Kenya

Applications closing for the World Bank Agritech Challenge 2017

The World Bank Agritech Challenge 2017 in association with Nest is the first open innovation program of its kind in Kenya. Its...

Koko launches new smart e-commerce platform for Africa

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Koko Networks launches new smart e-commerce platform for Africa

KOKO Networks launched its new African technology platform to international media at Africa Tech Summit London, which seeks to transform mass-market commerce...

Vast opportunities for digital finance and payments in the Cloud

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Vast opportunities for digital finance and payments in the Cloud

Africa has been the poster child for innovation and improvisation by using technology to transform financial services. Many of the founding team...

Standard Chartered joins forces with Visa to enhance cross-border payments

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Visa announces first cohort for innovation boot camp in Africa with Nest

The Visa bootcamp will power collaboration opportunities between early stage technology companies, Visa and financial institutions from across Africa for potential integration....

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Safaricom drive to get more women into tech

Safaricom has announced plans to recruit 62 interns by January 2017 as it progresses its agenda to woo more women to...

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Best African fintech solution 2016?

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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Opera reaches 100M users in Africa and releases State of Mobile Web Report

Opera has released its State of the Mobile Web Africa 2016 Report, highlighting mobile internet trends across the continent, including consumer browsing behaviour...

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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...