Innovation
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Tech Pitch LDN finalists announced
The Africa Technology Business Network is a growing community of entrepreneurs, innovators and change makers who are passionate about driving business-led economic...
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Mobile Money to go cross border in East Africa
East Africa will by the end of 2015, be able to transfer money via mobile phones across borders if full implementation of...
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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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4.6KAfrica: the new digital skills outsourcing location
With ICT skills beginning to take on a prominent position in education agendas across Africa and the youthful population of Africa increasingly...
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Innjoo smartphones and tablets launched in Côte d’Ivoire
Having launched in Nigeria, Innjoo smartphones and tablets has arrived in Côte d’Ivoire.
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Africa’s leading online shopping site expands to Côte d’Ivoire
Jumia, Africa’s leading online shopping site plans to revolutionise the shopping habits of all Ivorians with the opening of six new hubs in Cote...
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4.2KEthio 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...
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4.5KUK 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...
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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...
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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...
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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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3.4K1MWC: 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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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4.0KInteroperable 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...
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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...
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3.4KOrange 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...
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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...
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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...
