Nigerian fintech startup, has secured US$2 million in seed funding to accelerate its consumer acquisition as it leads its growth process. The fund, which is expected to help the startup scale, will see to how it can offer direct-to-consumer (DTC) products to Nigeria’s unbanked and underbanked populations. The three-year-old bank was founded […]
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Terragon Completes 2nd ISO27001 Audit
Africa’s leading enterprise marketing technology company, Terragon has successfully completed her 2nd ISO 27001 surveillance audit. The ISO 27001 certification is a global certification for Information Security Management Systems and is only common among fortune 500 companies and other leading global firms involved in data processing. In a statement made available […]
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Xerde Limited has rolled out an Application to enables financial collaboration
Nigerian Fintech Company, Xerde Limited has rolled out an application, Tudo, which provides solutions to social funding while driving digital transformation and providing quality and accessible solutions to Africa. Founder of Xerde Limited, Khadijat Abdulkadir, while launching the solution in Lagos, said the public rollout came exactly a year after […]
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5 ways QR Code can be used in Nigeria
find 5 ways QR Code can be used in Nigeria, recently the Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement System launched the Nigeria Quick Response, NQR payment solution to enable more continent way to pay for goods and service without contact. During the past year, QR codes have become one of the world’s most […]
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Mass production of LED electric bulbs has started in Ekiti tech centre
The Technology Incubation Centre in Ekiti has begun the mass production of energy-saving LED bulbs, the manager of the federal government-owned centre, Fasan Babatola, has said. He said during a media tour of the centre that the production was achieved in collaboration with AB Tech Electronics, one of its 30 […]
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Africa’s Mobile Users sticks to WhatsApp despite rising cybercrime
Despite the increasingly concern about mobile risks and possible digital identity theft, mobile phone users in Nigeria, South Africa and other parts of the continent mobile users still uses their favourite messaging platforms and applications. This was revealed in a new research carried out by KnowBe4 among over 700 smartphone […]
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VBank rolls out new version 3.0 app with innovative features
VBank, Nigeria’s foremost fully digital bank unveiled new and better features of its app at an online press briefing on Monday, March 1, 2021 to kick off the financial year, as well as promote ease of use for its customers. The new app, Version 3.0, boasts of exciting features including […]
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Bolt is providing Paid Internship for Women with the #Drive4WITech Campaign
Bolt has brought an opportunity our way ladies. That’s right. No men allowed. Women, the time has come to shine, showcase what you can offer the tech industry, and prove it’s not just a man’s world. This month Bolt is running a campaign targeted at kickstarting careers for women in the […]
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Abu Dhabi Funds Invest $150M In Telegram Messaging App
Abu Dhabi state fund Mubadala Investment Co and Abu Dhabi Catalyst Partners, part-owned by Mubadala, said on Tuesday they had invested a combined $150 million in messaging app Telegram. Mubadala invested $75 million in five-year, pre-initial public offering (IPO) bonds of Telegram, while Abu Dhabi Catalyst Partners invested a further […]
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Facebook rolls out Instagram Lite to Nigeria, others
Today, Facebook has announced the launch of Instagram Lite to Sub-Saharan Africa, a new, lightweight version of the Instagram app for Android that uses less data and works well across all network conditions. The new version of Instagram Lite for Android is less than 2MB in size, making it fast […]