Tekedia, Fortune500 coys bet on OurPass, Nigerian startup, to close $1m seed round
Charles AbuedeSeptember 13, 2021
OurPass, a Nigerian-based startup popularly described as “Fast for Africa’, has closed a $1 million seed round to scale across the
MasterCard acquires CipherTrace for global expansion of crypto strategies
Charles AbuedeSeptember 9, 2021
Global payment giant, MasterCard Inc., says it has acquired CipherTrace, a cryptocurrency-intelligence firm and blockchain analytics,
MTN Nigeria gets 10-year renewal of licences after paying N72bn to NCC
Charles AbuedeSeptember 8, 2021
UAS, spectrum licences involved MTN Nigeria, one of Africa’s largest telecoms service providers, has announced
Nigeria approves 5G network deployment, joins countries already enjoying service
Onome AmugeSeptember 8, 2021
Nigeria, Africa’s largest economy by gross domestic products (GDP) and the continent’s most populous nation, has approved its National
Nigeria VC, Greenhouse Capital, plays big in Kenya’s Pezesha seed extension round
Zainab IwayemiSeptember 7, 2021
Pezesha, a Kenyan pan-African fintech startup has gained extensively from the contribution of Nigerian Greenhouse Capital (GHC)
Afreximbank’s FEDA invests in Liquid Intelligent Technologies, African telecoms group
Ben EguzozieSeptember 7, 2021
African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has announced that its subsidiary, Fund for Export Development in Africa (FEDA), has taken a
Apple reaches settlement with Japan to allow external sign-ups on App Store
Charles AbuedeSeptember 2, 2021
Apple, America’s technology giant, in a move to allow for external sign-ups for paid accounts, has eased its app store sign up rules
LoftyInc, Google, ExxonMobil, Facebook set up $10m Afropreneurs Fund for African startups
Charles AbuedeSeptember 1, 2021
LoftInc Capital, a pan-African venture capital, has set up a $10 million Afropreneurs Fund 3 for technology startups in Africa. It is
Microsoft takes Windows 11 public in stages from October 5
Onome AmugeSeptember 1, 2021
The new Windows 11 software being baked by global technology giant, Microsoft, will go public on October 5, 2021, the multinational
Netflix records lowest growth in 8 years with 5.5m subscribers in H1
Zainab IwayemiSeptember 1, 2021
Netflix, the world’s most popular video streaming service saw its subscriber growth slow significantly in the first six months of 2021