Didi is a popular ride-hailing app in China’s 1.3 billion strong population and it is planning to launch in Nigeria. Since its founding in 2012, Didi has become China’s dominant ride-hailing service, with over 550 million annual active users globally in 17 countries including South Africa, Australia, and Russia. Didi is quoted in the New York Stocks Exchange.
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MTN Partners Flutterwave for MoMo Expansion to Cameroon, Others
MTN Mobile Money (MoMo) is now available for businesses using Africa’s indigenous payments technology, Flutterwave, in Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Rwanda, Uganda, and Zambia. This follows the recent mobile money partnership with the fintech firm to empower millions of businesses to embrace e-commerce in the MTN markets by accepting digital payments from MoMo consumers.
TECNO launches new campaign: #StopAtNothing
Smartphone brand, TECNO, has launched ‘Stop at Nothing’ as its new brand slogan while releasing a brand video on its YouTube page as well.
Ecobank Announces $37,000 Fintech Prize
The Ecobank Fintech Challenge identifies and partners Fintechs that are ready to scale and provides them with support and access to opportunities in Ecobank’s 33 countries African markets. The goal is to contribute to their growth as potential Pan African Fintech success stories. The Challenge is open to all Fintechs […]
Host your eCommerce Store on your Whatsapp!
eCommerce platforms for business place your product or services in the face of the buyer and help them to make instant purchasing decisions. However many businesses are not able to implement this experience for cost considerations amongst other things.
OPay, Nigerian Fintech, valued at $2B in SoftBank Vision Fund 2- Raises $400m Funding
OPay, the Nigerian based fintech company which had had a successive streak of fundings over the past years has secured $400 million in a new funding round led by SoftBank Vision Fund, the venture capital arm of Japanese conglomerate, SoftBank.
The must-take-part esports tournament in Africa will be held in 16 countries
Enter Africa, World Esports Consortium and Esports.NGO, as a technical partner, announced the launch of Afrika Esports Series, a large-scale esports event in Africa. The series of professional tournaments between countries starts in 4 disciplines at once:
WhatsApp postpones data sharing updates after consumer backlash
WhatsApp on Friday postponed a data-sharing update following what seems to be a huge user-flights from the Facebook-owned messaging service to rivals Telegram and Signal following privacy scare.
@OppoMobileNg officially launches the #OPPOReno2Series today
The company also anounces its brand partnership with Toke Makinwa, a Nigerian author and media personality. Oppo has always pitched itself as a camera-centric brand. Be it for selfies or for other features found in its smartphones’ camera, it’s been all about the ‘sharp’ shooters. Interestingly, the company makes handset […]
Airtel increases Data Allowance for 4G Network
Airtel Nigeria has announced an increase in data allowance on its weekly and monthly data tariff plans to enable mobile Internet consumers to enjoy more value at heavily discounted rates.