Author: Tapiwa Matthew Mutisi

Reports of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) platform Salesforce in talks to acquire popular workforce chat platform Slack started circulating last week and gladly today the deal has been made official burying all sorts of speculation and curiosity over this issue, after Salesforce on Tuesday put in the public domain saying…

AfricArena, the African dealflow platform for tech startups, investors and corporates, hosted its fourth annual Summit as a hybrid event in South Africa, Cape Town – preceded by its Founders’ Bootcamp and VC Unconference Weekends – and virtually with AfricArena Air. A platform made by, and for, investors and entrepreneurs…

JOHANNESBURG – The Vodacom Foundation is announcing the launch of a cutting-edge, free to download application designed to aid in the fight against Gender Base Violence (GBV). As South Africans retreated inside their homes due to the lockdown measures introduced by government to curb the COVID-19 pandemic earlier this year, reports…

The Republic of Botswana has accelerated its digital transformation strategy, embarking on several technological projects which, in the long term, should transform the lives of its citizens. Therefore, Botswana will benefit from Liquid Telecom which is activating 82 km of fibre in a cross-border network into its territory. This implementation…

Mobile phone-based money transfer service, payments and micro-financing service, M-Pesa, launched in 2007 by Vodafone Group plc and Safaricom, the largest mobile network operator in Kenya has become the first fintech in Africa to join the Financial Taskforce established by United for Wildlife, a coalition of charities that works to…

WidEnergy Africa is a woman-led Zambian for-profit social enterprise dedicated to women’s empowerment and the expansion of affordable clean energy access, has recently received an undisclosed investment from ShEquity, an investment vehicle that offers smart and sustainable investments to African women entrepreneurs and innovators.  Mission & Vision: WiDEnergy’s goal is…

YouTube recently launched a $100 million fund to “amplify” the voices of black creators on its platform by developing talent and funding new shows. Therefore, YouTube this week will be holding its first virtual YouTube Black Africa Creators Week which several tech companies have so far made similar commitments following the death…

Samsung has finally announced the budget-friendly Galaxy A12 and Galaxy A02s smartphones in Europe, both of which claim to offer long-lasting battery life, big immersive display and powerful cameras for the price. And in the process putting rumors to bed which we’ve been hearing about for some time now. Samsung made both…

Tesla is not only accelerating the world’s transition to sustainable energy with electric cars, solar and integrated renewable energy solutions for homes and businesses, but it’s quickly become a big kid on Wall Street despite that it may be the new kid on the block in the auto industry. The…

Apple’s products are undeniably highly desirable, and quite costly as well, but shouldn’t be used to try and secure concealed carry licenses. And there is someone who may lose his job any moment, Thomas Moyer, yes! The Head of Global Security at Apple, as he’s been charged with bribery. His crime? Using iPads worth $70,000…

1 000 Tech Entrepreneurs Campaign is a 12-month long technology entrepreneurship movement that is promoting tech entrepreneurship among South Africans. It also hosts tech startup Ideation and MVP boot camps in different cities across the country with the aim of assisting the first-time tech-entrepreneurs setup up their tech startups. Through…

I am also included in the viewership stats for the stated month, after recently watching The Queen’s Gambit on Netflix first season with 7 intriguing episodes. Personally, at the moment, it’s one of the best chess series or shows on Netflix that I had watched in a while, after Queen…

Elon Musk just after recently pushing past Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on the list of the world’s richest people with a net worth of $115 billion to become the third-richest. He has again made it past the Microsoft founder turned philanthropist Bill Gates at $127.7bn net worth to become the second-richest…

The global pandemic really boosted Yebo Fresh online shopping revolution in South African townships. The South Africa based startup, Yebo Fresh, which delivers fresh, frozen and dry groceries to township communities in Cape town has secured an undisclosed amount of Series A funding from E4E, Mark Forrester, Dale Williams, and the…

Despite the global pandemic, 2020 appears to have been fruitful for the South African fintech startup, JUMO: from securing yet another funding round of US$55 million to support market and product expansion to winning awards; Platinum for Responsible Digital Innovator of the Year and Silver for Product Innovation of the…

Realness Institute, a South Africa-based non-profit organization, which focuses on supporting the development of African content and its creators has partnered with global streaming giant Netflix to create an Episodic Content Development Lab for writers in South Africa, Kenya, and Nigeria. Realness Institute has a vision to support the development…

The Space-Tech Challenge 2020 identifies and develop the most promising new innovators, entrepreneurs and early-stage businesses across Africa. Henceforth, from the applications submitted on 16 October 2020, fifteen African early-stage tech startups, focusing on the African space industry have been selected to progress in the next step of the prestigious Space…

Just after concluding a six-week long online training for over 100 teachers in Western Kenya, leading communications solutions provider, Liquid Telecom in partnership with Kenya Network Information Centre (KENIC), has successfully connected 152 schools to website domains as part of a broader effort to enhance schools abilities to deliver online learning…

Social media giant, Facebook, in partnership with BellaNaija and Guardian TV recently announced a new #FBSuccessStory campaign aimed at spotlighting Nigerian and Ghanaian entrepreneurs using Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp to grow their businesses.  RELATED READING: FACEBOOK SUPPORTS AFRICAN SMB’S THROUGH ECONOMIC IMPACT PROGRAMMES OFFERED VIRTUALLY IN WAKE OF COVID-19 PANDEMIC…

Black Mamba was born from a love for chillies – from the growing and harvesting to the tasting, and ultimately the power they hold to spice up your life. And it’s not just the people who splash it on their food whose lives have been well and truly spiced up…