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MD of Jovago.com shares insight on online travel and hotel bookings in Africa

Marek Zmyslowski, Managing Director of Jovago.com, Africa’s No 1 booking portal explains how online bookings are changing travel in Africa. Jovago is...

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Apps

Best Disruptive Innovation Finalists

With only a few weeks to go until the Appsafrica.com Innovation Awards 2015 in Cape Town, kindly supported by Mobile Monday South Africa, Uber and AppsWorld we...

MTN Nigeria rolls out smart feature phone running on KaiOS

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Innovation

MTN shares dive with massive $5.2B fine in Nigeria

MTN, one of the largest phone providers in Nigeria has been hit with a fine equivalent to $5.2 billion, a record in Nigeria.

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Apps

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...

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Awards

Finalists announced for Appsafrica Innovation Awards 2015

The Appsafrica.com Innovation Awards 2015 attracted over 200 entries from 21 countries, across 3 continents. We can now announce the finalists our...

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East Africa

How to sustain Africa’s momentum?

Having started trading from an early age, working 18 hours a day and not taking a holiday for 13 years Aliko Dangote,...

Worldreader Mobile (WRM) is improving people’s lives by attracting millions of users across Africa to read books on devices they already own.

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Apps

Millions of users across Africa read books on mobile

Research has shown that reading for pleasure is positively linked with literacy-related benefits such as writing ability, text comprehension and grammar. It...

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South Africa

Startups in South Africa are not hungry enough – mLab

mLab Southern Africa, a mobile solutions laboratory and startup accelerator that provides entrepreneurs and mobile developers with the support they need to...

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East Africa

200 entrepreneurs to launch businesses on buses in Africa

Microsoft and AMPION took Appsafrica.com’s Paul Adepoju on the West African venture bus in Lagos, Nigeria to talk start-ups.

Start-ups Application for DEMO Africa 2015 Opens

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Apps

Investors outnumber startups at DEMO Africa 2015

After months of anticipation, preparation and adjudication across the continent, Africa’s biggest startup event DEMO Africa is holding today with a rather...

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Events

DEMO Africa ushered in with ABAN Investor Summit

The 2015 edition of Africa’s biggest startup event DEMO Africa was ushered in on Wednesday with the ABAN Investor Summit presented by...

Appsafrica.com caught up with Evangeline Wiles, Managing Director of Kaymu Nigeria to hear the latest ecommerce growth story and you can watch the full interview below. Backed by Africa Internet Group, Kaymu offers an online market service that enables businesses and individuals to sell items across multiple African markets.

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Innovation

e-Commerce having a positive impact on SME’s in Nigeria

Having launched just two years ago in Nigeria with a few hundred merchants, Kaymu today enables thousands of businesses and individuals to...

Apps

Over 200 African innovators and your brand

The Appsafrica.com Innovation Awards 2015 have attracted over 200 entries from 21 countries, across 3 continents who are battling it out for...

Opportunities abound for tech startups in agriculture

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Apps

Opportunities abound for tech startups in agriculture

All stakeholders in the agricultural industry need information and knowledge through each stage of the supply chain, providing great opportunities for tech start-ups to...