Ebook: African Apps in a Global Marketplace

‘African Apps in a Global Marketplace’ by Andrew Mugoya is a collection of ideas, observations, tips and some gripes about the African app industry.

It will be available as a free download from Tuesday, 1 November, for a limited period.

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Esoko Interview: Mobile Technology & Agri-Business in Africa

Afrinnovator: In a nutshell, what is Esoko?

Esoko: In essence, Esoko is an information channel that individuals, agri-businesses, governments and projects use to collect and send out market information using simple text messaging. The platform provides automatic and personalized prices … Read More

By the numbers: Communications Commission of Kenya Mobile & Internet Stats

This post is originated from the iHub blog by Leo Mutuku, and reposted here with permission.

The Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK) has released a Statistics Report on the Communications Sector reviewing the last quarter of the year 2010/2011. The information used to … Read More

From Senegal with Love: Xtreme Design and Engineering develops custom mobile applications

Xtreme Design and Engineering (XDE) is a tech company based in Dakar, Sengal with offices in Conakry, Ghana and Atlanta, GA. The company offers a wide array of IT solutions including custom software and web development and 2D and 3D … Read More

A Look at Mobile Broadband in Kenya [infographic]

This post was originally from the Nairobi innovation hub blog and is reposted here with their permission…

The arrival of the undersea fiber cables in Kenya in 2009 has revolutionized the technology and economic sectors. Kenya is one of very few countries in … Read More

Mobile Money Bridging the Gap to Online Payments in Kenya

Mobile Money has come a long way in the last few years. Kenyan mobile network operator, Safaricom, introduced their MPESA service 4 years ago in 2007 and the service literally took off, setting the stage for quite the revolution. Safaricom’s MPESA … Read More

The snowball effect in the Kenyan (and African) startup scene

The premise behind the move to found and launch Afrinnovator was not really just for the sake of blogging (though writing is fun).

Part of the reason was that it seemed that there were either not enough success stories or … Read More

Android Developer Challenge Sub-Saharan Africa Winners

The Google Africa team has announced the winners of the just concluded Android Developer Challenge. The three winners in the 3 different categories are as follows:

• Entertainment / Media / Games – Afrinolly (Nigeria)

Team: FansConnectOnline Limited

Afrinolly brings African movies to … Read More

Live at AppCircus in Nairobi

The AppCircus is coming to Nairobi courtesy of iHub and Akirachix and already they have selected a good number of apps to be presented at the event to be held at the iHub on the 10th of September. Developers will pitch in front of an international jury, … Read More

12 Apps to Pitch at AppCircus in Nairobi

AppCircus is a unique global traveling showcase of the most creative and innovative apps presented by their creators during some of the most influential international events in mobile/web. AppCircus is open to developers, startups and any other organization and offers each … Read More