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News from the tech and telecoms sector in Nigeria
DEAL: Fintech Farm raises $7.4 million in funding, set to expand to Nigeria
Fintech Farm, a newly launched fintech firm has announced a seed funding raise of $7.4 million to expand into Nigeria...
President Buhari lifts Twitter ban
President Muhammadu Buhari has announced a lift on the ban on Twitter. This is coming seven months after the President...
DEAL: Nigerian cloud HR firm, SeamlessHR raises $10 million to expand across Africa
SeamlessHR announced today that it has raised $10 million in series A funding led by TLcom Capital, a venture capitalist...
DEAL: Bolt secures $709 million in funding, now valued at $8.4 billion
Ride-hailing start-up, Bolt has raised $709 million in investment, valuing the technology company at $8.4 billion. Bolt's growth is also...
Startup accelerator, Y Combinator set to invest $500,000 in startups
Following announcements first made mid-last year, Y Combinator, a startup accelerator has said it will now invest $500,000 in batch...
DEAL: Afrikrea rebrands to ANKA as it secures $6.2 million in pre-Series A round
eCommerce platform for African product, Afrikrea has secured a pre-Series A round of $6.2million led by Investisseurs & Partenaires and...
Apple paid over $260 billion to app developers in 13 years
Since the launch of its App Store in 2008, Apple has paid more than $260 billion to app developers over...
Gmail hits 10 billion installs on Android, becomes fourth to surpass milestone
Total number of Gmail app installations has surpassed 10 billion on android, emerging the fourth app on Google play store...
DEAL: ThankUCash raises $5.3 million seed fund to build infrastructure for BNPL and launch remittance service
Nigeria’s leading multi-merchant rewards platform ThankUCash has raised $5.3 million in seed funding. The seed round was co-led by 500...
Meta begins testing new privacy control centre across platforms
Meta, formerly known as Facebook, is effecting some changes with regards to privacy options display across its apps by centralizing...
