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How many devices do you currently have on hand? How often have you checked your social media accounts in the last hour? When was the last time you played a video game? The answers to these questions may seem unrelated. Technology addiction is becoming more and more accurate and can…

African Leadership International (ALI) announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire Silicon Valley based Holberton Inc., a Silicon Valley-founded, project-based, college alternative educating the next generation of software engineers. According to Fred Swaniker of African Leadership International in a LinkedIn post, “Once complete, this acquisition will give ALI…

Zazuu, an Africa-focused payment fintech company, announced that it has raised $2million to build a remittance marketplace for Africans. Participants in the fundraising round include Launch Africa, Founders Factory Africa, Hoaq Club, Tinie Tempah, Jason Njoku, CEO IrokoTV, Babs Ogundeyi, CEO Kuda Bank, and other angel investors. Founded in 2018…

Over 124,000 leaked confidential documents, aptly named the Uber Files, reveal that Uber dealt in illegal lobbying, flouted laws, duped police, exploited violence against drivers and did many more dubious things in the course of its aggressive expansion globally. The unprecedented leak to the Guardian shows the ethically questionable practices…

Billionaire Elon Musk has officially announced that he is pulling out of the $44 billion agreement to buy Twitter. This is the latest in the long standing epic drama which began many weeks ago when Elon Musk first bought 9.2% of the social media company, making him the largest shareholder…

Endeavor, a global firm that invests in entrepreneurs, announced that it has closed its endeavor Catalyst Fund IV raising $292 million, the largest fund to date, surpassing the fund’s initial $200 million – $250 million target. This brings Endeavor Catalyst’s total assets under management (“AUM”) up to $500M+. Founded by…

Social media giant, Twitter, is testing a new feature, named “CoTweets”, which allows users co-author tweets and both be tagged in a single tweet. We had reported in March 2022 that the micro-blogging platform was indeed working on a Twitter collaboration feature which is similar to Instagram’s Collab feature, where…

CreditChek announced that it has raised $240,000 in a pre-seed funding round led by Atom Capital with participation from Aidi Ventures, Ham Serunjogi of Chippercash, Olumide Ogunsanwo of Adamantium Fund, Damola Adegboyega of Assembly Investors, Isaac Ewaleifoh of Launch Africa Ventures and Ogundiran Kayode. Founded by Kingsley Ibe and Lionel Orishane in…

Fintech giant, Flutterwave has come out to deny the money laundering charges brought against in Kenya, saying that “claims of financial improprieties involving the company in Kenya are entirely false” Yesterday, reports emanating from Kenya stated that Asset Recovery Agency (ARA) in Kenya issued orders to a high court for…

The Asset Recovery Agency (ARA) in Kenya has issued orders to a high court to freeze 56 accounts holding Sh7 billion ($59.2 million) belonging to foreign nationals and entities including Flutterwave, a Nigerian fintech company that provides a payment infrastructure for global merchants and payment service providers across the continent. …

Meta announced that it has built and open sourced ‘No Language Left Behind’ NLLB-200, a single AI model that can translate across 200 different languages, including 55 African languages. Meta uses the modelling techniques and learnings from the project to improve and extend translations on Facebook, Instagram, and Wikipedia. According to…

Kenyan B2B last mile logistics startup, Duhqa has closed a $2 million seed round to scale its service offering within Kenya and East Africa. The startup raised US$ 150,000 in pre-seed funding in 2021. The funding round attracted participation from CrossFund, Roselake Ventures, Mo Angels and a number of existing investors, including Techstars…

Mono is now live in Kenya. Mono enables its partners to build apps that make transfers from their customers’ bank accounts instantly, help them understand their users’ cash flow with more detailed information, offer convenient credit, among other things. Founded by ex-Paystack employee and CEO Abdul Hassan and CTO Prakhar Singh, and launched…

Central African Republic (CAR) has launched its official digital currency, Sango Coin, as part of a plan to develop its financial industry. In a virtual event by the CAR President Faustin Archange Touadera on Sunday, he said that “Sango Coin will be the currency for the next generation.” The digital…

Tech giant, Meta, is shutting down its digital wallet, Novi. There is a notice on the Novi website that states that the “Novi Pilot is ending soon.” It also states that “Novi will no longer be available for use after September 1” and and asks users to withdraw their funds…

When it comes to acquiring property and building a home, mortgage and home equity loan is utilized by the masses to go with their deal. One of the numerous available forms of mortgages, people go for a home equity loan in connection with purchasing or developing a home or other…

The European Union reached a provisional deal on the world’s first set of comprehensive rules to regulate the crypto market. According to a Reuters report, Cryptocurrency companies will need a licence and customer safeguards to issue and sell digital tokens in the European Union under new rules to tame the…

A South African bitcoin operator, Mirror Trading International Proprietary Limited (MTI), has been charged by the U.S. commodities regulator, Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) for running a fraudulent commodity pool worth more than $1.7 billion in bitcoin, and over registration violations. According to US CFTC, MTI and and Cornelius Johannes…

Italy has become the fourth country to ban Google Analytics, joining Austria, Holland and France. This was the conclusion reached after a complex investigation carried out by Garante (the Italian Data Protection Authority) in coordination with other European privacy authorities. It stated that Italian websites using Google Analytics violate the…

South African based Sava announced that it has raised $2 million in a pre-seed funding round which includes several Africa-focused investors such as Quona Capital, Breega, CRE Ventures, Ingressive Capital, RaliCap, Unicorn Growth Capital and Sherpa Ventures. Sava is spend management platform designed for companies to manage their expenditure using…