Mobile Monday in Kenya, Uganda

Mobile Monday, a global community of industry visionaries is launching a chapters in Kampala, Uganda and Nairobi, Kenya.

Mobile Monday is a global community of mobile industry visionaries, developers and influentials fostering cooperation and cross-border business development through virtual … Read More

AfrinCast Episode #7:Future of Africa

We had an impromptu discussion about innovation, creativity, technology and the future of Africa with 3 great minds recently.

Jasper Grosskurth: Is from Germany and lives in the Netherlands. He has spent the last few years doing future studies on … Read More

Animated Film: Khumba

A while back we featured Zambezia, an animated feature film from Triggerfish in South Africa. Triggerfish have begun work on a second film called Khumba. Both Zambezia and Khumba have fan pages on Facebook.

Triggerfish has also been nominated … Read More

AfrinCast Episode #6: Sheraan Amod

We talked with Sheraan Amod from South Africa for the latest edition of AfrinCast.

Sheraan Amod is the Co-Founder and CEO of Personera, a global personalized publishing service offering useful print products integrated with Facebook content. He is a … Read More

Pumping Life into iLab

We recently introduced the iLab or Incubation Lab (listen to the podcast) which is another great development in the up and coming startup scene in Nairobi. iLab is located on the same building (actually, just a hallway away) as ihub.

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Accelerating Startup Culture in SA

The startup culture bug is creeping in South Africa.

The ‘Silicon Cape Initiative‘ is coming alive as a group of entrepreneurs and funders come together in an attempt to accellerate the growth of a startup community much like Silicon Valley … Read More

Nairobi Google Tech User Group

Are you a developer in Nairobi working with Google technology? You’ll be happy about this announcement.

A local chapter of the Google Groups is launching in Kenya this Saturday. What is a (Google Technology User Group) GTUG?

Google Technology User … Read More

Kenya Mobile Pay Getting Crowded Fast!

It seems mobile/online payments are the in thing so far. Recently we talked about PayPal’s discussions with First National Bank of South Africa and the possibility of PayPal shedding it’s long overdue ‘fear’ of Africa.

We’ve talked about different mobile … Read More

SA: The PayPal Effect

Fin24 did a great podcast with JP van der Spuy from Mytrade.co.za a South African online shopping company.

Mytrade won a bronze award at last year’s SA Web Awards so not only are they in a business that’s directly affected by a PayPal presence in Africa but they also have great experience to comment on the ‘PayPal … Read More

PayPal - Some Love for Africa?

It appears that PayPal may be finally warming up to Africa!

As Appfrica, once noted, PayPal’s dealings with Africa have been less than impressive, to say the least. However, it appears that rumors, which have been more … Read More