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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...

Innovation

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,...

Events

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.

Apps

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...

Apps

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....

Apps

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...

Apps

African tech start-up ‘Over’ wins the ‘World’s Best Start-Up’ award

Over – an IOS app that allows users to add artistic text and artwork to user- generated photos -has won the award...

Events

Lean start-up machine commences today in Lagos

Lean Startup Machine (LSM) commences its workshop today and throughout this weekend in Lagos, Nigeria. The aim of this weekend is to...

Nigeria

Gbamm! the mobile social network for football fans

With the World Cup fast approaching, Gbamm! is trying to create the future of football on mobile in Nigeria and beyond. Founder...

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Nigeria

Growing pains for Nigerian tech start-ups

Foreign investment became a lively topic of debate today at Mobile West Africa (#MWA2014), which is being held in Lagos, Nigeria this...

Events

Mobile West Africa starts in Lagos

Mobile West Africa has kicked off in Lagos this morning. This event has brought together some of the leading innovators and thinkers...

Awards

PIVOT East 2014 Semi-finalists Announced

PIVOT East the startups competition geared towards nurturing the growing ICT talent in East Africa, has unveiled semifinalist for this year’s competition....

Apps

Uganda: Mobile app helping to fight one of Africa’s biggest killers

Africa is great at utilising inventions from other parts of the world and harnessing them to make more relevant solutions and products....

Events

How to make money in mobile? Mobile West Africa has the answers

Tomi Ahonen, the man measured by Forbes as the world’s most influential expert in mobile, will be taking to the stage and...

Tanzania

Last chance for East African students to join Intel program

Following the successful launch of the Intel Student Partner Program in Kenya, Intel is now opening up the opportunity for university students...

Nigeria

Nigeria: 2go social network bigger than Facebook

Mobile instant messaging service 2go is Nigeria’s biggest social network with 13 million users in the country, according to ‘africapractice’, in their...

Apps