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Google’s Ambitious Initiative to Empower African AI Startups
Africa's tech landscape is witnessing an explosion of creativity and innovation, and Google is making a significant commitment to nurture...
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Instagram Launches Twitter competitor – Threads
Threads, the much-anticipated Twitter competitor developed by Meta, has finally made its debut, putting an end to months of speculation,...
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Mosope Olaosebikan is Taking Nigerian Museums to the Future with The Discovery Museum
Technology has effortlessly infiltrated the way we think, feel and interact with the world around us. While this infiltration has...
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Nigerians and South Africans can now use Twitter Blue
Nigerian and South African Twitter users received access to Twitter Blue on the 9th of March, at a rate of...
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Elon Musk’s Starlink is now available in Nigeria
On the 30th of January 2023, Elon Musk's Starlink tweeted its availability in Nigeria, making it the first African country...
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The Nigeria Startup Bill has been approved
President Muhammadu Buhari has signed the Nigeria Startup Bill into law. The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami,...
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Stears, Nigerian data and intelligence platform raises $3.3M, backed by Mac VC and Serena Ventures
Stears, a Nigerian data and intelligence platform has raised $3.3 million to enhance its data collection and analytics capabilities, acquire...
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Vendease, Nigerian food procurement platform raises $30M
According to the National Bureau of Statistics, the current inflation rate in Nigeria rose to 20.52% in August, the highest since October...
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Youtube Shorts Creators Can Now Earn From Their Videos
YouTube has recently announced major changes to its YouTube Partner Program which will now allow creators to earn ad revenue...
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Kippa bags $8.4M in new seed round funding
Kippa, the Nigerian startup founded with the aim of improving the lifecycle of small businesses across Nigeria with its financial...
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Bitmama – a Nigerian blockchain payments startup closes $2M pre-seed
Bitmama, has raised a pre-seed extension of $1.65 million, adding to the $350,000 it received last October, thus, closing the...
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Google has selected 60 African startups for its second Startups Black Founders Fund (BFF)
Google just recently announced that 60 eligible black-founded startups across Africa have been selected for the second cohort of Google for...
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Due to allegations of sexual misconduct, Risevest CEO Eke Eleanya Urum has been asked to step down
Investors in the business have advised Risevest's—Nigeria-based stock investment app— founder and CEO, Eke Eleanya Urum, to step down from...
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First Women’s only ride-hailing platform, HerRyde, launches in Abuja
In Abuja, Nigeria, the women-only ride-hailing company HerRyde began operations. HerRyde's co-founders, Monsurah Oluwafuyi, Muhammad Muaza, and Kamaldeen Ibrahim, revealed...
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Spotify’s new ‘Community’ feature will allow users see what their friends are listening to
After Shazam, if there's one plugin millions of music streamers across the world have been yearning for–– it's social interaction,...
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Google Announces its First Product Development Centre in Africa
Google CEO Sundar Pichai has announced its first Product Development Centre, which will be opened later this year in Nairobi. ...
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Netflix wants you to stop sharing passwords or pay more instead
If you weren’t sure about this before now, I’m quite pleased to break it to you…. Netflix knows when you...
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TechCabal & Zikoko Mag parent company Big Cabal Media, raises $2.3M seed funding
For a few years now, there's been a rise of local media in African ecosystems like Nigeria, powered through tech...
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A closer look at the 10 African startups in Y Combinator’s 2022 winter batch
Y Combinator has announced the startups to participate in this year's edition of its winter programme. This year 10 out...
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Flutterwave Becomes Africa’s Most Valued Startup at 3 Billion Dollars After Announcing $250 Million In Series D Funding
Flutterwave, one of Africa’s biggest fintech companies, announced today that they’ve raised $250 million in Series D funding, which tripled the...
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