African technology news: fintech, startups, funding rounds, telecoms, digital policy and innovation across the continent.
MultiChoice Group (MCG), Africa’s leading video entertainment company, carefully navigated COVID-19 challenges to deliver strong results for the year ended 31 March 2021 (FY21). The group increased its 90-day active …
The billion-dollar-paycheques of tech companies bosses’ raises an unanswerable question: How do we know if they’re worth the pay? Apple paid its chief executive, Tim Cook, $1.4 billion in total …
A recent research paper by Visa has shown that the top market contributors to eCommerce in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) over the last 3 years were South Africa, Nigeria and Kenya, …
Jumia, Nigeria’s e-commerce platform, celebrates nine years of e-commerce journey with a sales campaign aimed at incentivizing customers, sellers, and partners on its platform. Jumia’s 9th anniversary and its e-commerce …
South Africa’s telecoms operator Vodacom Group is considering selling part of its stake in mobile money platform M-Pesa to unlock value running into billions of shillings from the fast-growing service. …
THE PROTRACTED bidding war for the acquisition of Adapt IT ratcheted up another notch on Friday after the Huge Group ramped up its bid to about R1.3 billion for the …
On demand transport platform Bolt has revised its prices across all cities in Kenya in response to the increased cost of fuel in the country. According to the company, this …
The partnership will allow over 8M Ethiopian Diaspora to send money instantly through Amole, to Amole Wallet, bank accounts and cash pickup locations at over 2,500 locations. Flutterwave, Africa’s leading …
Microsoft said it is retiring Internet Explorer, the browser it created more than 25 years and which is now largely abandoned as people instead use competitors like Google’s Chrome or …
South African fintech startup Ukheshe Technologies has announced that it will be expanding its footprint into the Asia-Pacific region as it introduces innovative digital-first payment solutions. The startup says it …
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