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Fashinza, an Indian based AI-driven business-to-business (B2B) marketplace, has raised $100 million in a funding round led by Prosus Ventures ...

Nigeria’s market regulator has published crypto asset regulations

Nigeria's markets regulator has published a set of digital asset regulations, indicating that the continent's most populous country is attempting ...

Elon Musk has paused his planned $44 billion Twitter purchase because of fake account data

05/27/2022

Elon Musk said his $44 billion cash purchase with Twitter Inc is "temporarily on hold" while he waits for the ...

Cryptocurrency luna falls to $0 as UST falls farther from its dollar peg

According to CoinGecko data, Luna fell to $0 on Friday, a shocking drop for a cryptocurrency that had formerly been ...

Google unveils new smartphones and a smartwatch at its I/O developer conference.

Google has introduced a series of hardware products, the latest hint that it is serious about expanding its company outside ...

Interswitch, an African payments company, secures a $110 million investment

Interswitch, an African payments company, has received a $110 million investment from LeapFrog Investments and Tana Africa Capital to help ...

The Google Africa Developer Scholarship Program 2022 is now accepting applications

For the third year, Grow with Google, Pluralsight, and Andela have teamed up to present the Google Africa Developer Scholarship ...

Identitypass, a Nigerian cybersecurity and anti-fraud startup, has raised $2.8 million in seed funding

Identitypass, a cybersecurity, and anti-fraud startup based in Lagos have raised $2.8 million in seed funding, which it plans to ...

Mylerz, an Egypt-based e-commerce fulfillment startup, has raised $9.6 million in funding

Mylerz, an e-commerce fulfillment firm based in Cairo, has raised $9.6 million in funding. Lorax Capital Partners, an Egypt-based private ...

MARA raises $23 million to develop the crypto economy portal for Africa

One of Africa's leading crypto exchanges, MARA, has received $23 million in funding from Coinbase Ventures, Alameda Research (FTX), Distributed ...

Kaltani, a Nigerian clean-tech startup, has raised $4 million to combat plastic waste in Africa