Business

Cellulant, a Pan-African payments company providing a one-stop digital payments platform says it's set to build an application programming interface (API) for Africa's payments companies...

PesaPal's Sabi mobile point of sale (m-POS) has so far been distributed to over 1500 merchants across East Africa, with a lot of uptake...

Telkom has raised $40 million in debt from the European Investment Bank to grow its 3G and 4G coverage throughout Kenya, improve mobile connectivity, Fibre-To-The-Building...

The people of Surulere, a community in Surulere, Lagos got a big surprise on Sunday night with the launch of a free wifi service...

Technology growth in Lagos, Africa's seventh largest economy is about to get a boost according to Mr BabaJide Sanwo-Olu, governorship candidate of the All...

   Boomplay, a music streaming and download service run by Transsnet Music, a Transsion Holdings company has partnered with Vivendi's Universal Music Group (UMG) to license...

US to Africa shopping platform Mall for Africa has launched an auto site to allow buyers in Africa to buy cars from the United States...

MFS Africa, a Pan-African fintech company, has announced the second close of its Series B funding round led by LUN Partners Group, a Shanghai-based...

Rwanda government and Alibaba Group have signed three Memoranda of Understanding (MoU)  to establish an eWTP (electronic world trade platform) to empower small and medium-sized...

  Cellulant, a digital payments provider that reaches 40 million people across 11 African countries has been named among the Top 50 emerging Fintech companies in...

Uber and Suzuki Motor Corporation have entered into a new memorandum of understanding (MOU) to expand the fuel-efficient UberCHAPCHAP option across Sub-Saharan Africa to...

Naspers' recently formed MultiChoice Group (formerly Naspers’ Video Entertainment business) has named a new executive leadership team to drive its growth across Africa. The firm...

Telkom has today issued the requisite thirty-day notice to relevant authorities and company stakeholders, of an intended workforce-restructuring exercise. In the statutory notification to...

Bharti Airtel's Airtel Africa  has sold a $1.25 billion stake to six leading global investors comprising Warburg Pincus, Temasek, Singtel, SoftBank Group International and others through a primary equity issuance...

While on campus, Mercy Karimi Munene, liked the Jumia story, the convenience of shopping from your phone and having stuff delivered to your doorstep fascinated...

  Like it or not, Africa’s mobile operators are central to the success of start-ups and for operators wanting to create “digital transformation”, they need...

Equitel has recorded double digit growth in both the value and number of mobile money commerce transactions, according to the latest data from the...

Kenya's online sports betting firm SportPesa has denied plans to go public refuting media plans that had earlier reported that the firm had engaged...

Toyota and SoftBank have formed a new joint venture to facilitate the creation a new AI & autonomous car company dubbed MONET Technologies Corporation (“MONET”),...

The Ministry of ICT is currently working with other relevant stakeholders to develop a National Addressing System, (NAS), to name and number streets, buildings...

Equity Bank Kenya led in the implementation of Equity Group’s digitization strategy that saw the bank move over 97% of its transactions from the...

Naspers has said it will unbundle and separately list its Video Entertainment business on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) as MultiChoice Group and will...

Digital printing has brought great innovations to the packaging industry. Obviously, many companies are capitalizing on the benefits of digital printing in order to...

Finserve, which was launched two weeks ago as an independent arm of the Equity Group is taking a foray into acquiring as many digital...

Safaricom will be exploring the use of finger and facial recognition in a bid to curb SIM fraud. Mobile money transactions will be suspended...

Okapi Finance, a global money transfer company, has launched its services in Kenya with an objective of offering affordable cash transfer services. Working in collaboration...

As part of her trip to South Africa to deepen the UK’s business, trading, diplomatic and research partnerships with the country, the Prime Minister...

Toyota and Uber have announced a partnership agreement to advance and bring to market autonomous ride-sharing as a mobility service at scale. The firms...

Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) has showcased its support for several investment projects in Kenya during the president’s official visit to the United States. The...

For the past four years, Peter Kimpel has been Chief Financial Officer of Rocket Internet SE, an Internet company he helped list in 2014...