Business
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- Startups
Cryptocurrency platform LUNO achieves 300% YoY Growth with 7M Customers
Luno is headquartered in London and has nearly 400 employees across offices in London, South Africa, Malaysia, Indonesia, Nigeria and…
- Announcements
Africanhair PLC announces intentions to list on Nairobi Securities Exchange
Founded in 2016 by Danish investors, BeautyClick is a pioneering beauty e-commerce company that has grown to be the leading…
- News
Mara Phones will be South Africa’s Government Preferred Devices for next 5 years
Mara Phones - the first "Made in Africa" smartphones - manufactured in Rwanda and South Africa, will be the South…
- News
Scale, a fully digitized Tender Management System for SMEs, launched in Kenya
Scale aims to solve a major problem for the over 1.6 million SMEs in Kenya who are either underserved or…
- News
UmojaHack 2021 brings Africa’s Data Science Students to Largest Inter-University Hackathon
More than $10,000 USD in prizes were awarded to data science students from 9 African countries, and more than 8,500…
- Announcements
Nokia AirFrame Data Centres upgraded with 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable Processors
Nokia’s AirFrame data centre is designed for running demanding virtualized and cloud-native software workloads in the 5G era. It supports…
- News
Clubhouse brings payments to Creators, but is that enough?
Clubhouse has refused to grow. It is still invite-only, and iPhone-only. And that locks out very many people, making it…
- Startups
Sparkle launches ‘For Business’ service targetting SMEs
Uzoma Dozie, Founder and CEO of Sparkle, said, “SMEs are the largest employer of labour in Nigeria but are lacking…
- Announcements
Bolt Food Delivery Service is now available in Nairobi
Kenya becomes the third country in Africa where Bolt food is currently available, after South Africa and Ghana. Currently, the…
- News
Businesswomen in Africa celebrate their Heroines on COMESA 50MAWS Platform
The 50MAWSP users cited reasons such as passion exhibited by these women leaders, their entrepreneurial achievements, the fact that they…
- News
Entrepreneurs in 7 African countries urged to take advantage of US $1.2 Million Fund
Entrepreneurs in Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Kenya, Liberia, Mali, Mozambique, and Zimbabwe can apply for the African Enterprise Challenge Fund funding…
- News
Equity Bank Uganda partners with the United Nations to accelerate the attainment of SDGs
The United Nations system in Uganda is comprised of 29 entities that are implementing the UN Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework…
- News
Women-led SMEs to benefit from Equity Bank’s SME Guarantee
Women-owned and led SMEs and the youth can access the funds through the Equitel menu, Equity branches, Eazzy Banking app,…
- Announcements
KRA Awards Safaricom for being top Taxpayer
Safaricom paid KES. 98 billion in duties and taxes, in addition to KES. 20 billion in dividends to the Government…
- News
Liquid Telecom rebrands to Liquid Intelligent Technologies
Liquid Telcom, a pan-African technology group has announced its new identity Liquid Intelligent Technologies. It calls this the culmination of…
