa through several new awards announced today at the Unlocking Solar Capital:  Africa Conference in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire.  The awards provide capital to companies engaged in household solar-systems and micro-grids to expand operations, scale innovations, test new…

In collaboration with Africa’s hottest emerging design talent, Lulu Mutuli and Azra Walji, global beer brand, Heineken has launched its first-ever African fashion collection, unveiled on the catwalk of the closing show at Lagos Fashion and Design Week on Saturday 28 October 2017. The initiative is the next chapter in Heineken’s…