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TechCabal Every day – TikTok is now not a Kippa

TechCabal Every day – TikTok is now not a Kippa

27 JANUARY, 2022 Good morning 🌄 It’s not Friday but I’m going to share a few job opportunities here.  At BCM—Zikoko, TechCabal, TC Insights and Cabal Creative—we’re looking for a few superstars to come help…

Kennedy Ekezie-Joseph: From leading TikTok’s entry into Africa to constructing Kippa

Kennedy Ekezie-Joseph: From leading TikTok’s entry into Africa to constructing Kippa

This article was contributed to TechCabal by Seth Onyango/bird TikTok made huge waves when it announced its sponsorship of the African Cup of Nations, the continent’s biggest football tournament. Kennedy Ekezie-Joseph who helped lead TikTok’s…

Facebook parent firm Meta is constructing the arena’s quickest AI supercomputer

Facebook parent firm Meta is constructing the arena’s quickest AI supercomputer

American tech conglomerate Meta (formerly Facebook) on Monday joined the list of tech companies like Microsoft and Nvidia who have built an AI supercomputer, with the recent announcement of its new Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research…

Division MD, Dayo Ademola, talks digital banking ambitions in Nigeria

Division MD, Dayo Ademola, talks digital banking ambitions in Nigeria

Running a startup is hard. Running a consumer-focused lending platform—used by more than 5 million people across four countries—during a historic global economic crisis is a near-impossible task. The management team of Branch International met…

One in all Nigeria’s biggest cities is changing exact into a battleground for bike-hailing services and products

One in all Nigeria’s biggest cities is changing exact into a battleground for bike-hailing services and products

Most motorcycle ride-hailing startups setting up in Nigeria have historically started from Lagos, the country’s most populated city and its centre of economic activity. That was until February 2020, however, when a ban on motorcycles…

TechCabal Daily – A contaminated for African corporations

TechCabal Daily – A contaminated for African corporations

26 JANUARY, 2022 Good morning 🌄 Substack wants to move into videos.  Recently, the newsletter platform announced it’s testing a video feature that will allow newsletter writers share videos in their newsletters. Writers will be able…

abet your startup afloat with miniature or no funding

abet your startup afloat with miniature or no funding

2021 was a record year for the African tech ecosystem as startups raised over $4 billion in venture capital funding, the highest amount raised yet. While this feat is laudable, it’s impossible to ignore the…

Norebase needs to be the node that fuses Africa staunch into a rustic

Norebase needs to be the node that fuses Africa staunch into a rustic

In 2019, a few months after the African Continental Free Trade Area Agreement (AfCFTA) was signed, some African tech and creative industry players were hosted by CcHUB in Kigali, Rwanda, to discuss how the tech…

TechCabal Day-to-day – Oracle’s vision 🔮

TechCabal Day-to-day – Oracle’s vision 🔮

25 JANUARY, 2022 Good morning 🌄 Should civility have a place in online expression of freedom of speech?  Five South African judges have ruled no. In a recent ruling, the five judges ruled in favour…

Tesla’s African expansion is impending but is it cheap to power one in Lagos?

Tesla’s African expansion is impending but is it cheap to power one in Lagos?

Every time a picture of an electric vehicle being driven on African soil shows up on social media, a popular recurring sarcastic comment from many Nigerians is that electric cars generally shouldn’t be used on…

Oracle joins the flee for Africa with its first African files centre

Oracle joins the flee for Africa with its first African files centre

Last week, Oracle, the world’s largest database management company, opened its first cloud region (a cluster of data centres) in Africa, as it joined other global players like Microsoft and Amazon who already have data…

The Subsequent Wave: Gigantic Tech’s trim app potential in Africa

The Subsequent Wave: Gigantic Tech’s trim app potential in Africa

November 29th 2021The Next Wave provides a futuristic analysis of BizTech and innovation in Africa. Subscribe here to get it directly in your inbox on Sundays at 3 PM (WAT). In 2013, a Chinese app, WeChat, entered…