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MOBILE&MOBILE WEB

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MOBILE&MOBILE WEB

How To: Set Off In Mobile Advertising in Africa – “Please Call Me”, WAP, Metrics & More

It’s amazing what you can fit into 110 characters or less. I am constantly receiving please call me messages from my cousin who is a…

INNOVATION

Disrupting SMS Apps Space: Telerivet’s Distributed Mobile SMS Service using Android Phones

Most web and mobile startups in Africa need to have to some sort of messaging or notification layer that incorporates SMS. Wider businesses, large and…

INTERNET&WEB

Doing Tech Business in Africa: A Few Lessons from Twitter’s Rise in Africa

Very recently Portland Communications released some data from research carried to find out about the usage of Twitter in Africa. The report was received quite well…

INNOVATION

Necessity & Invention: Africa’s story of mobile conquest & why utility beats ‘coolness’

It is said that necessity is the mother of invention and indeed that could perfectly describe Africa where it comes to innovation particularly on mobile. Utility…

INTERVIEWS

Esoko Interview: Mobile Technology & Agri-Business in Africa

Afrinnovator: In a nutshell, what is Esoko? Esoko: In essence, Esoko is an information channel that individuals, agri-businesses, governments and projects use to collect and send out market information…

MOBILE&MOBILE WEB

Africa Mobile Web Pulse Check

Mobile phone technology has revolutionized the African continent in so many ways. The mobile phone has been for many an African the first real (or at the…