East Africa

Worldreader, a global nonprofit dedicated to improving literacy in the developing world through digital books, has announced a new partnership with Opera Software that has provided 5 million readers in Africa access to 25,000 free digital book title

5 million readers in Africa to access books via mobile

Worldreader, a global nonprofit dedicated to improving literacy in the developing world through digital books, has announced a new partnership with Opera...

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SimbaPay announces Instant Deposit Service to Kenya

SimbaPay the digital money transfer provider has announced the expansion of its free instant deposit service to Kenya. SimbaPay has partnered with Choice...

Applications Open for Village Capital, Lemelson Foundation, DOEN Foundation, VC4Africa and Gearbox Hardware Accelerator

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Africa Hardware Accelerator 2015 – Call for Applications

Village Capital has announced the launch of their first hardware accelerator in Africa, in partnership with Gearbox, a unique space for inventors...

Bitcoin entrepreneurship is taking hold worldwide. The first quarter of 2015 saw record levels of investment pumped into Bitcoin startups across the world, with global Bitcoin startups receiving US$299 million – a 51 per cent increase on the end of 2014.

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Bitcoin: a cryptocurrency ideal for Africa?

Bitcoin entrepreneurship is taking hold worldwide. The first quarter of 2015 saw record levels of investment pumped into Bitcoin startups across the...

MTN Nigeria rolls out smart feature phone running on KaiOS

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MTN and Liquid Telecom partner to extend footprint and offering in Africa

Customers of MTN Group and Liquid Telecom are set to benefit from a larger connectivity footprint across Africa. This follows an announcement...

“Android One,” after the company’s mobile operating system Android, and will cost less than $100.

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Google launches Android One in Africa but cost of data still the big issue

The race to offer cheaper smartphones in Africa has dramatically increased with the launch of the Android One program in Africa, however the price of phones...

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Digging for data on Africa’s climate future

Efforts to digitise old records and gather new data will improve local climate modelling explains Lou Del Bello from SciDevNet. The cardboard...

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Airtel Kenya launches free insurance with MicroEnsure

Airtel Kenya has partnered with Pan Africa Life Assurance Limited and MicroEnsure to launch a free insurance product which will offer Airtel...

SMS, not apps, key to content distribution in Africa

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Facebook’s Internet.org Free Basic Services are bringing Africans online

Over the last year, Facebook has worked closely with more than a dozen mobile operators across 17 countries to give people access...

Airbnb has more than doubled in size in Africa

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Airbnb has more than doubled in size in Africa

Airbnb CEO, Brian Chesky attended GES 2015 in Kenya today to meet with entrepreneurs from around the world and explore the sharing...

Kenya’s BRCK providing African solution to rural connectivity issues

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Regulations need relaxing if African hardware is to become reality

Speaking recently Erik Hersman of iHub, Ushahidi and now BRCK renown bemoaned the fact that legacy tax laws made it impossible for...

Ethel Cofie. She is the Founder of Women in Tech Africa, initiator of the 1st Pan African woman in tech meet up and was shortlisted for the United Nations GEM -Tech Award for work supporting women in ICT.

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Interview with founder of Women In Tech Africa

In the past few years there has been a flourishing number of self-organisation amongst African women in technology. Many focus on encouraging...

Spark is supporting Entrepreneurs launch 8 businesses in Rwanda

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Spark is supporting entrepreneurs launch 8 businesses in Rwanda

Spark and it’s partner Single Spark, both headquartered in the Netherlands, are launching a new program this summer where they plan to...

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Four new tech start ups to join think Rwanda

Tech incubator think today announced four new entrants to its incubator as part of a new think Accelerated program. In addition to...

Finalists announced for PIVOT East 2015

25 exceptional startups that will participate in PIVOT East 2015 have been announced today. The finalists, 5 from each category were selected from...

think Welcomes Four New Tech Start Ups To New Accelerated Incubator Incubation hub think expands to meet demand by entrepreneurs for fast-track support

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Think Rwanda set to announce new cohort

Millicom had the idea to create a hub where innovative tech solutions could be developed for the African continent. With that, Think Rwanda...

World’s first international access to M-Pesa PayBill

SimbaPay a leading digital money transfer provider has launched the first product in the world that allows Kenyans living abroad to make M-Pesa...

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PIVOT East 2015 Semi-finalists Announced

PIVOT East, has unveiled semifinalist for this year’s event. The competition opened the call for applications in April 2015 with startups from...

MasterCard Becomes First International Payments Network to Enter Somalia

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MasterCard to bolster banking in Somalia

MasterCard has announced it is to become the first international payments network to enter Somalia following years of war and conflict.

SMS service seeks to reduce baby mortality in Africa

Most tech start-ups feel pressure in delivering a good experience for users but none probably as important as this one. “I wish...

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Deadline for Pivot East 2015 entries

PIVOT East the annual start-up pitching competition and conference run by m:lab East Africa is fast approaching with only four days left until...

Crowdfunding platform Afrikstart dedicated to African entrepreneurs

With President Barack Obama attending the Global Entrepreneurship Summit in Kenya in July, 2015 is deemed to be the Year Of the...