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Little Logistics Announces Multiple Partnerships

Little Logistics Announces Multiple Partnerships

Little, Kenya’s tech startup that operates Little Cabs, logistics, and even e-bikes, has announced a partnership with Foodplus, Carrefour, Naivas, BeyondDeals, and Bulkbox on its logistics vertical to aid their deliveries. The partnership is especially timely given the abundance of Black Friday deals. Customers who shop with the aforementioned

Zoom Video Communications is Expanding Beyond Video With Email, Calendar Tools

Zoom Video Communications is Expanding Beyond Video With Email, Calendar Tools

Zoom Video Communications Inc. is expanding beyond its video function as it plans to roll out email and calendar features to its suite of tools as part of its latest round of business features announced at its annual Zoomtopia event, to reverse a post-pandemic slowdown. The Outlook-like Mail and Calendar,

Crypto Exchanger, Binance Now Allows Users to Deposit and Withdraw in Naira

Crypto Exchanger, Binance Now Allows Users to Deposit and Withdraw in Naira

Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchanger, announced on Monday, November 7, 2022, in a rather surprising move, that Nigerians can now deposit and withdraw Naira to and from their wallets. According to a statement from the crypto exchanger, the decision to add a fiat gateway for the naira is

Signal Launches Stories Feature

Signal Launches Stories Feature

Signal, an encrypted instant messaging platform has launched a new Stories feature for all users on Android and iOS, the company announced on Monday. The feature was first announced last month on the Signal community forum, where it was initially made available to Signal’s beta testers. Now, the feature

Eden Care, Rwanda’s Digital Health Insurer, Secures Pre-Seed Funding

Eden Care, Rwanda’s Digital Health Insurer, Secures Pre-Seed Funding

Eden Care, a Rwandan-licensed digital health insurer has secured a pre-Seed funding round from DOB Equity, Seedstars International, Norrsken Foundation, and Bathurst Capital. Commenting on the funding round, Moses Mukundi, CEO and Founder of Eden Care, said “Eden Care was founded to create the kind of health insurance we wanted

Jumia Group Co-Founders, Sacha Poignonnec and Jeremy Hodara Step Down as Co-CEOs

Jumia Group Co-Founders, Sacha Poignonnec and Jeremy Hodara Step Down as Co-CEOs

Jumia Group co-founders, Sacha Poignonnec and Jeremy Hodara have stepped down as Co-CEOs of the e-commerce firm. The two co-CEOs announced this in separate LinkedIn posts. According to a company statement, Francis Dufay, the Executive Vice President for Africa and former CEO of Ivory Coast, will now serve as acting

Nigerian Fintech Awards Reward Individuals and Firms with Special Recognition Award

Nigerian Fintech Awards Reward Individuals and Firms with Special Recognition Award

Nigerian Fintech Awards, organized by one of Africa’s oldest and most influential financial technology publications, Fintech Africa, over the weekend rewarded the best in the Nigerian Fintech industry. The event, now in its tenth year, was held on Friday, November 4th at the prestigious Oriental Hotel to recognize excellence

Kenyan’s DTB Rolls Out a Dedicated Account for Women-owned SMEs

Kenyan’s DTB Rolls Out a Dedicated Account for Women-owned SMEs

Diamond Trust Bank (DTB), an African banking group with operations in Burundi, Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda, has rolled out Zawadi, a dedicated bank account for women running Small and Medium Enterprises in Kenya. The account is intended to provide women entrepreneurs with access to favorable credit terms as their businesses

MFS Africa Granted three Payment Licenses by the Central Bank of Uganda

MFS Africa Granted three Payment Licenses by the Central Bank of Uganda

MFS Africa, a pan-African digital payments platform has been granted three licenses by the Central Bank of Uganda. With the licenses, the company will be able to broaden and deepen its offering in Uganda. The PSP (Payment Service Provider), PSO (Payment Systems Operator), and IPI (Issuer of a Payment Instrument)

Safaricom Partners with Boomplay to Offer its Customers Affordable Music Streaming Bundles

Safaricom Partners with Boomplay to Offer its Customers Affordable Music Streaming Bundles

Safaricom, a Kenyan leading Telecommunication Company has announced a new partnership with Boomplay, a Nigerian-head quartered music streaming platform to avail the service to its customers via affordable daily, weekly, and monthly bundles. The partnership will offer Safaricom customers Boomplay subscription bundles at discounted rates coupled with free data, ranging

Interswitch Kick Starts its Regional Breakfast Session with SW Nigeria to Drive a Robust Payment Ecosystem

Interswitch Kick Starts its Regional Breakfast Session with SW Nigeria to Drive a Robust Payment Ecosystem

Interswitch, Africa’s leading integrated payments, and digital e-commerce company hosted an engagement session for its customers and key stakeholders in the South-Western region of Nigeria, following its efforts to strengthen the development of a robust and secure payment ecosystem in the country. The breakfast session was held at the

MTN Group Partners with Microsoft to Drive Digital and Cloud Transformation in Africa

Digital Transformation

MTN Group Partners with Microsoft to Drive Digital and Cloud Transformation in Africa

MTN Group, Africa’s leading telecom giant, and Microsoft have announced an ambitious strategic partnership agreement to “accelerate digital and cloud transformation working toward a shared vision of driving Africa’s growth.” The partnership resonates with MTN’s strategic plan of leading digital solutions for Africa’s progress by assisting

Dutch Fintech Venture, Yabx Expands into the Nigerian market to Democratize Credit Access

Dutch Fintech Venture, Yabx Expands into the Nigerian market to Democratize Credit Access

Yabx, the award-winning Netherlands-based fintech venture, announced today its expansion into Nigeria to democratize credit access across the country through its digital lending offerings. The lending platform for the underserved, which aims to bridge the gap between new-to-credit segments and banks in Nigeria at scale, as well as introduce new-age

WhatsApp Formally Rolls Out its New Discussion Group Feature, "Communities"

WhatsApp Formally Rolls Out its New Discussion Group Feature, "Communities"

WhatsApp is formally launching Communities, a new feature that offers larger, more structured discussion groups. Communities, which can support groups of up to 1024 users and offer end-to-end encryption, are designed to help organizations, clubs, schools, and other private groups better communicate and stay organized. Communities also bring several new

What You Should Know About Meta’s New Creators Monetization Tools

What You Should Know About Meta’s New Creators Monetization Tools

Meta is celebrating Creator Week, and in addition to various showcase events and panels, Meta has announced some new features for creators, including expanded monetization opportunities and new tools to facilitate the creation and sale of NFTs. To begin with, Instagram’s decision to make fan subscriptions available to all

CSEAN Names Digital Encode Ltd Co-Founder, Adewale, Cybersecurity Outstanding Individual of the Year

CSEAN Names Digital Encode Ltd Co-Founder, Adewale, Cybersecurity Outstanding Individual of the Year

CSEAN which stands for Cyber Security Experts Association of Nigeria, an umbrella body for all cyber security practitioners in the country has awarded Obadare Peter Adewale, the co-founder and Chief Visionary officer (CVO) of Digital Encode Limited, with an ‘Outstanding Individual of the Year Award’. Adewale who is arguably the

Meta Announces a 16% VAT on Ads across its Platforms in Kenya

Meta Announces a 16% VAT on Ads across its Platforms in Kenya

Meta (formerly Facebook) has announced that all Kenyans who use their advertisement services on either of its platforms (Facebook and Instagram) both businesses and personal accounts, will now be required to pay 16% Value-Added Tax (VAT), effective November 1st, 2022, following the new VAT laws and requirements for the industry.

CardinalStone Capital Advisers, Invests $6M in Nigeria’s HealthTech Startup, AfyA Care’s Series A Round

CardinalStone Capital Advisers, Invests $6M in Nigeria’s HealthTech Startup, AfyA Care’s Series A Round

CardinalStone Capital Advisers (CCA), the West African private equity fund manager, announced today a $6 million Series A funding round in AfyA Care, a health-tech startup providing integrated healthcare services such as hospital care, health insurance, and health technology services across Nigeria. AfyA Care utilizes the funds to improve its

KuCoin Wallet Officially Rolls Out its Chrome Extension

KuCoin Wallet Officially Rolls Out its Chrome Extension

KuCoin Wallet, a secure and simple-to-use crypto wallet powered by the KuCoin ecosystem, has officially launched a Chrome Extension with vastly enhanced security technology and architecture, ensuring the security of user assets across multiple dimensions and safeguarding the Web3 experience. Even as the crypto industry grows and user demand diversifies,

Twitter CMO Adds to the Growing No. of Executives Leaving Since Musk Happened

Twitter CMO Adds to the Growing No. of Executives Leaving Since Musk Happened

Twitter CMO, Leslie Berland is the latest to quit Twitter, adding to the growing number of top executives that have left the social networking company since Elon Musk completed the $44 billion controversial acquisition of Twitter last Thursday, according to Bloomberg and the New York Times report. Bloomberg also writes

Sproutly, a Nigerian Digital Banking Platform in the Final Top 5 in 2022 MEST Africa Challenge

Sproutly, a Nigerian Digital Banking Platform in the Final Top 5 in 2022 MEST Africa Challenge

Sproutly, a Nigerian-based digital banking and tuition financing platform for teens and students, has been chosen, along with four other African tech startups, to advance to the grand finale of the 2022 MEST Africa Challenge pitch competition. According to MEST Africa, the tech startups that will compete in the grand

Payhippo, Nigeria’s Credit-led SME Fintech Startup is Acquiring Maritime Microfinance Bank

Payhippo, Nigeria’s Credit-led SME Fintech Startup is Acquiring Maritime Microfinance Bank

Payhippo, Nigeria’s credit-led SME fintech, has today announced its proposed acquisition of Maritime Microfinance Bank (MFB), a financial institution specializing in saving products, demand deposits, and investments as well as micro and SME loans. The acquisition is subject to the Central Bank of Nigeria’s approval, and both parties

Techstars Toronto 2022 T5 Cohort, Nigerian Startups Reps Africa with all Six Selected Startups

Techstars Toronto 2022 T5 Cohort, Nigerian Startups Reps Africa with all Six Selected Startups

Techstars, a global investment and innovation platform and one of the world’s largest pre-seed investors with a diverse portfolio ranging from HealthTech and FinTech to Web3 and CleanTech; from Miami and Silicon Valley to Lagos and London, has announced the selection of six Nigerian tech startups to participate in

UM6P and EPFL Partner to Organize ‘Applied Machine Learning Days’ in Morocco

UM6P and EPFL Partner to Organize ‘Applied Machine Learning Days’ in Morocco

UM6P, the famous Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) are co-organizing the African edition of the Applied Machine Learning Days (AMLD) from November 3 to 5, at UM6P in Benguerir, as part of its efforts in leading the digital transformation of the