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Startup Watch: Socialize your ads with Nigerian Startup Adloopz

Startup Watch: Socialize your ads with Nigerian Startup Adloopz
Adloopz is a Nigerian startup that aims to put a twist on regular online advertising by putting a social twist to it. It is a social advertising platform that helps advertisers and ad consumers get the most out of adverts by leveraging the strength of their presence on social networks. From their blog: Adloopz...Read Full Post
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Get your pitch on at IPO48 Nairobi 2011

Get your pitch on at IPO48 Nairobi 2011
The 48-hour tech startup pitching contest, IPO48, is back in nairobi, and bigger! Last year the contest was held at the Strathmore University where a bunch of young and innovative minds congregated over a 48-hour period to come up with ideas and making businesses out of them. This time the event is to...Read Full Post
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Exclusive: Inside Look At The Pivot25 Startups [Part 1]

Exclusive: Inside Look At The Pivot25 Startups [Part 1]
All this week, Afrinnovator is going to be bringing you an exclusive look at the 25 startups making East Africa sit up straight as they gear up to launch their apps at Pivot25, East Africa’s premier mobile app and developer conference. Bringing you an inside look at each startup in 160 characters,...Read Full Post
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3 things foreign tech startups setting up in Africa should consider

3 things foreign tech startups setting up in Africa should consider
As we’ve reported before, Africa seems to have massive potential for the future of tech innovation globally, in fact this is really the reason we even bother to keep this site running! The continent continues to attract a large influx of foreigners interested in being part of the wave of Information...Read Full Post
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5 Cool South African Startups

5 Cool South African Startups
Having recently written about the Old Mutual Entrepreneurs’ Guide, we decided to dive into the site and check out the featured startups and their founders. We tried to pick out 5 really cool startups on the site and here they are, they are not necessarily ranked in any way, we just thought they...Read Full Post
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Net Prophet, Old Mutual and the Entrepreneur’s Guide

Net Prophet, Old Mutual and the Entrepreneur’s Guide
In a recent article we highlighted four must-attend tech conferences in Africa. One of those was the Net Prophet 2011 conference taking place in Cape Town, South Africa: Take the most innovative/successful/creative/ambitious thinkers and entrepreneurs in the Internet space, and ask them to share their...Read Full Post
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Startup Watch: Mobiflock makes smartphones safe for children

Startup Watch: Mobiflock makes smartphones safe for children
According to a 2011 report by MobileYouth, if you were to add together all the young people who own a cellphone (which amounts to approximately 1.8 billion), they would form the largest country on the planet. And, with children now owning mobile phones from the average age of eight years-old, that figure...Read Full Post
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Startup Watch: Bugbox Animation, South Africa

Startup Watch: Bugbox Animation, South Africa
Bugbox Animation is a boutique Character Animation Studio situated in Johannesburg, South Africa. Established in 2003, Bugbox has built a reputation for top notch performances and polished production quality in the commercial arena as well as in Long-form. By placing emphasis on original performances,...Read Full Post
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Quirk Celebrates 12th Anniversary

Quirk Celebrates 12th Anniversary
A big happy birthday from us at Afrinnovator to the cool guys over at Quirk eMarketing, Africa’s foremost full service emarketing company! Twelve years! That is how long Quirk, the marketing agency that’s “Born Digital” has been pioneering the Interneton behalf of clients, ever since those...Read Full Post
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Google Opens Up Umbono, SA Tech Incubator

Google Opens Up Umbono, SA Tech Incubator
The ‘innovation hub’ model seems to be taking more root in Africa, recently we covered Ghana’s MEST.  Google launches a technology innovation and incubation ‘hub’, Umbono, in Cape Town, South Africa. As we wrote recently it appears that Google’s interest in Africa...Read Full Post
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