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TechCabal ·
This is Follow the Money , our weekly series that unpacks the earnings, business, and scaling strategies of African fintechs, financial institutions, companies, and governments. A new edition drops every Monday. Between October 1 and 9,...
Innovation Village | Technology, Product Reviews, Business ·
MTN Ghana has launched MTN ONE TV, a new entertainment service designed to give households across the country more viewing options and create opportunities for families to enjoy content together. Announced on October 9, 2026, the...
Innovation Village | Technology, Product Reviews, Business ·
Ride-hailing company Bolt has called for dialogue with the Amalgamated Union of App-based Transporters of Nigeria (AUATON) ahead of the union’s planned indefinite shutdown of Bolt and inDrive services in Lagos from October 12. Bolt said...
Cio Sa ·
Cybersecurity company Synaptic has signed up as a Silver partner for the 2026 IT Indaba.
TechCentral ·
Sars's annual report shows R1.6-billion for Microsoft and R1.2-billion for IBM as it leans more heavily on technology.
Innovation Village | Technology, Product Reviews, Business ·
OPay has secured approval from its board and shareholders to pursue a listing on the Nigerian Exchange (NGX), potentially giving Nigerian investors a direct route to own shares in one of the country’s largest fintech companies. The...
CXO Insight Middle East ·
What role does Ankabut see itself playing as AI reshapes the digital education system? Ankabut sees itself as an enabler rather than a direct provider of AI solutions. Our role is to provide the sovereign digital infrastructure that...
CXO Insight Middle East ·
For years, tokenisation was treated as a niche blockchain experiment rather than a serious concern for institutions moving global capital. Digital asset companies are increasingly meeting traditional capital markets, and institutional...
Innovation Village | Technology, Product Reviews, Business ·
While the classic clamshell flip phone vanished from most global markets years ago, Japan maintained a thriving, highly specialized ecosystem for these devices for decades. Known as gara-kei , a portmanteau of “Galapagos” (referencing...
CXO Insight Middle East ·
For decades, organisations treated software quality assurance as a necessary but rarely strategic stage of the delivery process. This model had its flaws, but it worked as long as the pace of software development could be controlled by...
Innovation Village | Technology, Product Reviews, Business ·
Navigating internet plans and networking equipment often means wading through technical jargon, but few terms cause as much confusion as Megabits per second (Mbps) and Megabytes per second (MB/s). While both metrics measure data...
DefenceWeb ·
The United Arab Emirates’ (UAE’s) EDGE group has signed agreements with Morocco to supply guided weapons to the Royal Moroccan [...]
DefenceWeb ·
At the recent Africa Aerospace and Defence (AAD) 2026 exhibition, South Africa’s defence industry showcased its technology, unmanned systems, aircraft [...]
Innovation Village | Technology, Product Reviews, Business ·
The era of waiting for chatbots to generate immediate text responses is evolving into the era of autonomous, always-on AI agents. With Meta’s release of Muse on September 8, 2026 , and OpenAI’s launch of Dots three weeks later , both...
AI saves workers a day a week, but they don’t know what to do with it | CIO ·
Per-token pricing has become the default commercial language of generative AI, and practically every budget conversation now happens in those terms (tokens consumed, tokens generated, cost per million tokens, etc., etc.). The problem is...
TechCentral ·
Microsoft's president says milk cartons and washing machines face stricter safety rules than artificial intelligence does.
Innovation Village | Technology, Product Reviews, Business ·
Moniepoint Technologies UK Ltd, the London-based arm of the prominent Nigerian fintech unicorn Moniepoint Inc., has officially reported its first profitable year since its incorporation in August 2022. However, a closer look at the...
TechAfrica News ·
Botswana’s Minister of Communications and Innovation, David Tshere, has called for wider access to digital connectivity and economic opportunities in rural communities as the country marked World Post Day 2026 in Sekoma. Speaking at the...
CIO Africa ·
Throughout the three days of GovTech’s 20th edition, the message from government was clear: South Africa’s digital agenda now needs...
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WGW Capital and other shareholders force Africa Bitcoin Corporation interim CEO Stafford Masie and three other directors off the board.
Tech In Africa ·
Global venture capital fund Endeavor Catalyst has closed a US$320 million investment fund, increasing its capacity to support high-growth technology companies across emerging markets, including Nigeria. The oversubscribed Fund V brings...
Tech In Africa ·
Moroccan agricultural technology startup YoLa Fresh has ceased operations after failing to secure additional investment needed to continue its business, marking the closure of a company that sought to modernise the country’s fresh...
TechCentral ·
Phones, scooters, robot vacuums and smart TVs: how Xiaomi plans to win over South African consumers.
Innovation Village | Technology, Product Reviews, Business ·
Tongaat Hulett, historically one of South Africa’s foundational agricultural powerhouses, will be permanently removed from the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) on November 3, 2026. This delisting marks the end of a 74-year presence on...
Tech In Africa ·
Zimbabwe has launched its first rural artificial intelligence and digital innovation hub in Gokwe North, marking a new effort to expand technology education beyond the country’s major cities. The facility, located at the Nyamuroro...
Tech In Africa ·
Four startups from Sierra Leone have represented the country at the second Economic Community of West African States Startup Awards in Abuja, Nigeria, highlighting the growing contribution of local entrepreneurs to regional innovation....
TechCabal · · Medium severity
Kenya’s central bank is seeking powers to take over struggling payment companies and sell their businesses, expanding the regulator’s role in protecting customer money when providers run into trouble. The draft National Payment System...
TechCabal ·
46 out of every 100 Nigerian workers earn below ₦200,000 ($150) monthly, according to a new salary report by PaidHR , a Nigerian human resources and payroll startup. The report offers a visual of what employers pay employees in...
CXO Insight Middle East ·
Napster and HUMAIN announced a strategic partnership to bring advanced Arabic-native AI experiences to public and private sector organisations across the MENA region. The collaboration combines HUMAIN IQ, HUMAIN’s AI services platform,...
Tech In Africa ·
South African technology company Vambo AI has introduced MORENA, a new artificial intelligence language model designed to improve digital services and technological access for speakers of African languages. The open-weight model...
TechAfrica News ·
Vodacom Lesotho has launched an Enterprise Satellite Connectivity Solution powered by Starlink ’s Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite technology, aiming to strengthen connectivity resilience for businesses and public institutions across the...
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Fraud syndicates exploit weaknesses across identity, income and transaction controls, and companies must stop treating these risks in isolation, says Daniel Isaacs, chief commercial officer at Comcorp.
CXO Insight Middle East ·
F5 announced enhanced cloud-native network functions and new observability capabilities that help service providers modernise critical network services as they move from virtualised infrastructure to Kubernetes and cloud-native...
CXO Insight Middle East ·
NetApp and Oracle announced a new fully managed storage service that brings enterprise-grade NetApp storage natively to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). The service will bring NetApp ONTAP data management capabilities natively to OCI...
Tech In Africa ·
Zimbabwean entrepreneurs Michael Moyo and Louis Murerwa have secured US$2 million in pre-seed funding for Ocular AI , a technology startup developing specialised data to improve advanced artificial intelligence systems. The investment...
CIO Africa ·
ITSEC Asia Tbk, a cybersecurity company in Indonesia and Asia Pacific, through its subsidiary ITSEC Services Asia Pte.
TechAfrica News ·
Zambia’s Ministry of Technology and Science is piloting an artificial intelligence-powered career guidance platform, Njila.ai, to help young people identify their skills, explore career opportunities and prepare for employment. The...
CXO Insight Middle East ·
What has changed in enterprise AI that makes agents ready to move from assisting IT teams to working alongside them? Earlier, AI was largely a set of features that could answer specific user queries. Today, it can handle multiple tasks...
TechAfrica News ·
Bank NXT, a leading provider of integrated retail and corporate banking solutions in Egypt, announced the extension of its collaboration with Network International (Network), a leading fintech company in the Middle East and Africa, to...
Innovation Village | Technology, Product Reviews, Business ·
The price is missing, the photo is sitting in the wrong half of the screen, and the lunch playlist has yesterday’s soup on it. A file from a generator will not. Look DS Look DS AI digital signage software is where I would start if the...
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