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Girls-led companies want extra visibility: Claudine Moore on the significance of PR for small companies
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Girls-led companies want extra visibility: Claudine Moore on the significance of PR for small companies

Claudine Moore is a PR and communications expert with an impressive PR and communications career spanning Africa-focused start-ups, heritage brands, and African organizations in multiple international markets. A trip to Ghana in 2010 inspired her…

Transcendance VC desires to point out the world that affect investing shouldn’t be charity
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Transcendance VC desires to point out the world that affect investing shouldn’t be charity

By the age of 26, Lin Dejean Yun had built her first business and exited it. She sold her company, a digital identity security for Fintech companies, to the French multinational telecommunications corporation Orange. Then…

UberEats is pausing deliveries in components of Soweto following “a number of security incidents”
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UberEats is pausing deliveries in components of Soweto following “a number of security incidents”

UberEats South Africa has announced that it has paused deliveries in some parts of Soweto township in Johannesburg following multiple reports of “safety incidents” incurred by its courier partners. In an interview with News24, Uber…

Flutterwave receives new fee license and plans IPO amidst regulatory challenges
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Flutterwave receives new fee license and plans IPO amidst regulatory challenges

Nigerian payment unicorn, Flutterwave, has secured a Switching and Processing Licence from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), according to a statement seen by TechCabal. This high profile licence will allow it to facilitate transactions…

Expertise now contributes greater than oil to Nigeria’s GDP
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Expertise now contributes greater than oil to Nigeria’s GDP

According to the recent Gross Domestic Product (GDP) report by the National Bureau of Statistics, the information and communications technology (ICT) sector contributed 18.44% to Nigeria’s GDP in the second quarter of 2022. The sector…

Nigerian different energy firm Cell Energy Restricted raises £1 million from All On to scale its providers
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Nigerian different energy firm Cell Energy Restricted raises £1 million from All On to scale its providers

Image Source: All On All On, a Shell-funded independent impact investing firm, has announced that it has invested £1 million in Mobile Power Limited, to increase the growth of its Pay-per-use battery sharing platform in…

Viamo has laid off “lots” of its staff
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Viamo has laid off “lots” of its staff

Viamo, a Ghana-based social and technology company that helps NGOs, government agencies, donors and businesses to communicate directly with their audience by using local languages to disperse their messages via mobile phone, has laid off…

Zapper and Sew are partnering as much as allow one-click funds for South Africans
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Zapper and Sew are partnering as much as allow one-click funds for South Africans

South African mobile payments platform Zapper is teaming up with the payments and data API platform Stitch to enable Zapper’s more than one million customers to make secure instant electronic fund transfers (EFTs) payments at…

From startup society to community state
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From startup society to community state

This article was contributed to TechCabal by Chijioke Emole Echeme Emole* Imagine a country founded online. A country which is formed first in the cloud as a peculiar and purposeful ‘internet phenomenon’, and eventually as…

Nigerian fintech, Duplo, raises $4.3 million in seed funding to digitise B2B funds
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Nigerian fintech, Duplo, raises $4.3 million in seed funding to digitise B2B funds

Oyekola and Akinnuwa Image Source: Duplo The B2B payments sector in sub-Saharan Africa offers a lot of promise. According to a 2016 World Bank report, micro, small, and medium retailers paid out $1.5 trillion to…

Cape City startup VoiceMap produces strolling tour of the January 6 riot for “The Every day Present with Trevor Noah”
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Cape City startup VoiceMap produces strolling tour of the January 6 riot for “The Every day Present with Trevor Noah”

American political satire show “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah” has partnered with Cape Town-based startup VoiceMap to launch an interactive self-guided walking tour taking guests on a journey through the events of the January…

Flutterwave’s accounts in Kenya have been frozen over recent cash laundering allegations
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Flutterwave’s accounts in Kenya have been frozen over recent cash laundering allegations

A Kenyan court has frozen Ksh400.6 million ($3.3 million) in accounts belonging to Nigerian payment company, Flutterwave, over allegations of money laundering and card fraud. The court granted the Asset Recovery Agency’s (ARA) application on…