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PAN-AFRICAN banking group, Ecobank, has launched the fifth edition of the Ecobank Fintech Challenge and encourages African Fintech entrepreneurs to…

IN what is seen as an historic moment for Nigerian telecoms, MTN Nigeria has officially turned on its fifth-generation (5G)…

AN entrepreneur in Cote d’Ivoire has created the country’s first locally-made smartphone, which aims to improve accessibility with voice commands…

GOOGLE parent company Alphabet Inc launched Google Wallet in South Africa on Tuesday, as the tech giant tries to gain…

FACEBOOK owner Meta says applications for the AR/VR Africa Metathon in partnership with Imisi 3D and BlackRhino VR are now…

AFRICA Data Centres (ADC), a business of Cassava Technologies, a pan-African technology group, has drawn down the first tranche of…

THE United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) will launch an initiative to mobilise and invest in new startups in Africa. Part…

NIGERIA, which has attracted just 840,000 users for its digital currency since October, is seeking to boost adoption of the…

GOOGLE earlier this week announced a new investment – the third from the company’s $50 million Africa Investment Fund – to…

TANZANIA’S state-run telecommunications firm has hoisted high-speed internet connectivity on Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa’s highest mountain, through the national broadband project,…

AS East Africa opens its economy following two years of pandemic-related disruption, the region needs to prioritise digitisation and innovation,…

SKYMAX Network (SkyMax), a multinational wireless communications engineering company, and Ericsson have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to create…

CRYPTOCURRENCIES have become popular in African and other developing countries. That’s according to a policy brief released recently by UNCTAD,…

NIGERIA’S TeamApt, which operates a business payments and banking platform, has secured financing from QED Investors, marking the VC firm’s…

RETAIL in Africa is primarily informal. Most consumer buying occurs in open-air markets, small shops, tabletops, kiosks, and street hawkers.…

VISA announced Wednesday the launch of a grant towards the African Women Impact Fund (AWIF), formed from a collaboration between…

SOUTH African passive micro-investing app – Africa’s first – upnup, has launched offering users the ability to accumulate savings in…

US multinational Internet connection and data centres company Equinix has completed its acquisition of Nigeria’s MainOne for an enterprise value…

UGANDAN IT student Andrew Njuki spent years hunched over English-language textbooks, often grappling with material that would have been easier…

IN line with its commitment to bridge the digital gap in Africa, West Africa’s pioneer solar-based internet and voice service…