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An East African Mobile Entertainment Overview: Music Discovery, Nano-economics and Mobile Money

An East African Mobile Entertainment Overview: Music Discovery, Nano-economics and Mobile Money

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Recently, All Amber invited Afrinnovator down to cover and participate in Mobile Entertainment Africa. Below is a summary of that first talk, which painted a snapshot of some trends and key learnings from the East African mobile entertainment scene. Silicon Savannah: the new catchphrase describing the East African and Kenyan region, the innovation and dynamism taking root there and the temperature for creating disruptive companies and sparking growth in the region. Home to the iHub, iceAddis, Hive CoLab, the IDEOS phone and the epicenter of the global Mobile Money revolution. This is East Africa. If...Read More

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African Entertainment Online/Mobile

African Entertainment Online/Mobile
The inaugural Mobile Entertainment Africa conference was recently held in Cape Town, South Africa. The conference aimed to provide some perspective on the growing mobile entertainment industry across Africa. Following up on the conference, let’s look at a few online/mobile entertainment stores/companies from around Africa: Hewa.com We learnt about Hewa from the recent AppCircus Nairobi event where they were a runner up to the 1st prize. Hewa is swahili for ‘air’ or slang (sheng’)...Read Full Post
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Africa Social Networking/Social Media Pulse Check

Africa Social Networking/Social Media Pulse Check
Back in 2008, in an article on socialmediatoday.com titled ‘Why Social Media in South Africa Will Fail’, the author makes a rather daring assertion: … social media and social media marketing and social media strategy is an almost pointless pursuit for businesses in South Africa… Perhaps the image...Read Full Post
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East Africa Survey highlights uptake of Facebook among urban youth

East Africa Survey highlights uptake of Facebook among urban youth
Research firm Consumer Insight has published results of a survey among youth between the ages of 7 and 24 in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania have revealed interesting aspects concerning the accessibility and use of the internet among this age group. The survey was carried out among youth of this age group...Read Full Post
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BUGBOX Spawns ANT ARMY: The Animatics Division

BUGBOX Spawns ANT ARMY: The Animatics Division
Character animation studio, Bugbox Animation in Johannesburg announces the creation of Ant Army, the Animatics Division. A strong team of artists and animators has been deployed to this side of the business. Formerly Nite Cap Animatics, Ant Army is now better resourced to address the hefty storyboarding...Read Full Post
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The two giants of local social networks in South Africa

The two giants of local social networks in South Africa
Social networking (and that could to some extent be read as ‘Facebook’) is quite a phenomenon across the African continent and especially amongst the youth. According to this article: According to Alexa statistics, Facebook is the number one or number two most visited site in most African...Read Full Post
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Quirk Education Offers UCT Students Free Courses

Quirk Education Offers UCT Students Free Courses
Quirk Education has donated more than R50 000 worth of courses to the Southern Africa Sustainable Development Initiative (SASDI), an organisation that focuses on fund-raising, project management and leadership development within impoverished communities. Eight University of Cape Town students working...Read Full Post
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5 Must-See African Infographics on Social Media, Tech & Mobile

5 Must-See African Infographics on Social Media, Tech & Mobile
Infographics are the world’s new way of visualizing and representing data, they’ve taken over as Web 2.0’s preferred technique to spread complex data or messaging in creative and impactful ways. Africa is no exception, here we look at 5 such infographics from across the continent that are worthy...Read Full Post
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