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Find Great Startup Events in SA

Find Great Startup Events in SA
We love startups! Plain and simple. Consequently we also love great tools/resources  for startups. So when we found out about Startup Digest launching in SA we got all warm and fuzzy and went out to seek more information about it and what it means for startups and the startup community in SA. To do...Read Full Post
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INTERVIEWS, STARTUPS

An Interview with a Geo & GeoWeb Specialist in Africa

An Interview with a Geo & GeoWeb Specialist in Africa
There’s been a great interest in Geo and Geo Web technologies in recent years. This is of course to some extent due to the competition between online map service providers like Google Maps and Microsoft’s Live Maps. Africa has not been left behind. In 2009, April the first WhereCampAfrica...Read Full Post
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INNOVATION, INTERNET & WEB, MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT, MOBILE & MOBILE WEB, STARTUPS

[BREAKING] Ushahidi Announces New Funding from Hivos

[BREAKING] Ushahidi Announces New Funding from Hivos
An announcement on the official Ushahidi blog: Today it’s our pleasure to announce support from the Hivos Foundation, a Dutch non-governmental organization that aims to contribute to a fair, free and sustainable world. Hivos confirmed their support to Ushahidi several weeks ago, but we’ve been...Read Full Post
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INTERNET & WEB, MOBILE & MOBILE WEB, STARTUPS

Three Kenyans to showcase their online payment systems at AITEC's Banking and Mobile Money Conference

Three Kenyans to showcase their online payment systems at AITEC's Banking and Mobile Money Conference
Kenya’s innovative/tech space seems to be growing in leaps and bounds as days pass by. Three of Kenya’s rapidly growing network of young ICT innovators and entrepreneurs have been selected to make showcase presentations on their products at AITEC’s forthcoming Banking and Mobile Money Conference...Read Full Post
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EVENTS, INNOVATION, MOBILE & MOBILE WEB, STARTUPS

[EVENT] Tech4Africa, Jhb, SA

[EVENT] Tech4Africa, Jhb, SA
Yup yet another cool tech event addressing the theme of Africa + Technology + Trends. We recently featured a talk given by Juliana Rotich (afromusing) on this very same theme. She had some good insights. Tech4Africa is a “Web and Emerging Technology conference bringing, global perspective to the...Read Full Post
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INNOVATION, INTERVIEWS, MOBILE & MOBILE WEB, STARTUPS

[BREAKING] African Startup to Create Super Mobile Voice Cloud Service

[BREAKING] African Startup to Create Super Mobile Voice Cloud Service
This is just awesome. True innovation. How about if you could create ANY kind of voice service without needing any programming? Just by creating a visual workflow on a simple website. And voila! You have a mobile voice service!? Hmm, you think, why would I want to do that? Well, here’s a simple...Read Full Post
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KDN Presents World Cyber Games Kenya 2010

KDN Presents World Cyber Games Kenya 2010
Recently, we featured an article on competitive gaming in Kenya and the efforts going into promoting this as an active ‘sport’ in equal standing (or better) than even the athletics games we Kenyans are mostly known for. Today we are pleased to announce that it is confirmed that we can confirm...Read Full Post
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INNOVATION, STARTUPS

Kngine: The Knowledge Engine from Egypt

Kngine: The Knowledge Engine from Egypt
You’ve heard about search engines, have you heard about Knowledge Engines? How about one built in Africa? One of my greatest areas of interest in computer science/software engineering has always been massively scaled systems. You know, the kind of systems that run Google. It is in this pursuit...Read Full Post
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Bantalabs/Limbe Labs: the iHub/Appfrica of West Africa

Bantalabs/Limbe Labs: the iHub/Appfrica of West Africa
We’ve recently covered stories about iHub that is opening up in Nairobi, Kenya in March. And I’m sure many people reading this are also aware of Appfrica Labs in neighboring  Uganda. It seems the trend of creating community innovation centers is spreading throughout the continent. West Africa...Read Full Post
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INTERNET & WEB, STARTUPS

Women of Kireka launches a website

Women of Kireka launches a website
In the spirit of improving the standards of living of the women in Kireka in Uganda, Sienna Anstis has lauched a website that basically explains what the projects is about. Sienna Anstis, as described on the website, is a Swedish-Canadian and is currently working in Nairobi as the Regional Communications...Read Full Post
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