It’s Thursday, September 3, 2015, and this is about everything you need to know about the African tech scene today:
Bad kitties: NCC slams Etisalat and Globalcom with 14 million fine for bad behaviour
Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) just slammed a NGN 14.4 million ($70,263) fine on Etisalat and Globacom for contravening its directive to telcos on deactivating pre-registered SIM cards.
MainOne and Microsoft are helping companies rig up private cloud
MainOne’s data center subsidiary, MDX-i, launched a cloud-based service offering today, to provide private computing environments for companies. It was in partnership with Microsoft.
The online voting for the small and medium enterprises (SME) Empowerment Challenge East and West Africa has commenced. Help an SME inch close to world domination.
Google money-as-an-attachment may be coming to Nigeria soon
We are seeing signs, quite literally. Google initially launched the money-as-a-gmail-attachment gateway in 2013, in the US and in January 2015, announced the feature in the UK.
*drum roll* Rocket Internet’s job listing network, Everjobs has expanded to Ethiopia. Well, they are in Nigeria yet and they don’t seem to have that plans just yet. That’s probably for good reasons.
Pitch for seed funding at LaunchLab’s Idea Programme Pitching Platform
LaunchLab is accepting entries into its bi-annual Idea Programme Pitching Platform tailored for startups in the Western Cape, South Africa.
Have you met Sango? Meet his wives too
Genii Games has a new app coming out and it involves a thunder god. A fiery, thunder god and his wives. Watch the trailer.
Instant mobile loaning platform, InVenture gets a 10 million raise to lock down Africa
InVenture, based in Los Angeles, secured the $10 million in series A funding to enable it build out its mobile instant loan services in Africa.
CcHub is taking applications for its first hyperlocal hackathon
Lagos-based co-working space and incubator, Co-Creation Hub is inviting startups to apply for the first edition of its hyperlocal hackathon; BuildForMyCity.
Five startups are pitching at the 2015 Entrepreneur’s Hub, and we know who they are
Informa and Wennovation Hub have announced the five startups selected to participate at the entrepreneurs hub’s pitch event scheduled to hold at NigeriaCom 2015.
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