As technology evolves, people are not only comfortable with a digital environment but have also embraced an always on mobile lifestyle. They now demand a seamless customer experience from their service providers across all engagement channels. This requires insurers to better accommodate customer need for immediacy, product choice, and personalisation.

Nigerian Church Service platform, O’Sanctus app is allowing Catholics to attend virtual services, reserve time with priests and make financial offerings amid the ongoing pandemic. The O’Sanctus app was developed last year by Nigerian tech firm, Applus Dome Limited to enable Catholics to attend virtual services. It is

Facebook Inc’s Instagram has rolled out Reels feature that allows users to create and share videos to rival popular Chinese app, TikTok. This feature comes after Microsoft said it was in talks to acquire TikTok’s US operations from China’s ByteDance. Just like TikTok, Reels users can record

Samsung has revealed its most recent foldable gadget – the World Z fold 2 5G – at its yearly Unloaded 2020 occasion. The cell phone is like the System Z Flip and Z Flip 5G which were discharged not long ago yet The Skirt reports that this denotes Samsung’s first major

Delivery Hero is rebranding Egyptian food delivery startup, Otlob to Talabat, coming this September. With this rebranding exercise, Delivery Hero is consolidating its business in the Middle East and North Africa under the brand of Talabat. In a statement, Talabat said, “The September 1st rebrand reconfirms Talabat’s commitment to

South African cloud services provider (CSP) Syrex is working closely with Microsoft South Africa to provide local organizations with a more secure way of managing the security of their remote work environments. “The COVID-19 pandemic and resultant lockdown have caught many decision-makers off guard. Rushing to implement remote working practices

WhatsApp has revealed another feature of theirs that permits clients to rapidly twofold check the accuracy of a sent message, particularly one that has been forwarded. As indicated by the official report, this element accompanies an amplifying glass button before any common message conveying a connection. Tapping the catch sidetracks

Smile Nigeria has introduced its first passage level double SIM cell phone with 4G and LTE capacities. The telco says that it trusts this will give shoppers access to their system at a more reasonable rate. The SmileVoLTE double SIM cell phone is “Google affirmed and fabricated in association with

Capitec has uncovered that its new banking application has reached the #1 spot on both the South African Google Play and Apple application store graphs. It as of now move in front of Zoom, Whatsapp Courier, Tik Tok, and Facebook. Their computerized financial administrations are the most broadly utilized in

Enygma Ventures’ subfund, Shift, has opened applications for the second round of funding for entrepreneurs and innovators in Africa who have existing businesses or new business ideas. The Shift Fund which was launched in April this year through a partnership between Enygma Ventures and Startup Circles. The new fund came

Microsoft South Africa has committed an amount of R40-million in South Africa’s agriculture sector, which is the country’s key player driving growth and job creation. According to the news put out on their site, Microsoft SA will work closely with local tech companies to create innovative solutions to

Telecommunications Company, MTN Group is rolling out an application programming interface (API) marketplace for software developers. The API marketplace which is dubbed Chenosis will enable developers and businesses to discover and subscribe to open APIs. In a statement, MTN said, “Chenosis will enable developers to tap into a broad spectrum

Microsoft Managed Partners SilverBridge and DocFusion have entered into a strategic alliance that sees the DocFusion document generation solution integrated into the SilverBridge digital insurance suite, enhancing the digital offering for customers in the insurance industry. SilverBridge’s focus is on modernising core applications and the digitalisation of processes in

South Africa’s telecom operator Telkom is entering into the financial services market as part of its strategy to continue to diversify its income streams beyond the fixed-line business. The mobile operator company hopes to Target about 11 million South Africans who do not have bank accounts to offer lending

South Africa-based business accelerator, Grindstone has rolled out early-stage venture capital fund dubbed, Grindstone Ventures that grants equity funding to its cohort companies. Grindstone Accelerator is a structured entrepreneurship development programme which is owned by both venture capital fund manager Knife Capital and market access specialist Thinkroom Consulting. The programme

Nigerian print-on-request startup, Kiakiaprint has taken its business worldwide with its association with online structure and distributing organization, Canva. According to the report, this is Canva’s first association with an African print-on-request organization. What’s more, it comes a month after the $6 billion organization raised $60 million and

CARMA, a Kenyan-based credit data marketplace, has signed an agreement to begin operations in Zambia. CARMA grants lending companies access to real-time credit data on a peer-to-peer basis via a pay-as-you-go service. Even though the CARMA’s headquarters is in Nairobi, the initial launch will take place in Zambia, where

South African digital bank, Capitec is rolling an eSignature capability, by means of a biometric fingerprint. Capitec claims to be the first South African bank to introduce a legally compliant e-signature which complies with Section 13 of the South African Electronic Communications and Transactions (ECT) Act of 2002, in that:

Gozem, a Togolese ride-hailing company, has rolled out a new e-commerce delivery service that enables users to order groceries, gas canisters, and other essential items in Togo and Benin. The service comes at a time to help people have to practice social distancing measures to reduce the spread of the

First National Bank (FNB) is launching virtual cards for individual customers and businesses across Debit, Fusion, and Credit Cards. The digital card solution built into Android and iOS which will facilitate both online and physical payments safer and more convenient. According to FNB executives, the Virtual Card will be rolled