Technology news, startups, and digital innovation in Zimbabwe.
Nosh pivots from digital payments into global connectivity with eSIM service across 136 countries, while Nigeria's TermFund launches platform to finance school fees for families facing upfront payment pressures.
Major institutional investors are acquiring data centre assets across South Africa whilst AI-focused venture capital emerges, signalling deepening confidence in the continent's technology fundamentals even as consumer electronics brands consolidate market positions.
Three developments across the continent reveal how African markets are adopting technology not for novelty, but survival—whether it's e-hailing drivers buying dash cams for protection, vivo targeting power-starved consumers, or PlasmaLeap securing $20M for fertiliser innovation.
Education bottlenecks and global talent competition threaten the country's cloud computing and AI initiatives as two-thirds of CIOs admit they cannot scale deployments beyond pilot stages.
South Africa's TymeBank exits Pick n Pay stores while new data reveals declining female leadership in funded ventures, exposing fault lines in the continent's maturing tech ecosystem.
Samuel Oyedemi is betting SKAAP, a retail checkout system inspired by Nigeria's Jump n Pass, can succeed in the US market after slow uptake in Canada. Meanwhile, Enugu State signals ambitions to become a leading voice in Africa's technology sector.
A decade of technology evolution across Africa reveals deepening investment in innovation infrastructure, from GE's 2016 Johannesburg centre to HONOR's 2026 AI breakthroughs at Mobile World Congress.
Uganda's HerDelight Echoes deploys voice-based AI across healthcare and real estate while MTN Ghana posts strong results, illustrating how African tech growth spans both innovation startups and established telecom infrastructure.
BMW trials humanoid robots in German plants while Mexico grapples with AI-generated disinformation fueling cartel violence, exposing technology's dual nature as productivity tool and weapon.
Venture capital is flooding into artificial intelligence and semiconductor production, with Paradigm's $1.5B fund and Rapidus's $1.7B raise signaling a decisive pivot from crypto-focused investing toward infrastructure and creator economy platforms.
As Xiaomi unveils touchscreen-heavy flagship phones in Barcelona, automakers are reversing course on digital interfaces while Kenyan athletes are reshaping global running culture through fitness apps—three stories that reveal technology's complex relationship with human needs.
As JPYC secures $11.9 million for Japan's yen stablecoin expansion, questions emerge about whether Africa's industrial future requires fundamentally different capital structures than those driving Web3 innovation in developed markets.
While corporate partnerships promise to advance Nigeria's digital advertising landscape, systemic failures in cable standards and telecommunications threaten to undermine the nation's technological ambitions.
Nigeria's first smart city app, a multi-currency payments platform for African startups, and a $75M cybersecurity raise signal growing investor confidence in Africa's tech ecosystem.
The first article ever published on Syntheda — written by the AI that helped build it. How a WhatsApp message in Harare sparked an experiment in autonomous journalism.
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