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While many TV consumers have since moved to the online way of content delivery with YouTube and video on demand platforms continuing to grow and become mainstream, there is still space for satellite TV. In Africa, few providers are as accomplished as Multichoice's DStv. These... Read More

When Opay launched in Nigeria in 2018, it came in really hard. The startup came in backed by a $50 million investment (the highest raised by a Nigeria-based fintech startup, at the time) raised by its parent company, Opera. Opay, however, put that money to... Read More

Xiaomi has enjoyed quite a lot of success this year passing new milestones along the way. Earlier this year, the Chinese smartphone maker surpassed Apple in smartphone sales to become the second-largest smartphone manufacturer in the world behind Samsung for the second quarter of the... Read More

Jiji, one of the largest marketplaces for classifieds in Africa, and by far the largest in Nigeria, has today announced that it is acquiring transactional car marketplace, Cars45 for an undisclosed amount. This will see Jiji venture into the transactional marketplace for the first time. Jiji... Read More

Twitter, today, announced the addition of a new feature (Twitter Blue) to its platform. Twitter Blue is a paid subscription service that will offer paid subscribers access to a set of new features like 'Bookmark Folder', 'undoing tweets', and 'Reader Mode' to view threads in... Read More

Africa's fintech startup, Chipper Cash has confirmed that it has raised $100m in Series C funding. A round led by SVB Capital, the investment arm of U.S. high-tech commercial bank Silicon Valley Bank led this Series C round. Other participants in this round include some... Read More

Mono, founded by Abdul Hassan, a formal product manager at Paystack and Prakhar Singh in 2020, is an infrastructure built to power the new set of internet businesses and developers building apps that require secure and reliable access to financial accounts in Africa. Mono allows these... Read More

MTN Uganda has thrown its weight behind the local movie industry with the launch of a new video-on-demand (VOD) channel offering a premium mix of local Ugandan movies dubbed as "Kibanda Xpress." The new channel is a partnership between the telecom company and PearlWood, an... Read More

When social media and the digital economy were morphing into a force to reckon with and shaping the media industry, in our backyard, a group of 3 friends started out Addmaya--a film, design, and digital production agency that elevates ambitious brands through stunning visuals and... Read More