Search results for "south africa"
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7.9K1AppsZazu using tech to trade local produce smarter
It’s 3am; gogo (granny) rises from her bed to prepare to catch the bus from her farming village on the Mozambican border...
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3.8KAppsChalkboard Education Wins Seedstars Accra
Seedstars World, the global seed-stage startup competition for emerging markets brought its Ghana round to a successful close with local company Chalkboard...
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5.6KAppsMessenger chatbot used to deliver maternal health and HIV information
Through the advent of Messenger and bots, messaging platforms have rapidly increased their impact in reaching users with life-changing content. Leading this...
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4.9KInnovationLiquid Telecom to acquire Neotel
Liquid Telecom has announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire South African communications network operator Neotel. The shareholders of...
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5.1KAppsGoMetro LIVE assists with bus fleet management
GoMetro, a mobile startup based in Cape Town build the GoTUKS app around their GoMetro Live fleet management platform. They are an...
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3.4KInnovationMTN hire new Group CEO
After conducting an extensive global search MTN Group has appointed Rob Shuter as the new Group President and CEO. Following the resolution...
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3.8KAdvisory NewsIs Transport Tech a Game Changer For the Planet?
As an associate of Appsafrica Advisory, I was asked by the Cape Town pressure group Open Streets to prepare some thoughts for...
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4.1KAdvisory NewsEvaluating The App Opportunity
“There is an app for that” is one of the most common phrases exchanged amongst smartphone owners. From hailing a taxi, to...
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3.6KAdvisory NewsThe environmental impact of transport tech
Appsafrica Advisory were invited to participate on the Open Streets Cape Town first Transport Minds Gathering. Jeremy George from Appsafrica Advisory, joined...
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5.4K1GadgetsHardware being used to drive entrepreneurship and employment in Ghana
Tackling critical challenges in communities and promoting youth entrepreneurship is a common theme for many tech start-ups across Africa, however very few...
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4.6KAppsMobile Ad Start-Up Sliide Airtime Gains Investment From Singularity Investments
Singularity Investments has invested an undisclosed sum into Sliide Airtime, a mobile advertising technology start-up that gives consumers free airtime in return...
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4.5KAdvisory NewsMobile Matters Seminar to look at our always-connected world
For the past few years the advertising industry has being discussing ‘mobile’ as “the next big thing” for advertisers and now, with...
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5.1KInnovationCape Town coders share how CodeX is changing their lives
Cape Town-based codeX runs programming courses with the aim of addressing the lack of developers in Africa is training talented young brains...
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8.1KAppsSliide Airtime app offers free airtime for personalised content
Mobile connectivity in Nigeria now reaches more than 83M subscribers but affordability is a concern for many Nigerians, particularly those with lower...
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5.0KAppsEricsson on start-ups, the AHUB and video on demand
Cindy Anne Lewis, Regional Director Marketing & Consumer Lab Sub-Saharan Africa at Ericsson shares with Appsafrica.com how they are supporting the mobile...
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6.8KAppsBest 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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3.8KAppsBest Disruptive Innovation Finalists
With only a few weeks to go until the Appsafrica.com Innovation Awards 2015 in Cape Town, kindly supported by Mobile Monday South Africa, Uber and AppsWorld we...
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MTN shares dive with massive $5.2B fine in Nigeria
MTN, one of the largest phone providers in Nigeria has been hit with a fine equivalent to $5.2 billion, a record in Nigeria.
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4.9KAppsOpportunities abound for tech startups in agriculture
All stakeholders in the agricultural industry need information and knowledge through each stage of the supply chain, providing great opportunities for tech start-ups to...
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2.4KSouth AfricaMTN SA CEO resigns
MTN Group today announced the resignation of Ahmad Farroukh, CEO of MTN South Africa, which is effective from end of July.
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5.6KAppsUSSD gamification driving interaction and revenues
With an estimated 80% of users not using data, Rorotika Mobile identified the mass market of feature phone users were undeserved in the mobile games...
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5.2KAppsCan Uber really work in Lagos, Nigeria?
As Appsafrica.com previously reported the Uptake of the UberX low-cost taxi hailing app in Cape Town has been “incredible”. So what about Lagos?...
