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Microsoft to end Android Nokia X smartphones

Having just announced 18,000 job losses globally, Microsoft is also expected to stop developing Android-powered smartphones beyond those already available in a...

Apps

10 handy apps for a hassle-free holiday

Whether traveling within your country or to the world’s most exotic locations, most travelers will experience some frustrating problems. While technology can’t...

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Nigerian start-ups top entries for Demo Africa 2014

DEMO Africa has released the names of the forty start-ups that have qualified to launch their product on the DEMO Africa stage...

Apps

South Africans can get from A to B with help of new transport app

Millions of people all over Africa depend on public transport to go to work yet there is very little information about how...

Start-ups Application for DEMO Africa 2015 Opens

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DEMO Africa Application Window Closes

The application window for DEMO 2014 has finally closed with VC4Africa confirming that 27 African countries are represented this year.

Gadgets

Airtel offers free finance to drive adoption of iPhones

Airtel Nigeria recently formed a strategic partnership with Apple, to officially unveil the iPhone 5s in Nigeria, becoming the first mobile telecommunications...

Awards

5 startups to win over $50,000 and VC training at PIVOT East

Five startups will win a combined total of over fifty thousand dollars in funding at the PIVOT East finalists conference. The five...

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Events

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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Apps

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.

Innovation

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...

Events

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...

Innovation

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...

Apps

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...

Innovation

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...

Events

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