The University of Cape Town (UCT) has become the first university in Africa to offer a degree in Fintech, allowing students to develop the requisite skills and knowledge needed to embrace technological advancements in the financial services sector.
According to Business...
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Most Startups sure have humble beginnings. Did you have to start yours from your room?
We did have our humble beginnings. I had to keep a job to work on Farmcrowdy after work...
500 startups’ has revealed the list of startups accepted into its Batch 22 cohort, and in the list are three Nigerian-led startups.
The Nigerian startups represent the only black startups in the cohort.
They include Mail Haven, Mobile Forms, and Fyodor Biotechnologies.
MailHaven led by Kela Ivonye is a smart...
Fresible Company Limited is based in Nigeria, with interests in ICT, events management, publicity/advertisement, marketing and entertainment. The company was formed in 2008 by Fred Oyetayo. Over the course of the years, the company has grown in leap and...
Every day millions of poor farmers in Africa struggle to access better crop and veterinary care for their livestock and crops. Daktari Pap, founded by Samuel Munguti is a mobile, web and SMS technology platform linking farmers and agro...
You know how challenging it can be to cope with a busy schedule. There are meetings, preparing documents, paying attention to social media when the need arises, following up and sending emails. This is why many busy professionals have...
Sote ICT Program
Since 2013, Sote ICT has been operating in Taita Taveta county where 12 schools have been part of the program. During those four years, the program has benefited 6,000 members from 12 ICT clubs that are supported...
Commuting in Lagos has for long been a real challenge, and recently there's been a significant increase in the number of startups aiming to make this easier with eHailing services. While eHailing platforms such as Uber, GoMyWay, Taxify and...
Getting car documents is one very challenging task in Nigeria, and a number of people have gotten into the habit of plying the road without the required driver's license and other car particulars.
But Regexpress has been launched to put...
As part of the transition of Safaricom from a telco to an enabler platform, the company has been working on new changes to its MPESA platform. These change will mark the third major update to the platform since transferring...
The auto industry in Nigeria is really large, and while people are carving out different niches for themselves in the industry, Supercar.ng decided to bring all services of the auto industry online, enabling Nigerians solve all car needs from...
Wesabi was launched by Murtala Sanni in July 2015 to help ease the process of searching for proper artisans and craftsmen, which is one very daunting and uncoordinated task in Nigeria.
Through a website and a mobile app, Wesabi helps individuals...
South Africa's EmptyTrips, an open marketplace paired with smart algorithms to match demand and supply of cargo transport is using smart-mapped spaces to reduce wastage on moving vehicles to offer cost-savings and lower transport costs hence reducing the barriers...
The Samsung Galaxy S8 is an amazing device. It has a deservedly high price tag and that amount is even higher once you factor in the repairs you might need to do on it with time. Sure Samsung did...
Years ago, no one would have thought that we would one day have a self-driven car, the most people thought about was perhaps an automatic car after the manual one of course. But with the recent developments in technology,...
Every time some readers hear someone mention the term API Â (application program interface), the think of sophisticated computer programming out of their reach, yet they use and experience APIs everyday of their lives!
Some of them book their flight and...
The Equity Group has unveiled new digital services for its customers targeted at enabling its customers open new accounts in a more convenient way
Customers will access the new services through a mobile app that will also let them pay...
Inukapap won the Kenya round of Seedstars World and will represent the country at the Seedstars Summit in Switzerland to compete for up to USD 1 million in equity investment.
InukaPap, is a mobile platform that allows subscribers to...
The majority of those living in both rural and urban areas rely on agriculture and livestock production for livelihood. Farmers rely on agro dealers for access to farm inputs such as seeds, fertilizers, pesticides, veterinary drugs, animal feeds, mineral...
Smartphone and feature phone brand, TECNO is aim to capture the Middle East and South American markets after a considerable success in Africa.
TECNO says it has a dominant market share in Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Ethiopia, Tanzania and Cameroon and the...
Mobile health wallet M-TIBA which allows users to send, save and receive funds to access healthcare services using their mobile phones has signed up 45,000 people and 60 healthcare providers in Nairobi with a national roll out underway.
Developed by CarePay, PharmAccess...
Aikio Corp, a platform for medical laboratories to transmit medical test results to patients safely and confidentially online and by SMS was declared winner of Malian round of Seedstars World and will represent the country at the Seedstars Summit...
The Game of Phones Survey (you read Game of Thrones didn’t you?) created by the Technology, Media and Telecommunications (TMT) industry unit at Deloitte revealed that more than 33% of Africans glance at their phones every 5 minutes! More...
Kenya Reinsurance Corporation has today morning held an investor briefing to present the 2016 half year financial results at the Hilton Hotel in Nairobi.
The Corporation announced it’s financial results for the half year 2016 and attributed the outcomes to...
Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) has invested $15 million in debt to SunFunder Inc. to provide financing to companies operating in developing countries that manufacture, distribute and install solar lighting and energy systems to switch people from kerosene and...
After launching a similar service in Mali and Cameroun in January and August 2015 respectively, Ecobank and Orange have extended the partnership to their customers in Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea Conakry and Niger to further deepend financial inclusion in Africa.
Thierry...
NTSA is going beyond alcoblow by launching Transport Integrated Management System (TIMS) to automate all its process into one online web portal expecting to save the government billions of shillings lost during the process as well as save time...
Financial services provider, Alexander Forbes has today unveiled eboard, an online tool for retirement scheme trustees and an enhanced online functionality for members of retirement benefits schemes are part of the firm’s new strategy to increase customer experience.
Group chief...
During the 2015/16 Budget Speech, Cabinet Secretary, National Treasury, Henry Rotich said the Government had launched the M-Akiba bond, Kenya’s first mobile-based Treasury bond with a minimum investment level of Kshs. 3,000.
M-Akiba was developed by NSE, Capital Markets Authority,...
12 months ago today, Carey Eaton, co-founder and CEO of One Africa Media passed away in Nairobi in the early hours of that fateful morning.
At a prime age of 41, Carey was a dear to Nairobi's tech scene and...