Author: Tapiwa Matthew Mutisi

This newly established partnership between Xpress Money and TerraPay will have a major impact on businesses in Africa. This partnership enabled international money transfers to mobile wallets in Africa allowing customers to send money form their country to any mobile number or bank account in certain countries in Africa. Thanks…

As consumer behavior continues to evolve rapidly, with the most notable trend being a surge in global smartphone adoption. On the other hand, Econet Wireless Zimbabwe, continues leveraging all the technology at their fingertips to enable customers to use the technology they use daily in their personal lives by recently…

Nigerian ed-tech startup dot Learn emerged victorious, won US$75,000 in prize money after being named first runner-up of the recent Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenge. The challenge called on students and recent graduates to present technological solutions or services that could help benefit the economy, society or environment. Fifteen finalists…

This is certainly an achievement for Internet Solutions that has recently deployed the company’s first point of presence (PoP) in Madagascar; and has commissioned a second PoP in Zambia. Internet Solutions now has 68 PoPs in 16 African markets, with operating offices in South Africa, Mozambique, Uganda, Ghana, Kenya and Nigeria,…

South African startup forgood launched a cause-based online pop-up store offering a curated selection of handcrafted products to purchase. We really can’t dispute that South Africa and Nigeria are taking a giant leap in promoting startups, hence resulting in these two countries’ economies booming. In January 2015 on the launch of…

Nigerian startup LegitCar has come up with a great initiative in a bid to reduce car thefts and protecting people from buying stolen cars, by successfully launching a database of all missing cars in Nigeria, allowing car buyers to ensure the car that they are about to purchase is not…

South African startup ThisIsMe claims it has set a new African record by completing a FICA process – which used to take anywhere between two days and two weeks – within three minutes. Launched in 2014, ThisIsMe allows a user to prove their identity and that they are still alive in order…

An online marketplace for products made or manufactured by Africans, TradPeek aims to celebrate and promote Africans’ skills and  innovations, changing the trajectory of Africa being a consuming continent and instead promoting exports. Nigerian startup TradPeek has an ambitious goal – to be to Africa what Alibaba is to China. “The company…

EMGuidance is a platform that focuses only on South Africa currently, but plans to spread further throughout the continent of Africa and releasing further to 11 extra countries. The platform – which is accessible via Android and iOS apps – has seen over 5,000 medical professionals register and use the platform…

This is some good news, as far as innovation in healthcare takes on a positive step. The latest healthcare technologies greatly improves the life expectancy of people and a new mobile app hopes to make mental health services available to all Kenyans, with access to psychiatric services and a support…

Microsoft will undergo a reorganization that will impact its sales and marketing teams. Beginning of this week, company executives even told employees The re-shuffling will impact those under Microsoft chief marketing officer Chris Capossela, executive vice presidents Judson Althoff and Jean-Philippe Courtois, all of whom sent messages to their teams describing…

Samsung subsidiary Samsung Display has its sights set on the growing organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display market. The Korean conglomerate will build the world’s largest OLED manufacturing plant and boost the capacity to manufacture the screen panels by 30%. The company hopes that by building a larger facility, it will get…

Samsung Electronics, the world’s largest producer of memory chips, has announced that it is pumping 20.4 trillion won ($18 billion) of new investment into growing its semiconductor manufacturing facilities in South Korea. This is a coincident with Samsung’s directive – the future of Samsung is self-driving cars. Hence, the need to…

Apple is worth more than any other company on Wall Street. Apple is the first company worth more than $800 billion and Google owner Alphabet is right behind it. The two are fierce competitors in the world of mobile phones, media and connected home speakers — among many other things. But…

As you may know, there is a strong lack of access to medical facilities, medication, professional skills, and chronic diseases in Africa. The conference will be 2 days long from August 29th to the 30th this year. The event will be located at Vodaworld, Johannesburg in South Africa.  There is no other event…

Twitter ruled on Sunday that the company reviewed the tweet, which features a WWE video that has been edited to show Trump beating up a man with a CNN logo on his face. Twitter said it considered three factors: the political context of the conversation surrounding the tweet, the various…

In what can simply be described as the Internet’s equivalent of a phone book, Domain Name System (DNS) exists to maintain a directory of domain names and translate them to Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. In other words, DNS is the Internet’s system for converting alphabetic names into numeric IP addresses. But…

MobiCash is a multi-access financial transaction platform that offers a unique and refreshing approach to mobile payment. The platform has just recently announced MobiSpaza for South Africa, which is a sector-focused mobile platform that connects private corporations, state-owned entities, and co-operatives with not-for-profit organizations and township communities. Patrick Ngabonziza, Founder and…

IroFit has emerged victorious, out of 20 finalists, winning the top prize of $10,000 USD.  IroFit aids small retailers connect better with their customers while supporting more reliability and trustworthiness between the two parties. IroFit created what’s called “ZirooPay” with a built-in EMV-Certified Payment terminal which customers can simply slide in their credit…

This one’s for you, startups in sub-Saharan Africa, and Zambians, too, can apply! TechCrunch is excited to be partnering with Facebook to bring the illustrious startup competition, the Startup Battlefield, to Nairobi, Kenya later this year, and they’re looking for some promising startups to take part in the inaugural Startup Battlefield Africa. TechCrunch will host…