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  • December 20, 2019 Editor 0
    Afrikamart Agritech startup aims to be largest African fresh food supplier without owning any farm
    Senegalese Agritech startup Afrikamart aims to be the largest quality fresh food...
    APPS featured FINANCE Q&A 
  • December 3, 2019 Dianne Jacobs 0
    Kenyan Parents Urged to Monitor Children’s online consumption
    Now that the children have closed school for the holidays, it is...
    Cybersecurity featured Internet MOBILE 
  • November 28, 2019 Dianne Jacobs 0
    Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey will be moving back to Africa for at least 3 months in 2020, new home?
    Jack Dorsey, the CEO of Twitter and mobile payments company Square, tweeted...
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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...
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Nokia phones targets a 10% growth in Kenya

Nokia phones targets a 10% growth...

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AI revolutionizes the contact center in Africa

AI revolutionizes the contact center in...

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Safaricom and M-Gas Launched Prepaid Gas

Safaricom and M-Gas Launched Prepaid Gas

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MTN Zambia launches non-expiry data bundles

MTN Zambia launches non-expiry data bundles

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Featured

  • Nokia
    January 22, 2020 Dianne Jacobs 0

    Nokia phones targets a 10% growth in Kenya

    HMD Global, the home of Nokia phones, is targeting a 10 per cent growth in Kenya this year, as it eyes to increase its share of the smartphone market. This comes after successfully unveiling the Nokia C1 and Nokia 2.3 in the  Kenyan market in December, which came a week after the global launch in...
    BUSINESS MOBILE 
  • AI
    January 22, 2020 Dianne Jacobs 0

    AI revolutionizes the contact center in Africa

    The contact centre is changing. In the past,...
    BUSINESS TECH 
  • M-Gas
    January 21, 2020 Dianne Jacobs 0

    Safaricom and M-Gas Launched Prepaid Gas

    Safaricom and M-Gas have launched prepaid gas service...
    BUSINESS 
  • MTN Zambia
    January 21, 2020 Dianne Jacobs 0

    MTN Zambia launches non-expiry data bundles

    MTN Zambia has launched a new range of...
    Internet MOBILE 

Business

  • Nokia
    January 22, 2020 Dianne Jacobs 0

    Nokia phones targets a 10% growth in Kenya

    HMD Global, the home of Nokia phones, is targeting a 10 per cent growth in Kenya this year, as it eyes to increase its share of the smartphone market. This comes after successfully unveiling the Nokia C1 and Nokia 2.3 in the  Kenyan market in December, which came a week after the global launch in...
    BUSINESS MOBILE 
  • AI
    January 22, 2020 Dianne Jacobs 0

    AI revolutionizes the contact center in Africa

    The contact centre is changing. In the past, call centre agents had to process a large...
    BUSINESS TECH 
  • M-Gas
    January 21, 2020 Dianne Jacobs 0

    Safaricom and M-Gas Launched Prepaid Gas

    Safaricom and M-Gas have launched prepaid gas service for Kenyan households. This is expected to empower...
    BUSINESS 
  • M-Gas
    January 13, 2020 Dianne Jacobs 0

    Safaricom Launches Lipa Na M-Pesa promotion

    Safaricom has launched an eight week Lipa Na M-Pesa promotion that will reward both customers and...
    BUSINESS MOBILE 

Interviews

  • Afrikamart Agritech startup aims to be largest African fresh food supplier without owning any farm
    December 20, 2019 Editor 0

    Afrikamart Agritech startup aims to be largest African fresh food supplier without owning any farm

    Senegalese Agritech startup Afrikamart aims to be the largest quality fresh food supplier in West Africa....
    APPS featured FINANCE Q&A 
  • Mali based insurtech startup OKO Finance helps rural farmers access crop insurance
    December 17, 2019 Anthony D. Curtis 0

    Mali based insurtech startup OKO Finance helps rural farmers access crop insurance

    Malian insurtech startup OKO Finance has helped many rural farmers to access crop insurance for the...
    BUSINESS FINANCE MOBILE Q&A STARTUPS 
  • Tax
    December 17, 2019 Dianne Jacobs 0

    New tax on Digital Markets under new law

    Kenya will start levying new tax on digital markets under a new law signed by the President...
    BUSINESS Internet Q&A 
  • 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 

Cyber Security

  • Safaricom
    January 9, 2020 Dianne Jacobs 0

    Safaricom invites bids of a location tracking platform

    Safaricom has invited bids to seek suppliers of a location tracking and intelligence platform. In a bid notice, they express interest to take advantage of a location intelligence system which will help them build customer profiles based on their location, according to Business Daily. “Consequently, the evolution of the...
    Cybersecurity Internet 
  • Cybersecurity
    December 11, 2019 Dianne Jacobs 0

    2020 Cybersecurity trends for businesses

    Cybersecurity is key in any business because cyber...
    BUSINESS Cybersecurity 
  • Safaricom
    December 5, 2019 Dianne Jacobs 0

    Kenyans to rely on new Data Protection Law

    The Data Protection Act that came into effect...
    Cybersecurity Internet MOBILE 
  • Parents
    December 3, 2019 Dianne Jacobs 0

    Kenyan Parents Urged to Monitor Children’s online consumption

    Now that the children have closed school for...
    Cybersecurity featured Internet MOBILE 

Start-Ups

  • startups
    January 6, 2020 Dianne Jacobs 0

    African Startups in the credit scoring space

    African startups with solutions in the credit scoring and financing space will have the chance to secure a testing phase for their technologies with French utility company ENGIE at Africa Tech Summit Kigali in February. Taking place for the third time on February 4-6, Africa Tech Summit Kigali brings together...
    FINANCE STARTUPS TECH 
  • Mali based insurtech startup OKO Finance helps rural farmers access crop insurance
    December 17, 2019 Anthony D. Curtis 0

    Mali based insurtech startup OKO Finance helps rural farmers access crop insurance

    Malian insurtech startup OKO Finance has helped many rural farmers to access crop insurance for the...
    BUSINESS FINANCE MOBILE Q&A STARTUPS 
  • UTU Technologies
    December 16, 2019 Dianne Jacobs 0

    UTU Technologies raised $500k bridge funding

    UTU Technologies, a Kenyan Block chain & AI startup building on the Aeternity block chain, has...
    APPS STARTUPS TECH 
  • Energy
    December 16, 2019 Dianne Jacobs 0

    Innovation that will help with the provision of clean water

    Kenya’s quest to fulfill the need for clean water mainly in rural areas could be finally...
    Internet STARTUPS TECH 

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  • Nokia
    January 22, 2020 Dianne Jacobs 0

    Nokia phones targets a 10% growth in Kenya

    HMD Global, the home of Nokia phones, is...
    BUSINESS MOBILE 
  • AI
    January 22, 2020 Dianne Jacobs 0

    AI revolutionizes the contact center in Africa

    The contact centre is changing. In the past,...
    BUSINESS TECH 
  • M-Gas
    January 21, 2020 Dianne Jacobs 0

    Safaricom and M-Gas Launched Prepaid Gas

    Safaricom and M-Gas have launched prepaid gas service...
    BUSINESS 

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