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3.8KEast AfricaUK 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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Awards
Connected East Africa Innovation Awards 2015
The deadline is fast approaching for the innovation awards at the Connected East Africa Summit 2015. Entries must be submitted by March...
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Innovation
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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East Africa
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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East Africa
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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3.1K1East AfricaMWC: 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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Innovation
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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East Africa
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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Events
Unlocking opportunities in Africa through business and technology
Africa’s one billion plus population is adopting technology at an unprecedented rate. However many tech startups and entrepreneurs in the UK are not...
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Apps
Google spends $25M on .app domain name
Google has purchased the website domain .app in an auction held by Icann which oversees the running of the net.
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Events
Day 4 of Social Media Week Lagos
Here’s the full schedule of today’s events at Social Media Week in Lagos
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Apps
Paga payment service launches new app in Nigeria
Nigerian payment service provider Paga has launched a new app called Paga for Android to bolster it’s growing payment service in Nigeria.
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Innovation
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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Events
Day 3 events at Social Media Week Lagos
Social Media Week is into its third day here in Lagos. Today see’s Nigerian entertainment industry’s heaviest hitters coming together to talk about...
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Events
#GetLocal in Lagos this week at Social Media Week
Social Media Week Lagos attendees are encouraged to #GetLocal this Friday 27th and explore Lagos’s tech and creative communities. The city’s most...
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Apps
Kenyan start-up Safari Tales to educate kids with new app
When Njeri Wangari’s daughter turned three years old, she realised she was losing interest in all the toys she had bought her....
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Nigeria
Nigerian start-up Travel Bay to launch at #SMWLagos
Travel Bay a Nigerian tourism start-up will be officially launched this week at Social Media Week 2015 in Lagos. The 3-day event at...
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Events
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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3.4KAppsApplications closing for $50,000 Village Capital FinTech for Agriculture East Africa accelerator
East African startups have one week left to apply for Village Capital’s new accelerator programme, Village Capital FinTech for Agriculture: East Africa...
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East Africa
Kampala hosts Open Data Day
Kampala is joining 110 cities on February 22nd in spreading the word of Open Data with a dedicated Kampala Open Data Day.
