Month: August 2022
58 posts
Duplo, A Nigerian B2B Payments Startup Digitilizing Payments Flows For Businesses In Africa, Raises $4.3 Million In Seed Funding
Duplo co-founders Yele Oyekola and Tunde Akinnuwa Nigeria’s Duplo, a B2B payments startup digitilizing payment flows for businesses…
Donald Trump-owned Truth Social Gets Denied Entry On Google Play Store, Will Take More Time To Launch For Android Users
Earlier this year Truth Social, a social platform championed by former US President Donald Trump launched on Apple’s…
Nigeria’s POS Transaction Volume Stands At ₦4.6 Trillion So Far This Year
According to data from the Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement System (NIBSS), Point-of-sale (POS) transactions between January and July this…
Facebook And Instagram Join The List Of Social Platforms Integrating NFTs Onto Their Platforms, Now Let Users Post NFTs
Photo credit: Facebook Meta, the parent of Facebook and Instagram has announced that users can now share their…
Kenya’s Pezesha Gets Funding Of $11 Million To Fuel Its Expansion Plans Across Africa
Pezesha’s CEO Hilda Moraa Pezesha, a Kenyan embedded finance fintech has secured $11 million in equity and debt…
Baidu Exceeds Quarterly Revenue Estimates On Growth In Its Cloud Business
Shares of China’s biggest search engine Baidu were up 3.2 percent in pre-market trading on news of its…
The e-Naira Is Now Available To Users Without Internet Access Via USSD
Nigerians without access to the internet can now access the e-Naira and its related services. While speaking at…
Nigeria’s Cross-border Payment Startup Grey Gets $2 Million To Fuel Its Expansion Plans
Grey’s co-founders Idorenyin Obong and Femi Aghedo Grey is a fintech that provides virtual international bank accounts to…
NFT Transaction Volumes Decline To Its Lowest, Below $1 Billion, In The Past Year
Transaction volumes of non-fungible tokens (popularly referred to as NFTs) have declined to the lowest, below $1…
Anchor, A Nigerian Startup Offering Banking-as-a-service Solutions Comes Out Of Stealth With $1 Million In Pre-seed Funding
Anchor, a fintech startup founded by Segun Adeyemi – a former country manager for South African fintech JUMO,…