Tech Gist Africa

12/14/2018

IBM Research and Hello Tractor launches “Digital Wallet" for agriculture based on AI and Blockchain in Africa (Nigeria). The mobile...

The Big 5 Daily: Apple Inc. May Move her Operations base out of China on One Condition, Matibabu named Entrepreneur of the Year and More Tech News from Africa

The African tech ecosystem keeps evolving and of course new developments are sprouting up across the tech world. Here is...

Apple Inc. May Move her Operations base out of China on One Condition

Apple Inc. is considering two options regarding manufacturing its product in China. One, they might move out of the country...

The Change We Seek: Teresa Mbagaya – Techpreneur of the Week

We start with a word, ‘Education’. What comes to mind? Youth, a classroom, a curriculum, a teacher, exams and the...

Africa Records Strong Growth in ITU’s 2018 Internet Penetration Report

12/14/2018

For the first time ever, half of the world’s population now have access to the internet. According to a new...

Liquid Telecoms Receives $180 Million Fund to Boost its Network in Africa

Africa’s Liquid Telecom has received a $180 million investment fund from U.K. development finance institution, CDC Group Plc as they...

The Big 5 Daily: Uganda’s MSCAN Now TechCrunch’s ‘Africa’s Favorite Startup’, Africa Records Strong Growth in ITU’s 2018 Internet Penetration Report and More

Second edition of TechCrunch Start-up Battlefield Africa held yesterday in Lagos, Nigeria and 15 start-ups across the continent pitched at...

Sundar Pichai Testifies Before U.S. Congress

Google CEO, Sundar Pichai says Android users are aware of the size of data they fetch on them, as they...

Uganda’s MSCAN Now TechCrunch ‘Africa’s Favourite Start-up’

The second edition of TechCrunch Start-up Battlefield Africa held yesterday in Lagos, Nigeria and 15 start-ups across the continent pitched...

Ghanaian University Integrates Drone Classes into its Curriculum

The Vice-Chancellor of Accra Technical University (ACT), Prof. Edmund Ameko says the students will from January, be able to study...

Uber Launches 24/7 Support in Kenya and South Africa