Startup Watch: M-PAYER

As a follow up to yesterday’s article on mobile money, let’s take a look at another area that the success of mobile money is affecting. One of the most interesting side effects of the continued growth of mobile money is how … Read More

6 neat African websites/blogs on mobile

Here’s a list of 6 nice online resources for mobile and mobile related news and information in Africa or by African bloggers that we love reading:

1. Mobility Nigeria: Nigeria’s foremost blog on mobile and mobile related matters. An independent … Read More

6 Cool Nigerian Tech Startups

Nigeria is rising! Which are the startups to watch out for in Nigeria? Who’s doing great stuff? Below is a short expose of 5 really cool startups in Nigeria.

DealDey

Basically: Group buying

About DealDey: Launched in March 2011, … Read More

Africa Mobility Futures

Rudy de Waele,  Ken Banks and Erik Hersman are co-curating a collaborative outlook on the mobile industry in Africa, called “Mobile Trends Africa 2020“.

Afrinnovator was invited to contribute and our thoughts concerning the future of mobile in Africa … Read More

Looking Forward: Where Next Generation Innovation is Coming From.

A guest post by Niti Bhan, Senior Partner Global Insights – Semacraft Consulting

As the mobile phone increasingly becomes the world’s primary source of information, thought leaders in design and development of online services and applications are looking at refining … Read More

TNS RMS Mobile Life 2011 Report

TNS RMS part of the largest global market research firm TNS, announced the results of a study into Kenyan mobile phone use and behavior dubbed Mobile Life 2011, which is part of the Global Telecoms Insight (GTI).

Mobile Life 2011 … Read More

eTranzact Setting up Shop in Kenya

Electronic payments company, eTranzact, could be setting up shop in Kenya. We wrote about eTranzact as one of the major players in Nigeria for their mobile money service M-Teller that they are rolling out in the west African country.

eTranzact … Read More

This week in the African blogosphere, Week 2, 2011

West Africa

Webtrends Nigeria and Mobility Nigeria both carried the story of  Zubair Abubakar who launched a blackberry app for Nigerian Constitution.

Funding for startups in Nigeria seems to be picking up as Webtrends Nigeria reported:

In what is second high-profile … Read More

Central Bank of Nigeria Licenses Mobile Money Service, Paga

Pagatech, a Nigerian company founded back in 2009 has been granted a license by the Central Bank of Nigeria to roll out a mobile money service much like MPESA. The service is called ‘Paga‘

Pagatech was founded in early 2009 … Read More

Kenya's Robust Growth Driven by Telecoms Boom

According to the World Bank’s Kenya Economic Update, Kenya is at a ‘tipping point’ poised for a possible boom in economic growth. The report says that this is largely due to a telecommunications revolution over the past decade. The World … Read More