TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

It’s a one-year program where students take classes for nine months (three semesters) followed by a three-month internship at local tech companies to gain experience. SoftBank sinks $200M into Andela, propels company into unicorn territory. 10,000, almost ~$20) to participate in AltSchool’s software engineering program, which starts in April.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

The company plans to use the investment to expand within its home market Nigeria — where it operates in Lagos, Port Harcourt and Abuja — and outside to Ghana and Kenya. The 45-man team has hired Aaron Tindiseega to lead its expansion into Kenya and the eastern Africa region.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2022

While big restaurants and restaurant chains are often capable of setting their management systems or using well-known point-of-sale providers, thousands of smaller restaurants in Africa rely on offline methods such as pen and paper to produce receipts and make reconciliations.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Some include the Red Cross, The Weather Channel, local newspapers, Craigslist, and others. The first example is Ushahidi – originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008. We can tap into local knowledge because our reports are coming from the source.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

The startup hopes that the Series A funding will drive its presence in 12 countries, including South Africa, Kenya, Ghana and Saudi Arabia. They operate online-only or hybrid models (a combination of offline and online settings). It also plans to deepen its presence in the countries already present, especially Egypt and Nigeria.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2021

AMC BV is an Airtel Africa subsidiary and the holding company for several of Airtel Africa’s mobile money operations across 14 African countries, including Kenya, Uganda, and Nigeria. In the West African country, Airtel has gone through the route of partnering with local banks but has now applied for its own mobile banking licence. .

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

Kenyan consumer experience platform for businesses in Africa, Ajua today announced that it has acquired WayaWaya , a Kenya-based AI and ML messaging and payments company. There has been an uptick in local acquisitions in Africa from startups within a single country and between two countries in the past three years.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2022

According to local news reports, nearly two dozen suicide cases owing to harassment coming from loan app operators have been reported online. “Both Google and Apple do place some restrictions on apps in other contexts, such as for children-focused apps or health apps, to comply with local laws and regulations.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

Promises include : beU delivery says it offers a “great selection of local restaurants and door-to-door food delivery” that allows customers to have their favorite food from the “comfort of their homes or offices.” Location : Nairobi, Kenya. Location : Nairobi, Kenya. Team size : 300. Website : [link].

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

The service has 17 million users and is transforming the way wealth is distributed in poor countries, which now include Tanzania, India, and Afghanistan as well as Kenya. The success of mpesa in combination with the arrival of broadband there has stimulated the billion dollar ‘silicon savanah’ movement in Kenya.

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The NonProfit Times

JUNE 19, 2024

million to 72 local charities, with recipients including the Boston Public Library, Fenway Health and the Newton Fire Department. But GivenGain also tracks offline donations made directly to individual nonprofits through checks, wire transfers, donor-advised funds and corporate matching gifts, among other vehicles.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Ushahidi was originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008. Since then, the platform (which is open source ) has been modified for use in South Africa (mapping xenophobic violence), DR Congo , Vote Report India (to monitor the recent local elections) and more.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

This resulted in us creating a “sneaker-net” approach to providing basic asynchronous ICT services to rural villages: a complete offline Wikipedia that fit on a CD-ROM, and severely restricted bandwidth throttling to allow community radios to access the Internet (via prepaid RBGAN) for $2-3 a day. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2006

She notes, "I started in Kenya working with a water users association, living in a thatched hut!" In Ethiopia, she did organizational capacity building work for a local network of NGOs. The tools can be useful for in-country connections, in local languages, or north-south connections. Through my blog I see what???s

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2021

While Nigeria and Kenya have been at the forefront of African fintech innovation, activities in Egypt are beginning to shape up nicely. The platform helps online and offline merchants to accept payments from their customers via several products and solutions. Asides from Egypt, Paymob is also present in Kenya, Pakistan, and Palestine.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2022

Paymob also has a POS solution for offline merchants where they can receive in-store card payments. Last year, Paymob had over 35,000 local and international merchants using its payment gateways like Swvl, LG, Breadfast, and Homzmart. ” Egypt’s Paymob closes $18.5M Series A to expand payments services across MENA. .

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

Adelaide, Australia: Mixing online with offline - building communities that take action. Busia, Kenya: Blue Bells Orphans And Vulnerable Support Program /Kenya. Don’t have a local NetSquared Local group? What have NetSquared Local groups been up to recently? Tuesday, September 17. Event Reports.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

Countries such as Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa are majorly responsible for skyrocketing adoption rates as citizens try to hedge against currency devaluation and build wealth. Then, due to local bank card limitations of $20 monthly spend, we provided virtual dollar cards for Nigerians to make international purchases.”.

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