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Developing the mobile ecosystem in Africa

There has been amazing growth in mobile internet access over the past few years and Africa is now primed to take advantage...

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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Paga to capitalise on new investment

With the majority of Africans unbanked, mobile money and payments are critical and one of the biggest hurdles for the growth of...

Worldreader, a global nonprofit dedicated to improving literacy in the developing world through digital books, has announced a new partnership with Opera Software that has provided 5 million readers in Africa access to 25,000 free digital book title

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Best Mobile Innovation Finalists

Hundreds of mobile services from across Africa competed for a place in the final for the Best Mobile Innovation at the Appsafrica.com Innovation...

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Africa’s Best Fintech Innovation 2015

Africa is the birthplace of some of the world’s most innovative fintech solutions and we now profile the finalists from across Africa...

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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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East Africa

SimbaPay announces Instant Deposit Service to Kenya

SimbaPay the digital money transfer provider has announced the expansion of its free instant deposit service to Kenya. SimbaPay has partnered with Choice...

Bitcoin entrepreneurship is taking hold worldwide. The first quarter of 2015 saw record levels of investment pumped into Bitcoin startups across the world, with global Bitcoin startups receiving US$299 million – a 51 per cent increase on the end of 2014.

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Bitcoin: a cryptocurrency ideal for Africa?

Bitcoin entrepreneurship is taking hold worldwide. The first quarter of 2015 saw record levels of investment pumped into Bitcoin startups across the...

Africa seeing a rise in Bitcoin activity.

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Cryptocurrency Africa

Reaching the unbanked in Africa through digital currency and blockchain

Africa is seeing a rise in Bitcoin activity, with the continent’s first Bitcoin conference having taken place earlier this year, and startups...

Apps

World’s first international access to M-Pesa PayBill

SimbaPay a leading digital money transfer provider has launched the first product in the world that allows Kenyans living abroad to make M-Pesa...

MasterCard Becomes First International Payments Network to Enter Somalia

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East Africa

MasterCard to bolster banking in Somalia

MasterCard has announced it is to become the first international payments network to enter Somalia following years of war and conflict.

Innovation

The e-payment last mile hurdle for tech companies in Nigeria

Even though Uche (pseudonym) works with a tech company that provides electronic payment services in Nigeria, he is not keen on using...

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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Education is key in driving eCommerce in Nigeria says Kaymu MD

Having launched just two years ago in Nigeria with a few hundred merchants, Kaymu today enables over thirty thousand businesses and individuals...

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Events

Last chance to register for Tech Pitch LDN tonight

Africa TechPitch supported by Appsafrica.com takes place tonight in London and is aimed at showcasing high-potential, high-impact start-ups and businesses that address a...

Events

Tech Pitch LDN finalists announced

The Africa Technology Business Network is a growing community of entrepreneurs, innovators and change makers who are passionate about driving business-led economic...

Ghana

Airtel money gains traction in Ghana

Airtel Money breaks the 1.5 million subscriber mark in Ghana, offering the ability to link bank accounts and electronic wallets for simple...

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...

Applications Open for Village Capital, Lemelson Foundation, DOEN Foundation, VC4Africa and Gearbox Hardware Accelerator

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Applications 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...

The HelloCash mobile money platform will provide financial services to all Ethiopians

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Ethiopia

Interoperable 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...

East Africa

The first mobile money service to pay profit to its users

Tigo has announced the first of its regular quarterly payments worth 3bn/- (US $ 1.8 million) to Tigo Pesa users in Tanzania

Innovation

Mobile money to drive financial inclusion in Nigeria

Back in 2012 a survey conducted by Enhancing Financial Innovation and Access (EFINA) indicated that 56.3 million adults, representing 64.1 per cent...

Gadgets

Africa makes resilient payment products for the world

It was back in 2009 that Vahid Monadjem first saw the window of opportunity to reach the millions of underserved people in...

Innovation

MasterCard launches MasterPass in South Africa

Mastercard has just launched MasterPass in South Africa which enables consumers to make convenient, simple, fast and secure digital payments. Digital wallets...