TeamApt, the Nigerian fintech company that provides digital financial services solutions and payment infrastructure, today announced that it will be shifting its focus from delivering financial services products to banks to delivering products for consumers and businesses, as it aims to build on a strong performance in 2020. The Lagos-based…
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The African Development Bank (AfDB.org) on Monday pledged to support the Sahel region’s Great Green Wall Initiative with up to $6.5 billion over five years, to advance the landmark initiative. The decision by the AfDB was made in a forum hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron and His Royal Highness…
Al-Sumait Prize (AlSumaitPrize.org), Health category, is open to individuals and organizations delivering pioneering and high-impact contributions to solving health challenges in Africa, with a special focus in the 2021 cycle on the utilization of effective frameworks and programs to resolve and manage health crises such as SARS, COVID-19, and infectious…
Qualcomm 3D Sonic Max has won the CES 2021 Innovation. The annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas is a worldwide exhibit and award show for the most cutting-edge technology. This year, CES awarded Qualcomm Technologies a CES 2021 Innovation Award for the Qualcomm 3D Sonic Max. Introduced last year,…
Apple Inc and Amazon have both suspended microblogging and social networking service Parler from their respective App Store and web hosting service. The free speech and social network, popular with right-leaning social media users was suspended due to its failure to put up measures to prevent the circulation of posts…
A new app called Overviewer has launched to enable teachers to use their phone’s camera as a substitute for an overhead document viewer. The app was developed by Charlie Chapman. Overviewers are simply webcams pointing straight down that allow teachers to show students a printed document, book, hand drawing, or…
Apple’s App Store made $64 billion in revenue in 2020, a figure which represents a 28 percent increase from the estimated $50 billion it made in 2019 according to reports by CNBC. The latest report signifies a healthy growth for the App Store which recorded an estimated increase of 3.1…
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Nigeria have launched the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Investor Maps, as part of the Global UNDP SDG Impact Initiative, with the objective of driving greater and more diverse volume of capital to accelerate progress towards achieving the United Nations (UN) 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda.…
TradeTech innovator, Ovamba Solutions (www.Ovamba.com) and financial services provider, Singularity Finance (www.Singularity.finance) have partnered to deliver financial inclusion and growth capital to small and growing businesses in Egypt. Singularity is the first to sign a Reseller Agreement with Ovamba in the region. This new partnership gives Singularity the rights to…
Blue Prism (AIM: PRSM) (investors.BluePrism.com) today announced a new offering of Blue Prism intelligent automation software on Microsoft’s AppSource and Azure Marketplaces. The move enhances access for both Blue Prism and Microsoft customers, and underwrites Blue Prism’s position as the intelligent automation and robotic process automation (RPA) leader in the cloud.…
Africa Finance Corporation (“AFC” or “the Corporation”), the leading infrastructure solutions provider in Africa on Monday announced it has successfully secured a US$250 million tier-2 capital loan from U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC). Formed in December 2019, DFC is the United States Government’s development bank established with a lending…
The world’s biggest supplier of mobile phone chips Qualcomm on Tuesday announced president and chip division head, Cristiano Amon, as its new chief executive. Amon has been with Qualcomm since 1995 and rose through the ranks to become president in 2018. He will now replace outgoing CEO Steven Mollenkopf, effective…
VPF & National Endowment for Democracy call for tech solutions to protect Nigerians’ human rights during COVID-19 response Ventures Platform Foundation (VPF), the social impact arm of Ventures Platform Hub, has launched a call for applications for its latest incubation programme, Gov Labs – a 12-week programme for tech solutions…
Samsung Electronics has released two trailers ahead of its presentations at the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2021 that highlight its efforts to create a “Better Normal for All”. The first video features the Special Research Team at Samsung in an upbeat yet enigmatic manner. The second video then introduces…
Arab Investment Bank selects Temenos Infinity to offer differentiated digital customer experience and grow digital customer base; Temenos Infinity enables Arab Investment Bank to bring new products to market faster, accelerate digital customer onboarding and increase front office efficiency to achieve market-leading cost-income ratio; Supports bank’s mission to boost economic…
Mondia (Mondia.com), a leading mobile technology company specialising in the marketing and distribution of digital content, today announced its second African launch of the ground-breaking time-based entertainment platform Monsooq, in Nigeria. This follows on the heels of the initial launch in South Africa. Monsooq is the first-of-its-kind model that utilises…
Ayoba (Ayoba.me) on Saturday 28th of November, 2020 was awarded the Africa Digital Award for Best Mobile Application (AfricaDigitalAwards.com) in Accra, Ghana. The Awards were held by the Africa Digital Festival to honour Africa’s Digital Champions and ayoba features amongst many prestigious winners. Accepting at a virtual award ceremony, ayoba thanked…
GOODsoil VC (www.GoodsoilVC.com) consolidates its commitment to leading the global surge of investment into Africa’s fintech market by investing in Ghana’s fastest-growing fintech startup – and offering investors a case study of real ROI. GOODsoil VC, an Africa-focused early-stage venture capital firm headed by a diverse team of entrepreneurial investors,…
Zoom Video Communications Inc has announced it will be removing the time limit for its free accounts on all meetings globally for the holiday season. The gesture will cover the Christian celebrations of Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, the end of Hannukah for Jews and Kwanzaa marked by African-Americans, as…
The African Development Bank announced $90 million in new donor commitments for the Sustainable Energy Fund for Africa (SEFA) during a virtual launch event held on Monday, in which SEFA’s transformation into a Special Fund was also unveiled. The new SEFA Special Fund is expected to expand, be more flexible,…