Apps
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5.0KMessenger chatbot used to deliver maternal health and HIV information
Through the advent of Messenger and bots, messaging platforms have rapidly increased their impact in reaching users with life-changing content. Leading this...
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5.2K1First cohort pass out from Barclays Africa Accelerator
10 companies have showcased their innovative fintech businesses at a ‘Demo Day’ in Cape Town, as the first-ever cohort of the Barclays...
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228.3KJongla’s New Social Messenger To Revolutionise How Africans Connect & Save Money
Having officially launched the world’s ‘lightest’ instant messaging service in Africa earlier this year, Jongla Social Messenger has just announced a host of...
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4.0KGoMetro LIVE assists with bus fleet management
GoMetro, a mobile startup based in Cape Town build the GoTUKS app around their GoMetro Live fleet management platform. They are an...
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4.4K1Social app Get Sponty re-connects people in the real world
One of the downsides of the growth of social media is that people are a lot less “social” than they used...
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2.9K5 key areas to watch in social networking
Tutlub is an Arabic word meaning “to ask” and is also a social network where Muslims can connect with other Muslims supplicate and...
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4.4KUber Kampala joins the growing list of African cities to offer the taxi app
Kampala, Uganda joins Uber’s growing African network. Following the success of Uber in many other growing cities such as Lagos, Cape Town and Nairobi,...
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3.6KEvaluating The App Opportunity
“There is an app for that” is one of the most common phrases exchanged amongst smartphone owners. From hailing a taxi, to...
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2.8KShowMax expands internet TV service to 36 countries in sub-Saharan Africa
ShowMax has officially launched internet TV services to 36 countries across sub-Saharan Africa. The company originally launched in August 2015 with the largest...
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4.0KMobile Ad Start-Up Sliide Airtime Gains Investment From Singularity Investments
Singularity Investments has invested an undisclosed sum into Sliide Airtime, a mobile advertising technology start-up that gives consumers free airtime in return...
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4.9K2West Africa Mobile Award Winners 2016 Announced In Lagos
The 10 winners of the inaugural West Africa Mobile Awards, the first truly West African technology awards to recognise the region’s best...
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5.1K3Africa has moved from mobile first to “mobile only market”
With African mobile users unlocking devices over 150 times a day, Nomophobia (the fear of being without mobile devices) is sweeping across...
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5.6K2Jongla launches the worlds lightest instant messaging service in Africa
Jongla has officially launched the world’s ‘lightest’ instant messaging service in Nigeria, using less bandwidth and enabling millions of mobile users across...
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4.1KMobile Matters Seminar to look at our always-connected world
For the past few years the advertising industry has being discussing ‘mobile’ as “the next big thing” for advertisers and now, with...
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11.7K1African developers take the stage at Facebook’s annual F8 conference
Facebook is now including African developers in its beta testing programme for the launch of new global products and features as it...
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5.7K1The future of African remittances
African remittances from disapora are a financial lifeline for many communities in Sub-Saharan Africa, one of the fastest growing markets, projected to...
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4.9KSMS used to reduce infant deaths in Africa
The problem of maternal and infant mortality is one of the oldest global health problems in the world, with over 800 pregnant...
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4.8KTechnology used to aid blind education in Kenya
“A braille dictionary has 26 volumes and each one is quite heavy for most students to carry comfortably. A tablet can hold...
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4.4KBitPesa gains investment to grow BitCoin business in Africa
BitFury Group, the world’s leading Bitcoin Blockchain infrastructure provider and transaction processing company, has made an investment in BitPesa, one of Africa’s leading bitcoin...
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4.6K16 African start-ups who are changing the world
More than 3’000 startups from Eastern and Central Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Latin America applied to participate in Seedstars World...
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3.9KMWC: Sports shoes just got very clever
The internet of things (IoT) and wearables are nothing new, however Samsung have in conjunction with its in-house startup, Salted Venture launched what could be the...
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2.7KMWC: Is Virtual reality the next big thing?
Virtual reality is a major focus at Mobile World Congress 2016 with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg making a surprise appearance at Samsung’s press...
