Opinion

How PAPSS will unlock Africa's financial integration

PAPSS was created to unlock Africa’s massive potential for internal trade, enabling an efficient flow of transactions across the African border.

News

Frain Technologies announces $473,000 pre-seed to build webhook infrastructure

Frain will use the funds to invest in the development of Convoy, a cloud-native webhook service, and develop more tools for developers.

News

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Tech Word For The Week

Product management

Product Management is trying to solve the problem of shared understanding. A shared understanding of the customers, their problems, of how the team would get there, how success would be measured and how things would be broken into tiny, deliverable bits.

News

Lipa Later raises $12 million pre-Series A for pan-African expansion

Lipa Later, a Kenyan tech-led consumer credit platform raises $12 million in Pre-Series A funding to expand in its existing markets and new markets.

News

Microsoft appoints Angela Kyerematen-Jimoh as Strategic Partner lead in Ghana

My appointment will be one of the biggest success stories for our continent- Angela Kyerematen-Jimoh

News

StanChart plans to shut half of its branches in Nigeria in a digital push

Standard Chartered Nigeria to shut down 13 bank branches to focus on digital banking.

Spotlight

Meet 25 African healthtech startups changing the narrative

Here are 25 health startups that are challenging the status quo and changing the negative narrative about Africa’s health system.

Tech Word For The Week

Tech Word For The Week: Blockchain

Blockchain is a digital ledger of transactions decentralised, duplicated, and distributed across different networks of computer systems.

Opinion

Top 10 gifts below $100 for loved ones

Surprise your loved ones with any of these 10 handpicked tech gifts that come at an incredibly affordable price (below $100 below.)

Tech Word For The Week

Tech Word For The Week: Minimum Viable Product

Minimum Viable Product is the first thing you can give to the very first set of users you want to target to see if you can provide any value at all.

News

Federal Executive Council approves Nigeria Startup Bill

The Nigeria Startup Bill (NSB) was on the 15th of Dec. approved by the Federal Executive Council(FEC) and is a step closer to getting enacted into law.

News

2021 Cryptocurrency year - Review by Marius Reitz

2021 will be remembered as the year when ordinary people, institutions and businesses were buoyed to invest in crypto at a far greater scale than previously seen.

Fintech

CcHUB in collaboration with Google launches Fintech Innovation Project in Rwanda

Fintech Innovation Project is a corporate innovation lab set up to facilitate the acceleration of e-commerce growth by supporting both Small and Medium Businesses to go online.

Tech Word For The Week

Tech Word For The Week: Identity Management

Identity Management is the management of a technology resource(s) to ensure that only verified and authorised people have access to it to be able to carry out their job functions.

News

South African Proptech, Flow Expands Reach Into Australia

Flow, an API platform connecting real estate agents and social media users leverages significant growth on the continent to target global property market

News

SendChamp raises $100,000 in angel round to build communication solutions for African businesses

SendChamp’s solutions allow their users to provide fast and reliable answers to their customers across all relevant channels, revolutionising customer relations on the continent.

Tech Word For The Week

Tech Word For The Week: Infrastructure As A Service (IaaS)

IaaS eliminates the limitations of on-site infrastructure and heightens its advantages in a cost-efficient manner to enhance daily business operations.

News

AFEX announces $100m Food Security Fund

Financing will strengthen Africa's food security and optimise climate-smart innovations across seven countries

Opinion

20 top tech skills that require no coding

if you are interested in pursuing a career in tech and do not possess any coding skills. Here are 20 noncoding tech roles that might align with your interest, strengths, and experience.

News

Arnergy launches Diaspora Initiative for clean energy remittances

Energy startup becomes Africa’s first solar company to launch renewables payment scheme for Nigerians abroad

Opinion

Tech Word for The Week: Platform As A Service (PaaS)

PaaS provides a cost-effective cloud platform for developing, running, and scaling applications without the hassle of managing the underlying infrastructure.

News

MEST Express Accelerator open applications for startups in Ghana for first cohort of 2022

The program, in partnership with Mastercard Foundation’s Young Africa Works, invites early-stage startups in Ghana to apply by 16th January, 2022.

News

Davido and Omegoat launches $ECHOKE social token

With the $ECHOKE token, fans can become influencers and drive the next generation entertainment industry.

Press release

Crowdyvest re-launches app with new investment opportunities

The refreshed mobile app offers a modern design, easy navigation, and exciting new features to deliver top-notch and seamless digital banking experience for its existing and prospective members.