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FillApp: The App That Helps You Save More on Fuel

Apps, News

30th January 2015

TouchFoundry launched “FillApp” in South Africa, a locally developed app that will help save consumers money when it comes to the recent volatility price of fuel in South Africa.

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The university student who wants to rival Jumia Food one day

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Kay Ugwuede

30th September 2020

My Life In Tech is putting human faces to some of the innovative startups, investments and policy formations driving the technology sector across Africa. Third year student at University of Lagos, David Mustapha, is trying to solve long food queues at eateries on campus. His company, OrderEat, aggregates these eateries and allows students order and receive […]

Dr. Ola Brown: How to navigate the market’s evil forces

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30th September 2020

“In countries like Nigeria with high levels of poverty, people may want what you’re offering but may not be able to afford it. So, in some respect, B2B may be easier, but most times, B2C businesses are more likely to become unicorns.”

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Olumuyiwa Olowogboyega

29th September 2020

Tariffs, VAT and other applicable importation levies for solar products have contributed to over 40% of their retail prices. Yet, the Nigerian government said it made the decision to improve local production.
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After GTBank, Sterling Bank is restructuring into a holdings company

Business, News

Abubakar Idris

29th September 2020

Sterling Bank is going the way of GTBank. The sixty-year-old bank is planning a restructuring and has already secured regulatory approval to operate as a holding company.

The Next Wave: Exorcising evil forces

The Next Wave

Victor Ekwealor

28th September 2020

An exclusive West African Disney deal SEPTEMBER 27, 2020 This newsletter is a weekly in-depth analysis of tech and innovation in Africa that will serve as a post-pandemic guide. Subscribe here to get it directly in your inbox every Sunday at 3 pm WAT. Hello, Last week I was away on a much needed break […]

Factsheet: Between venture capital and private equity investments in African tech

Factsheet

Alexander O. Onukwue

25th September 2020

You are reading Factsheet, our series of specific guides on experiencing and using technology platforms in Africa. Whether you are looking for knowledge on getting your African film on Netflix, raising a seed round or finishing an online design course, we are covering all that. — Between February and August 2020, Lateral Capital made a […]

Digital Nomads: The Nigerian sharing data-backed African solutions with the world

Digital Nomads

Olumuyiwa Olowogboyega

25th September 2020

We need some kind of repository so that when postgraduate students or companies collect data they can upload this data to the repository. This way, we can create secondary data for future students, instead of repeating the process of collecting data years down the line.

Will GPT-3 take your job?

Features, Technology

Kay Ugwuede

25th September 2020

Short answer? It depends. Long answer? There are more critical things to worry about. At least, that is what experts and experience with advanced technologies like this say, especially if you live in Africa. If you write things—news articles from standard press releases or reportage from a war zone, code, poetry, communiques, fiction—if you write […]