South Africa

10 start-ups announced for Seedstars South Africa final

Seedstars World, the global seed-stage startup competition for emerging markets and fast-growing startup ecosystems has announced the 10 start-ups for Seedstars South Africa...

MTN Nigeria rolls out smart feature phone running on KaiOS

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MTN 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...

socially engaging in the real world, an opportunity being addressed by Cape Town start-up, Get Sponty.

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Social app Get Sponty re-connects people in the real world

One of the downsides of the growth of social media is that people are a lot less “social” than they used...

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The 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...

Seedstars applications open for African startups

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10 South African start-ups announced to pitch to Seedstars in Cape Town

Seedstars World, the global early-stage startups competition has announced the 10 startups that will pitch at its pre-selection event in Cape Town,...

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Seedstars world looking to find best start-ups in South-Africa

Seedstars World, the global seed-stage startup competition for emerging markets and fast-growing startup scenes, is returning to South-Africa to find the best...

MobileMatters Seminar to look at our always-connected world

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Mobile 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...

Cape Town-based Project codeX, which runs programming courses with the aim of addressing the lack of developers in Africa is training talented young brains to build Africa’s digital future.

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Cape 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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Building a better Africa one sticky note at a time

Work day and night for several months on a massive coding project for a blue-chip company, produce fantastically engineered code, only to...

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Viber launches public chats in Africa

Viber has announced today that it has opened its latest social channel ‘Public Chats’ to partners in Africa and the Middle East.

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CodeX training talented young brains to build Africa’s digital future

Cape Town-based Project codeX, which runs programming courses with the aim of addressing the lack of developers in Africa is training talented...

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Codex training talented young brains to build Africa’s digital future

Cape Town-based Project codeX, which runs programming courses with the aim of addressing the lack of developers in Africa is training talented...

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WeChat to invest $3.4M in start-ups in Africa

WeChat is to invest over $3.4 million in tech companies supporting local start-ups and innovations in Africa.

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Appsafrica Innovation Award Winners 2015

Ten winners of the AppsAfrica.com Innovation Awards 2015 supported by Uber, Mobile Monday South Africa, Appsworld and Picup were announced and honoured...

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AppsAfrica.com Innovation Award Winners 2015 Announced

Ten winners of the AppsAfrica.com Innovation Awards 2015 supported by Uber, Mobile Monday South Africa, Appsworld and Picup were announced and honoured...

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Best African App 2015?

The Appsafrica.com Innovation Awards 2015 attracted entries from 21 countries, across 3 continents, we now take a look at the Best App...

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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Best 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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Startups in South Africa are not hungry enough – mLab

mLab Southern Africa, a mobile solutions laboratory and startup accelerator that provides entrepreneurs and mobile developers with the support they need to...