Africa’s entertainment and media industry has entered a dynamic new phase – a third wave of convergence. The borders that once separated the...
Ecobank, the leading pan-African banking group, is inviting African fintech entrepreneurs to enter its Ecobank Fintech Challenge. Now in its second year,...
Farmcrowdy, Nigeria’s first and leading digital agriculture platform which allows Nigerians to venture in and sponsor agriculture, today announced the launch of...
Liquid Telecom’s award-winning pan-African fibre network is delivering connectivity to support the growth of innovation and has been announced as a sponsor...
RedCloud Technologies, the world’s first open banking platform, today announced a partnership with Nigeria’s KongaPay; the payment system which aims to facilitate...
After 6 groundbreaking events, Mobile West Africa 2017 the leading technology conference in the West African region is returning to Lagos on a mission...
Africa is on the precipice of rapid economic expansion, this expansion will be through the emergence of stronger small business enterprises that...
The SpeedUPAfrica Bootcamp is returning to Nigeria from July 5-9 with the goal of empowering a new wave of African start-ups. Following...
Having founded the initial wave of tech businesses, some of the continents leading entrepreneurs are now the investors in Africa’s next phase...
Less than a year after launching, South African creative technology startup delvv.io has successfully concluded first-round funding, securing R6.5 million to further...
A lot of African startups are moving really slow today because the founders are not getting their hands dirty. Building a startup...
Insurance giant AXA plans to invest 75 million euros ($84 million) for an 8 percent stake in Africa Internet Group (AIG), one...
75% of the worlds population have poor or inconsistent address. What3words has built a uniform global location reference system that gives everyone, everything...
Only one month in and 2016 has already been an eventful year in Nigeria’s tech ecosystem with big announcements such as the...
Over four billion people lack a formal address according to the Universal Postal Union with many still relying on landmarks, some of...
Tigo has unveiled a new 4G LTE service which is about five times faster than the 3G technology currently available in the Tanzanian...
SimbaPay a fintech finalist in the upcoming Appsafrica.com Innovation Awards 2015, is a digital money transfer provider that enables Africans living abroad to...
After more than a decade of digital disruption, the African entertainment and media industry has entered a new landscape – one where...
There has been robust growth in Internet access and usage over the past few years and Africa is now primed to take...
As Appsafrica.com previously reported the Uptake of the UberX low-cost taxi hailing app in Cape Town has been “incredible”. So what about Lagos?...
Having launched in Nigeria, Innjoo smartphones are pushing for growth in Côte d’Ivoire with two smartphones InnJoo I2S and InnJoo I1S.
With President Barack Obama attending the Global Entrepreneurship Summit in Kenya in July, 2015 is deemed to be the Year Of the...