Ghana
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3.2KChalkboard Education Wins Seedstars Accra
Seedstars World, the global seed-stage startup competition for emerging markets brought its Ghana round to a successful close with local company Chalkboard...
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Mobile payments to churches helping to create new start-ups
Mobile payments to churches accounted for 4% of mobile money transactions in Nigeria, so it is not surprising that entrepreneurs are seeing this as...
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Hardware being used to drive entrepreneurship and employment in Ghana
Tackling critical challenges in communities and promoting youth entrepreneurship is a common theme for many tech start-ups across Africa, however very few...
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West 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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3.6KMobile penetration In Ghana soars to 128%
Ghana’s mobile phone penetration rate rose to 127.63 per cent after the country’s voice subscriber base climbed to over 35 million in...
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MEST shares plans for 2016 including new venture fund for Africa
Accra-based Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST) has become a major entrepreneurial hub in Africa, training, supporting and incubating startups in Ghana,...
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Entries now open for inaugural West Africa Mobile Awards
The West Africa Mobile Awards (WAMAS), the first truly West African technology awards targeting the leading mobile and tech companies across the...
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3.4KGhana: iSpace Foundation hosting Social Impact Week in Accra
The iSpace Foundation in collaboration with their partners at Making All Voices Count, Hivos, The Doen Foundation and Indigo Trust will host...
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Best Disruptive Innovation Finalists
With only a few weeks to go until the Appsafrica.com Innovation Awards 2015 in Cape Town, kindly supported by Mobile Monday South Africa, Uber and AppsWorld we...
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Airtel and Verifone to deliver NFC payments in Ghana
Airtel Ghana has partnered with Verifone Mobile Money to launch NFC-enabled devices to Airtel merchants that will act as terminals, allowing more than...
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MEST Incubator & Samsung partner in West Africa
Recognized as one of Fast Company’s Top 10 “Most Innovative Companies in Africa”, The Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST) has announced...
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2.0KGhanian start-up Suba wins the #MWA2015 App Developer Competition
Suba is an event-based iOS and Android mobile app that allows everyone at fun social gatherings (from concerts to weddings) to see...
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Ghanian start-up wins the #MWA2015 App Developer Competition
The App Developer pitch final has just finished in Lagos and Suba has been voted the Mobile West Africa, App Developer 2015 winner.
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3.2KMTN and Vodafone agree mobile money deal
Customers of MTN Mobile Money and M-Pesa in East Africa will be able to transfer money to each other following an agreement...
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Airtel money gains traction in Ghana
Airtel Money breaks the 1.5 million subscriber mark in Ghana, offering the ability to link bank accounts and electronic wallets for simple...
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Ghanaian developers launch event sharing app
Two African developers based in Ghana have launched Suba, an events-based iOS and Android mobile app that allows everyone at fun social gatherings to...
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Demo Africa: Start-ups chance to win $500K equity investment
DEMO Africa has teamed up with Seedstars World for the first flagship event in Accra, Ghana in a bid to boost the...
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Ghana: Google gDays helps local techies
Google Ghana has organized its second g/Days event to help local businesses and tech developers understand how to creatively use internet tools...
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Ghana: mobile web is killing ISP’s as Ghanians go mobile
An interesting piece written by Leo Mirani at Quartz details how ISP’s in Ghana are now being decimated by mobile as more...
