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  Start-ups applications for DEMO Africa 2015 now open

  The application window for DEMO Africa 2015 has opened wide and entrepreneurs can now enter under 12 different categories. The application process...

• Innovation

  Is Africa ready to facilitate large-scale satellite deployments?

  With the advent of High Throughput Satellite (HTS) services within Africa’s connected business environment, the question of what happens with the remainder...

• Events

  Day 4 of Social Media Week Lagos

  Here’s the full schedule of today’s events at Social Media Week in Lagos

• Innovation

  MTN Solution Space to boost innovation in Africa

  The MTN Group and the University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business (UCT GSB) have announced a major new partnership to...

• East Africa

  Mobile operators emerge as Africa’s latest VC investor

  Venture capital (VC) funding is slowly but surely arriving in Africa for in greater quantities. High profile funding rounds in 2014 for...

• Innovation

  MTN launch Amazon Web Services (AWS) in Africa

  MTN Group will be the first African company to offer Amazon Web Services (AWS) Direct Connect to business customers across multiple countries...

• Innovation

  African online recruitment pushes beyond traditional jobs boards

  Online recruitment in Africa has been on an upward curve in the past few years, both for full-time and temporary work, with...

• Awards

  Airtel wins best App for Africa at AfricaCom Awards

  The winners of the digital and telecoms awards have been announced at AfricaCom Awards 2014 in Cape Town, with Airtel winning best...

• Innovation

  Airtel and Grameen Foundation to launch mobile health services

  In an effort to reduce infant and maternal mortality rate in Nigeria, Airtel Nigeria has partnered with Grameen Foundation and VAS2nets Technologies...

• Awards

  Calling all African innovators for $150K IPA 2015 award

  AIF announces 30-day extension for the US$ 150 000 IPA 2015 award – a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for African innovators to take their...

• Social Media

  Social media for business a no-brainer

  Social media for business is the single most cost effective distribution channel any business has at its disposal. This Content-generating resource lends...

• Apps

  Transport startup built around social relationships

  There has been a rush to provide technology solutions to Nairobi’s transport sector. Easy Taxi, a company bankrolled by Rocket Internet entered...

• Awards

  SEED awards to recognise new eco start-ups

  Small, micro and medium-sized enterprises (SMMEs) are the backbone of African society, accounting for about 90 per cent of businesses and more...

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  Africa’s first low-power android desk-top

  As technology advances many communities are still left out of the global village which is why there is a need for tailor-made...

• Gadgets

  Solar panels that charge mobile phones quickly to change lives in Zambia

  The arrival of shipping containers in Lusaka might not sound that exciting, however the contents will change rural lives and communities dependent...

• Apps

  Mobile Web Africa to find the best apps in Southern Africa

  AppCircus@Mobile Web Africa will be taking place in Johannesburg on 11th September in conjunction with the region’s leading mobile industry event: Mobile...

• Awards

  Appwiz 2014 launched for Kenyan developers

  Safaricom has launched the Appwiz Challenge for 2014 to identify Kenyan developers and drive new app development across all mobile platforms. The...

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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...

• 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.

• 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...

• 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....