South Atlantic Cable System (SACS) the first direct subsea cable link between Africa and South America took a step closer to completion...
The GSMA has launched its second Ecosystem Accelerator Innovation Fund following the success of the first round which invested in start-ups across...
Africa has one of the largest and progressive diaspora communities in the UK. Engaging this cerebral community is critical to Africa’s development...
Africa is on the precipice of rapid economic expansion, this expansion will be through the emergence of stronger small business enterprises that...
Africa has been the poster child for innovation and improvisation by using technology to transform financial services. Many of the founding team...
The SpeedUPAfrica Bootcamp is returning to Nigeria from July 5-9 with the goal of empowering a new wave of African start-ups. Following...
SureBüddy, an android application that has today launched into market, brings sponsored insurance and insurance related products to Uganda. SureBüddy is simple...
African data collection startup Bamba has announced today that it has closed its first seed investment round after raising US$1.1 million (Kes....
Standard Bank has acquired a majority stake in Firepay – the team behind South Africa’s largest mobile payments product, SnapScan. Firepay was...
Ten winners of the AppsAfrica.com Innovation Awards 2016 were announced in Cape Town, South Africa. The awards attracted over 200 entries from 25...
Having scooped the News & Entertainment category at the AppsAfrica.com Innovation Awards 2016, the Battabox crew took their award to the streets of...
All roads lead to Rwanda next week for the 12 start-ups pitching at Seedstars Africa in Kigali for the finale of the...
The world’s largest organisations are looking at the blockchain technology as a means to improve their existing services, systems and products by...
Ten winners of the AppsAfrica.com Innovation Awards 2016 were announced at a pan-African mobile and tech awards party in Cape Town, South...
Mobile news and entertainment is now a burgeoning industry across Africa from augmented reality (AR) to video on demand (VoD), new and...
SAP announced the opening of Africa’s first ever SAP Co-Innovation Lab (COIL). With a strong focus on collaboration, the lab offers a...
Ecobank has launched the Ecobank Mobile App, an instant and convenient way of banking via the mobile phone. It is the first unified...
Seedstars World brought its Senegal round to a successful close during Seedstars Dakar. The event took place at Jokkolabs, and 9 selected...
Seedstars Dakar is returning to Senegal 14th of October to scout for the best entrepreneurs in technology and has announced the line...
Mobile phones in Africa are increasingly driving social and economic transformation across the continent, according to Simplice Anoh, Founder and CEO of...
Through the advent of Messenger and bots, messaging platforms have rapidly increased their impact in reaching users with life-changing content. Leading this...
Demo Africa, the continent’s premier launch pad for emerging technologies and trends has today released the list of its final 30 startups...