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Tech In Africa ·
Nigeria has regained its position as Africa’s leading destination for startup investment, attracting $635 million in funding between January and September 2026, according to figures from African investment tracker Africa: The Big Deal ....
Tech In Africa ·
Ground Up Investing , the impact investment arm of Corus International , has secured $6 million in the first close of its second investment fund, targeting $20 million to support agricultural businesses across Africa and Latin America....
Innovation Village | Technology, Product Reviews, Business ·
Canva has released its first in-house image generation model, Canva Craft, as the design platform expands its artificial intelligence capabilities and seeks greater control over image quality, speed and generation costs. Developed by...
Innovation Village | Technology, Product Reviews, Business ·
Artificial intelligence giant OpenAI has officially extended its conversational advertising platform to the Nigerian market, opening a fresh commercial frontier for local enterprises, tech startups, and digital brands. The expansion...
Innovation Village | Technology, Product Reviews, Business ·
Spotify has confirmed it is strengthening verification checks for its Premium Family Plan, requiring members to prove they live at the same address as the plan manager. The company has described the changes as a routine improvement to...
TechTrends Africa ·
PalmPay has reaffirmed its commitment to promoting a safer digital ecosystem by supporting the Nigeria Police Force National Cybercrime Centre... The post PalmPay Supports NPF-NCCC Cybersecurity Awareness Walk, Emphasizes Customer...
TechCabal ·
Big Tech This Week, a media company founded by entrepreneur and former Meta executive Fatu Ogwuche , is launching a weekly live technology show, betting that African tech audiences want to hear directly from the founders and operators...
TechAfrica News ·
etisalat money, the fintech arm of etisalat, has announced a strategic partnership with Visa to expand international money transfer options for consumers and businesses in the UAE through Visa Direct, Visa’s global money movement...
TechAfrica News ·
Network International (Network) , a leading FinTech company across the Middle East and Africa, announced the renewal of its processing and back-office management agreement with Emirates Islamic, one of the leading Islamic financial...
TechAfrica News ·
Redington Gulf, the leading technology aggregator, announced today that it has signed a strategic collaboration agreement (SCA) with Amazon Web Services (AWS), aimed at accelerating AI adoption in the Middle East, Turkey and Africa...
TechAfrica News ·
Orange Jordan has organised three regional networking meetups under the Private Sector Access to Support Startups (PASS) programme to connect entrepreneurs with investors, private-sector companies and other organisations that can...
TechAfrica News ·
Egypt’s National Telecommunication Institute (NTI) , in cooperation with Engineers for a Sustainable Egypt , has graduated 601 trainees from the fourth batch of the advanced level of its Artificial Intelligence Ambassadors programme,...
TechAfrica News ·
MTN Uganda has launched its Starlink for Business offering to extend reliable internet connectivity to businesses and institutions in remote areas, helping them access digital opportunities and improve their operations. The initiative...
Innovation Village | Technology, Product Reviews, Business ·
Meta AI app Muse has surpassed 10 million users, with shopping emerging as one of its notable use cases as the company looks to turn its growing adoption into a profitable business. The milestone was confirmed by Meta CEO Mark...
TechCabal ·
According to a 2026 report surveying 277 banking executives across 37 African nations, 83.2% of institutions plan to increase their AI spending over the next 12 months. Yet nearly a third do not formally track the return on investment....
Innovation Village | Technology, Product Reviews, Business ·
Ground Up Investing (GUI), the impact investing arm of the global poverty alleviation organization Corus International, has secured a $6 million first close for its $20 million Fund 2. With Corus serving as the anchor investor, the fund...
Innovation Village | Technology, Product Reviews, Business ·
African cross-border payments startup Lipaworld is preparing to launch its seed funding round on the back of rapid transaction growth, aiming to surpass $100 million in cumulative transaction volume by the end of 2027. Having processed...
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Megaport Limited (ASX: MP1) (“Megaport”), a leading global automated infrastructure platform, today announced support for AWS Interconnect, a new managed connection model from Amazon Web Services (AWS) designed to simplify how...
TechCentral ·
A home affairs credential could spare South Africans repeat payment onboarding, says DIDx's Lohan Spies.
Innovation Village | Technology, Product Reviews, Business ·
Tesla is preparing to make its highly anticipated Cybercab available to customers before the end of 2026. During the company’s third-quarter earnings call, Lars Moravy, Tesla’s Vice President of Engineering, revealed that the automaker...
TechCabal ·
Flutterwave employees can now borrow money against their vested shares without selling them, through a programme with Techdollar, a US private-credit startup. The loans give staff access to cash before a company sale or stock-market...
CIO Africa ·
Kenya’s ICT Authority has issued a cybersecurity advisory directing government ministries, departments and agencies to secure websites and web applications...
AI saves workers a day a week, but they don’t know what to do with it | CIO ·
There are plenty of individual AI success stories across the enterprise, but scaling AI continues to be a challenge. Data from McKinsey’s “ The state of AI in 2026: On the road to ROI ” survey shows that four in five respondents report...
CIO Africa ·
74% per cent of respondents to the World Economic Forum’s Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2026 hold a positive view of the...
CIO Africa ·
On 21 October, two governments sent out urgent warnings about the same piece of software. In London, the National Cyber...
TechTrends Africa ·
At the Security Analyst Summit in Bali, Indonesia, Kaspersky’s Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT) presented findings on Operation FlashHole,... The post Kaspersky Uncovers Lazarus APT Campaign Leveraging AI and Post-Quantum...
TechCentral ·
South Africa's big financial firms call artificial intelligence a growth driver, yet benefits are rarely tracked properly.
TechAfrica News ·
Nokia Corporation reported a 9% year-on-year increase in net sales on a constant-currency basis in the third quarter of 2026, supported by growth in its Network Infrastructure business and rising demand from artificial intelligence (AI)...
TechAfrica News ·
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has become the first country in the World Health Organization (WHO) African Region to deploy the Preparedness Data Exchange (PDX), a platform designed to strengthen health emergency preparedness...
TechAfrica News ·
Governments across Sub-Saharan Africa want to reduce dependence on imported devices, create jobs and protect smartphone prices from foreign exchange volatility. But building a complete smartphone manufacturing industry requires an...
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Cyber security firm Arctic Wolf, in partnership with ITWeb, will host a webinar on the business sense in moving from traditional vulnerability scans to continuous visibility.
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Durban learner Sinead Samputh wins global robotics recognition, while teaching disadvantaged children to code.
TechCentral ·
Growth came mainly from low-margin Microsoft and Sage distribution, and flat costs did the rest.
AI saves workers a day a week, but they don’t know what to do with it | CIO ·
MIT’s finding that 95% of enterprise AI pilots fail to show measurable profit has been quoted at length, and the conclusions drawn from it are always the same: the models aren’t good enough yet, or enterprises don’t know how to use...
TechCabal ·
Ask any founder who has built a business across different African markets, and they would agree the continent’s digital market is fragmented. The fragmentation shows up in how people pay, how businesses are regulated, consumer...
TechAfrica News ·
Consumer Finance – Souhoola announced that it has received approval from the Financial Regulatory Authority (FRA) to conduct consumer finance activities using financial technology through V-Lens, marking a new step in the company’s...
iAfrica.com ·
Common Sense Media, a US-based independent nonprofit that provides age-based ratings, reviews, and advice on media and technology for kids and families, recently rated OpenAI’s recent release, ChatGPT for Teens at “unacceptable risk”...
iAfrica.com ·
Johannesburg-based BioInformatiCo takes second-place in an international AI challenge with African technology designed to accelerate clinical trial database preparation, improve data quality and help research teams make limited funding...
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Revenue declines 3% in the first nine months of 2026, as new owner Canal+ works to turn around the African pay-TV group.
AI saves workers a day a week, but they don’t know what to do with it | CIO ·
Organizations are rapidly implementing AI, but employees often feel left behind about how AI is changing their roles. While AI can help get work done faster, it won’t necessarily help produce better quality work if employees aren’t...
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