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Unlocking opportunities in Africa – looking beyond effects of Brexit on Africa

Clearly the dust will take time to settle before the impact of Brexit on Africa and trade is more fully appreciated. However,...

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Africa Tech Summit London announces the first 20 speakers

The Africa Tech Summit London brings together 200+ tech leaders, international investors, banks, entrepreneurs, African governments, trade bodies, media and leading ventures...

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Africa Tech Summit London – Where African Tech and Europe Connects On April 20th

Africa Tech Summit London (ATSLDN), the event where African Tech and Europe connects returns to London on April 20th, providing unrivaled insight and networking with the...

BitPesa the leading frontier market digital currency payments company, has closed a $2.5 million Series A round to expand across West and Southern Africa

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BitPesa closes a $2.5M round to expand digital payments business beyond Africa

BitPesa, the leading frontier market digital currency payments company, has closed a $2.5 million Series A round to expand its services in...

SimbaPay expands mobile money transfer to Ghana and Uganda

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SimbaPay expands mobile money transfer to Ghana and Uganda

SimbaPay the digital money transfer provider has expanded its money transfer service to Ghana and Uganda. Using the SimbaPay app or website,...

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Blockchain Africa Conference returns to Johannesburg

The world’s largest organisations are looking at the blockchain technology as a means to improve their existing services, systems and products by...

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Best African fintech solution 2016?

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

African innovators from 25 countries face judgement day

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Final call for Appsafrica.com Innovation Award entries

Mobile, tech ventures and leading women in Africa have until midnight tomorrow, Tuesday 20th to submit their entries for the Appsafrica.com Innovation...

Restoration of Money Transfers to Nigeria

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Innovation

Restoration of Money Transfers to Nigeria

WorldRemit, the leading digital remittance service has commended the restoration of money transfers to Nigeria, following the decision of the Central Bank...

The Appsafrica.com Innovation Awards celebrate the best in mobile and tech from across Africa. Following the success of lasts years Awards which celebrated 10 winners from over 200 entries across 21 countries, applications are now open for 2016.

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Entries Open For The Appsafrica Innovation Awards 2016

The Appsafrica.com Innovation Awards celebrate the best in mobile and tech from across Africa and following the success of last years Awards which celebrated 10...

Barclays Africa Accelerator's first cohort pass out in Cape Town

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First cohort pass out from Barclays Africa Accelerator

10 companies have showcased their innovative fintech businesses at a ‘Demo Day’ in Cape Town, as the first-ever cohort of the Barclays...

Catching up with Africa’s digital payment revolution

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Catching up with Africa’s digital payment revolution

Although Africa’s digital payment revolution has helped many people enjoy making financial transactions with unprecedented ease, the constantly shifting landscape has also...

CEO of Safaricom shares how MNO's are evolving in Africa

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Safaricom CEO shares how they are evolving with tech start-ups

In a recent interview CEO of Safaricom Bob Collymore (BC) shared with Andrew Fassnidge (AF) from Appsafrica.com how the mobile network operator...

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Mpesa enters Uganda with MTN

Ugandan customers can now make mobile money transactions with Kenya following a deal between Safaricom and MTN Uganda.

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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...

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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...

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...

After the successful launch of Women in Technology Africa in London earlier this year, Africa’s leading ladies are hosting their end of year event in London on December 2nd.

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Empowering women and entrepreneurship drives “Africa Together”

African leaders representing a variety of fields from countries including Morocco, Nigeria, Rwanda, Ghana, Kenya and Senegal convened in Cambridge for the...

MasterCard Becomes First International Payments Network to Enter Somalia

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