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  • November 18, 2019 olivia Craig 0
    Visa acquires stake in Nigeria’s Interswitch
    Nigerian digital payments firm Interswitch confirmed today it has reached unicorn status...
    featured FINANCE TECH 
  • November 14, 2019 olivia Craig 0
    Disney+ just launched and has already attracted over 10 million subscribers, should Neflix be worried?
    Disney’s just launched  its premium subscription streaming service Disney+ but was not...
    APPS featured Internet Music TECH 
  • November 12, 2019 Anthony D. Curtis 0
    Amazon to launch an Amazon CloudFront Edge Location in Kenya
    Kenya will be the latest country in Africa after South Africa to...
    APPS BUSINESS featured Internet 
  • November 5, 2019 Editor 0
    Miss.Africa Digital program announces the fourth round winners of its prestigious Africa focused seed fund
    Miss.Africa Digital, a DCA Digital Academy, pioneering Pan-African program of DotConnectAfrica (DCA)...
    featured Internet Q&A STARTUPS TECH Women 
  • November 1, 2019 Anthony D. Curtis 0
    Windows 7 end-of-life: Study Shows 59% of IT Professionals Have Not Migrated All Their Users to Windows 10
    Ivanti, the company that unifies IT to better manage and secure the...
    APPS featured Internet TECH 
Visa acquires stake in Nigeria’s Interswitch

Visa acquires stake in Nigeria’s Interswitch

November 18, 2019 0
Disney+ just launched and has already attracted over 10 million subscribers, should Neflix be worried?

Disney+ just launched and has already...

November 14, 2019 0
Amazon to launch an Amazon CloudFront Edge Location in Kenya

Amazon to launch an Amazon CloudFront...

November 12, 2019 0
WhatsApp finally rolls out update that lets one choose who can add them to groups

WhatsApp finally rolls out update that...

November 6, 2019 0

Featured

  • Interswitch Visa investment
    November 18, 2019 olivia Craig 0

    Visa acquires stake in Nigeria’s Interswitch

    Nigerian digital payments firm Interswitch confirmed today it has reached unicorn status after Visa acquired a minority equity stake in the firm. Global payments giant Visa will invest $200 million for 20% stake in Interswitch, electronic payments company, UK’s Sky  News reports. The investment places a billion-dollar valuation...
    featured FINANCE TECH 
  • disney plus-a stream
    November 14, 2019 olivia Craig 0

    Disney+ just launched and has already attracted over 10 million subscribers, should Neflix be worried?

    Disney’s just launched  its premium subscription streaming service...
    APPS featured Internet Music TECH 
  • Amazon CloudFront Edge
    November 12, 2019 Anthony D. Curtis 0

    Amazon to launch an Amazon CloudFront Edge Location in Kenya

    Kenya will be the latest country in Africa...
    APPS BUSINESS featured Internet 
  • WhatsApp launches end-to-end encryption on messages for all its users
    November 6, 2019 Anthony D. Curtis 0

    WhatsApp finally rolls out update that lets one choose who can add them to groups

    Lets agree that WhatsApp users find themselves constantly...
    APPS MOBILE SOCIAL MEDIA 

Business

  • Interswitch Visa investment
    November 18, 2019 olivia Craig 0

    Visa acquires stake in Nigeria’s Interswitch

    Nigerian digital payments firm Interswitch confirmed today it has reached unicorn status after Visa acquired a minority equity stake in the firm. Global payments giant Visa will invest $200 million for 20% stake in Interswitch, electronic payments company, UK’s Sky  News reports. The investment places a billion-dollar valuation...
    featured FINANCE TECH 
  • Amazon CloudFront Edge
    November 12, 2019 Anthony D. Curtis 0

    Amazon to launch an Amazon CloudFront Edge Location in Kenya

    Kenya will be the latest country in Africa after South Africa to have the Amazon Web...
    APPS BUSINESS featured Internet 
  • October 28, 2019 olivia Craig 0

    West African Market on the radar after Kenya’s Twiga Foods bags $30M Goldman Sachs boost

    Kenya’s Twiga Foods has raised a total of $30 million from lenders and investors led by...
    APPS BUSINESS featured FINANCE STARTUPS 
  • PayPal Becomes The First Foreign Payment Platform In China
    October 23, 2019 olivia Craig 0

    PayPal to enter China Market after a 70% stake acquisition in GoPay

    PayPal will become one of the first international companies to gain a payments license in China,...
    APPS BUSINESS featured FINANCE Internet 

Interviews

  • Miss.Africa Digital program announces the fourth round winners
    November 5, 2019 Editor 0

    Miss.Africa Digital program announces the fourth round winners of its prestigious Africa focused seed fund

    Miss.Africa Digital, a DCA Digital Academy, pioneering Pan-African program of DotConnectAfrica (DCA) Trust, has published the...
    featured Internet Q&A STARTUPS TECH Women 
  • Not coming to Ethiopia to Invest unless central bank rectifies the wrongful appropriation of diaspora shares – Sophia Bekele
    July 24, 2019 Editor 0

    Not coming to Ethiopia to Invest unless central bank rectifies the wrongful appropriation of diaspora shares – Sophia Bekele Eshete

    The monies and profits confiscated from the sale of the diaspora shares should be returned in...
    BUSINESS featured FINANCE Q&A Women 
  • Search Results Featured snippet from the web Dr. Precious Lunga is CEO and Co-Founder of Baobab Circle, a health technology company delivering innovative health solutions via phones across Africa. She will be joining the 2nd edition of the EurAfrican Forum in Portugal as a speaker.
    June 24, 2019 Anthony D. Curtis 0

    Startups and Partnerships, EurAfrican Forum enables cross pollination of ideas: Dr. Precious Lunga – Baobab Circle

    Dr. Precious Lunga, CEO and Co-Founder of Baobab Circle, will be joining the 2nd edition of...
    APPS BUSINESS featured Q&A STARTUPS 
  • March 25, 2019 Editor 0

    Women VCs investments explains the inequality in their field

    Female venture capitalists (VCs) have made steady progress over the past few decades, but still make...
    FINANCE Q&A STARTUPS Women 
  • March 1, 2019 Editor 0

    How prepared are African businesses to tap AI benefits?

    The world is becoming a consumers’ market where future trends are now determined by an impatient...
    Q&A TECH 
  • March 1, 2019 Editor 0

    SMEs Digitization in Africa

    Gartner, the global research and advisory firm, defines digitalisation as “the use of digital technologies to...
    BUSINESS Q&A TECH 

Cyber Security

  • September 27, 2019 Anthony D. Curtis 0

    Google’s Android Go, a lightweight alternative for low-end phones is faster brags the company

    Google is redesigning its Android Go — a lightweight alternative of its mobile platform design to run faster and smoothly on low-end phones. In a new blog post, the company says apps on Android 10 Go will now launch about 10 percent faster than they did on the...
    APPS Cybersecurity MOBILE SOCIAL MEDIA 
  • September 17, 2019 Anthony D. Curtis 0

    Cybercrime Report Tracks Growing Threat of Networked Cybercrime

    LexisNexis® Risk Solutions today released at the Digital...
    APPS BUSINESS Cybersecurity 
  • May 30, 2019 olivia Craig 0

    Millions of Instagram influencers data scraped and exposed from a Mumbai-based Chtrbox database

    TechCruch has detailed massive database leak containing contact...
    Cybersecurity 
  • May 28, 2019 Editor 0

    Singapore to launch QR based SG-Verify for businesses to perform secure ID verification and data transfer

    The Singapore government says it will introduce a...
    APPS Cybersecurity Internet 

Start-Ups

  • Miss.Africa Digital program announces the fourth round winners
    November 5, 2019 Editor 0

    Miss.Africa Digital program announces the fourth round winners of its prestigious Africa focused seed fund

    Miss.Africa Digital, a DCA Digital Academy, pioneering Pan-African program of DotConnectAfrica (DCA) Trust, has published the winners of the fourth prestigious Africa-focused seed fund award. Since its inaugural round, the organization has now covered a total of 12 African nations KampaBits of Uganda a youth based organization that...
    featured Internet Q&A STARTUPS TECH Women 
  • October 28, 2019 olivia Craig 0

    West African Market on the radar after Kenya’s Twiga Foods bags $30M Goldman Sachs boost

    Kenya’s Twiga Foods has raised a total of $30 million from lenders and investors led by...
    APPS BUSINESS featured FINANCE STARTUPS 
  • credit scoring fintech company, CredoLab, launched in Kenya
    October 16, 2019 Anthony D. Curtis 0

    Singapore based Credit scoring fintech company, CredoLab, launches in Kenya

    Alternative credit scoring fintech company, CredoLab, launched in Kenya recently is lined to drive financial inclusion...
    APPS featured FINANCE MOBILE STARTUPS 
  • Andela
    September 18, 2019 Editor 0

    Andela to lay off 400 staff across Africa, confirms $50M in revenue

    Africa-focused tech talent accelerator Andela will cut 400 junior engineers across Kenya, Uganda and Nigeria, Chief...
    BUSINESS FINANCE STARTUPS TECH 

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  • Interswitch Visa investment
    November 18, 2019 olivia Craig 0

    Visa acquires stake in Nigeria’s Interswitch

    Nigerian digital payments firm Interswitch confirmed today it...
    featured FINANCE TECH 
  • disney plus-a stream
    November 14, 2019 olivia Craig 0

    Disney+ just launched and has already attracted over 10 million subscribers, should Neflix be worried?

    Disney’s just launched  its premium subscription streaming service...
    APPS featured Internet Music TECH 
  • Amazon CloudFront Edge
    November 12, 2019 Anthony D. Curtis 0

    Amazon to launch an Amazon CloudFront Edge Location in Kenya

    Kenya will be the latest country in Africa...
    APPS BUSINESS featured Internet 

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