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Seedstars coming to iHUB Nairobi

iHub Nairobi, in partnership with payment solutions company, Ingenico will be hosting Seedstars Nairobi, the Nairobi leg of Seedstars World on the 3rd...

Start-Ups

Fund to back African tech hubs and innovations

Hivos, in partnership with the DOEN Foundation and Indigo Trust is set to launch a fund to support technology hubs around Africa.

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Crowd sourced app to help save lives in Africa

How do you improve health care delivery in Nigeria and Africa? Using mobile of course. This is the vision of Chukwuemeka Onyenwe, CEO and...

Nigeria

Nigerian financial app provider gains investment

Business Connexion (BCX) has acquired a 30% strategic interest in AppZone Limited, an information technology solutions provider in Lagos, Nigeria.

Africa’s first ‘interoperable’ mobile money deal

Airtel, Tigo and Zantel have announced a pioneering agreement to allow their respective subscribers in Tanzania to send money to each other...

Demo Africa: Start-ups chance to win $500K equity investment

DEMO Africa has teamed up with Seedstars World for the first flagship event in Accra, Ghana in a bid to boost the...

Spotify and Vodacom Potential Music Deal in Africa

Spotify is rumoured to be in talks with Vodacom Group Ltd. on a partnership that would mark the music-streaming service’s first foray...

App uses voice to connect teachers and students in Africa

Delivering education across Africa and rural areas is a major challenge, however mobile entrepreneurs are coming up with new ways to overcome...

Wikipedia Zero free on mobile in Nigeria

Airtel Nigeria, has announced a strategic partnership with the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit that operates Wikipedia, to offer their consumers across Nigeria...

Terror killing ICT events in Kenya

Hot on the heels of Informa cancelling last weeks East Africa Com event in Nairobi, the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO) has announced...

Every SIM card to become a debit card with Kenyan MVNO

The idea of Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNO’s) has been in existence in other parts of the world for over 10 years...

Kenya

David Sainsbury Launches East African Investment Company

British retail billionaire Lord David Sainsbury has set up an investment vehicle to invest solely in East African businesses. According to report by Kenyan newspaper Business Daily,...

Pivot East finalists announced

25 exceptional mobile startups from Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Ethiopia have been selected to compete in the final of PIVOT East 2014.

Mobile start-up Tranzit moving Lagos

Lagos traffic is legendary and booking taxi’s can be a risky business with many unregulated drivers. Tranzit is a new mobility start-up...

Uganda: Android app launched to help reduce crime

Askari means the police in Swahili, but often if you call in an emergency the overstretched police don’t actually come in Uganda....

South Africa’s top mobile apps

Mobithinking Global’s mobile statistics predicts that by 2017 there could be 200 billion app downloads. Although African countries have been slow when...