OnePipe raises $4.8m credit line, lays off 20% of its staff
Shikamoo, Starlink is now available in South Africa through its Roaming plan if you import the kit and pay a monthly subscription fee of more than R3,600 ($191.66). You can…
Microsoft 365 Copilot to create content in Office apps
Salve, Ladies and gentlemen, the weekend; what are your plans? While I don’t have mine planned out, a friend challenged me to have more fun two days ago. Although exposure…
Nigeria’s plan to fund tech and creative entrepreneurs
Victoria here, OpenAI’s most recent text-generation model, GPT-4, can remember approximately 50 pages of content due to a greatly expanded context window. The context window, as it relates to text-generating…
Meta to slash 10,000 jobs after cutting about 11,000 last year
Hola, Pitch Friday is this week! Who’s excited? 💃 If you’re new, Techpoint Africa hosts Pitch Friday on the second Friday of every month. Featuring early-stage entrepreneurs in Lagos, they…
Signature Bank shuts down following Silicon Valley Bank’s closure
Bonjour, On March 12, 2023, New York regulators, including the Federal Reserve, the US Treasury, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), closed down Signature Bank, one of the two…
Flutterwave is still under investigation in Kenya
Zdravstvuyte, Nigerians, South Africans, and Egyptians can now subscribe to Twitter Blue without a VPN. On iOS and Android devices, Nigerian and South African subscribers will pay a monthly flat…
Andela acquires Qualified
Bonjour, Another weekend is upon us. What are your plans? 😉 I noticed some media outlets say the Nigerian gubernatorial election has been postponed. Accurate or not, please enjoy your…
CBN issues operational guidelines for open banking
G’day, Some commercial banks have reportedly started issuing old naira notes to their customers. According to reports, a Zenith Bank branch in Festac Town, Lagos, paid customers old ₦500 and…
Nigerian telcos to roll out uniform shortcodes for bank and airtime transactions
‘Nakwana, After losing nearly $96,000 from his wallet, a Coinbase user — Jared Ferguson of Staten Island — filed a lawsuit against the cryptocurrency exchange on Monday. According to Bloomberg,…
Alerzo reduces its full-time workforce by 15%
Kaixo, Last week, Western Union partnered with MFS Africa to enable African individuals and businesses to accept payments from over 200 countries. According to Kumar Shourav, Managing Director, Money Transfer…