Innovation

How Can Crowdfunding Scale In Sub-Saharan Africa?

It will have been difficult to ignore the exponential growth in crowdfunding over the past five years. In a relatively short period...

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GoMetro 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...

MTN Nigeria rolls out smart feature phone running on KaiOS

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MTN hire new Group CEO

After conducting an extensive global search MTN Group has appointed Rob Shuter as the new Group President and CEO. Following the resolution...

Andela raises $24M series B led by Zuckerberg initiative

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Andela raises $24M series B funding led by Zuckerberg initiative

Andela has announced completion of their Series B funding a $24M round led by Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. This marks the first time...

Tutlub Arabic social network where Muslims can connect with other Muslims

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5 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...

The first ever CyberXchange Hackathon sponsored by Facebook is to touch down in Nigeria

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CyberXchange Hackathon to touch down in Lagos

The first ever CyberXchange Hackathon sponsored by Facebook is to touch down in Nigeria, geared towards finding the best prototypes within programming, cyber security, information...

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Is Transport Tech a Game Changer For the Planet?

As an associate of Appsafrica Advisory, I was asked by the Cape Town pressure group Open Streets to prepare some thoughts for...

Alon Lits Uber GM SSA | Loic Amado Head Of Expansion SSA | Bertrand Nembot Launcher and some of the first driver-partners in Kampala

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Uber 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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Evaluating 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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The environmental impact of transport tech

Appsafrica Advisory were invited to participate on the Open Streets Cape Town first Transport Minds Gathering. Jeremy George from Appsafrica Advisory, joined...

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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...

Seedstars applications open for African startups

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10 South African start-ups announced to pitch to Seedstars in Cape Town

Seedstars World, the global early-stage startups competition has announced the 10 startups that will pitch at its pre-selection event in Cape Town,...

ShowMax expands internet TV service to sub-Saharan Africa

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ShowMax 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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Facebook wakes up to Nigeria but is Free Basics enough?

Having already launched Internet.org in smaller markets such as Zambia, Kenya, Malawi, Ghana, Seychelles and Rwanda as reported last year, Facebook has finally launched...

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Ringier Africa merger creates Africa’s largest classifieds group

As millions more Africans come online to connect & conduct commerce, predominantly via mobile Ringier Africa and One Africa Media (OAM) have agreed...

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Seedstars world looking to find best start-ups in South-Africa

Seedstars World, the global seed-stage startup competition for emerging markets and fast-growing startup scenes, is returning to South-Africa to find the best...

Nairobi set to host an East Africa Innovating Justice event

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Kenyan internet penetration growing as fibre roll out continues

A report by the Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) indicates that for the second quarter of the 2015/2016 financial year, internet penetration...

West Africa Mobile Awards opens entries to discover best in mobile

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Jason Njoku’s Outstanding Industry Achievement

Jason Njoku’s objective has always been to ‘lead viewers to content they’ll love’ and he has achieved this by opening up Nollywood...

Africa has moved from mobile first to “mobile only market

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Africa 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...

African developers take the world stage at Facebook's annual F8 conference

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African 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...

Catching up with Africa’s digital payment revolution

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Catching up with Africa’s digital payment revolution

Although Africa’s digital payment revolution has helped many people enjoy making financial transactions with unprecedented ease, the constantly shifting landscape has also...