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  • 25 days ago

    SA’s GustPay launches Event Intelligence product for cashless payments at events

    South Africa-based mobile payments startup GustPay recently held its second cashless event dubbed the “Grim Furdango 2.0”, in (more)

  • 26 days ago

    Kenya's music buying service 'Mdundo' featured on BBC’s Click

    Kenya’s new scratch card buying service dubbed Mdundo was featured on Click, BBC's flagship TV show, for introducing innovative means of (more)

  • 26 days ago

    Tourism Radio hits its 1 millionth device rental day

    South Africa’s a digital tour guide Tourism Radio has hit its 1 millionth device rental day this month, edging it closer to monetisation.

  • 27 days ago

    Kenya's 2-yeard-old startup MoDe keen on global expansion

    Kenya’s Mobile Decisioning (MoDe), an emergency prepaid airtime startup, has announced plans to expand across Europe and South America.

  • 28 days ago

    Kenyan MoDe wins IBM award

    Kenya’s Mobile Decisioning (MoDe), a mobile nano credit startup, is this year’s overall winner of the IBM Africa SmartCamp contest at (more)

  • 28 days ago

    Easy2Map wins Startup Knight software startups challenge

    Startup Knight competition, which targets South African software-based startups, was launched just last month receiving numerous entrants.

  • 28 days ago

    Silicon Valley’s reality show ‘Start-Ups: Silicon Valley’ premieres

    A new reality TV series about America’s technology jewel Silicon Valley, Start-Ups: Silicon Valley, premiered Monday, November 5 at 10 pm (more)

  • 29 days ago

    New audio service streams top Kenyan Music Awards

    Waabeh, a new audio streaming service, made a splash entry to the market with the streaming of the tenth edition of the Kisima Awards held (more)

  • 1 month ago

    Virtual tax assistant TaxTim says Demo-Africa positive but could improve

    The founders of South African virtual tax assistant TaxTim say that, for all its strengths, last week’s DEMO-Africa event in Nairobi, (more)

  • 1 month ago

    Nokia partners with Kenya’s government to encourage creation of social apps

    Finnish mobile phone-maker Nokia has partnered with the Government of Kenya through the Kenya ICT Board to work towards ensuring tech (more)

  • 1 month ago

    Sasa Africa, selling African heritage to the world online

    Sasa Africa, one of DEMO Africa’s 2012 top five startups, has launched an e-commerce platform to connect offline artisans to buyers (more)

  • 1 month ago

    No more fake documents, Kenyan startup guarantees

    mVerified, a new mobile- and Web-based verification app, is set to ensure counterfeit documents such as car log books, title deeds and (more)

  • 1 month ago

    Acumen Fund and Dow partner to scale social enterprises in East and West Africa

    Acumen Fund, a non-profit global venture fund addressing poverty across Africa and South Asia, has announced a partnership with The Dow (more)

  • 1 month ago

    WiselyHired wants to make retirees useful in old age

    A startup in South Africa has developed a professional services platform named WiselyHired set to help tap into retirees’ skills and (more)

  • 1 month ago

    Move over 22Seven, here comes ExpenZa

    With 25,000 app downloads in South Africa alone, a new online money management tool named ExpenZa seems bent on taking digital money (more)

  • 1 month ago

    Kenya’s Lipisha helps businesses track transactions on mobile money

    Businesses operating in Kenya can now track their M-Pesa transactions in real time, thanks to a new application called Lipisha.

  • 1 month ago

    No takers for US$10 million investment money, AfDB says

    The African Development Bank (AfDB) has said it has set aside over US$10 million in an investment fund for youth and other development (more)

  • 1 month ago

    Don’t have time to do the errands? Log on to Dash2Do

    Although errand firms have existed in Kenya for a while now, startup Dash2Do is vowing to change the way tasks are completed in the country (more)

  • 1 month ago

    Kenyan startup promises reduced car theft

    Mobile-based car tracking solution mTracker intends to cut down on rising cases of car theft in a country that witnesses 10 to 15 such (more)

  • 1 month ago

    Car verification app launched in South Africa

    Lightstone, a specialist in spatial data and data driven insights, has launched in South Africa a new car verification app that promises to (more)

  • 1 month ago

    Kenyan crowdfunding platform M-Changa launched

    M-Changa, a new SMS-based crowdfunding platform, has been launched in Kenya expected to enable “individuals who are fundraising to raise (more)

  • 1 month ago

    The Next Web unveils online entrepreneurship academy

    Top publisher of online technology news The Next Web (TNW) has started an online training and education programme through its new Web-based (more)

  • 1 month ago

    SA’s Tourism Radio gets CNN coverage

    CNN’s Marketplace Report recently featured African IT company Tourism Radio, giving it the much coveted media coverage valued by (more)

  • 1 month ago

    Deezer launches in Nigeria, iROKING not fazed

    Deezer, a France-based global music streaming service, was last week launched in Nigeria to offer unlimited access to its themed and (more)

  • 1 month ago

    Nomanini, the enterprising mobile terminal for prepaid vouchers

    Nomanini, a South Africa-based startup, has made it easier for customers to purchase airtime, electricity vouchers and insurance through (more)

  • 1 month ago

    Vodacom AppStar challenge now goes global

    Vodacom claims that its AppStar challenge will upgrade to an international contest after the inclusion of Kenya, Tanzania, Qatar, Egypt and (more)

  • 1 month ago

    Mxit declares that archrival WhatsApp is no threat

    Leading African instant messaging platform Mxit has said that competitor WhatsApp is not a threat to its operations as they operate in (more)

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    1 month ago

    Guest Post: Success or failure, it’s a question of funding

    Joel Macharia is a Kenyan entrepreneur and Editor in Chief and CEO at Pesatalk.com. He is an avid reader and lover of all things finance (more)

  • 1 month ago

    African accelerator fund 88mph launches in Cape Town

    African investment fund and business accelerator on Wednesday launched its partnership with Google for Entrepreneurs in Cape Town in a move (more)

  • 1 month ago

    BREAKING: Alan Knott-Craig Jnr steps down as Mxit CEO

    In an unexpected and surprising move, Alan Knott-Craig Jnr has stepped down as CEO of Mxit, citing shareholder differences.

  • 1 month ago

    Public-Private Partnership endorses startups’ eco-system

    Stakeholders in Kenya’s ICT sector have pledged their commitment to collaborating with African governments to accelerate growth of the (more)

  • 1 month ago

    Ghana’s NevaHold receives plaudits at Webit Congress Startup Challenge

    NevaHold, a service that aims to eliminate the bureaucracy in customer service, has received an honourable mention from the Webit Congress, (more)

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