Churchill is credited with saying “Never let a good crisis go to waste” in the mid-1940s as the world approached the end of WW ll. What is inspiring about Churchill’s quote is that it causes you to look for a silver lining during a crisis and to seek opportunities where…
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Hydro Blu secured first place in the prestigious awards
The platform is a one-stop-shop for home improvement services.
South African security startup and medical response platform, AURA, in partnership with Tracker, has launched the world’s first WhatsApp security chatbot. The new and innovative service will allow South Africans to request immediate mobile armed response assistance by sharing their location pin on WhatsApp. So the new offering is powered by both the experts…
Bitcoin, the first cryptocurrency, is a decentralized form of digital cash that eliminates the need for traditional intermediaries like banks and governments to make financial transactions.
Rapper-entrepreneur Jay-Z and Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter and Square have teamed up to create an endowment to fund bitcoin development initially in Africa and India, Dorsey said Friday. So that being said, the duo is putting 500 bitcoin, which is currently worth $23.6 million, in the endowment called ₿trust. The…
Claims it’s necessary to ‘strengthen democracy’
Had a deal taken place, it would have been Microsoft’s biggest to date, given Pinterest is valued at $51 billion.
ASIP contributes in a meaningful way to the African community to help the young Startups in Africa whose innovative ideas are creating a difference in their communities.
Platform offering free education resources for SMMEs expands.
While the financial services giant already partners with crypto wallets, the next step would put Bitcoin on equal footing with the 160 fiat currencies on Visa’s network.
Elon Musk has helped to drive popularity of cryptocurrencies, including bitcoin and dogecoin.
Digital home loan start-up Mortgage Market which plans to disrupt the home loan market by changing the slow and cumbersome traditional home loan application process and is South Africa’s first independent online mortgage marketplace has secured $683K (R10-million) in a Series A funding round led by IDF Capital, a leading…
SACE Virtual is free for registered SACE teachers
Minute5 has moved to the AWS cloud computing platform, expanding its offering for consumers and boosting sales for small scale producers
The 2020 Partech Africa report is finally out! The largest Venture Capital (VC) fund dedicated to technology startups in Africa, Partech, has released its Africa Report for 2020 with findings that indicate that the African tech ecosystem is still accelerating with a recorded 359 equity rounds recorded. It appears that, in the middle…
SFAN has raised $250,000 pre-seed funding to bring fresh perspectives to talent development on the continent through their Readyforwork.africa career accelerator.
A darker mode
The fraud case comes at a time Cell C is facing serious financial challenges, as evidenced by the company’s recent performance.
Mastercard’s announcement comes after Tesla Inc. said it invested $1.5 billion in Bitcoin this week, sending the cryptocurrency to a record.