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Meta has rolled out “New Tools and Resources for Parents and Teens in VR and…
Launch Africa Ventures, a Pan-African venture capital fund, announced the close of its $36.3 million…
Fresh from acquiring US-based Global Technology Partners (GTP) for $34 million, MFS Africa announced that…
The government of Lagos State has said that the Nigeria Startup Bill will be enacted into law…
The Nigeria Government, through its Internet regulating body, has released a “Code of Practice” policy document to…
As the story goes, Google suspended engineer Blake Lemoine because he claimed that one of…
TikTok today announced a number of steps to help support its community’s digital well-being as…
Orange in partnership with DabaDoc has launched Orange Santé in Cote d’Ivoire. Orange Sante is…
Egypt-based petcare platform Vetwork has raised a Bridge round from several investors from Saudi Arabia…
The Cairo Angels Syndicate Fund (CASF), a micro venture capital fund that invests in early-stage…
Egypt-based omnichannel conversational AI startup DXwand has closed a pre-Series A investment round of $1…
Telegram is launching a premium service later this month. According to Pavel Durov, Telegram founder…
The African Development Bank (AfDB) is launching a virtual academy to build public financial management…
Dow Packaging has announced the expansion of its Project REFLEX initiative in Egypt and Guinea,…
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China regulators kicked off an investigation into alleged monopolistic practices at Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. the country’s second largest private sector company and summoned affiliate Ant Group Co. to a high-level meeting over financial regulations, escalating scrutiny over the twin pillars of billionaire Jack Ma’s internet empire. Alibaba has interests…
MiBRAND is a content aggregation system that is designed to collect and centralise specials from South African online retailers across the internet. Their system is designed to automatically identify the special, run it through a vetting process to ensure the quality of the content, then gets uploaded onto their platform.…
Back in October we reported that Pick n Pay had concluded a deal to purchase on-demand alcohol and grocery delivery service Bottles, which was launched in 2016 as South Africa’s first alcohol on-demand delivery app, and partnered with Pick n Pay in 2018. Now the on-demand delivery app, Bottles has officially been launched…
Elon Musk, founder and CEO of Tesla has revealed that he once attempted to sell his electric car company to Apple. However, he could not take any step or action on the purported sale because Apple CEO Tim Cook did not respond to a requested meeting Although Musk did not…
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Even though everyone knows about the CcHub in Yaba Lagos and several other hubs, no…
Lagos-based Co-CreationHub has announced it will be hosting Nigeria’s first hyperlocal hackathon that is focused…
NappiDaddi app, a parenting app that was developed within 24 hours has won the R10…
Market Mergers Ltd., developers of MERGIMS, has emerged as the winner of the SeedStars Competition…
Alan Knott-Craig Jr, former CEO of Mxit has launched a new Wireless Internet Service Provider…
In a move aimed at developing Africa’s private sector and stimulating innovation across Africa, former…