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| May 14, 2021 | Jumia is still in search of profitability as it seeks to dominate African e-commerce | “When you are in a marketplace model, you have thousands of sellers on the platform. You are processing transactions and you are bringing consumers and sellers together, [so] of course you are going to [be] addressing the payment problem, s... |
| May 14, 2021 | Jumia is still in search of profitability as it seeks to dominate African e-commerce | This is part of a Modern Retail editorial package focusing on the vast world of e-commerce platforms outside of the United States. You can find the rest of our coverage here.
In its quest to become the dominate e-commerce marketplace in Afr... |
| May 11, 2021 | Maviance raises $3m from MFS Africa to digitize financial services across Central Africa | Maviance, a Cameroon-based company providing digital financial services like agency banking and bulk bill payments, has raised $3 million (€2.5 million) in equity financing.
The investment is solely from MFS Africa, the cross-border fintech... |
| Dec 15, 2020 | TechCabal Daily – Elektrisiteitsvoorsieningskommissie | 15 DEC, 2020
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| Nov 11, 2020 | Jessica Anuna’s Klasha wants to create a seamless shopping cart across the Atlantic | My Life In Tech is putting human faces to some of the innovative startups, investments and policy formations driving the technology sector across Africa.
Jessica Anuna’s Klasha wants to bring the global fashion industry to the African conti... |
| Oct 29, 2020 | Cameroon’s strange and short-lived phone tax law | In October, the government of Cameroon announced a strange new tax as part of its 2019 finance law. The new law states that Customs clearance fees must be paid for mobile phones and tablets shipped into the country, that this clearance fee ... |
| Jul 17, 2020 | The Big 5 Daily: 16th July 2020 | Hello Guys,
Throwback, its Thursday!
Thankfully,
Today’s Big 5 Daily is up and ready for reading.
Komaza has raised $28 million in a Series A Seed Funding round. The startup seeks to leverage tech to revolutionize Africa’s wood industry.
Ca... |
| Jul 3, 2020 | The Big 5 Daily: 1st July, 2020 | Happy new month!
The Big 5 Daily is ready.
We are excited to see the second half of 2020, in the hope that it will be better.
Before we go into the Big 5 proper, here is an extra for the new month.
Carbon, a Nigerian fintech startup has sha... |
| Apr 10, 2020 | Is Jumia Sinking as Founders Quit? | wp_booster error:
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| Jan 15, 2020 | Paying a ₦20 daily tax to access social media in Museveni’s Uganda | If you’re finding our tech series for the first time, catch up on when we talked about John’s tech experience in Saudi Arabia and Tunde’s experience as a student in China. Today, we’re taking a look at tech in Uganda.
If you were born in Ug... |
| Nov 4, 2019 | Is Cloud Security the Future? | Businesses worldwide are tapping into the benefits of cloud computing - the practice of using a network of remote, internet-hosted servers to manage, process and store data. In fact, 80% of organisations are predicted to migrate to the clou... |
| Oct 24, 2019 | Jumia vs Transsion Holdings: A tale of two IPOs
Post-IPO and the future | Within months of each other, Jumia AG, the African e-commerce giant and Transsion Holdings, the phone maker with the biggest market share in Africa, floated their IPOs. Listing on the NYSE and Shanghai’s STAR market respectively, both compa... |
| Oct 15, 2019 | Did Kenya really win the battle against SportPesa and Betin, 2 of its biggest betting companies? | Share this article:
Just a few days before Kenya’s Eliud Kipchoge set a world record for running a marathon in under two hours, SportPesa and Betin shut down their sport betting operations in Kenya which is attributed to government’s regula... |
| Sep 4, 2019 | South Africa admits to mass surveillance amidst xenophobic unrest | Share this article:
South African authorities have revealed that they have been conducting mass surveillance exercises on communications of foreign origins.
This revelation comes in the heat of numerous African nations spying on their citiz... |
| Jul 1, 2019 | Safaricom Sued Over Data Leak | Safaricom, Kenya’s telecommunications giant has been slammed with a KES 115 trillion lawsuit due to an alleged data leak of 11.5 million consumers. The suit was filed at a Kenyan court earlier in June 2019 after a data leak of a database th... |
| Mar 30, 2019 | Global video streaming market is largely controlled by the usual suspects | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Weeks after Steven Spielberg took a swing at Netf... |
| Jan 21, 2019 | Egypt’s second largest city just concluded a 3-month pilot of using electric buses for public transport | Share this article:
In January 2018, Egypt’s Passenger Transportation Authority signed a deal with BYD, a Chinese automobile manufacturing company to deploy 15 electric buses in Alexandria, the country’s second largest city. The buses will ... |
| Sep 19, 2018 | Tanzania Plans To Outlaw Fact-Checking Of Government Statistics | Back in April, Techdirt wrote about a set of regulations brought in by the Tanzanian government that required people there to pay around $900 per year for a license to blog. Despite the very high costs it imposes on people — Tanzania’s GDP ... |
| Jul 17, 2018 | How not to regulate social media in Africa | Share this article:
A 2016 report by Portland, a London-based communications agency revealed that Africans use Twitter for political conversations more than people from other continents. This can be attributed to the high level of corruptio... |
| Jul 9, 2018 | A Quick Look At The Different Sectors Drone Tech Is Transforming In Africa | Drones, those aerial vehicles that require no human pilots, originally used for military purposes, have gone from being popular for taking aerial images to now delivering life saving medical supplies. Today, it is finding application in dif... |
| Jun 18, 2018 | Africa News Roundup: Beads for science | Share this article:
Here are last weekend’s top headlines on startups, entrepreneurship, innovation and tech from around Africa. Battling pneumonia
According to iAfrikan, Ghanaian scientists — at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and ... |
| Jun 11, 2018 | Africa News Roundup — June 11, 2018 | Share this article:
Here are last weekend’s top headlines on startups, entrepreneurship, innovation and tech from around Africa. Social media regulations in Egypt
It appear Egypt wants to follow in the footsteps of Uganda and Tanzania, as t... |
| May 28, 2018 | Africa News Roundup — May 28, 2018 | Share this article:
Here are last weekend’s top news headlines about startups, entrepreneurship, innovation and tech around Africa.
Cyber-tokens. The South African Reserve Bank has taken an official stance on digital currencies like bitcoin... |
| May 24, 2018 | Africa News Roundup — May 24, 2018 | Share this article:
Here are this week’s top news headlines about startups, entrepreneurship, innovation and tech around Africa.
What’s new with Naspers? South African media group and former Konga investor, Naspers reportedly led a recent $... |
| May 21, 2018 | Africa News Roundup — May 21, 2018 | Share this article:
Here are last weekend’s top news headlines about startups, entrepreneurship, innovation and tech around Africa.
Before you hit ‘publish’. It is now a criminal offence to publish fake news online in Kenya. While many argu... |
| Apr 16, 2018 | Africa News Roundup: Internet versus African leaders edition | Share this article:
Here are last weekend’s top headlines on startups, entrepreneurship, innovation and tech from around Africa.
Tanzanian Bloggers are an endangered species. The Tanzanian government has finalised plans to regulate social m... |
| Mar 28, 2018 | Was SA startup TechnoVera overlooked for Gauteng pharmacy ATM? [Opinion] | On 15 March 2018, the Gauteng Department of Health (GDoH) in South Africa unveiled what they called a “historic ATM pharmacy”. The first ATM pharmacy machine was deployed and launched in the Alexandra township of Johannesburg, at the Alexan... |
| Mar 28, 2018 | Was SA startup TechnoVera overlooked for Gauteng pharmacy ATM? [Opinion] | On 15 March 2018, the Gauteng Department of Health (GDoH) in South Africa unveiled what they called a “historic ATM pharmacy”. The first ATM pharmacy machine was deployed and launched in the Alexandra township of Johannesburg, at the Alexan... |
| Jan 29, 2018 | Africa News Roundup: A $500m bid for 9mobile, MutliChoice fined ₦5.9bn | Share this article:
Here are last weekend’s top headlines on startups, entrepreneurship, innovation and tech around Africa.
A 2-horse race? Coming on the heels of rumours that Globacom was favoured to takeover 9mobile, there are fresh repor... |
| Jan 25, 2018 | Africa News Roundup: Nigeria handpicked for $5 billion global solar energy project | Share this article:
Here are this week’s top headlines on startups, entrepreneurship, innovation and tech around Africa.
Nigeria to get solar energy plants. At the recently concluded World Future Energy Summit, the International Solar Allia... |
| Jan 11, 2018 | Africa News Roundup: Glo reportedly acquires 9mobile | Share this article:
UPDATE: The NCC has released an official statement that neither explicitly denies nor confirms the possible acquisition of 9mobile by Glo:
Our attention has been drawn to newspaper publications alleging that a preferred ... |
| Jan 8, 2018 | 10 Defining moments that shaped the 2017 South African startup ecosystem | 2017 in South Africa is a very hard year to define… Most people are limping into 2018 battle-scar ridden and trying to figure out what the hell just happened?!
Bitcoin highs and Steinhoff lows, neighbouring coup-non-coups, Rugby World Cup ... |
| Jan 8, 2018 | 10 Defining moments that shaped the 2017 South African startup ecosystem | 2017 in South Africa is a very hard year to define… Most people are limping into 2018 battle-scar ridden and trying to figure out what the hell just happened?!
Bitcoin highs and Steinhoff lows, neighbouring coup-non-coups, Rugby World Cup h... |
| Sep 8, 2017 | Ugandan Government Obtains Mysterious, South Korean-Built Anti-Porn Machine | At long last, Uganda’s anti-porn “machine” has arrived. As The Next Web notes, the country’s government placed an order for a porn-blocking machine last year, following on the heels of yet another anti-porn law. A company in South Korea has... |
| Sep 1, 2017 | Telkom Kenya sets out to drive data consumption | Cogito Zero Sum ??
Telkom Kenya (FKA Orange Kenya) has been trying to reinvent itself since it was taken over by Helios, and (like everyone else) wants to appeal to a younger, more tech savvy demographic. Apparently. It has started marketin... |
| Aug 30, 2017 | Renewable energy company plans to invest $800 million on solar-powered telecom towers across Africa | Here’s everything interesting in African technology today. Not subscribed? Click here to get this goodness in your mailbox every day at 7am (GMT + 1).
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1. Greenwish Partners, a renewable energy company run by a former Morgan Stanley e... |
| Aug 29, 2017 | Nigerian Army to begin monitoring activities on social media | Here’s everything interesting in African technology today. Not subscribed? Click here to get this goodness in your mailbox every day at 7am (GMT + 1). 1 – Profiling mobile internet users in Africa ?
Since we’ve established that Kenyans enjo... |
| Aug 28, 2017 | Kenya ranks highest in Africa in broadband internet speeds
Three Charts. | Here’s everything interesting in African technology today. Not subscribed? Click here to get this goodness in your mailbox every day at 7am (GMT + 1). People,
Last Friday was proof that my enemies are out to get me. One moment, I was riding... |
| Aug 16, 2017 | Zenith Bank takes provision on 30% of its loan to 9mobile | Here’s everything interesting in African technology today. Not subscribed? Click here to get these stories in your mailbox every day at 7am (GMT + 1). We’re sorry. ?
Yesterday, we told you Cranium One was hiring a General Manager, but forgo... |
| Jul 26, 2017 | NCC moves to fine mobile network operators over call refilling | Here’s everything interesting in African technology today. Not subscribed? Click hereto get this goodness in your mailbox every day at 7am (GMT + 1). Opportunities
+ She Leads Africa has launched a free digital marketing and business strate... |
| Jul 12, 2017 | Printivo Launches Printivo Store
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1. Printivo has launched its designer marketplace, Printivo Store, where an... |
| Jun 22, 2017 | Fibre.ng’s Express Launches in Beta
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Nigeria’s OneMedical is 1 of 15 finalists in Ciscos’ Global Problem Solver Challenge! Hel... |
| Jun 16, 2017 | Why mPesa will not be an instant hit in Nigeria | Share this article:
It’s been barely a decade since mPesa — Safaricom’s award-winning mobile money service — took Kenya, and the world, by storm.
Having since expanded to 10 additional countries within and outside (Albania, Romania, Afghani... |
| Jun 13, 2017 | Why teaching STEM subjects in local Nigerian languages is a bad idea | Share this article:
Dr Ogbonnaya Onu, the Minister of Science and Technology recently announced that the federal government is making plans to teach STEM (Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) subjects in indigenous languages t... |
| May 25, 2017 | Akwa Ibom State Government Launches Factory for Pencil Production
Vital signs. | Vital signs.
Hello, it’s me again, Lil’ Trafficate*, AKA Yung Hatchback. Q: Why can’t cars play football? A: Because they only have one boot [Ba-dum-tsss ??]. Oh, and I found a tweet (?) yesterday, that perfectly captures the Nigerian ride-... |
| May 23, 2017 | Nigerian Banks Earned N138 Billion in Electronic Payment Charges in 2016 | Hey there! Here’s everything interesting in African technology today. Not subscribed? Click here to get this goodness in your mailbox every day at 7am (GMT + 1).
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According to this Vanguard report, the top ten banks in Nigeria a... |
| May 4, 2017 | TechCabal Daily: What is Public Transport? | Hey there! Here’s everything interesting in African technology today. Not subscribed? Click here to get this goodness in your mailbox every day at 7am (GMT + 1).
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1. What is public transport? – It may seem like a weird question... |
| May 2, 2017 | We are back! | Hey there! Here’s everything interesting in African technology today. Not subscribed? Click here to get this goodness in your mailbox every day at 7am (GMT + 1).
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| Apr 28, 2017 | Paga Partners With NIPOST | Hey there! Here’s everything interesting in African technology today. Not subscribed? Click here to get this goodness in your mailbox every day at 7am (GMT + 1). Today is Friday.
1. Financial services company, Paga, has joined forces with t... |
| Apr 26, 2017 | Businesses run by religious organisations should not be tax-free | Share this article:
Last week, Vodacom South Africa announced a partnership with a Church known as Shembe Church to distribute the company’s products and services to the church’s 6.7 million members of which 2.4 million are Vodacom subscrib... |
| Apr 26, 2017 | TechCabal daily: Which way Rocket? | Hey there! Here’s everything interesting in African technology today. Not subscribed? Click here to get this goodness in your mailbox every day at 7am (GMT + 1).
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1. Which way Rocket? – Rocket... |
| Mar 27, 2017 | TechCabal Daily: Pay on delivery needs to die
Hot topics on Radar | Hey there! Today’s TechCabal digest is brought to you by DIYlaw; get N2000 off your next company incorporation here with our coupon code – DIYLAWTC. Here’s everything interesting in African technology today.
Monday. Let’s get it.
1. Two Nig... |
| Mar 17, 2017 | TechCabal Daily: Uber’s peace offering | Hey there! Today’s TechCabal digest is brought to you by DIYlaw; get N2000 off your next company incorporation here with our coupon code – DIYLAWTC. Here’s everything interesting in African technology today.
It’s Friday
1. Uber Kenya has in... |
| Mar 16, 2017 | TechCabal Daily: ‘Buy Kenyan, build Kenya’ | Hey there! Today’s TechCabal digest is brought to you by DIYlaw; get N2000 off your next company incorporation here with our coupon code – DIYLAWTC. Here’s everything interesting in African technology today.
Today’s Thursday
1. SA media com... |
| Mar 9, 2017 | TechCabal Daily: Unpaid debts and takeovers | Hey there! Today’s TechCabal digest is brought to you by DIYlaw; get N2000 off your next company incorporation here with our coupon code – DIYLAWTC. Here’s everything interesting in African technology today.
Today’s Thursday
1. Three Nigeri... |
| Mar 2, 2017 | TechCabal daily: Here, there be IPOs | Hey there! Today’s TechCabal digest is brought to you by Tizeti; they are offering Lagos residents unlimited internet for N5,000, and you can sign up for that here. Here’s everything interesting in African technology today. If you’re readin... |
| Feb 27, 2017 | TechCabal daily: Where is Nigeria’s president? | Hey there! Today’s TechCabal digest is brought to you by Tizeti; they are offering Lagos residents unlimited internet for N5,000, and you can sign up for that here. Here’s everything interesting in African technology today. If you’re readin... |
| Feb 17, 2017 | TechCabal daily: Peeping Toms and monitoring spirits | Hey there! Today’s TechCabal digest is brought to you by Tizeti; they are offering Lagos residents unlimited internet for N5,000, and you can sign up for that here. Here’s everything interesting in African technology today. If you’re readin... |
| Feb 16, 2017 | TechCabal Daily: Showmax’s first step into Europe | Hey there! Today’s TechCabal digest is brought to you by Tizeti; they are offering Lagos residents unlimited internet for N5,000, and you can sign up for that here. Here’s everything interesting in African technology today. If you’re readin... |
| Jan 18, 2017 | Top African technology news for January 18, 2017 | 14. The Nigerian Communications Commission is planning to impose a N5 million fine on any mobile operator that violates the Do Not Disturb code
This was announced by the Commission’s Executive Vice Chairman, Prof. Umar Dambatta. He said the... |
| Jan 6, 2017 | Top African technology news for January 6, 2017 | 5. Drone delivery service, Zipline is expanding its operations into Tanzania
The service which has been delivering blood and other medical supplies in Rwanda is expected to kick off operations in Tanzania in early 2017. The trial is being f... |
| Nov 16, 2016 | The State of Ridesharing in Africa | Ridesharing in Africa is not a new phenomenon – Africans have moved around by sharing vehicles for decades. Traditional ridesharing was more about getting from one point to another than the technology that powered it. Today, though, real-ti... |
| Mar 24, 2016 | Open letter: 2 things the new CEO of Konga should pay attention to | Share this article:
Editor’s Note: This is an open letter to the new CEO of Konga, Mr. Shola Adekoya as originally published on SpokenTwice. Remember, we published the announcement of Sim Shagaya’s stepping down for an interim who was later... |
| Apr 23, 2015 | iAfrikan Launches Multiple Platforms to Report Xenophobic Attacks in SA | iAfrikan, an independent technology website, has created platforms that allow the South African public report xenophobic attacks via SMS, Twitter, e-mail or through its website.
“We believe the reports submitted will assist others in avoidi... |
| Jan 20, 2015 | Attend ‘Oyinbo Lessons’ with Marek Zmyslowski | Share this article:
Everyone, save this date!
We are excited to announce to you that Techpoint will be partnering with iAfrikan as they host Marek Zmyslowski in a fireside chat about “Oyinbo Lessons” and doing business in Nigeria as a tech ... |
| The Big 5 Daily: 1st July, 2020 | Happy new month!
The Big 5 Daily is ready.
We are excited to see the second half of 2020, in the hope that it will be better.
Before we go into the Big 5 proper, here is an extra for the new month.
Carbon, a Nigerian fintech startup has sha... |
| Safaricom Sued Over Data Leak | Safaricom, Kenya’s telecommunications giant has been slammed with a KES 115 trillion lawsuit due to an alleged data leak of 11.5 million consumers. The suit was filed at a Kenyan court earlier in June 2019 after a data leak of a database th... |
