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August 17, 2018 •
Southern Africa, Startups, West Africa •
Fundisiwe Maseko •
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Nigeria’s digital publishing company, Publiseer has been accepted into the Venture Incubation Programme Winter School 2018. The programme will take place at Solution Space, Graduate School of Business, University of Cape Town, in Cape Town, from 3 September 2018 to 30 November 2018. The programme twice every year selects 15 of the best digital...
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August 16, 2018 •
Education, Top Stories, West Africa •
Fundisiwe Maseko •
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More than 560 teachers took part in this year’s Africa Code Week (ACW) Train-the-Trainer workshops over four days in Accra and Kumasi as part of this year’s efforts to drive 21st century skills development among African youth. Now in its fourth year, ACW...
August 16, 2018 •
Opinion, Security, West Africa •
Fundisiwe Maseko •
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The deadline for compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has come and gone. And while it happened without too much fanfare in Nigeria, companies that think they can ignore the legislation and maintain a business as usual approach are in...
August 14, 2018 •
East Africa, Online & Social, Southern Africa, Top Stories, West Africa •
Fundisiwe Maseko •
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Twitter announced on Monday, 13 August 2018 that it has expanded Twitter Lite to 21 more countries including five countries in Africa. The company also reveled that Lite now supports push notifications and threaded Tweets. Twitter Lite was launched in 2017 as...
August 14, 2018 •
Online & Social, Top Stories, West Africa •
Fundisiwe Maseko •
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Microsoft has announced that Microsoft Kaizala Pro is now available in Nigeria. Microsoft Kaizala is a mobile app that aims to improve the way businesses communicate and collaborate. The mobile app is designed for large group communication, workflow...
August 13, 2018 •
East Africa, Finance, Southern Africa, Startups, Top Stories, West Africa •
Fundisiwe Maseko •
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Mines, a fintech startup re-inventing credit in emerging markets, has closed a Series A round of $13M led by The Rise Fund, a global fund managed by TPG Growth. Also participating are Velocity Capital, Western Technology Investments, First Ally Capital,...
August 11, 2018 •
Startups, West Africa •
Neo Sesinye •
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Iridescent, a nonprofit empowering underrepresented young people globally to become innovators and leaders, announced that two teams of girls – one from India and Nigeria – won top honors at its 2018 Technovation World Pitch Summit, a tech...
August 11, 2018 •
Finance, West Africa •
Neo Sesinye •
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Phillips Consulting Limited (PCL), has transformed the financial technology sector by introducing cutting-edge technology, Intellect Digital Core Banking Solution, to Nigeria. Phillips Consulting collaborated with Intellect Design Arena Limited, a global...
August 10, 2018 •
East Africa, Gadgets and Gaming, Internet of Things, North Africa, Southern Africa, West Africa •
Danielle Kruger •
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The President of the African Development Bank Group, Akinwumi Adesina, has made an urgent call to give farmers across the continent new technologies with the potential to transform agricultural production. Adesina said the technology transfer was needed...
August 7, 2018 •
Mobile and Telecoms, Top Stories, West Africa •
Fundisiwe Maseko •
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The National Communications Authority (NCA) in Ghana has announced that it has intervened in an dispute between Glo Mobile Ghana and Surfline Ghana. The NCA met with both Glo and Surfline to determine the details and extent of the issue. Director General of...
August 6, 2018 •
Finance, Mobile and Telecoms, West Africa •
Fundisiwe Maseko •
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The Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement Systems together with MTN Nigeria, sixteen banks and major mobile telcos have partnered to relaunch mCash. First launched in 2016, mCASH is a mobile payment platform for making low-value retail payments designed to extend...
August 6, 2018 •
Online & Social, Top Stories, West Africa •
Fundisiwe Maseko •
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Galaxy Backbone, Information and Communications Technology Services provider has announced that the phase one of National ICT Infrastructure Backbone (NICTIB) Project has been completed. NICTIB is a government project delivered through Galaxy Backbone and...
August 3, 2018 •
Startups, Top Stories, West Africa •
Fundisiwe Maseko •
Comments Off on Nigerian B2B Venture Builder Zone Tech Park launches
Zone Tech Park, a new venture builder for start-ups in Nigeria, has officially opened for business Located in Lagos, Zone Tech Park is the brainchild of Bolaji Olagunju, a serial entrepreneur and Founder and CEO of The Workforce Group, Nigeria’s leading...
August 3, 2018 •
Finance, Online & Social, Top Stories, West Africa •
Fundisiwe Maseko •
Comments Off on Nigeria: Paylater reaches 1 million downloads
61% of the adult population in Nigeria is un- or underbanked. Fintech companies like Paylater represent an opportunity to get formal banking services in the hands of Nigerian consumers to provide liquidity for entrepreneurial investment, personal development,...
August 2, 2018 •
Top Stories, West Africa •
Fundisiwe Maseko •
Comments Off on First Skills for Africa programme held in Nigeria
SAP Skills for Africa this week kicked off its first-ever programme in Nigeria at an orientation event held in Lagos. SAP Skills for Africa has trained more than 590 graduates since its inception in 2012, providing public and private sector organisations with...
July 31, 2018 •
Online & Social, Top Stories, West Africa •
Fundisiwe Maseko •
Comments Off on Google to provide free high speed Wifi in Nigeria
Google hosted its second Google for Nigeria event where the company made a number of big announcements aimed at helping people in Nigeria, and across Africa, benefit from the opportunities the web has to offer. In a bid to make the internet more easily...
