African technology news: fintech, startups, funding rounds, telecoms, digital policy and innovation across the continent.
The Tesla CEO Elon Musk on 14th of April 2022 announced his intention of buying the social media platform “Twitter’’. Early this month before his big reveal, he was the …
As part of its efforts to provide sustainable energy to public transportation, the Swedish-Kenyan business Opibus has introduced the first African-designed and made electric bus in Kenya. Opibus, Kenya’s first …
Toyota Motor Co. of Japan announced on Friday that its vehicle sales increased by 10.1 per cent last year, making it the world’s largest automaker for the second year in …
The RIKA HR Leadership Programme (“RIKA”), designed to deliver advanced HR programming to prepare high-achieving human resources professionals in Africa for senior leadership roles, today announced the official programme launch …
After the European car industry moved much of its production into Eastern Europe, some believe the next step is Africa, both for production and a growing consumer market. Should Germany’s …
Apple Inc is likely to cut down production of the iPhone 13 by as many as 10 million units due to the global chip shortage, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday, …
A cascade of mistakes made during maintenance on Facebook’s network caused the outage that took its services offline Monday, the company said in a blog post published on Tuesday. Facebook’s …
Finclusion, a financial technology firm, has acquired a strategic stake in South African payroll software startup HelloHR for an undisclosed amount, a report says. This is part of Finclusion’s strategy …
Netflix on Monday launched a free mobile plan in Kenya to entice new subscribers. The new plan will bring forth about one-quarter of its TV shows and movies to users …
Facebook’s messaging service WhatsApp on Wednesday launched a new feature to make it possible to search for businesses within its app for the first time, the company told Reuters. The …
Chat us up