Tech and Africa – African Tech News for the World
Before they selected their first office in Abuja, Nigeria, the team behind power monitoring and outage alert provider SOP notify thought they’d done thorough due diligence. They’d been to the space three times and were assured that they’d have a consistent source of power to do their work. As soon as they signed the lease...
Geneva-based Seedstars, a venture capital firm that holds competitions for startups, will award $500,00 to one of about 35 tech startup companies in developing markets around the world that make...
VENTURES AFRICA – That the Boko Haram insurgency and Ebola outbreak in Nigeria should be associated with whatsoever positive benefit will be considered preposterous in many quarters, including mine. But...
Kiosks that generate enough energy to operate a cellular router and recharge 220 mobile phones per day are getting a machine to machine (M2M) boost. Digital security firm Gemalto has...
VENTURES AFRICA – Microsoft Corporation has offered financial support for the 2014 edition of DEMO Africa, an event where 40 tech based start-ups from across Africa are expected to pitch...
A recent study on the African economic outlook reports that the agricultural sector accounts for around 60 percent of Africa’s total employment and about 25 percent of its GDP. This...
CAPE TOWN – South Africans are hooked on WhatsApp as the instant messaging chat application has taken a dominant market share in the country. According to the South African Mobile...
August was an exciting month for a number of African companies, with a batch of funding rounds, acquisitions and new product offerings. Funding and acquisitions International voice messaging company Kirusa acquired...
Over the years following the Technology Trends in Nigeria,of key interest has been the constant development of the Nigeria Startup Ecosystem.So it becomes an exciting news when certain progresses are being...
BEWTEEN 2012 and now, about $600 million transactions have been carried out through the mobile money platform in Nigeria. This figure, according to the Minister of Communications Technology,...
E-commerce site Jumia has launched in Cameroon, making the number of countries it is active in to nine. Recently , the company launched in Ghana and Uganda while also expanding...
