African technology news: fintech, startups, funding rounds, telecoms, digital policy and innovation across the continent.
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) says it will roll out the unstructured supplementary service data (USSD) code for eNaira next week. Godwin Emefiele, CBN governor, revealed this on Thursday …
Apple is warning of a flaw that is allowing hackers to seize control of iPhones, iPads and Mac computers, and is urging users to install emergency software updates. Patches were …
Less than two months after Naspers and Prosus announced that they were offloading some of their stakes in Chinese tech giant Tencent to buy back their own shares, Naspers said on Wednesday …
Koolboks, the sustainable cooling company providing accessible cold storage solutions to businesses across Africa, has closed a $2.5M Seed funding round, led by Aruwa Capital Management and with participation from Acumen, Blue Earth Capital, All …
Vodafone Ghana is rolling out 300 4G LTE sites and 3G sites in several communities across the 16 regions of Ghana by the end of October this year. This represents …
Amazon, e-commerce giant accused the US Federal Trade Commission of harassing its founder Jeff Bezos and the company’s Chief Executive Officer Andy Jassy as it probes the e-commerce giant’s business …
Lori Systems, the e-logistics company digitising haulage and providing shippers with solutions to efficiently manage their cargo and transporters has raised a pre-Series B round in which Google participated along …
Microsoft has announced employment opportunities for fresh graduates from Nigerian universities and other African countries. Specifically, the company is looking for software engineers from across Africa to join its US and Canada …
The Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement Systems (NIBSS) has said that transactions done on the Point of Sales (PoS) terminals across Nigeria rose by N1.05 trillion from N3.56 trillion in the first seven …
French media company Canal+ continues to increase its stake in MultiChoice by buying shares on the open market, raising speculation that a deal may be coming. Canal+ is the pay-TV …
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