320 million mobile wallets stand for 60% of all mobile money wallets in sub-Saharan Africa based on the 2021 State of the Industry report on Mobile Money released by the GSMA. According to Dare Okoudjou, CEO and founder of MFS Africa: “In 2010, MFS Africa took a bet that mobile money accounts would be the most dominant form of financial accounts in Africa and emerging markets at large. The new numbers released by the GSMA have now removed any lingering doubts about that....

Wentors is a global community of women in technology mentoring and nurturing each other through a platform in which experienced women in the tech industry can mentor upcoming young women joining the industry, and final year students looking to start a technology career. The initiative was launched by Microsoft 4Afrika employee, EduAbasi Chukwunweike after discovering that as a solutions specialist in the enterprise team responsible for the cloud business in Nigeria, most of her conversations within the customer environment were with men....

The feed includes a stream of cat and dog photos featuring captions and comments in the voices of the pets. As a pet parent, you don’t just share your dog or cats daily adventures but you become your pet. Minderz is more than a social network for your pets, it’s also a platform that makes it easy to manage the health and wellness of your pet. It works to find and connect with pets like yours and share experiences all in one place....

Launched today in Kenya, with a Nigeria launch in the following weeks, the partnership aims to increase the capacity of transporters to match demand across East and West Africa. According to Ladi Delano, Co-Founder and CEO of Moove said: “We knew from the get-go that our mission to democratise vehicle ownership would take us beyond cars. We’re thrilled to be partnering with Lori Systems to empower truck drivers in Africa, and are excited about the positive impact our revenue-based financing solutions will have on their lives....

“The Motley Fool’s name comes from William Shakespeare’s play “As You Like It”. The court jester, known as the Fool, could speak the truth to the king and queen without having his head lopped off. The Fools of yore entertained the court with humor that instructed as it amused. More importantly, the Fool was never afraid to question conventional wisdom. In the same way, we aim to speak the truth about money and investing…and to make financial advice accessible to people of all backgrounds and experience levels....

If you have been following most of our smartphone articles, it will be fair to assume that we both know what wireless charging is. The smartphone must rest on a compatible charging pad for loading to be possible. But for Motorola, this process is not necessary. Anyway, there is no magic there, but through a video from youtube, we can see a couple of Motorola phones charging simultaneously without the charging Pads....

The device will compete directly with the d$950 Samsung Galaxy Note 10 which is as well less the price of the note 10. The new Moto G Stylus and Moto G Power give you a Galaxy Note 10-like experience, that is less expensive. Device specifications Galaxy Note10 comes with 256GB storage which you can expand by up to an additional 1TB. The Galaxy Note series is best-known for having a couple of premium features: The S-Pen stylus, which lets you control many aspects of the phone itself even from a few feet away....

The OLED screen will also have a fingerprint scanner underneath and come with HDR10 support and 1300 nit maximum brightness. The main camera on the rear will be joined by ultra wide and macro units. The Motorola G72 will be powered by a Helio G99 and a 5,000 mAh battery with 33W charging. It will also have IP52 rating for basic water and dust protection with a 6GB RAM and 128GB storage....

Kenya’s Narok County can now enjoy a variety of channels through their GO tv decoders as MultiChoice Kenya Limited has made the installation. This now adds the cosmopolitan county to the broad footprint of areas in Kenya where GOtv set top boxes can be used to deliver quality television transmission in digital format. Apart from that, MutiChoice is also offering exciting digital home television is available in major towns in Kenya including in Nairobi, Mombasa, Kisumu, Malindi, Nakuru, Nyeri, Kisii, Meru, Machakos, Isiolo, Laikipia, Bungoma, Kakamega, Trans Nzoia and Kajiado among others....

Myphotographr make it their business to publish your memories. They want to hold your hand through the different stages of your life, documenting your memories exquisitely. To ensure they get the best quality photos always, they have partnered with professional photographers across Nigeria who know their onions. You can book a photographer to cover your event or for a photoshoot; to professionally capture the captivating moments we all live for....

Nigeria’s Cranium One is the latest shared office space to birth in Lagos to join this herd. According to the founder, Olaotan Towry-Coker, ‘We’re happy to provide affordable, yet premium office space to the thousands of entrepreneurs and early-stage businesses in need of a professional and welcoming work environment.’ Cranium One is located in the heart of Lagos – Victoria Island with a combination of ergonomic design, thoughtfully crafted spacing, well-planned community management and capacity building....

The firm announced it would expand its market footprint and in addition growing its current customer base in Nigeria, Ghana, and Liberia, and as well as venture into new markets in North Africa, East Africa, and Francophone West Africa this year. Helium Health was launched in 2016, as an Electronic Medical Records (EMR) and Hospital Management Information (HMI) Systems provider in West Africa. It was founded by Adegoke Olobusi, Tito Ovia, and Dimeji Sofowora....

Raknida poses as an affordable wall art solution for homeowners, architects, interior designers, business owners or managers, and so many more who have the power to use spaces to achieve different goals. As a marketplace, the platform makes several digital art styles (e.g. graffiti, murals, photography, illustrations, etc.) available to users as three wall art options: art prints, canvas prints and wallpapers, with the additional option to frame any art or canvas print....

The round of funding was co-led by Future Africa and Kepple Africa Ventures with the participation of Acuity Ventures, Kairos Angels, Aidi Ventures, RallyCap Ventures, Assembly Capital, Nama Ventures and Remapped Ventures. Angel investors who participated in the round included Josh Jones, the co-founder and CTO, Dreamhost; and Tayo Oviosu, co-founder and CEO of Paga and Ham Serunjogi, co-founder and CEO of Chipper Cash. Launched in 2017 by CEO, Gbolade Emmanuel who is the former COO of Accounteer, a Nigerian accounting technology startup and his CTO, Ayomide Awe , a former software engineer at Reliance HMO, Termii received backing from Lagos-based VC Microtraction and US-based Y Combinator to provide infrastructure that enables digital businesses to communicate seamlessly with their customers....

Chekkit, which was founded at the Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST) in Accra, Ghana, has developed a platform that tracks product movement and the parties involved in the transfer of products from warehouse to distributor to final consumer. Chekkit is a tool for anti-counterfeiting, asset tracking, and customer satisfaction analytics. It produces tamper-proof unique ID labels, either as QR codes or numeric codes, which can be used to track supply chains and consumer feedback on luxury packaged food and beverage products....

His burning desire to build a business empire led him to study innovative shoe production in Netherlands. Next, he raised $20,000 through crowd-funding to produce and launch his first collection of Keexs, the first innovative and social-oriented footwear brand in Africa. The sneakers are designed at his office in Lagos, and are available for sale on the Keexs website and in stores across Lagos. Keexs, which has already sold 1,500 pairs of sneakers comes with a social brief, as the shoes will not only create employment for many people in Lagos but donate 10% of profit to toward poverty alleviation projects throughout the country....

Lemonade Finance, founded by Ridwan Olalere and Rian Cochran, was selected to Y Combinator’s W21 batch earlier this year.The platform enables Africans to send and receive money rapidly from their native countries. Ridwan Olalere, one of the Co-founder’s commented, “Before Lemonade, international money transfers that should take minutes took days.Those are hours of stress and anxiety for you and your family while your money is stuck in transit. It also makes it difficult for many Africans abroad, who own businesses, to keep those ventures running....

Nigeria, Niger, Togo, Ivory Coast, and Burkina Faso are among the five African countries where the company is launching its innovative new digital financial super app on iOS and Android. Similarly, it said it plans to increase the super-debt app’s facility to $10 million by the end of the year as the company scales up its lending operations in order to achieve a growth plan that calls for doubling the company’s existing network of about 100,000 merchants to over 200,000 by the end of 2022....

The omnichannel inbox is considered the future of customer communications, allowing businesses to reach customers via various channels such as email, SMS, iMessage, Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, Twitter, etc., and receive messages from those platforms. Tioluwani Kolawole, the chief product officer and co-founder of Simpu, said the development team focused on streamlining customer inbox, empowering teams, and building smart bots. He gave a seamless and extensive demo of how to perform these actions on Simpu....

The two smartphones come with some exciting upgrades over their predecessors such as a premium glass design language, triple rear cameras, and faster Snapdragon processors, among other things. Nokia smartphone fans who would like to get either the Nokia 7.2 or Nokia 6.2 can reserve their very own handset from Jumia Mall from 17th Sept 2019. Each successful pre-order of the Nokia Smartphones comes with complimentary award-winning true wireless earbuds for the Nokia 7....