Mark Essien is the CEO of hotel.ng, a hotel booking platform that has created an unimaginable impact within and outside Africa. In a bid to inspire Akwa Ibom youths who were undergoing an internship program organized by his company, he told an
Two fintech executives and a manager at a US-based money transfer company have been sentenced to a combined 8 years in US federal prison. The firm, Ping Express, admitted in US district court filings that it broke money laundering rules after it
Netflix has been having a rough 2022. Back in Q1 2022, the video-streaming service announced that it had lost 200K paying customers. The number was a big blow for the company, and it was forced to make some changes to make the
Meta AI ‘No Language Left Behind’ NLLB-200, a single AI model that is the first to translate across 200 different languages, including 55 African languages with state-of-the-art results Today, Meta announced that it has built and open sourced ‘No Language Left Behind’
Kenya is fast becoming the regional hubs’ headquarters for a lot of global companies even as bolt joins the trend. Microsoft, for instance, launched the ADC cost it $27 million to open, and it has since grown to be one of the
Healthtracka, a Lagos based healthcare startup and provider of at-home lab testing platform, has raised $1.5 million pulse.ng reports. The round is led by venture capital investors Ingressive Capital and Hustle Fund, with participation from angel investors: Alumni Angels Alliance and Flying
Afropolitan, a startup that is aimed at building a digital nation for Africans, raises pre-seed funding of $2.1 million, tech cabal reports. Afropolitan, a startup that wants to build a digital nation for Africans, has raised pre-seed funding of $2.1 million, according
Away from the trendy Ankara styles and designs, Let’s see how the current ASUU strike has helped a female undergraduate start and incubate a startup that is changing the fashion trend in Uyo. How ASUU changed her story It is no longer
How two Africans overcame bias to build a Startup worth billions is written by Jeff Kauflin in Forbes. A pair of twentysomethings from Uganda and Ghana thought there was a fortune to be made bringing transnational financial services to Africa’s 1.2 billion
Flutterwave, a Nigeria-based African payments technology company, today announced the appointment of Oneal Bhambani as its new chief financial officer IT News report. He joins the company from American Express and Kabbage, where he managed fintech businesses operating at scale and helped
The Federal Government of Nigeria has said it is working on modalities to allow tech startups in the country to sell their solutions to the government with ease. The Director-General of the National Information Technology Agency (NITDA), Kashifu Inuwa, disclosed this at