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Apple Shifts 25% Of iPhone Production To India As Supply Chain Diversification Gathers Pace
Apple is now manufacturing roughly a quarter of its iPhones in India, reaching a milestone that analysts at JPMorgan projected in 2022 as the company gradually reduces its reliance on China as its primary manufacturing hub. According to a report by Bloomberg, about 55 million iPhones produced last year came from India, out of an […] The post Apple Shifts 25% Of iPhone Production To India As Supply Chain Diversification Gathers Pace appeared first on Tekedia.
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Nvidia Prepares to Launch Open-Source ‘NemoClaw’ Platform for AI Agents, Targeting Enterprise Partners
Nvidia is developing an open-source platform for artificial intelligence agents called “NemoClaw,” positioning itself to capitalize on the explosive growth of agentic AI tools, according to a Wired report, citing anonymous sources familiar with the matter. The company has begun pitching the platform to major enterprise software providers, including Salesforce, Cisco, Google, Adobe, and CrowdStrike, […] The post Nvidia Prepares to Launch Open-Source ‘NemoClaw’ Platform for AI Agents, Targeting Enterprise Partners appeared first on Tekedia.
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AWIT to Host International Women’s Day 2026 Tech Dialogue in Lagos
AWIT to Host International Women’s Day 2026 Tech Dialogue in Lagos Lagos, Nigeria – March 10, 2026 – African Women in Technology (AWIT) will host the Nigeria edition of… TechCity
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Top-5 White-Label Payment Gateway Providers Powering PSPs and Fintechs
Launching a PSP often creates tension: move fast but keep control. Every new payment method, new region, and new provider relationship adds complexity to integrations, monitoring, and operations. Over time, the payments stack becomes less like a feature and more like a platform you have to run on. White-label payment gateways help resolve that trade-off. […]
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Best Laptops for Software Developers: Top Picks 2026 Guide Now
Best Laptops for Software Developers: Top Picks 2026 Guide Now This guide helps software developers pick the right laptop by matching workloads to hardware. It covers CPU, memory, storage, battery, and recommends models for macOS, Windows, Linux, and value-focused buyers, plus setup tips. TechCity
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Modernising Banking & Insurance for Africa’s Digital Economy
The future of digital banking and insurance in Africa is being shaped by forces that are transforming how people access, use and trust financial services. A growing mobile-first population expects experiences that are seamless, personalised and inclusive. Many banking relationships now begin – and often remain – on devices, prompting institutions to prioritise digital channels […]
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German industrial giant Würth is closing its Kenya operations after 29 years
The company said it would continue trading normally until the end of May 2026 while it winds down operations and settles outstanding obligations with customers and partners.
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Agentic AI Company Partners with InterNetX to Enable Seamless Domain Access
Despite the rapid growth of Africa’s digital economy, domain ownership remains extremely low compared to global markets. Many entrepreneurs are unable to purchase domains due to international payment restrictions or foreign currency requirements. Gebeya announced a strategic partnership with InterNetX, a European domain registrar and part of the IONOS Group, to enable domain registration directly […]
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👨🏿‍🚀TechCabal Daily – Kenya’s taxman is watching
In today's edition: Kenya’s Parliament endorses Safaricom stake sale || Body cams for Kenyan customs officers || Nigeria's Internet penetration rate reaches 53% || CcHub backed over 3,000 ventures in 2025
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When Vision Raises $1 Billion: The Power of America’s Innovation Capital Market
Only in America can a company raise over $1 billion without a balance sheet, powered largely by a vision articulated in a pitch deck. That is the depth of the American innovation capital market. Artificial intelligence startup Advanced Machine Intelligence announced that it has raised $1.03 billion at a $3.5 billion pre-money valuation, even though […] The post When Vision Raises $1 Billion: The Power of America’s Innovation Capital Market appeared first on Tekedia.
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Multi-Agent Recursive Loops Without Needing an External Builder to Sustain their Boundary 
Traditional software has never been truly autopoietic in the strict biological sense defined by Maturana and Varela: living systems that continuously self-produce and self-maintain their own organization through their own processes, without needing an external “builder” to recreate or sustain their boundary and components. Classical software is paradigmatically allopoietic — produced and maintained by something […] The post Multi-Agent Recursive Loops Without Needing an External Builder to Sustain their Boundary  appeared first on Tekedia.
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Stronger Business Investment Lifts Japan’s Fourth-Quarter Growth, Though Middle East Tensions Cloud Outlook
Japan’s economy expanded more strongly than initially estimated in the final quarter of 2025, supported by a sharp rebound in business investment and firmer household spending, revised government data released Tuesday showed. The upgrade suggests domestic demand is providing a measure of resilience for the world’s fourth-largest economy, even as geopolitical tensions in the Middle […] The post Stronger Business Investment Lifts Japan’s Fourth-Quarter Growth, Though Middle East Tensions Cloud Outlook appeared first on Tekedia.
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Volkswagen Reports Sharp 53% Drop in 2025 Operating Profit
Volkswagen AG, Europe’s largest carmaker, on Tuesday, reported a steep 53% decline in full-year 2025 operating profit to €8.9 billion ($10.4 billion), missing analyst expectations and underscoring the mounting pressures facing the German automotive giant. The results reflect a combination of U.S. import tariffs, adverse currency effects, a strategic reset at its high-margin Porsche brand, […] The post Volkswagen Reports Sharp 53% Drop in 2025 Operating Profit appeared first on Tekedia.
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German Advertisers push for Antitrust fine Against Apple over App Tracking Rules
German publishers, advertisers, and marketing trade groups are pressing the country’s antitrust regulator to impose penalties on Apple, arguing that the technology giant’s proposed adjustments to its app tracking framework fail to resolve competition concerns tied to its control over user data within the iPhone ecosystem. The call for action comes as Germany’s competition watchdog, […] The post German Advertisers push for Antitrust fine Against Apple over App Tracking Rules appeared first on Tekedia.
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Career Transition to Tech: A Complete How-To Guide
Career Transition to Tech: A Complete How-To Guide Here is something worth sitting with for a moment. A teacher in Lagos becomes a UX designer in… TechCity
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Aga Khan’s exit hands East Africa’s largest news publisher to Tanzanian billionaire
The deal shifts control of one of East Africa’s most influential media groups at a time when publishers across the continent are racing to turn large online audiences into sustainable digital businesses.
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Executing A Winning AI Product Strategy in Africa – Ndubuisi Ekekwe
The rapid evolution of artificial intelligence (A) has ushered in a new era of product development that operates under a distinct and unforgiving set of rules which do not align with the conventional SaaS business model where digital products benefit from near-zero marginal costs and network effects with scale. At the heart of this new […] The post Executing A Winning AI Product Strategy in Africa – Ndubuisi Ekekwe appeared first on Tekedia.
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Decide AI doesn’t want to be ChatGPT. It just wants to fix your spreadsheets
The system runs a preprocessing stage that attempts to interpret the file structure to identify sheets, headers, tables, formulas, and relationships between parts of the dataset.
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Startups in DR Congo are building Africa’s overlooked digital frontier
Kinshasa’s tech ecosystem barely registers on Africa’s venture map. But beneath the numbers, new infrastructure, ambitious founders, and policy reforms are quietly laying the foundations of DR Congo’s digital frontier.
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Kenya’s parliament committees back $1.5 billion Safaricom stake sale
Lawmakers argued that directing the funds toward infrastructure investment would help ease fiscal pressure while financing large-scale development projects.
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South African Parents Urged to Rethink Online Sharing of Children’s Data
Kaspersky’s “Growing up online” survey reveals that almost half (47%) of parents surveyed in South Africa regularly post photos, videos, or updates about their children on social media platforms. While family content remains popular, privacy settings and motivations behind sharing vary significantly. Among those who post about their children, 82% locally limit visibility to friends, […]
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WhatsApp research platform Yazi raises first institutional round at $1.6M valuation
The round was led by 3 Capital Ventures (3CV), the South African early-stage venture firm spun out of Allan Gray, an investment management firm.
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Ghana’s new crypto law gets its first test with an 11-company sandbox
The sandbox is Ghana's first operational step since it passed the Virtual Asset Service Providers Act (2025) into law in December 2025. The Act grants legal status to startups operating crypto businesses in the country and sets the framework for licencing exchanges, payment providers, and other digital asset operators.
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Connectivity is Infrastructure: Strategic Partnerships are Redefining Mining in Africa
As mines across Africa increasingly operate in even more remote regions, harsher underground environments, and increasingly challenging geographies, the role of connectivity has fundamentally shifted. It is no longer a support function. It is strategic infrastructure as critical to mining operations as geology, capital, and people. Connectivity is Non-Negotiable In today’s mining environment, connectivity is […]
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CcHUB says it supported 3,312 ventures with $4.18m in grants in 2025
CcHUB's 2025 impact report reveals that every dollar in the $4.18 million it deployed attracted five dollars in external investment for its startups.
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 68% of Nigeria’s 2025 music streaming was led by three companies
Sony trailed third at 541.8 million streams and roughly 14%, carried largely by Tems and Shallipopi through subsidiary label Since '93.
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Nigeria’s Prembly launches open-source database to fight African fraud
Financial institutions, fintechs, banks, and other businesses detect and prevent fraudulent activity with Prembly's new open-source fraud intelligence bank.
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Infinix NOTE 60 Pro Debuts with Snapdragon Power, 6500mAh Battery and LED Design
Infinix NOTE 60 Pro Debuts with Snapdragon Power, 6500mAh Battery and LED Design InteractiveInfinix has officially launched the NOTE 60 Pro in Nigeria, introducing one of the brand’s most advanced smartphones… TechCity
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Cross Switch Promotes Engineering Head to Chief Technology Officer
Cross Switch, a payment technology company powering digital transactions across emerging markets, announced the promotion of Jacob Yermalitski to Chief Technology Officer (CTO). A co-founder of the company, Jacob has helped shape Cross Switch’s technology strategy since its onset, most recently serving as Director of Engineering. Jacob assumes the CTO role from Mike Kenrich, who […]
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Kenya’s taxman turns to surveillance tech to root out customs corruption
From Tuesday, officers at Kenya’s main airport will begin wearing the cameras as part of a wider push by the taxman to clamp down on bribery and collusion schemes.
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Airtel, MTN drive Nigeria’s Internet penetration to record levels amid infrastructure push
Nigeria’s Internet penetration hit a record 53% in January, reflecting strong demand for connectivity and sustained infrastructure investments by mobile network operators
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MTN extends fibre dominance as 21st Century suffers record decline
MTN Nigeria further cemented its dominance in Nigeria’s fixed Internet market in December 2025, adding 13,433 subscribers to its fibre-to-the-home service.
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How Can Machine Learning Unlock Credit in South Africa
Access to credit is a foundational enabler of economic opportunity, yet it remains out of reach for over a billion adults globally. In South Africa, the challenge is particularly sharp. More than 85% of small businesses seeking funding have turnovers under R1 million, and they face the highest rejection rates from traditional credit scoring models. […]
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Zepz Appoints Barrie Morris as Interim CEO as Mark Lenhard Steps Down
Zepz, the global payments group behind WorldRemit and Sendwave, announced that Mark Lenhard, Chief Executive Officer and Board Director, will step down from his role over the coming weeks. The company’s Board of Directors has appointed Barrie Morris, currently Chief Financial Officer, as Interim Chief Executive Officer to lead the business during the transition period. […]
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‘I’ve never used a laptop before. I’m scared I may fail UTME’ – Teenage candidate
When he could not sit the UTME in 2025 like his peers, he returned to his community to assist teachers at a government secondary school.
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Blockchain Technology in Banking: Use Cases, Risks, and ROI
Blockchain Technology in Banking: Use Cases, Risks, and ROI This article explains practical use cases, implementation models, risks, and a pilot checklist for blockchain technology in banking. It offers business case guidance and links to industry and regional resources for banks and fintech teams. TechCity
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