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The UK has announced R3.7 million (£190,000) in funding for new skills development across South…
Leading open-source “headless” content management system (CMS), Strapi has raised $31 million in Series B…
Kenyan food startup, Kune Food, is shutting down barely a year after it started operations.…
Meta in partnership with Balenciaga, Prada, and Thom Browne is launching a digital fashion store…
American multinational e-commerce company, eBay, has acquired NFT marketplace KnownOrigin. Launched in 2018, KnownOrigin through…
Global network of professional firms providing Audit, Tax, and Advisory services, KPMG, has made its…
Healthcare consulting firm Salient Advisory has launched its latest market intelligence report highlighting promising African…
Egypt-based Disruptech, a fintech-focused VC fund, has secured funding from Madagascar-based AXIAN Group. DisrupTech was…
Twitter has entered into a deal with Shopify to allow its merchants to sell products…
Synapse Analytics, an Artificial Intelligence (AI) startup has secured $2 million in a pre-series A…
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Thepeer, a Nigerian tech infrastructure startup connecting businesses’ wallets, announced that it has raised $2.1…
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Nollywood production house, Nemsia Films has entered into a 3-picture deal with video streaming and…
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Xiaomi, which was blacklisted in the last days of the Trump administration, has legally won its battle against a US government move that sought to ban investment in the Chinese company and could’ve forced American investors to divest their holdings. The restrictions were supposed to go into effect next week, but a federal…
President Joe Biden may be continuing his predecessor’s [Former US President Donald Trump] hardline stance against China’s growing technological dominance as the US has labeled five Chinese tech companies, including Huawei, as national security risks. The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Friday designated five Chinese tech firms as posing…
South African tech startup FlexClub, a car subscription marketplace, has secured $5-million (R75 million) in a seed round of funding led by Kindred Ventures, while adding to an initial $1.2 million it raised in 2019. According to reports, the funding will be used to further scale up the automotive tech startup’s…
Semiconductor company Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) that develops computer processors and related technologies for business and consumer markets announced that it’s releasing RX 6700 XT a new model of gaming card amid shortages that have plagued customers well before the holiday shopping season last year. AMD introduced the Radeon RX 6700 XT graphics…
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Microsoft Build (often stylised as //build/) is an annual conference event held by Microsoft, aimed…
Having an idea and starting your company is just one of the many steps in…
The Afropreneur Network, an organisation dedicated to championing the growth of African Entrepreneurs, has launched…
Snap, Crackle, Drop… Snap (SNAP), the parent company of Snapchat, whiffed on sales numbers and…
Coca-Cola announced plans to transition to a total beverage company by reshaping its business growth strategy…
As part of the ongoing World Economic Forum on Africa 2017, the body selected six entrepreneurs who…