Pivot25 Finalist, IPO48 Winner Wins Regional "Startup World" Competition in Nairobi

Startup World is a global competition with an aim to find the next great startup outside Silicon Valley. The competition is being held in 36 cities world-wide including the recently concluded Cape Town and Nairobi with Kigali and Dar es Salaam coming up.

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10 African Startups to Enter Meffy's from Mobile Entertainment Africa Conference. Adds New Social & Innovation Awards

Last year, Afrinnovator’s Mark Kaigwa gave a keynote at All Amber‘s Mobile Entertainment Africa conference in South Africa. In anticipation for the 2012 conference, the organisers of the leading mobile focused events in Africa, officially announced details of an ongoing partnership with … Read More

Android Developer Challenge 2011 Finalists Share their & Experience Lessons Learnt

On Thursday, November 17th, Gbenga Sesan held a Google Plus hangout with finalists of the Android Developer Challenge (ADC), Sub Saharan Africa. The hangout was an opportunity for African web developers, entrepreneurs and Internet marketers to hear from the winners about their experience building winning applications, … Read More

Visa gets serious: Let the Africa Mobile Payment Wars Begin

A student at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania was asked by a former lead engineer at paypal during a mentoring session almost a year ago “Why are you not using Amazon web services for cloud computing?”, he … 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

Exclusive: Inside Look At The Pivot25 Startups [Part 2]

So we began by looking at some of the apps that are set to launch at Pivot25 this week and we continue with the scoop on more great apps to look out for. Our format is simple. In 160 characters (the same number as an SMS, given this is a mobile app and developer conference) they give us:

Their Pitch: What are they trying to do?

Their Problem: What are they trying to solve?

Their People: Who are some of the names behind it?

Catch up with last week’s group here including some great insights.Read More

Google Android Developer Challenge Sub Saharan Africa

The Droid is on a conquering mission across Africa, and Google is challenging developers across Sub Saharan Africa to step up to the plate to create great Android apps for the platform that is literally taking Africa by storm.

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Pivot25 East Africa Mobile Apps & Developer Conference

Pivot 25 is a mLab and iHub initiative. The Event will not only showcase Developer Talent in the region but also bring much needed focus to the mLab and the role that it play’s in the Mobile Application Development Ecosystem in East Africa. This event will … Read More

Samsung Kenya Giving Mobile App Development in Kenya a Boost

Samsung is doing interesting things in Kenya with regards to mobile applications development and their recently launched mobile application platform, Bada. Robert Ngeru, from Samsung is really driving local applications development on their platform. Samsung are running a mobile applications … Read More

Quirk eMarketing Crowdsources for QuirkStar #100

Quirk is growing fast! The agency has added almost 50 QuirkStars to their super-talented team this year. To celebrate their 100th QuirkStar, they are inviting you to tell them whom they should interview next. You can win a bundle of … Read More