Learning software being developed in Ghana
A Liberian student in Ghana is developing software to enable students to easily carry out research on the internet, supported by Google.
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A new Omidyar Network report states Africa’s position can be elevated with the formalisation of entrepreneurship, despite its reputation (more)
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27 days agoGoogle chairman praises Kenyan innovator
Google chairman Eric Schmidt has acknowledged a Kenyan innovation that allows cellphone users to charge their phones using their shoes, (more)
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27 days agoHellofood’s mobile app among leading food apps globally
Food delivery app Hellofood is among the leading food delivery apps globally with 250,000 app downloads in less than three months, topping (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 agoKorean agency to fund Rwandan ICT centre
The Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) has signed an agreement with the Rwandan Ministry of Youth and ICT to build an (more)
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27 days agoRightShift's Daniel Fiske tells entrepreneurs to be dumbest in company
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27 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 agoLaunch48 comes to Cape Town
Global web startup event Launch48 will be taking place in Cape Town next month, providing a chance for entrepreneurs to construct an online (more)
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28 days agoKopo Kopo partners with Eat Out Kenya to offer mobile payments for meals
Online restaurant guide and booking engine Eat out Kenya has partnered with Kopo Kopo and Safaricom’s M-Pesa service to enable restaurant (more)
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29 days agoSeed Engine welcoming next round of applications
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29 days agoGumtree team launch SA job site
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30 days agoAfrica Apps Quest targets tourism sector
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30 days agoBiD Network to select African finalists for ICT challenge
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1 month agoPitchIN Stellenbosch to host business breakfast for SA entrepreneurs
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1 month ago88mph startups pitching for investment at Demo Day
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1 month agoPaypal buys ‘growth hacking’ startup
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1 month agoWabona online subscription launched
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1 month agoU-Start picks six SA startups to take to Milan
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Twitter is rumoured to be launching a music app this weekend, most likely on Friday at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in (more)
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1 month agoGoogle introduces Glass Collective
Google has formed an investment syndicate with two venture capital (VC) firms named the “Glass Collective” to provide seed funding to (more)
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1 month agoTanzanian firms get innovation funding
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1 month agoInnovate Kenya challenge launches for solutions to local challenges
Global Minimum has launched the Innovate Kenya 2013 challenge, inviting high school students to submit tech solutions to locally pressing (more)
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1 month agoCape Town mapping startup launches mydoorhandle
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1 month agoLack of venture capital the obstacle to more tech investments in Africa
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1 month agoVC4Africa launches new online mentoring tool
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1 month agoWorldreader mobile launches with half a million readers per month
Worldreader, an application that enables book reading on feature phones, has reached the 500,000 readers per month mark.
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Cambridge Associates and the African Venture Capital Association (AVCA) have disclosed data indicating African private equity funds (more)
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1 month ago88mph partners with the eVA Fund, enhances Africa-Europe link
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1 month agoFemale-run radio station to launch in Somalia
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1 month agoSite to recognise African web designs goes online
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Music distribution app Mdundo is set to pay royalties to musicians who use their service, just five months after launching.
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1 month agoJamless now active on Tigo network
Ghanaian mobile and online traffic service Jamless is now available to Tigo subscribers in Accra as the startup expands its market reach.
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1 month agoTim Harris trying to remove government obstacles for Silicon Cape
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1 month agoOPINION: Failure a step in the startup ladder
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1 month agoSA investor environment can be improved - shadow finance minister
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East Africa science and technology boot camp slated for May
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1 month agoguru-g open to SA investment
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1 month agoWomen in Rwanda challenged to embrace male dominated ICT field
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Protei, an open source oil spill cleaning robot startup from the United States was appointed as the winner at the SAP conference for Cape (more)
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