Seedstars Africa entrepreneurship forum for emerging markets is coming to Tanzania, gathering the most prominent players in the fields of technology, entrepreneurship and impact investment under the same roof for a three-day groundbreaking forum, filled with think-tank sessions, themed panels, and mentoring sessions, among other activities. Hosted by Seedstars World, the fourth edition ...
Mobisol is partnering with Tanzania's Phenix Recycling to safely dispose of expired electronic parts in over 75,000 Mobisol solar systems distributed in Tanzania to date. According to Phenix Recycling's founder, Athina Kyriakopoulou, “Responsible e-waste management is not only an environmental issue but also a business challenge to ensure the security ...
Lendable has raised$ 6.5m (KES671 million)in a Series A round of investment to scale operations, drive market expansion, and roll out new products. With the round, Lendable aims to scale up its operations in Nairobi and New York and launch its services in Tanzania, Rwanda, and at least one other ...
The Tanzanian government has announced it's launching the world’s largest drone delivery service to provide emergency on-demand access to critical and life-saving medicines beginning in the first quarter of 2018 in Dodoma, the country’s capital. According to the government, it will use drones to make up to 2,000 life-saving deliveries ...
Seedstars World, the global early-stage startups competition in partnership with the Swiss Embassy, COSTECH, and the Human Development Innovation Fund (HDIF) has announced the 10 startups that will pitch at its Dar Es Salaam event in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania on Thursday, July 20th at Buni Innovation Hub.The winner will advance to the global competition ...
Uber has partnered Snapchat to launch a new feature that will allow users to share photos with their friends while on transit in a new move viewed to leverage social proof to market the platform in Africa. These special filters through integration with Snapchat means Uber riders in South Africa, ...
UK and Tanzania-based pay--as-you-go solar energy solutions provider Solaris Offgrid has raised over €1M to fund R&D and grow into new markets – providing more homes and businesses with affordable, clean energy. The firm will use the funding to launch its operations across the developing world and in continuing to ...
Worknasi is a new Tanzanian online platform connecting businesses and startups in the country to awesome office space, co-working spaces and meeting rooms in today's sharing economy. The platform, an Airbnb for offices wants to connect Tanzania's startups, businesses and freelancers to great office spaces within their communities as well ...
The US has its Amazon and eBay but its not so for most people from Africa. Tanzania's Easybuyafrica.com is an online platform giving its users access to the world's top retailers by allowing then to buy from any global retailer around the world with ease. Founded by Moustapha AlBaghdadi, Easybuyafrica.com takes ...
Berlin-based Bitbond, a bitcoin payment processor that connects fixed-income investors with small business owners who need loans has partnered up with BitPesa, to allow borrowers who receive funding on Bitbond can now have their loan paid out directly to a mobile money or bank account in their local currency within ...
Global bitcoin remittance firm Bitwala, has introduced bitcoin to M-Pesa transfers in Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania and Uganda for free in a move the firm says will make money transfers to any part of the world should be simple and convenient. According to Jörg von Minckwitz, CEO of Bitwala, "We want ...
Tigo Tanzania and non-profit organization, Reach For Change, have given an award of USD 20,000 each to two winners of the 5th edition of the Tigo Digital Changemakers Competition in a move to identify and support social entrepreneurs who use digital tools and technology to improve communities and impact future ...
WorldRemit, a digital money transfer service has recorded 10,000 unique transactions completed in the month of December 2016 alone. The firm also says it saw a 150% YoY growth in 2016, driven primarily by the rapid expansion of Mobile Money accounts as the preferred receive method. According to Ismail Ahmed, ...
TRINE Team photo by© Emmy Jonsson TRINE, a crowdfunding investment platform which helps investors locate and fund profitable solar energy projects in developing countries is raising 3,500,000 EUROS ($3.7m) to scale its operations in East Africa, in a move expected to enable the spread of solar ...
Liquid Telecom Group has acquired a majority stake in Raha, Tanzania’s leading Internet Service Provider marking its entry into Tanzania with over 1500 businesses on its network accessing fibre, satellite, WiMAX and Wi-Fi services. The transaction details were not disclosed. “We are very pleased to announce that this transaction has ...
Tigo Tanzania has announced another quarterly payment of Tshs 5.6 billion (US$ 2,570,120) to Tigo Pesa users, the ninth time in a row that the telecom is distributing profit to its mobile financial services users. Speaking at press conference in Dar es Salaam today, Tigo Head of Mobile Financial Services, ...
Fatema Dharsee Jumia Travel Tanzania, formerly known as Jovago has appointed Fatema Dharsee as the new Country Manager to further develop the growing portfolio of hospitality sector in Tanzania after working as the Head of Marketing at Jumia Food, Jumia Travel's sister company. According to ...
Affordable solar systems firm operating in Tanzania and Rwanda, Off Grid Electric has secured $10 million from Helios Investment Partners and $8 million in debt financing from a lending group led by responsAbility to provide millions in Africa with clean and sustainable solar energy. Totaling $18 million, this funding will enable Off Grid Electric to continue on the path ...
(From Left: Tanzanian Socialite Abby Platjes and Musician Vanessa Mdee getting schooled on how 4G LTE technology works by Tigo representatives) Tigo Tanzania recently entered into a partnership with the Ministry of Communications, Works and Infrastructure to facilitate the roll-out of internet access points in the ...
Ghana's teamMedRX was last week named winner of the inaugural MTN Entrepreneurship Challenge powered by Jumia winning a year-long partnership with Jumia, a Facebook Start Program to the value of US $15 000 and incubation at the MTN Solution Space at the University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business. Founded by ...
To show its commitment to Africa, Barclays Africa has appointed a new head for Barclays Bank of Tanzania to buid its retail, corporate banking and operations in the country and serve the growing clentel in both urban and rural areas. The firm has appointed Abdi Mohamed as the new Managing ...
Airtel has disclosed it is no longer going ahead with the proposed sale of its telecoms towers in Chad and Tanzania to Helios Towers as earlier announced. In a stock market statement, Airtel noted that plans had lapsed and therefore terminated. "With reference to the Press Release dated July 09, ...
The government of Tanzania is set to put up an Internet Data Centre (IDC) at Kijitonyama, in Kinondoni municipality, Dar es Salaam worth million (nearly 200bn/-) , a move that is widely seen as able to propel the country to ICT hub status. The country’s Minister for Communications, Science and ...
BitPesa has launched in Tanzania, enabling users to make payments or send money to any mobile money platform in the country. "You can now make a payment to any Tanzanian mobile money number instantly from anywhere in the world for just 3%! All major mobile money operators are included. Tuma ...
Rene Meza has filed his resignation at Vodacom Tanzania, effective this September, to head Ooredoo Myanmar as CEO bringing on board over seventeen years of international experience in emerging markets having held leadership positions in telecoms businesses in Asia, Africa and Latin America. "Rene Meza has considerable experience in leading ...
Three telcos Vodacom, Airtel and Tigo in conjuction with Tanzania's TTLC are set to provide telecommunication services 112 Wards which were underserved through the Universal Communications Service Access Fund (UCSAF). According to the East African Business Week TTCL as been tasked to provide telecommunications services to 102 wards for a ...
TIGO Tanzania has launched a brand new 4G LTE technology that will make it the biggest and fastest Internet network in the country in addition to bringing faster speeds to surf and download content from the Internet and make Skype calls. It also significantly enhances the customer experience for video ...
I don't need a hotel room now, as am writing this from my bed and neither does any of my friends at the moment but something took me to Jovago and their new site and logo looks great. This is what happens when a firm listens to and takes in ...
The world’s largest hotel company based on number of hotels and one of three hospitality business units of Wyndham Worldwide Wyndham Hotel Group has announced the opening of the 139-room Ramada® Resort Dar es Salaam in Tanzania. Complementing Wyndham Hotel Group’s existing portfolio of franchised properties in Morocco, Ghana, Nigeria ...
The electronic payment system in Tanzania is has been facing various challenges which have led to businesses making financial losses in transactions. This has in turn created the need for the government to come up with proper laws to govern and control this mode of payment thus it has committed ...
