PayPal has rolled out the new PayPal app. It is an all-in-one, personalized app that offers customers the best place to manage their financial lives. The new PayPal app has some offerings with new features that include PayPal Savings, a new high yield savings account provided by Synchrony Bank, alongside…
Author: Oluwasegun Olukotun
Netflix on Tuesday launched a free plan on Android mobile phones in Kenya. Also, one unique feature about the plan is that it is ad-free. To access this plan, all you have to do is to enter an email, followed by a confirmation of age; 18 or above and then…
Reventify, Africa’s leading CV-building platform, is launching HR Connect, a new job-seeking platform. Scheduled for launch in October 2021, the platform is designed to foster professional relationships between job seekers and HR Managers at big corporations or startups directly. Job seekers with the help of HR Connect will be able…
Nokia has inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the African Telecommunications Union (ATU) to push digital transformation and the knowledge economy for socio-economic development across the continent. Both parties will take advantage of telecommunications, in addition to 5G networks to drive digital inclusion and identify innovative use cases, as…
Just last week, it was reported that El-Salvador had adopted Bitcoin as a legal tender. A move that saw the value of the cryptocurrency drop drastically. Reports currently making rounds indicate that the decision is not sitting well with the people of El-Salvador who in thousands have now taken to…
Health technology company, 54gene, focused on advancing African genomics research for improved global health outcomes, has secured $25M in a Series B round, led by Cathay AfricInvest Innovation Fund. The round also included participation from Adjuvant Capital, KdT Ventures, Plexo Capital, Endeavor Capital, Ingressive Capital and others. This round brings the…
Young entrepreneurs are invited to apply for the first edition of the African Youth Adaptation Solutions (YouthAdapt) Challenge. The challenge is a product of a partnership between the Global Center on Adaptation (GCA) and the African Development Bank. The challenge is opened to young entrepreneurs, innovators between the ages of…
Recently, we have had the word metaverse flung around the media, coupled with the news that some tech companies are coming together to build a virtual world. Some have even described it as what is to come after the internet. What exactly is the metaverse? Coined from two words Meta…
Agtech startup, Releaf, has raised $2.7 million seed funding in a round led by Samurai Incubate Africa, Future Africa, and Consonance Investment Managers with participation from Stephen Pagliuca, Chairman of Bain Capital, and Justin Kan (Twitch). Releaf also secured $1.5 million in grants from The Challenge Fund for Youth Employment (CFYE)…
Payment processing company, Interswitch, has teamed up with a leading global open API banking solution provider, Codebase Technologies to speed up the transformation of digital banking across Africa. The partnership will see Codebase Technologies’ award-winning Digibanc SaaS platform complement Interswitch’s existing payments and digital banking offering, and together the partnership…
IBM has launched new Artificial Intelligence (AI) and automation facilities in IBM Watson Assistant built to help businesses strengthen customer service experiences across any channel like phone, web, SMS, and any messaging platform. IBM designed the new facilities in partnership with IntelePeer, a leading Communications Platform-as-a-Service provider, to set up…
Africa’s annual premier tech event, TecXposition 2021 has been scheduled to hold from November 11th-12th 2021. The virtual event will serve as a chance for participants to experience technology from a global perspective, with local outcomes as well as demystifying tech to improve profitability and enhance everyday living. The theme…
Nigerian Mobility startup, Plentywaka, has rebranded as Treepz in line with its ambition for a Sub-Saharan African Expansion. While announcing the change of name, CEO of Treepz, Onyeka Akumah, said, “With our plans for Sub-Saharan expansion in few months, we discovered the word ‘Waka’ means many things different from trips…
Oracle today announced it will offer Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) training and OCI certification testing for free worldwide. The new program includes Oracle’s entire expert-created OCI learning curriculum for all skill levels and various IT roles. Through this program, learners have access to all OCI courses, delivered digitally, on-demand, and…
MTN has announced a mobile money partnership with Africa’s leading payments technology company, Flutterwave. This partnership will allow businesses integrating Flutterwave in Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Rwanda, Uganda and Zambia to receive payments via MTN Mobile Money (MoMo). MTN MoMo is a fintech platform providing consumers and businesses with an electronic…
Mastercard has partnered with African fintech and Start Path company Paycode to provide both companies’ offerings on one biometric smart card that will help increase access to critical services and advance economic inclusion for Africans living in remote communities. Reports say that an estimated 57 percent of the population in…
TECNO has confirmed that it will feature MediaTek’s Helio G96 chipset in its CAMON 18 series to launch in October, making it the first smartphone brand to do so for the African market. The newly launched MediaTek Helio G96 chipset is ideal for powerful 4G smartphones for the mainstream market…
Clickatell today launched Chat 2 Pay. Chat 2 Pay takes Clickatell’s decades of developing chat commerce solutions for global customers and delivers a simple and comprehensive way for merchants to offer payments and transactions to consumers in chat. Clickatell’s Chat 2 Pay enables merchants to securely accept payments in chat…
Nigeria’s leading lender, First City Monument Bank (FCMB), has emerged as Best SME Bank in Africa and Best SME Bank in Nigeria at the Asian Banker Middle East and Africa Regional Awards on the 25th of August 2021. The SME friendly bank beat all other Nigerian and African banks to win national and continental…
MTV and TikTok are coming together to launch “Trending: VMAs,” a new collection of awards voted on by fans exclusively on TikTok that aim to celebrate the creators and artists driving music trends and culture. Beginning from Tuesday, September 7, fans can vote for their favorites in categories like Best…