Tag: tech africa

04/11/2021

The GSMA Innovation Fund for Mobile Internet Adoption and Digital Inclusion has chosen five African startups from nine startups from ...

Huawei Mobile Services has expanded its partnership with Mondia Pay to provide operators with safe, contactless mobile payment services

Huawei Mobile Services has partnered with Mondia Pay, a digital payments provider, to provide mobile network operators with seamless and ...

Tomisin Fashina has been appointed Group Executive, Operations & Technology at Ecobank Transnational Incorporated

Tomisin Fashina has been appointed as the new Group Executive for Operations & Technology at Ecobank Transnational Incorporated, the parent ...

Safaricom’s M-Pesa Africa Appoints Sitoyo Lopokoiyit as the New Managing Director

M-Pesa Africa, a Safaricom subsidiary, has appointed Sitoyo Lopokoiyit as its new Managing Director. Sitoyo Lopokoiyit is a "mobile financial ...

Paymob, an Egyptian fintech startup, has raised $18.5 million in a Series A round to expand throughout the Middle East and Africa

Paymob, an Egyptian fintech startup, has raised $18.5 million in a Series A round to expand throughout the Middle East ...

Bolt, a ride-hailing app, is now available on the Huawei App Gallery

The ride-hailing platform Bolt is now available on Huawei AppGallery, according to the company. Users can use the service to ...

Moshesh Partners, an investment company in South Africa has secured funding for the Renewable Energy and Infrastructure Fund

Moshesh Partners, a South African investment company, has received an undisclosed sum of funding for its Renewable Energy and Clean ...

Africa Data Centres to build a 10-megawatt facility in Lagos, Nigeria

Africa Data Centres, a Liquid Intelligent Technologies carrier-neutral data center firm, has announced plans to construct a 10MW facility in ...

Neuralink has released a new video showing a Monkey using brain implant device to play a video game

Elon Musk's brain-implant company, Neuralink, has released a new video showing a nine-year-old monkey called "Pager" playing Pong with its ...

Africa’s inter-university Hackathon brings students together for the benefit of data science

On the weekend of March 27-28, UmojaHack Africa 2021 was a success, attracting over 1000 students from 126 universities across ...

Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp were all down at one point, but they seem to be back up and running now