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The Dangote Group (Dangote.com), the largest indigenous industrial conglomerate in Sub Saharan Africa has deployed Freshservice by Freshworks (www.Freshworks.com), its
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Google buys Looker for $2.6B Google announced it’s acquiring Looker, a business intelligence software and big data analytics company, for
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DHL Africa eShop sees impressive growth in first seven weeks; Platform has been rolled out to nine more countries across
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Female-founded unicorns proliferate in 2019 So far, 2019 is tracking to becoming a historic year for female-founded unicorns. While still
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The Forum will be held in Africa for the first time; Africa’s leading city officials to connect with investors at
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Getty Images (www.GettyImages.com), a world leader in visual communications, and APO Group (www.APO-opa.com), a leading media relations consultancy and press
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DoorDash picks up $600M On-demand food delivery remains hot. San Francisco-based DoorDash just raised $600 million, and is now worth
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Nestlé has kicked off a Research and Development (R&D) innovation challenge in Sub-Saharan Africa as part of the company’s efforts
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Guinness Nigeria employees will begin to enjoy some of the best parental leave benefits in the country, with the business
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LinkedIn buys Drawbridge LinkedIn, the Microsoft-owned professional networking giant, has just made its second known acquisition in eight months, snapping
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Travelstart, Africa’s online travel company has announced a new partnership with global private markets investment firm HarbourVest, with $58 billion
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Gokada, a Nigeria-based on-demand motorcycle taxi app, has secured a Series A funding of $5.3 million. Led by Rise Capital
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Nigerian e-health start-up iDHS HealthWise is looking to expand operations across a host of African countries among them Ghana, Kenya,
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For more than a decade, Fast Company‘s Most Innovative Companies list has celebrated the extraordinary work of visionaries. From household
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Where funded founders went to school Before launching a startup, most founders also went to school somewhere. In our annual
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The Nigerian Stock Exchange (The NSE or Exchange) is pleased to announce the listing by introduction of 20.35 billion (20,354,513,050)
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West Africa’s leading connectivity and data centre solutions provider, MainOne (www.MainOne.net) launches its “Digital Lagos: Broadband for All” campaign initiative to
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Celebrating exactly a year to the day since the doors of NG_Hub opened in Lagos, and Facebook (www.Facebook.com) further cemented
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Tata Communications Transformation Services Limited (TCTS), a Telco transformation and managed services provider, is partnering with Africa Development Solutions (ADS
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DoorDash ordering up big new round DoorDash is reportedly looking to add at least $500 more to its cap table
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African Leadership magazine in conjunction with the African Leadership UK Limited and the Centre for Economic and Leadership Development (CELD),
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Ahmad Farroukh, Smile Group Executive Director Operations, appointed as Group CEO; Irene Charnley, founder of Smile, appointed as Deputy Chairman.
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Telecoming, the European technology company specialized in digital services monetization has closed an agreement with African company Maliyo Games, the pioneer
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The micromobility revolution is in full swing, and startups are vying for a piece of the bike and scooter market.
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Uber is the quintessential two-sided marketplace, but the real mechanics and drivers of its business are poorly understood. We look
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