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Mobile West Africa announces best speaker line-up to date

Mobile West Africa announces top speaker line-up

Mobile West Africa proudly supported by Appsafrica.com has confirmed that its 2016 conference, taking place in Lagos on 20th& 21st April, will...

Catching up with Africa’s digital payment revolution

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East Africa

Catching up with Africa’s digital payment revolution

Although Africa’s digital payment revolution has helped many people enjoy making financial transactions with unprecedented ease, the constantly shifting landscape has also...

Submissions formally open for two new telecoms licenses in Ethiopia

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East Africa

Social media services cut in Ethiopia

Applications including WhatsApp and Twitter have not worked in parts of Ethiopia for more than a month due to a “blackout targeted...

Tech London Advocates Africa - supported by Appsafrica Advisory

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Innovation

Tech London Advocates Africa to launch

As a member of the Tech London Advocates Africa steering group, Appsafrica Advisory is delighted to invite our UK community to the...

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Lagos Start-up Deal Day Invests In Three New Ventures

Lagos Angel Network (LAN) final pitch event for its first Lagos StartUp DealDay event resulted in a total of N50 million has been...

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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...

Mobile West Africa the leading technology conference in the West African region is returning to Lagos on a mission to take mobile to the next level

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News

Mobile West Africa 2016

After 5 groundbreaking events, the leading technology conference in the West African region is returning to Lagos on a mission to take...

Nairobi set to host an East Africa Innovating Justice event

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East Africa

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...

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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Innovation

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...

Gifted Mom is a leading mobile health solutions provider in Cameroon and expanding across Africa. They leverage last mile technologies to provide pregnant women and new mothers access to health information and strengthen linkages to antenatal care.

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Apps

SMS used to reduce infant deaths in Africa

The problem of maternal and infant mortality is one of the oldest global health problems in the world, with over 800 pregnant...

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Apps

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...

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Awards Africa

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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Advisory News

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...

Six key lessons on crowdfunding in Africa

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Start-Ups

Six key lessons on crowdfunding in Africa

In developing countries, the crowdfunding market is expected to reach $327 million this year—about 2 percent of the global total. Despite this...

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Innovation

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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Advisory News

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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Advisory News

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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Apps

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...