Stitch, one of South Africa’s leading fintech infrastructure companies, has successfully raised $55 million in its latest funding round. The capital infusion is set to fuel the company’s expansion efforts, particularly in the development of its API infrastructure designed to enhance financial services integration across Africa.
The funding round saw participation from both existing…
Google has partnered with Verve to make digital transactions on Google Play Store easier for Nigerians.
The firm noted that as from Wednesday, Nigerians could now use their Verve cards to make purchases on the Google Play Store.
It stated that under its new partnership…
More than 10 million people have signed up for Threads, Meta’s rival to Twitter, within the first few hours of its launch, the company’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on Thursday.
The app went live on Apple and Android app stores in 100 countries at 2300 GMT on Wednesday…
Giant tech company, Meta, will officially launch its own microblogging app, Threads on Thursday.
With the structure of its service, Threads will ultimately serve as a competitor to the popular social media platform, Twitter.
The launch comes in the wake of a new feature introduced by the latter, which limits the number of tweets users can see per day.
While the Threads app is yet to be available…
Google has released a new AI-powered chatbot called Bard, which is designed to compete with OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Bard is an experimental conversational AI service that is powered by Google’s LaMDA (Language Model for Dialogue Applications).
LaMDA is a large language model…
Airtel Nigeria has partnered with AXA Mansard to launch a digital health insurance scheme to provide access to basic health care consultation and minor treatment for customers on the telco’s network.
The telco explained that the health bundle will give its customers the…
The Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation, Adeleke Mamora, has given reasons why Nigeria remains a poor country despite being blessed.
The minister, who spoke at a workshop aimed at accelerating small hydropower investments in Nigeria, said the lack of capacity to turn potentials into reality has made the country underdeveloped despite its vast resources.
The event held on Tuesday in…
MTN Nigeria has announced the price for its shares per unit under the scrip dividend plan for interested shareholders.
In a corporate notice filed with the Nigerian Exchange Limited on Thursday, the firm said that reference share price would be N232.68, which was lower than…
What are your thoughts on the performance of BVAS and IReV during the presidential and National Assembly elections?
The BVAS device in that election performed its role. BVAS is just an accreditation device; it was developed to ensure that only accredited voters can vote…
The First City Monument Bank has expressed its delight in Babban Gona, a Nigeria-based high-impact social enterprise, for winning the Schwab Award for Social Entrepreneurship at the World Economic Forum annual meeting which held in Davos, Switzerland.
Babban Gona is an award-winning and high-impact agri-tech social enterprise that focuses on making farming more financially and environmentally…