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Uganda’s National Social Security Fund in partnership with Visa and Centenary Bank recently unveiled a 3-in-1 social security smart card dubbed the NSSF Smart Card that embeds NSSF functionality, banking capability, and loyalty program. But how exactly does the NSSF Smart Card works? And do... Read More

Xiaomi has enjoyed a lot of success in the smartphone market over the years and even recently toppled Apple to be the second-largest smartphone vendor. This makes for a great time to release its first tablet since 2018 when the Mi Pad 4 was launched.... Read More

In November of 2020, Twitter announced that it was adding a new feature, Fleets - a row of fullscreen tweets that appears at the top of the Twitter timeline and expires after 24 hours - to its platform. You can equate Twitter Fleets to “Status”... Read More

Last October, Google rebranded "G Suite" - its collection of professional productivity tools, which was only made available to business accounts - to become "Workspace". And eight months later, Google has now announced that Workspace will be free to everyone. Until now, only paid users... Read More

Nigeria-based, Chinese-backed fintech platform, OPay, is in talks to raise up to $400 million in Series C funding, this is according to TechCrunch. OPay's journey started in Nigeria in 2018 when it launched its mobile money platform in Lagos. And while OPay tried to branch... Read More

Devkids by ULesson is a platform that provides personalized live coding classes for 4-18-year-olds. On the platform, kids get to explore HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Python from scratch. Plus a dive into cybersecurity, AI, and machine learning. Devkids by ULesson is a subsidiary of ULesson... Read More

Twitter, via a blog post announced the addition of a new feature -Tip Jar - to the social app. Tip Jar will make it easy for twitter users to support and send money to their favorite creators on the platform. Esther Crawford, Senior Product Manager... Read More

While the COVID-19 pandemic hit a lot of businesses hard (forcing a couple to shut down), a few others saw significant growth. Flutterwave, for instance, reported that the COVID-19 pandemic pushed the shift towards digital mode payments in Nigeria. This led to a surge in... Read More

We live in a time where buzzword like "data is the new oil" floods the digital space and most of us can't even seem to make sense of such statements. The best place to learn about data and how you can harness its usage is... Read More