Innovation

Orange invests €75 million in Africa Internet Group

Africa Internet Group, the largest e-commerce platform in Africa and parent company of Jumia, today announced a partnership with Orange to accelerate...

SimplePay is Nigeria’s number one payment processing platform founded by Simeon Ononobi. Having had an eCommerce store but unable to accept payments he created a new payment mechanism. He shares thoughts on Nigeria payments landscape and his new venture MyAds with Appsafrica.com.

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Simeon Ononobi on SimplePay, Nigeria and new venture MyAds

SimplePay is Nigeria’s number one payment processing platform founded by Simeon Ononobi. Having had an eCommerce store but unable to accept payments...

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Finalists announced for the West Africa Mobile Awards

The 2016 shortlisted finalists for the West Africa Mobile Awards (WAMAS), the first truly West African technology awards to recognise the region’s...

CEO of Safaricom shares how MNO's are evolving in Africa

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Safaricom CEO shares how they are evolving with tech start-ups

In a recent interview CEO of Safaricom Bob Collymore (BC) shared with Andrew Fassnidge (AF) from Appsafrica.com how the mobile network operator...

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Bootstrapping an mhealth business in Africa

Chukwuemeka Onyenwe, CEO and co-founder of Nigerian tech start-up Find-A-Med updates on their progress since first featured on Appsafrica.com. Onyenwe provides great insight for...

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Mobile 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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5 key takeaways from the worlds biggest mobile event

Every year at Mobile World Congress there is a lot of hype, brand noise and people with over 100,000 in Barcelona this...

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BitPesa 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...

Cape Town-based Project codeX, which runs programming courses with the aim of addressing the lack of developers in Africa is training talented young brains to build Africa’s digital future.

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Cape Town coders share how CodeX is changing their lives

Cape Town-based codeX runs programming courses with the aim of addressing the lack of developers in Africa is training talented young brains...

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MWC: Fully charged phones in just 15 minutes

Oppo the chinese manufacturer launched it’s rapid phone charging solution ‘Super VOOC Flash Charge’ at MWC this week and means Oppo’s new devices...

Facebook shared how it was bringing its streaming technology for 360 video to Samsung Gear VR in coming weeks

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MWC: 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...

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MWC: Orange launches Google deal for Africa

In the first of many announcements from Mobile World Congress (MWC) Orange has announced a new partnership with Google™ to bring the...

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Deadline for entries for the West Africa Mobile Awards

Mobile innovators have just one week left to submit their entries for the West Africa Mobile Awards, with winners announced at an awards...

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Facebook opens up instant articles to all publishers

Facebook’s will be opening up the Instant Articles program to all publishers — of any size, anywhere in the world it announced at...

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Tech boom in Nigeria boosting demand for rooms and creating new businesses

Nigeria’s rapidly expanding tech scene is creating opportunities in other sectors such as hospitality where soaring demand means hotel prices are among the...

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AXA to invest $84 million for an 8% stake in Africa Internet Group

Insurance giant AXA plans to invest 75 million euros ($84 million) for an 8 percent stake in Africa Internet Group (AIG), one...

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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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What3Words revolutionising global addressing system

75% of the worlds population have poor or inconsistent address. What3words has built a uniform global location reference system that gives everyone, everything...

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Tuluntulu is making strides across Africa with innovative app

Netflix recent launch in Africa has ensured mobile entertainment and video on demand services are on high alert while Tuluntulu a mobile...

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African online travel agent secures $40M investment

Travelstart was founded in Sweden in 1999 by its CEO Stephan Ekbergh. Operating in Africa from its Cape Town headquarters since 2006,...

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Ericsson on start-ups, the AHUB and video on demand

Cindy Anne Lewis, Regional Director Marketing & Consumer Lab Sub-Saharan Africa at Ericsson shares with Appsafrica.com how they are supporting the mobile...