Innovation

Ethio launches LTE network in Ethiopia

Ethio Telecom is set to launch its 4G network in Ethiopia this weekend.Ethio, the state-run operator partnered with Huawei and ZTE to expand mobile...

Bboxx monthly pay-as-you-go solar panel systems and solar-powered lights and electronics raises $3M series B funding

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UK start-up BBOXX raises $3M to lead solar revolution in Africa

The brainchild of three Electrical and Electronic Engineering graduates from Imperial College London, BBOXX a UK start-up delivering clean energy supply in the developing world...

Is Africa ready to facilitate large-scale satellite deployments?

With the advent of High Throughput Satellite (HTS) services within Africa’s connected business environment, the question of what happens with the remainder...

Raspberry Pi helps drive education in Tanzania

Masekelo secondary school in Shinyanga, Tanzania has many challenges: there’s no electricity or water, so each pupil needs to collect 5 litres...

Innovative e-health solutions improving healthcare in Africa

Across Africa innovative companies are springing up, leveraging technology to improve healthcare provision on the continent. Given the high number of rural...

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MWC: Orange launches low cost Firefox digital offer across Africa

Orange has launched a new low cost digital offer across its African footprint in a bid to win the battle for data customers...

MWC: Google to launch MVNO in U.S.

Sundar Pichai, senior VP at Google and the, has confirmed the long-standing rumors that it was planning to enter the mobile virtual...

UK crowdfunding platform opens the door to emerging markets investments

A new UK crowdfunding platform aims to give UK-based investors the chance to invest in some of the most exciting frontier and...

MTN Solution Space to boost innovation in Africa

The MTN Group and the University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business (UCT GSB) have announced a major new partnership to...

The Great Mobile Debate at Social Media Week Lagos #SMWLagos

Is all this talk about mobile apps all just hype? A good natured debate presented by Mobile West Africa asks YOU to...

Mobile operators emerge as Africa’s latest VC investor

Venture capital (VC) funding is slowly but surely arriving in Africa for in greater quantities. High profile funding rounds in 2014 for...

The HelloCash mobile money platform will provide financial services to all Ethiopians

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Interoperable mobile money service goes live in Ethiopia

Another day, another mobile money initiative in Africa in an ever changing landscape. Today Ethiopians have been given access to mobile financial...

Lack of trust hampering app downloads

Trust remains the largest single obstacle to growth in the mobile content and commerce industry with 40 per cent of people stating...

Orange and Ecobank launch money transfer tie-up

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Orange and Ecobank launch money transfer tie-up

A new pan-African service between Orange and Ecobank will enable users who hold accounts with both companies to transfer money between them...

Consolidation best bet for profitable e-commerce businesses in Africa

The year 2014 for South African e-commerce platform Takealot adequately sums up all that is good and all that is bad for...

Data hungry Africans creating data storage challenges

Data consumption continues to grow at an incredible pace globally. Over 90% of all the data in the world was created in...

MTN launch Amazon Web Services (AWS) in Africa

MTN Group will be the first African company to offer Amazon Web Services (AWS) Direct Connect to business customers across multiple countries...

Nigeria-based developer training school and digital skills outsourcer Andela claims to be the most selective developer school in Africa, and intends to tackle unemployment on the continent by training a generation of highly-skilled young developers

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Want to become a software developer in Lagos?

Andela a new kind of academic experience in Lagos is looking for aspiring developers. It’s sort of like a university, except instead of...

Local internet hosting is key to internet development in Africa

The development of locally relevant content that is attractive to users has been shown to have a positive impact on internet adoption....

African payments firm achieves rapid growth using Google cloud platform

Nomanini, a Cape Town-based mobile point of sale service that specialises in facilitating cash payments in emerging markets, has successfully scaled into...