Currency trading and payment platform, VertoFX, has raised $2.1 million dollars in a seed round that was led by Accelerated Digital Ventures. The investment round also had participation from several angel investors in Africa as well as companies like Y-Combinator. The ...
Few months after it was reported to be developing its own OS for smartphones, Chinese OEM, Huawei has come out to say that its Hongmeng operating system is not for smartphones as the company intends to continue to use Google’s ...
Motorcyclists, popularly known as okada riders, have been an integral and inevitable part of burgeoning cities across Nigeria. As our population grew, so did basic needs. And transportation wasn’t left out. With towns expanding into cities and cities ...
Sub-Saharan Africa will remain the fastest-growing mobile region in the world, with an estimated 160 million new unique subscribers to be added across the region by 2025. ...
There have been massive disruptions in the Nigerian fintech space. From payments processors and digital banks to mobile money and lenders, the innovations in the financial service space in Nigeria have been immense. However, despite their number and effectiveness, most ...
Telecom giant, MTN Group has just appointed Yolanda Cuba as its new chief digital and Fintech officer. This, according to reports, will see the former Vodacom Group executive join the MTN Group executive committee reporting to the Group CEO. In this ...
Trending realistic AI photo editor FaceApp that allows users to modify their selfies transforming it into different versions of themselves has drawn growing concerns regarding the photo privacy of its users. ...
Early Wednesday morning in Lagos, bike riders working with Oride, Max.ng and Gokada encountered some trouble. Lagos Agberos (informal transport union workers) demanded that the riders obtain a N100 ticket for N500 before they would be allowed to continue on ...
Upper Primary pupils in Singapore will be exposed to foundational coding as the education ministry plans to introduce coding enrichment classes next year. Credit: ...
With the massive love for sports – especially football – in Nigeria, the sports betting industry has thrived in the last 10 years. This is because sports lovers have found a way of putting their ‘money where their mouth ...
