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Paystack is Expanding to South Africa
Stripe-owned Nigerian fintech startup, Paystack, has announced that it is expanding into one of Africa’s largest markets, South Africa. Founded in 2015 by Shola Akinlade and Ezra Olubi, Paystack uses...
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Twitter Introduces Tip Jar to Let You Pay Your Favorite Twitters
Twitter, via a blog post announced the addition of a new feature -Tip Jar – to the social app. Tip Jar will make it easy for twitter users to support and send money to their favorite creators on the...
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itel Online Launch Nigeria: Here’s Everything That Was Announced
The itel online launch Nigeria is an online event by itel where it introduces new devices to the Nigerian market. This year’s edition held today with the brand unveiling the next iteration of...
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Nigeria’s Startup Mono raises a $2 Million Seed Round, Plans Africa Expansion
Mono, founded by Abdul Hassan, a formal product manager at Paystack and Prakhar Singh in 2020, is an infrastructure built to power the new set of internet businesses and developers building apps that...
View ArticleNation Media partners with Gadgets Africa for the region’s first consumer...
The tech scene advances really really fast and forms the backbone of most innovations in numerous other fields like Governance, Healthcare, Engineering, Entertainment, and so on. However, the...
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Devkids by ULesson: A Platform For Kids to Learn to Code
Devkids by ULesson is a platform that provides personalized live coding classes for 4-18-year-olds. On the platform, kids get to explore HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Python from scratch. Plus a dive...
View ArticleOPay is reportedly raising $400M at over $1.5B valuation
Nigeria-based, Chinese-backed fintech platform, OPay, is in talks to raise up to $400 million in Series C funding, this is according to TechCrunch. OPay’s journey started in Nigeria in 2018 when it...
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Chipper Cash: Africa’s Money Transfer Startup raises $100m, Attains Unicorn...
Africa’s fintech startup, Chipper Cash has confirmed that it has raised $100m in Series C funding. A round led by SVB Capital, the investment arm of U.S. high-tech commercial bank Silicon Valley Bank...
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Introducing Twitter Blue – Twitter’s First-Ever Subscription Offering
Twitter, today, announced the addition of a new feature (Twitter Blue) to its platform. Twitter Blue is a paid subscription service that will offer paid subscribers access to a set of new features...
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Vivo V21 set to launch in Kenya, brings 44MP Front Camera with OIS
Vivo is not a newcomer in the Kenyan market anymore. The Chinese OEM with ties to global brands like OnePlus, Oppo, and the newest entrant into the Kenyan mobile scene, Realme, has given us pretty...
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Order for COVID-19 Test From Home With Rocket Health
What a wild ride 2020 has been. From battling a global pandemic, to fighting towards racial justice, there’s no doubt last year will go down in history as a time when so many things changed. Despite...
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Workspace, Formerly G Suite, is Now Available to Everyone
Last October, Google rebranded “G Suite” – its collection of professional productivity tools, which was only made available to business accounts – to become “Workspace“. And eight months later, Google...
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URA TIN Application Is Now Completely Web-Based: Here Is How You Can Apply...
Applying for a Tax Identification Number(TIN) has always been a pain in the ass for many Ugandans as URA(Uganda Revenue Authority) would require you to download a Microsoft Excel, hustle to fill in...
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Classifieds Marketplace, Jiji, Acquires Cars45
Jiji, one of the largest marketplaces for classifieds in Africa, and by far the largest in Nigeria, has today announced that it is acquiring transactional car marketplace, Cars45 for an undisclosed...
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Be Safe Online – NITA-U launches Cyber Security Awareness Campaign
Yesterday, the National Information Technology Authority Uganda (NITA-U) launched a Cyber Security Awareness Campaign dubbed “Be Safe Online” focused on increasing public awareness and vigilance about...
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Twitter is Shutting Down Recently Released Feature, Fleets
In November of 2020, Twitter announced that it was adding a new feature, Fleets – a row of fullscreen tweets that appears at the top of the Twitter timeline and expires after 24 hours – to its...
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What to expect from the Mi Pad 5, Xiaomi’s new Android Tablet lineup
Xiaomi has enjoyed a lot of success in the smartphone market over the years and even recently Apple to be the second-largest smartphone vendor. This makes for a great time to release its first tablet...
View ArticleXiaomi to Ditch the Mi Branding; Will Go For Xiaomi Instead
Xiaomi has enjoyed quite a lot of success this year passing new milestones along the way. Earlier this year, the Chinese smartphone maker surpassed Apple in smartphone sales to become the...
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SoftBank Splashes $400M Investment on OPay at $2 Billion Valuation
When Opay launched in Nigeria in 2018, it came in really hard. The startup came in backed by a $50 million investment (the highest raised by a Nigeria-based fintech startup, at the time) raised by its...
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NITA-U, UNCDF Collaborate to Develop a Data Protection Portal
NITA-U has launched the data protection office to promote awareness of the new office and its mandate, and at the same time, raise awareness of the various stakeholders about the Data Protection Act...
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