Articles by Gythan Munga

Tue, March 19th, 08:40 · Gythan Munga

Q&A: Graduates.com’s Jason Classon

Think of social networking and the first thing that comes to mind is Facebook. Well, almost a year before Facebook launched in February 2004 as a social networking service that would go on to serve over one billion active users, another service that reunited friends from school was already doing the round. → Read more
Wed, February 6th, 15:28 · Gythan Munga

Kenya’s Internet users invited to participate in online opinion polls

Kenyan ICT company Ajibu Consulting Limited has launched a Web-based opinion poll, coming hard on the heels of a partnership between Google Africa and the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) to offer electoral data through the IEBC API. → Read more
Thu, January 3rd, 11:11 · Gythan Munga

Kenya’s top bookseller goes online

Leading and diversified Kenyan bookseller Text Book Center (TCB) has unveiled an online portal to boost its sales ahead of the reopening of schools countrywide. → Read more
Wed, January 2nd, 06:45 · Gythan Munga

Major African Startup Events to Watch for in 2013

Last year, HumanIPO set out to bring you a series of upcoming African startup events as they happened. To commit to the same spirit this year, we begin with a look at major tech events that are set to be held in Africa in 2013. → Read more
Wed, December 19th, 08:27 · Gythan Munga

Q&A: Teejana Beenessreesingh, founder of BeeJooS, fashion meets travel online

Offering customers the chance to buy clothing from local artisans online, BeeJooS serves as an online destination where “fashion meets travel allowing users to shop eclectic world bazaars and emerging designer accessories right from their homes”. → Read more
Thu, November 29th, 05:40 · Gythan Munga

GrowthAfrica, Village Capital launch accelerator pitch fest in Nairobi

GrowthAfrica, under its chief brands The GrowthHub and Village Capital, will today debut Pitch Fest Day in Kenya’s capital Nairobi, an event showcasing the startups on The GrowthHub accelerator program, which is devoted to investing in social enterprises bent on changing businesses and lives. → Read more
Fri, November 23rd, 12:20 · Gythan Munga

Q&A: Ngugi Gikonyo on contacts backup, a momentous trend on the mobile space

Kenya’s phone backup solutions developer Binary Science has been exploiting cloud computing by enabling individuals to save and manage important phone contacts. → Read more
Fri, November 23rd, 07:29 · Gythan Munga

Interview: Boniface Githinji, CEO and Founder Tusqee Systems, Silicon Valley bound

With their bulk SMS products now being speedily adopted by a number of schools and corporate firms in Kenya, Tusqee Systems is one of the few disruptive African startups to have come out of a hackathon, determined to change the face of communications. → Read more
Mon, November 19th, 15:40 · Gythan Munga

Upcoming African Startup Events, 20-30 November

Quoting American industrialist and the founder of the Ford Motor Company, Henry Ford, a business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. Events are where knowledge beyond the art of making money simply are imparted. Here’s everything you need to know about upcoming technology events in South Africa. → Read more
Fri, November 9th, 11:43 · Gythan Munga

Mobile revolution yet to reach 67% of Africans

Two-thirds of Africans are yet to be connected to a mobile service, according to Wireless Intelligence. → Read more
Fri, November 9th, 11:33 · Gythan Munga

Galaxy S III now most popular smartphone worldwide

Samsung's Galaxy S3 overtook Apple's iPhone 4S to become the world's best-selling smartphone model for the first time ever in the third quarter of 2012, a research by global, independent research and consulting firm Strategy Analytics reveals. → Read more
Fri, November 9th, 11:31 · Gythan Munga

Third CIO 100 awards to honor East Africa’s ICT feat

Kenya's premier ICT magazine CIO East Africa will this year on November 28 to 30 hold the third CIO 100 Annual Awards Ceremony at Safari Park Hotel in Kenya’s capital Nairobi, to honor ICT innovations by businesses in the region. → Read more
Thu, November 8th, 12:19 · Gythan Munga

Legal and regulatory challenges stagnating m-commerce growth

M-commerce, also mobile commerce, is hailed for fast-tracking next-generation mobile financial services as well as defining new ways to transact business. Despite the positives, experts in the legal field of M- and E-commerce observe that legal and regulatory challenges might be causing a jurisdictional headache to organizations and innovators. → Read more
Thu, November 8th, 12:12 · Gythan Munga

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 selling music downloads in Africa. → Read more
Wed, November 7th, 12:00 · Gythan Munga

Chris Rock’s video on Obama a sensation in Africa

Stand up comedian Chris Rock’s video message recorded for the Jimmy Kimmel Live show is currently trending in Kenya, South Africa and Nigeria on Youtube. → Read more
Wed, November 7th, 09:52 · Gythan Munga

Smartphones gaining traction with Egypt’s Consumers

Egypt witnessed 26 percent smartphone adoption in the first quarter of 2012, a survey by search engine giant Google reveals. → Read more
Wed, November 7th, 07:08 · Gythan Munga

Swedish game maker Mojang to launch urbanization tool in Nairobi

Swedish Indie game maker Mojang in partnership with the UN-Habitat will today at the iHub, a coworking space and business incubator, in Kenya's capital Nairobi unveil a new gaming tool dubbed Block by Block, targeted at mobilizing the youth to participate in urbanization. → Read more
Tue, November 6th, 10:06 · Gythan Munga

Nonprofit uses phone exchange to rid Jo’burg of rats

South Africa’s LifeLine, a humanitarian organisation focused on counselling, is offering a free phone for every 60 rats caught, an initiative targeted at ending the “rat menace” in the nation’s township Alexandra. → Read more
Tue, November 6th, 08:27 · Gythan Munga

Instagram unveils user Web profiles

Instagram, a mobile-focused free photo sharing service, has announced user profiles for the Web, to be rolled out across the globe over the next few days. → Read more
Tue, November 6th, 06:53 · Gythan Munga

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 ET/PT on Bravo TV, a program service of NBC Universal Cable Entertainment. → Read more