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Kigali to host Inclusive Fintech Forum in June

Kigali International Financial Centre and Elevandi, a company established by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), have announced the launch of the first annual…

East Africa Com returns to Nairobi in April

Promising start-up founders are set to descend on Nairobi, Kenya this April for East Africa Com, a premier technology, telecommunication, media, and broadcasting event…

SA learners win big with AI for tourism project

Learners from Manenberg Secondary School in Cape Town, South Africa have won the Leaders of Tomorrow programme, an AI education programme aimed at informing…

Reach Digital Health wins prestigious Skoll Award

Reach Digital Health has been awarded the 2023 Skoll Award for Social Innovation. The award, which recognises leaders and organisations that advance transformational social…

London named coworking capital of the world

London is the coworking capital of the world, followed by Singapore and Berlin. This is according to a new report that investigated how 53…

MFS Africa partners with Access Bank to expand AccessAfrica remittance corridors

MFS Africa, the largest digital payments network in Africa, has announced a partnership with Access Bank, Nigeria’s largest bank, to expand its AccessAfrica remittance…

Innovation City Cape Town announces 11 start-up finalists

Innovation City Cape Town, a leading South African hub for technological innovation and entrepreneurship, has announced the finalists for its highly anticipated Tech Startup…

Gitex Global: Special focus on African tech start-ups

The global digital economy is in full velocity mode, embracing the return of the world’s largest tech and start-up event, Gitex Global 2022. Commencing…

Mother City beautified through art, blockchain tech

What do art, blockchain technology, and Cape Town have in common? Aside from the city’s love of tech innovation and the creative arts… not…

Countdown begins for Africa Fintech Summit in Cape Town

Fintech stakeholders from across Africa and the world will converge in Cape Town, South Africa, for the eight Africa Fintech Summit, from 2 to…

Fintech, edtech investment dominate SA venture capital

Growth in South Africa’s venture capital (VC) industry remains robust with early-stage fund managers investing R1.31 billion into 121 entities through 186 investment rounds….

Service SMMEs can fuel economic growth in SA

The importance of SMMEs to the African economy is well recognised. According to the Centre for Strategic and International Studies, eight out of every…

HAVAÍC joins pre-series A round to expand Tanda

Cape Town-headquartered venture capital firm HAVAÍC has completed its third investment in Kenyan fintech Tanda. The investment from the firm’s $20 million HAVAÍC Universum…

Metaverse experience: What does it really look and feel like?

The metaverse is commonly hailed as the evolution of video conferencing. We’ve all heard that this ground-breaking technology will take hybrid working to a…

OpenIX: ‘Forget tenders. Turn to open innovation instead’

South Africa is a country brimming with ingenuity. Yet millions of high-potential innovations which could have a significant impact on employment, service delivery and…

Strong growth in SA extends Talk360 seed funding to $7m

International calling app Talk360, which enables people around the world to make reliable and affordable calls to any landline or mobile phone worldwide, has…

Climate change: SA start-up explores carbon offsetting

A South Africa-founded climate fintech start-up, Curbon, is on a mission to measure the impact online shopping has on the weather. Curbon co-founder and…

Digital wellbeing: SA ranks 66th in world

South Africa might have the most affordable mobile internet in Africa, but in terms of overall digital wellbeing it ranks 66th in the world….

New academy to support African start-up founders scale

Early-stage start-ups in Africa that have already raised $2 million can now sign up for a brand-new academy launched by DAI Magister, a boutique…

MIC invests R10m in crowd-farming fintech Livestock Wealth

A crowd-farming start-up in South Africa, Livestock Wealth, has been described as the “perfect example” of the kind of business the Mineworkers Investment Company’s…

Digital identity startup iiDENTIFii raises record $15m

The South African biometrics start-up iiDENTIFii has raised $15 million growth capital. The round was led by African investment company Arise whose cornerstone investors…

Kenya, Nigeria see big increase in financial phishing attacks

Attacks in the financial sector are becoming increasingly corporate-oriented and shifting away from consumers, according to Kaspersky’s latest financial cyberthreats report. New data shows…

Sustainable energy start-ups can apply for $68k each

Women-led start-ups with sustainable energy solutions in Ghana, Malawi, Morocco, and South Africa are invited to apply for funding of up to R1.2 million…

Epson Survey Reveals Surge in Demand for Projectors as Home Cinema Trend Takes Off

Opera Mini Brings Free AI to South Africa, Tackling Data Costs and Boosting Digital Inclusion

HONOR X7c: Does This Budget Beast Deliver on Battery and That 108MP Camera?

Umvuzo Health Turns 21 with a Tech-Driven Medtech Model That’s Redefining Corporate Healthcare

Kazang Brings Card Payments to Spaza Shops, Driving Fintech-Fuelled Financial Inclusion

Flutterwave Launches Accelerate Workshop to Upskill Young Africans in Tech

Acer Unleashes Beastly New Predator BiFrost and Nitro GPUs with AMD Radeon RX 9000 Series

Philips Evnia Drops Jaw-Dropping QD OLED Monitors: 240Hz, Ambiglow, and All the Good Stuff

Microsoft launches new Surface devices in new AI era

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