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Startups

Nomba Expands Cross-Border Payments to Zambia From DRC

Ronald Bwire
Business

Sun King Enters Kenya’s Solar & Electronics Manufacturing Sector With 7,600-Square-Metre...

Sam Wakoba
Startups

Anka, Formerly Afrikrea Sold in Bankruptcy Deal to Global Shop Group

Sam Wakoba
Business

NVIDIA Invests into African AI Firm Cassava Technologies

James Musoba
Startups

Madica Invests $400k into AI-powered African Startups Anavid and Hypeo AI

James Musoba
MENA Edition

Cercli Raises $12M to Expand in the Middle East & North...

Ronald Bwire
Startups

Coinbase Acquires Echo, the Onchain Capital Platform, for $375M

James Musoba
Startups

Yaga Raises €4 Million to Scale Secondhand Fashion Marketplace Across Middle...

Ronald Bwire
Startups

Nigeria’s Wakanow Acquires Nairabox, An Event & Cinema Ticketing Platform

James Musoba
Startups

Spiro Raises $100 Million to Expand its eBikes & Battery Swapping...

Ronald Bwire
Business

Nigerian Fintech Moniepoint Raises $90 Million for Global Expansion

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
Ronald Bwire

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...