Black Friday deals 2022: latest early sales and discounts
The Black Friday 2022 season is upon us, and while it’s still October, retailers like Amazon, Target and Walmart have already launched holiday sales with a preview of Black Friday deals on everything from air fryers, toys, and vacuums to this year’s hottest tech items. Black Friday proper officially lands on November 25 this year, […]
The fibre frontier will determine who wins the battle for 5G dominance in SA
The battle lines for 5G dominance have been drawn in South Africa. Last week, the country’s second biggest mobile network operator MTN announced that it was building private 5G networks for big companies in the mining and port industries. MTN will be joining Liquid Telecoms in the race to dominate the enterprise 5G market. The […]
Women in boots: Nigeria female founders share their bootstrapping experience
African women are at the bottom of the food chain in the global tech funding ecosystem. In the 108 months stretching from 2013 to 2021, $1.7 billion in angel investments and Series A investments were made into early-stage startups. Of all that, only 3% found their way to women-led startups. Funding institutions aren’t offering a […]
What’s behind Nigeria’s fintech and banking earthquake?
A guest contribution by CrossFund, a funding platform that helps investors from all over the world to invest in early-stage tech startups from emerging markets. This year, 42 million Nigerians were estimated to be living in areas without access to basic banking services. Yet, at the same time, Nigeria’s fintech and neobanking sectors are outperforming […]
Whats Next For Zenly after making social maps cool again
Zenly has always felt like the small social app that could become the next big thing. But it turns out Zenly is quietly becoming a social giant without anyone paying much attention — at least until now. Originally designed in Paris, the app was acquired by Snap back in 2017. But that acquisition was just […]
Amazon Make Unexpected Competitive Move Against FedEx and UPS
Amazon has already become the most dominant online retailer, and it’s poised to take over the delivery space next. The ecommerce giant announced the launch of its Buy with Prime program on Thursday; the service provides third-party retailers access to the company’s extensive shipping and fulfilment network, even for orders on non-Amazon sites. Retailers using […]
Google’s Africa subsea internet cable finally arrives in Lagos, Nigeria
Google has announced that earlier today, Equiano, a subsea internet cable running through Portugal to South Africa landed in Lagos, Nigeria. This announcement is coming a month after Equiano first landed on the African continent in Togo. The Equiano cable is expected to run more than 12,000km along the West Coast of Africa later landing […]
Google plans its first African development centre
Google recently announced that it will soon launch its first African product development centre in Nairobi, Kenya. The tech giant said it’ll also be hiring hundreds of talents across engineering, product and design. This is to continue its commitment to creating “transformative products and services for people in Africa and around the world”. This announcement […]
More than 200,000 subscribers lost, Netflix considers ad-supported plans and cracking down on password sharing
For the first time in the past decade, Netflix announced that it lost subscribers in a quarter. The announcement was made by the streaming giant during its recent earnings call where it also shocked investors by forecasting that its number of subscribers would fall by another 2 million in the current quarter, to about 219.6 […]
He turned down university scholarship to revolutionise education at 18-years-old
Nathan Nwachuku got a taste of remote learning long before millions of other students were sent home at the height of the pandemic in 2020. The year before, he suffered a serious eye injury on his 15th birthday and had to stay home from school for five months to heal. That wound up becoming the […]