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16 days agoCERN marks 20th anniversary of free internet
The European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) today marks the 20th anniversary of the world wide web becoming a freely available (more)
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17 days agoDate announced for first Bitcoin ATM
The world’s first Bitcoin ATM will be launched in San Diego, California, on Thursday, May 2 at a special press event.
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17 days agoTomorrow's leading companies have yet to be founded
Bryan Nelson, business development manager at Google South Africa, believes the next companies to join the Fortune 500 have not even been (more)
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17 days agoFirst Nigerian Bloggers Fair held in Lagos
Fifty top writers selected from across Nigeria attended the first Nigerian Bloggers Fair at the weekend, discussing the theme ‘Blogging (more)
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17 days agoApexPeak to launch in Singapore
Online financing startup ApexPeak is planning to move into the Singaporean market as it completes the 88mph startup programme in Cape Town.
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20 days agoSA celebrities check out startups for partnerships
South African television presenter Jeannie D and her partner, entrepreneur Brennan Wright, attended the 88mph Demo Day yesterday evening to (more)
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20 days agoBAKE awards to recognise Kenyan bloggers
The Bloggers Association of Kenya (BAKE) is to host its second ever Kenyan Blog Awards, with the public asked to submit their votes to (more)
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20 days agoSocial media as a means of customer engagement
Michael Renzon, chief executive officer of inQuba, believes social media can become a “playground” for customer experience (more)
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20 days agoUtilising technology to improve call centre effectiveness
Call centres need to implement new technologies which are more consumer friendly and move away from an obsession with voice, according to (more)
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21 days agoOld Mutual on globalisation, people and technology
Companies need to take culture, background, languages and legislation into consideration when expanding globally, with technology playing a (more)
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21 days agoOnline gamers earn mosquito nets for Africa
Online game players in Kenya have to date raised 423 insecticide treated mosquito nets for donation to malaria infested areas, thanks to (more)
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21 days agoCloud Credential Council moving into Africa
The Cloud Credential Council (CCC), which offers training and certification to companies and individuals wanting to practice and implement (more)
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21 days ago88mph Demo Day underway in Cape Town
Ten Cape Town-based startups will present to investors today in a bid to secure follow-on funding and increase the chances of their (more)
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21 days agoOPINION: Major players worryingly silent on Girls in ICT day
Today, on Girls in ICT day, it is saddening and worrisome the extent to which major sector players have no concern for reaching out to the (more)
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21 days agoFuture of payments does not need Mastercard or Visa - banking chief
The “gorillas” of Mastercard and Visa will in the future no longer be needed because of the direction of banking and payment solutions (more)
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21 days ago“I am not Robin Van Persie,” says Indian IT professional
An Indian ICT professional has been bombarded with Tweets by jubilant Manchester United fans congratulating Robin Van Persie on inspiring (more)
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21 days agoUsing technology to improve customer engagement
Businesses must use technology to engage with customers through the building of an effective customer relations management (CRM) system, (more)
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22 days agoGhanaian mobile entrepreneur to participate in Global Women’s program
Ghanaian technology entrepreneur Anne Amuzu will take part in the Annual Fortune/U.S. State Department Global Women’s Mentoring (more)
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22 days agoInternet makes word of mouth archivable
The internet has empowered consumers to share stories, making word of mouth archivable for the first time, according to Paul Galantis, (more)
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22 days agoCEM Conference underway in Cape Town today
The Customer Experience Management (CEM) conference kicked off in Cape Town today, with various speakers on a variety of topics, including (more)
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22 days agoMay’s Connected Kenya conference to explore ICT in devolved government
The fifth annual Connected Kenya conference, bringing together techies, policy makers and development partners, will concentrate on the use (more)
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23 days agoCape Town becoming an ihub, says investor
Investors have acknowledged the African continent’s growing global potential as six tech startups pitched at a Demo Day Test Drive hosted (more)
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24 days agoInvestor Trip kicks off in Liberia
Entrepreneurial non-profit organisation (NPO) BiD Network and Monrovia-based Business Start-Up Centre (BSC) are hosting an investor program (more)
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24 days agoDesign expert says UX requires scientific approach
User experience (UX) should be approached as a science in measuring human behaviour, Indian design expert Srini Srinivasan said at an (more)
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26 days agoSouth African startups held back by lack of venture capital - 2go
South African startups find it tough to obtain outside investment, according to 2go’s product strategist and business developer Peter (more)
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27 days agoMiles Ward: little teams with big results
Miles Ward, designer and developer for Amazon Web Services (AWS) and three-time technology startup entrepreneur, has said little teams can (more)
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27 days agoDeveloper community full of hobos, tramps and bums - Western Cape Labs’ Mike Jones
Mike Jones, of Western Cape Labs, has labelled some members of his audience at the Scale Conference, in Cape Town, “hobos, tramps and (more)
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27 days agoKidnapped French family released by Cameroonian rebels
The French family kidnapped by Cameroonian rebels and paraded to the world via YouTube has been released, a government official has (more)
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27 days ago2go's feature phone market makes life “very difficult”
Peter Lockhart, product strategist and business developer at mobile-to-mobile social network 2go, has said designing for feature phones is (more)
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27 days agoScaling Facebook with 1bn monthly users with "tens of thousands" of servers
Neil Blakey-Milner, a production engineer for Facebook's core systems, says Facebook’s construction of its own data centres is helping to (more)
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27 days agoOpen Letter: You do Africa a disservice by underestimating how far we've come
Duncan Arthur, an independent payments, mobile and African banking expert, has written an open letter calling on primarily non-African (more)
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27 days agoAfrican entrepreneurial mindset needs reality check, says report
Philanthropic foundation Omidyar Network warned against an idealised African entrepreneurial mindset in its report released this morning (more)
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27 days agoMobile, cloud key themes at SA TechEd conference
The Microsoft-driven TechEd conference this week in South Africa focuses on the roles of mobile and cloud in the tech space as a driver of (more)
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28 days agoRightShift's Daniel Fiske tells entrepreneurs to be dumbest in company
Daniel Fiske, co-founder and chief technical officer at social gaming and casino game company RightShift, has unveiled his tips for (more)
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28 days agoNomanini, innovating airtime purchases with technology
Nomanini, a Cape Town based startup, has set itself the main goal of replacing physical airtime scratch cards with mobile point-of-sale (more)
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28 days agoScale Conference underway in Cape Town
The Scale Conference convened today at the Kirstenbosch Gardens, Cape Town, bringing together experts to discuss and share innovations and (more)
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28 days ago16th annual AfricaCom agenda announced
AfricaCom has announced the draft of the agenda of the 16th annual AfricaCom conference to take place in Cape Town, South Africa, in (more)
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29 days agoMicrosoft aims to unlock Kenyan youth potential
Two hundred Kenyan college students will benefit from technical and financial support to help them realise their creativity following the (more)
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29 days agoSA education system has its head in the sand, claims parent
A South African parent has expressed his concern that the lack of IT education in the country could prevent his coding expert son from (more)
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29 days agoHellocomputer and Draftfcb 2013 hackathon dates announced
Hellocomputer and Draftcb are planning to hold their second hackathon at their office in Katherine Street, Sandton, Johannesburg on May 9.
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1 month agoHumanIPO chief to speak at Cloud World Forum Africa
HumanIPO managing editor Tom Jackson will be among the guest speakers at next week’s second annual Cloud World Forum Africa in (more)
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1 month agoMicrosoft launches Imagine Cup 2013 in Kenya
Microsoft has launched its Imagine Cup 2013 in Kenya, offering over 100 students the chance to represent their country in the worldwide (more)
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1 month agoTech should be integrated in business for higher investment allure
William Jimerson, executive director at Musa Capital, believes the key to increased African investment lies in the integration of (more)
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1 month agoPitchIN Stellenbosch to host business breakfast for SA entrepreneurs
Pitching organisation PitchIN Stellenbosch and the South African Innovation Network (SAINe) will be hosting a business breakfast to inspire (more)
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1 month agoMark Zuckerberg to visit Nigeria next month
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg will visit the oil rich Niger Delta region of Nigeria in May as a guest speaker at an economic summit (more)
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1 month ago88mph startups pitching for investment at Demo Day
The first 10 startups to complete 88mph’s Cape Town accelerator programme will pitch to potential investors at Demo Day on Thursday, (more)
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1 month agoU-Start picks six SA startups to take to Milan
The U-Start Bloom competition last night (Thursday) chose the final six South African startups who will travel to Milan next month to pitch (more)
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1 month agoMore patience, infrastructure needed for tech investment growth in Africa
Infrastructure development and time are considered essential to investment interest on the African tech scene, investors told HumanIPO at (more)
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1 month agoAfrican tech still an oxymoron to international investors
Investment expert Andrea Böhmert, partner at Knife Capital, believes there is still confusion around the technology potential and its (more)
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