Innovation & Technology Tech Crawl: Social media creators to pay $97 permit in Uganda, Healthlane raises $2.4 million, a Nigerian-born becomes an exec at Global TV Studios, more by Omolara Oseni September 11, 2020 It’s another week! We bring you interesting tech updates from around the continent and the globe starting with the regulation
Innovation & Technology Tech Crawl: African startups in YC’s Demo Day, Jeff Bezos $200bn bogus hype, EcoCash cuts mobile money transactions size, more by Omolara Oseni August 29, 2020 #TGIF: We’ve come to the end of another month and the year is slowly coming to a close. Here are
Innovation & Technology Tech Crawl: Ikeja Electric launches WhatsApp Chatbot, Oracle joins the race to buy TikTok, Uber Connect now in East Africa, more by Omolara Oseni August 21, 2020 In case you missed it, here are some of the interesting things that happened in the tech industry during the
Innovation & Technology Tech Crawl: “Ikorodu Bois” receive gifts from Netflix, MAX launches electric motorbikes, Airtel introduces free streaming app in Kenya, more by Omolara Oseni August 14, 2020 It’s another week of smepeaks Tech Crawl, we bring you some of the interesting happenings in the tech industry you
Innovation & Technology Tech Crawl: Konga rejects $300m funding, 9mobile joins MTN to launch e-SIM, FG increases hate speech fine to ₦5 million, more by Omolara Oseni August 7, 2020 We’ve come to the end of a relatively slow week and several interesting things were abuzz in the tech ecosystem
Innovation & Technology Tech Crawl: Big tech guys appear before the House Antitrust Subcommittee, competition heightens between Instagram and TikTok, more by Omolara Oseni July 31, 2020 #TGIF: It’s the last week of July and it appears as though a million things have happened within a few
Innovation & Technology Tech Crawl: LinkedIn lays off staff, Facebook to grow Africa’s economy by $57 billion, Vodacom to launch a fintech service in SA, more by Omolara Oseni July 24, 2020 It’s been an interesting week in the tech and social media space. The popular reality TV show, Big Brother Naija
Innovation & Technology Tech Crawl: Bitcoin scammers hit the big guys, Ethiopia partially restores internet, Gokada loses its CEO, more by Omolara Oseni July 17, 2020 The week started on a good note in the Nigerian tech space, a startup announced its recently closed pre-Series B
Innovation & Technology Tech Crawl: More troubles for TikTok globally, $1million in the account, a new product from Paystack, 5G rollout in Seychelles, more by Omolara Oseni July 10, 2020 This week, the feud between TikTok and countries globally is getting more intense. Starting with the ongoings on the African
Innovation & Technology Tech Crawl: India bans TikTok, Coca Cola suspends social media advertising, Andela expands presence across Africa, more by Omolara Oseni July 3, 2020 It’s a new quarter and the end of another busy week in the tech ecosystem. Here is a quick summary
