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Nomba Expands Cross-Border Payments to Zambia From DRC

Ronald Bwire
Business

Capitec Acquires Walletdoc for $23.5 Million to Expand Digital Payments in South...

Ronald Bwire
Startups

Rwanda’s Kayko Raises $1.2 Million to Digitise Informal Merchants, Expand SME...

Ronald Bwire
Startups

Qualcomm Names Kenya’s Farmer Lifeline as 2025 Social Impact Winner in...

Ronald Bwire
Startups

IFC Eyes $13 Million Stake in Egyptian Online Grocery Leader Breadfast

James Musoba
Startups

500 Global to Support Morocco’s Startup VB Initiative Under Digital Morocco...

James Musoba
Startups

Swedfund Invests $20 Million into Helios CLEAR Fund to Back Africa...

James Musoba
Business

JUMO Secures $7.5 Million from BlueOrchard to Expand MSME Financing in...

James Musoba
Startups

WIOCC Secures $65 Million to Expand Africa’s Digital Infrastructure

Sam Wakoba
Startups

Innovate Africa Fund Backs TNKR, Oikus and AddressMe

Ronald Bwire
Startups

Revibe Raises $17 Million to Expand its Refurbished-Electronics Marketplace

Ronald Bwire

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Tech-Savvy Teams Building Their Own Workarounds Isn’t Efficiency, It’s Shadow IT

Ronald Bwire
Tech

Safaricom Takes Hook Hip Hop Musical Auditions to Nakuru to Discover...

Ronald Bwire
Business

Nedbank Completes Acquisition of 66% of Kenya’s NCBA in $850 Million-Plus...

Sam Wakoba
Tech

Mastercard, Moovn Sign Five-Year East Africa Payments Deal

Ronald Bwire
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Tech-Savvy Teams Building Their Own Workarounds Isn’t Efficiency, It’s Shadow IT

Corporate productivity metrics often mask severe operational risks. When departmental managers face rigid central procurement, slow helpdesk response times, or clunky legacy software, they rarely wait for official approval to fix their immediate workflows. Instead, tech-savvy teams take matters into their own hands. They spin up unauthorized cloud storage...