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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.
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East Africa
Mobile operators emerge as Africa’s latest VC investor
Venture capital (VC) funding is slowly but surely arriving in Africa for in greater quantities. High profile funding rounds in 2014 for...
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Events
Soweto Innovation Week coming soon
Johannesburg’s south western township, Soweto, will host its first ever technology and digital conference this April.
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Nigeria
Eskimi launches new user segmentation in Nigeria
Eskimi the African social network has launched new segmentation tools for advertisers to reach consumers in Nigeria according to segments based on...
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3.8KEthiopiaInteroperable mobile money service goes live in Ethiopia
Another day, another mobile money initiative in Africa in an ever changing landscape. Today Ethiopians have been given access to mobile financial...
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Apps
Lack of trust hampering app downloads
Trust remains the largest single obstacle to growth in the mobile content and commerce industry with 40 per cent of people stating...
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3.1KEast AfricaOrange and Ecobank launch money transfer tie-up
A new pan-African service between Orange and Ecobank will enable users who hold accounts with both companies to transfer money between them...
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Innovation
Consolidation best bet for profitable e-commerce businesses in Africa
The year 2014 for South African e-commerce platform Takealot adequately sums up all that is good and all that is bad for...
