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Johannesburg, 26 July 2010 – The most hyped-up technology conference to come to South Africa, Tech4Africa is but days away. A number of the QuirkStars are gearing up for this unprecedented opportunity for networking and sharing with some of the best minds in digital. Quirk’s first appearance at Tech4Africa will be in the two days [...]

The iHub is officially accepting membership registration. If you want to be part of this burgeoning community, now is the time to register and be part of it. The registration is being carried out via the new look website that will eventually be a community website. There are different levels of membership – white, red and [...]

Google is finally going to hold events for students, developers and entrepreneurs in Kenya and Uganda. gKenya and GUganda are set for September: Google is very excited to meet with software developers, entrepreneurs and CS students in Kenya. We will be demonstrating Google’s suite of products that are driving innovation in technology, business across the [...]

Zynde.com is a new, Kenyan built, web app that promises to help you manage your finances online and on the go on your mobile device. Press release: Picture this: Multiple users from different locations using different mobile devices to capture the vital financial data you need on the field and through your trusted and preferred [...]

Good news for tech startups in Nigeria. As per CSR Africa: IFC [International Finance Corporation] , a member of the World Bank Group, announced an investment of $10 million in private equity fund Adlevo Capital Africa to help smaller, innovative companies in Nigeria’s information and communications technology sector access the funding they need to expand and [...]

We’ve written about the Silicon Cape Initiative before. Below is an interview with the new chairman of the SCI and prominent digital evangelist and CEO of Quirk eMarketing. What is the Silicon Cape? The Silicon Cape is a conceptual brand, a committee and a community that was established late last year to drive the growth of the Western Cape as a global tech hub. The founders felt that the existing tech community in [...]

Zoopedup is a South African car blog turned social network built for people with a passion for cars. The site was started by one of South Africa’s influential techpreneurs, Charl Norman who took his passion for the Internet and combined it with a passion for cars to produce one of South Africa’s biggest home grown social networks. Today [...]

Cape Town crowdsourcing platform IdeaBounty is definitely growing in leaps and bounds, taking on more and more challenging crowdsourcing tasks for its clients. We’ve featured the platform severally and even done a podcast with their MD, Daniel Neville. IdeaBounty is now taking on providing it’s crowdsourcing platform to Chevrolet, giving creatives from all over the [...]

Appfrica has announced a new initiative called Hive Colab, a place for freelance developers to find a good working environment. Hive Colab is a collaboration between Appfrica Labs, Project Diaspora, UConnect, and Node Six: Hive Colab is a collaborative, community owned, open work environment for young tech entrepreneurs looking to focus on projects, to access [...]

CORRECTION: The event is taking place on Monday, 28th, June (today); not Tuesday eVentures Africa Fund (eVA) is a VC firm based in the Netherlands that has a keen focus on investing in Internet and Mobile based tech companies in Sub-Saharan Africa. The firm is currently focused on Ghana and Kenya as investment destinations: The [...]