Kenya

Delivering education through technology in Africa

80% of students in Africa don’t pass secondary school, while 4 out of 5 adults in english speaking Africa don’t finish high...

Co-working spaces need to provide more than just office space

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Co-working spaces need to add more value

As the innovation ecosystem in Nairobi – Africa’s Silicon Savannah – grows, everyone needs to take a step back and consider their...

Africa Tech Summit London announces Erik Hersman as keynote speaker

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Africa Tech Summit London announces Erik Hersman as keynote speaker

Africa Tech Summit London has announced its keynote address and speaker line up for the event bringing together technology leaders from across Africa and Europe, international...

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Deadline for the Appsafrica.com Award entries approaching

Mobile, tech ventures and leading women in Africa have just two weeks left to submit their entries for the Appsafrica.com Innovation Award...

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UberChopper takes to the skies in Kenya

Taxi-hailing app Uber launched flights today with UberChopper Kenya to transport business clients and the well-to-do across parts of Kenya without having to...

Zuckerberg meets one of Africa's leading innovators Eric Hersman at iHUB

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Zuckerberg meets one of Africa’s leading innovators Erik Hersman at iHUB

Having visited Nigeria Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg arrived in Kenya this week on his first trip to Africa, using his time in...

Nairobi set to host an East Africa Innovating Justice event

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Innovating Justice event to bring together legal and tech in East Africa

HiiL Innovating Justice in collaboration with Strathmore Law School will host an Innovating Justice event in Nairobi to gauge the readiness of...

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Technology used to aid blind education in Kenya

“A braille dictionary has 26 volumes and each one is quite heavy for most students to carry comfortably. A tablet can hold...

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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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...

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Viber launches public chats in Africa

Viber has announced today that it has opened its latest social channel ‘Public Chats’ to partners in Africa and the Middle East.

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Kopo Kopo to launch in Ghana, Uganda and Zimbabwe

Kopo Kopo the mobile money aggregator and micro-lender is set to launch its GROW Merchant Cash Advance product in Ghana, Uganda and...

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AppsAfrica.com Innovation Award Winners 2015 Announced

Ten winners of the AppsAfrica.com Innovation Awards 2015 supported by Uber, Mobile Monday South Africa, Appsworld and Picup were announced and honoured...

Worldreader, a global nonprofit dedicated to improving literacy in the developing world through digital books, has announced a new partnership with Opera Software that has provided 5 million readers in Africa access to 25,000 free digital book title

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Best Mobile Innovation Finalists

Hundreds of mobile services from across Africa competed for a place in the final for the Best Mobile Innovation at the Appsafrica.com Innovation...

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Africa’s Best Fintech Innovation 2015

Africa is the birthplace of some of the world’s most innovative fintech solutions and we now profile the finalists from across Africa...

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Future for money remittances in Africa

SimbaPay a fintech finalist in the upcoming Appsafrica.com Innovation Awards 2015, is a digital money transfer provider that enables Africans living abroad to...

Digital fuels growth in Africa’s entertainment and media industry

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Digital fuels growth in Africa’s entertainment and media industries

After more than a decade of digital disruption, the African entertainment and media industry has entered a new landscape – one where...

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SimbaPay announces Instant Deposit Service to Kenya

SimbaPay the digital money transfer provider has announced the expansion of its free instant deposit service to Kenya. SimbaPay has partnered with Choice...

Applications Open for Village Capital, Lemelson Foundation, DOEN Foundation, VC4Africa and Gearbox Hardware Accelerator

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Africa Hardware Accelerator 2015 – Call for Applications

Village Capital has announced the launch of their first hardware accelerator in Africa, in partnership with Gearbox, a unique space for inventors...

“Android One,” after the company’s mobile operating system Android, and will cost less than $100.

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Google launches Android One in Africa but cost of data still the big issue

The race to offer cheaper smartphones in Africa has dramatically increased with the launch of the Android One program in Africa, however the price of phones...