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The Commercial Bank of Ethiopia (CBE) is reported to have successfully recovered approximately $10 million…
Telecoms giant, MTN, is considering raising tariffs as well as a cost-cutting exercise as part…
In today’s digital age, we entrust a vast amount of personal information to our online…
Nigeria’s digital lending market, known for its easy access to loans through mobile apps, is…
The cryptocurrency exchange KuCoin, renowned for its global presence, has found itself entangled in legal…
Elon Musk’s company, xAI, has announced the wider availability of its Grok chatbot, a competitor…
The Stockholm-based Norrsken Accelerator is inviting African early-stage founders with innovative visions for a better…
Zeeh Africa, a Nigerian-based fintech company with an open banking system, has unveiled its loan…
Online design platform Canva has announced its acquisition of Affinity’s suite of creative software in…
Netflix has announced a revision of its subscription pricing for customers in Nigeria. From April…
Swedish investment firm VNV Global has reduced the value of its stake in Wasoko, an…
MTN Nigeria Communications Ltd, along with its CEO, Karl Toriola, as well as Nkeakam Abhulimen,…
BasiGo, an electric mobility startup based in Kenya, has raised KSh396 million ($3 million) in…
The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT), a powerhouse in the global banking network,…
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Aurora Innovation, the self-driving truck technology company planning to initiate a business of autonomous trucks by 2024’s end, has reportedly laid off a significant number of employees this month, say sources close to the matter. The company, headquartered in Pittsburgh and operating facilities in California, Colorado, Texas, and Montana, confirmed…
Today marks the 40th anniversary of the release of the Apple Macintosh, first launched on January 24, 1984. In celebration of the Mac’s birthday, the Folon Foundation shared an intriguing story. Steve Jobs had once enlisted Belgian artist Jean-Michel Folon to design an illustrated character. This character, known as Mr.…
Safaricom’s M-PESA, a mobile money platform, is currently experiencing operational issues that are affecting its paybill services. Despite an earlier announcement that the outage had been resolved, Safaricom issued a subsequent notification stating the connectivity issues had returned. As of reporting time, Safaricom has not disclosed the cause of the…
Business magnate Dr. Patrice Motsepe’s Tyme Group is planning to launch a third digital bank in Vietnam, Southeast Asia, aiming to grow its foothold in the continent’s banking sector. Tyme Group, majority-owned by Dr. Motsepe’s African Rainbow Capital (ARC), owns a 57.7% stake in TymeBank, self-acclaimed South Africa’s first digital-only…
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Kenyan insurtech startup Lami Technologies which is on a mission to break the 3% insurance penetration barrier…
Tunisia-based innovative fintech startup Expensya, an automated spend management solution for businesses has raised $20-million…
Microinsurer aYo Zambia has announced that it has passed the one-million customer mark in under a year…
Cape Town-based online payment processing service PayFast in partnership with Insaka eCommerce Academy will be hosting a free eCommerce…
African Development Bank has opened an application for the AFD Digital challenge 2021. High-impact tech startups…
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TrueCaller, the service that that transforms today’s phonebook with a set of smart features to…
In a chat with Daser David, the brain behind Hack Jos, the first hackathon to be…
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In January 2014, attention of internet freedom and online privacy advocates were drawn to a…
Annual conference Social Media Week Lagos is back for the third year as this year’s…
Education-focused Nigerian startup Pass.ng was among the winners of Airtel’s Catapult A Startup competition that…