To mark the 30th anniversary of the invention of the worldwide web, Africa-focussed venture capital firm TLcom hosted Internet founder and pioneer, Sir Tim Berners-Lee at...
The H2 2018 Cybercrime Report by ThreatMetrix has revealed a change in fraudsters’ tactics toward attacks on mobile particularly prevalent in financial services. The report...
Paylater, Nigerian retail lending startup, is working on a plan to transition to a full service digital bank after securing a $5 million debt facility from...
Africa-focused Ampion and Berlin-based Plutos Ventures Holding announced the founding of Ampion Ventures. The goal of the new project is to build scalable digital business models...
Microsoft has confirmed plans to establish a Cognition Africa engineering team in Lagos Nigeria having recently launched its first datacentre in Africa in Johannesburg, South Africa....
Data Economy, one of the world’s most prestigious publications devoted to the global data industry has selected Dr Ayotunde Coker, the Managing Director of Rack Centre...
Visa has staked $100,000 for women entrepreneurs from around the world to tackle Fintech and Social Impact in each of the two challenges in celebration of...
One Finance Limited [OneFi] has announces that it has secured a $5M debt facility for its consumer facing platform, Paylater. The facility comes from New York...
Taxify, the ride-hailing service from Estonia, has changed its name to Bolt, “in order to reflect its global expansion strategy”. The company said it took...
By Adeniyi Ogunfowoke, One of the biggest challenges that many Small and Medium Scale Enterprises encounter in emerging economies like Nigeria is access to funding and...