Apple today announced the 2021 App Store Award winners. The award recognized some of the best apps and games that helped users tap into personal passions, discover creative outlets, connect with new people and experiences, and simply have fun. This year’s winners include developers from around the world whose apps…
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Liquid Intelligent Technologies has announced it is now a launch partner for the new Microsoft Teams Essential offering. Microsoft in a press release announced the launch of the new product on Wednesday. The Microsoft solution brings the Teams collaboration platform into an affordable package targeting small, medium, and micro-enterprises across…
Nigeria’s leading commodities market player, AFEX, has today announced a new $100m 10-year bond called The Food Security Fund (FSF). The financing will strengthen Africa’s food security and produce three million MT of food annually on the continent. AFEX’s fund will support the financing of 250,000 hectares of land for…
Mastercard is teaming up with Meta to support the digitization and growth of SMEs across the MEA region by organizing a training webinar that will provide SMEs insights from industry experts, and a masterclass on how to manage uncertainty from renowned author and academic Nathan Furr, Associate Professor of Strategy…
TikTok today unveiled Creator Next, where eligible creators can easily unlock new and existing tools to be rewarded for their creativity on TikTok. Alongside Creator Next, the short video platform also disclosed it is introducing two new features that will allow the community to show their appreciation for creators. TikTok…
Goldman Sachs in collaboration with Amazon Web Services has launched its Financial Cloud for Data, a new suite of cloud-based data and analytics solutions for financial institutions. Called the Goldman Sachs Financial Cloud for Data, the new solution will help financial institutions to discover, organize, and analyze data in the…
Qualcomm has introduced its latest premium 5G mobile platform, Snapdragon8 Gen 1. According to the company, the new Snapdragon 8 will usher in an era of premium mobile technology equipped with cutting-edge 5G, AI, gaming, camera, and Wi-Fi and Bluetooth technologies to transform the next generation of flagship devices. Snapdragon…
Twitter today announced it will no longer allow the sharing of personal videos and photos on its platform without the approval of the person. Twitter’s privacy policy forbids sharing of other people’s private information such as phone numbers, addresses, and IDs. The social media company in a blog post said,…
Jumia Kenya has entered into a partnership with eBee Africa which will see the e-commerce giant employ electric bicycles for deliveries in Nairobi. eBee which will provide the solution is a Kenyan start-up established in 2020 that offers electric bicycles on a subscription basis for the delivery market. The partnership…
The World Trade Organization (WTO) and International Finance Corporation (IFC) have agreed to boost the relationship between them in order to find better ways to enhance the provision of trade financing for regions in need. The Director-General of WTO, Ngozi Okonjo Iweal and IFC Managing Director, Makhtar Diop, in a…
A court in Russia has Google a fine of 3 million Roubles ($40,400) for refusing to delete banned content, a move seen as part of a wider dispute between the country and the American tech giant. In October, Russia had threatened to seize a good percentage of Google’s annual Russian…
The Advisory Council of the IATF today announced that the second Intra-African Trade Fair (IATF 2021) generated a record-setting US$42.1 billion in trade and trade-related investment deals. The latest figures captured additional data submitted by Trade Promotion Agencies of Algeria, Nigeria and South Africa. The IATF 2021which took place from…
GreenTec Capital Partners has announced it has partnered with the Nigerian logistics platform, ShapShap. ShapShap is currently operational in Lagos and Abuja fulfilling logistics, food delivery, and retail deliveries. The company has already processed more than 30,000 orders for more than 4,000 users and is working with more than 100…
Africa Data Centres (ADC) has announced it has commissioned a new 10MW Data Centre (ADC) facility in Lagos. ADC, which is the largest network of interconnected, carrier- and cloud-neutral data centre facilities on the continent, said that the new data infrastructure will pave the way for Africa Data Centres hyperscale…
Banking software company, Temenos, has announced a new Fintech marketplace, Temenos Exchange, to bring open banking innovation to market faster, and at scale. The new marketplace will offer pre-integrated and certified Fintech solutions that can be easily deployed within the Temenos Banking Cloud, enabling banks to accelerate the creation of…
Nigeria’s leading distributed utility company delivering solar energy solutions, Arnergy, has today announced the launch of the Diaspora Initiative – a groundbreaking scheme enabling the global Nigerian diaspora to invest in solar energy solutions on behalf of local individuals and businesses. The first of its kind from an African solar…
Open Access Data Centres (OADC) has announced a US$500mn investment to construct and operate a network of more than 20 world-class, carrier-neutral, GreenStar and Uptime Institute Tier III accredited data centres across Africa, optimised to serve the needs of the cloud provider and wholesale community. OADC says it will deploy…
On Tuesday, we reported that Italy’s antitrust authorities slammed a fine of more than 200 million euros (US$225 million) on tech giants Amazon and Apple for ill practices in the sale of Apple and Beat products. Apple is in the news again over fine related matters yet not alone as Italy’s antitrust body has…
Franco-Senegalese startup and fleet management solutions for Africa, Fleeti, has announced it has received a 1 million euros seed round from Newfund, Groupe Clim, Janngo, SkalePark, Mapinvest several business angels. Fleeti was founded in July 2020 by Iban Olcomendy and Gabriel Delerue. The startup brings a new dynamic to the…
SlipMate, a South African expense management solution SlipMate today announced that it has enabled e-commerce functionality for its Mastercard corporate prepaid cards, a first-of-its-kind integration for the South African market. An intelligent expense management solution designed by Innervation Rewards, SlipMate allows South African companies to reconcile employees’ corporate expenses from their Mastercard…