Technology

What you say in a text message can hurt you – even if it’s supposed to be private. This is the lesson a recent data leak by TrueDialogue is causing to resound. The popular text messaging firm left its...

Kevin Lubega, is a 28 year old Ugandan and founder of EzeeMoney, a financial technology firm offering electronic money services to clients with or without a mobile phone or formal bank accounts wishing to receive and make multiple payments....

Mahmood Oyewo is 26 year-old app developer from Nigeria. At an early age, Oyewo participated in science fairs and always wanted to know how things worked. This inquisitiveness led him to start his first company, Mabtech Solutions, before university....

Olaoluwa Samuel-Biyi is a Director at SureGroup, a group of companies providing retail voucher solutions for gifting/loyalty (SureGifts), remittances (SureRemit) and credit (SureCredit), with offices in Nigeria and Kenya. Prior to SureGroup, he managed data-intensive projects in Commercial Planning,...

Amanda Spann is a Ghanian born, Chicago-based marketing consultant & app entrepreneur. Sitting at the intersection of product and promotion, she helps brands take their ideas from concept to creation and then build a buzz around them. Amanda launched...

Isaya Yunge, is the founder and chief executive of Somaapps Technologies which created SomaApp, a mobile app which is revolutionizing how scholarships are offered in Africa. Isaya is from Tanzania, him and his team came up with the SomaApp...

Benji Coetzee is the founder and CEO of EmptyTrips.com, an online trip exchange program using smart technology to match and connect spare capacity on trucks, trains, planes or ships. She bootstrapped her business, but at some point, needed more...

Bamai Namata is the only Cameroonian to be featured on the Forbes list. The Buea-based young entrepreneur is the founder of the tech company Maibeta Inc, which is a digital service platform to match private and institutional customers to...

Rivoningo Mhlari is the Chief Executive Officer of Rikatec with a background in Finance and Accounting from the University of Cape Town. He founded a marketing consultancy, where he hosted events and advised small business on strategy; made money...

NeuraLink, a company set up by Elon Musk to explore ways to connect the human brain to a computer interface, has applied to US regulators to start trialing its device on humans. The system has been tested on a...