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Thu, July 19th, 10:08 · HumanIPO

PayPal acquires credit card scanner card.io

Online payment firm PayPal has acquired San Francisco-based company Card.io that specializes in apps, which enable mobile phone cameras to capture credit card information rather than reading and inserting them manually. PayPal’s vice president of Global Product at PayPal Hill Ferguson confirmed in a blog post. → Read more
Thu, July 19th, 07:20 · HumanIPO

YouTube jostles for higher ranking as top news disseminator

World’s leading video streaming service YouTube has launched a face blurring technology the developers say is specially designed for use in cases where video footage requires anonymity. → Read more
Wed, July 18th, 15:11 · HumanIPO

ZunguZ now South Africa’s major online shopping trendsetter

Facebook money transfer and payment service ZunguZ is triggering a wild rush for online shopping in South Africa, according to the apps co-founder. → Read more
Wed, July 18th, 14:17 · HumanIPO

How M-Pesa clambered to top spot among world’s mobile money services

In April 2007, Safaricom launched M-Pesa, a cellphone-based payment and money transfer service. The service is currently one the world’s most adverted in connection with mobile money payment system. → Read more
Tue, July 17th, 14:31 · HumanIPO

Burkina Faso engineers to get water technology training

Engineering students in Burkina Faso will be taught latest water metering technology in a bid to improve water resource management in the country. The training will be offered by two nonprofits - Itron Partners in partnership with 2iE Foundation. → Read more
Mon, July 16th, 13:13 · HumanIPO

Africa gTLD to accelerate entrepreneurship

With 39 African countries including Kenya strongly supporting ZACR to run the dotafrica Top Level Domain (TLD) through their letters to ICANN, the generic top level domain (gTLD) is viewed to have the potential to expand the visibility and identity of businesses in Africa. → Read more
Mon, July 16th, 11:26 · HumanIPO

African businesses should adopt video streaming services

In a move focused on bringing African video content online, YouTube now launches in Senegal, after several other countries including South Africa, Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya and Uganda. A survey of a number of entrepreneurs reveals such video streaming services fulfill the dreams of African businesses. → Read more
Sat, July 14th, 05:54 · HumanIPO

The World Bank partners to launch SME and farmer SMS tool kit in Mozambique

World Bank Group member organisation IFC has partnered with Mozambique's top University, Universidade Eduardo Mondlane (UEM), and Vodacom to launch an SMS information toolkit in Mozambique for farmers and Small/medium-sized enterprises (SME). → Read more
Sat, July 14th, 05:25 · HumanIPO

Ethiopia’s energy sector sets up energy mapping database

Ethiopia’s government has launched an energy mapping database tagged the Ethiopian Energy Sector Mapping and Database Project. → Read more
Thu, July 12th, 14:30 · HumanIPO

Kenyan mobile operators in a US$22 million tussle

Two Kenyan cellular network operators Airtel and Essar Telcom are in a tussle over a KSh1.9billion (US$22 million) network deal. → Read more
Thu, July 12th, 13:53 · HumanIPO

New law restricting ads contents from non Ethiopians

Ethiopia's House of People's Representatives has passed a law banning advertisements and any production with more than 60 percent commercial or ads content save for when the publication is made with the sole intention of publicizing the advertisement. → Read more
Thu, July 12th, 12:47 · HumanIPO

Ghana’s broadband capacity to triple to 11 million by 2020

Ghana is on course for full digital TV migration from analogue by 2014, one year earlier than the global deadline proposed for June 2015, says Peter Lyons, Director of Spectrum Policy for GSMA, Africa and Middle East Region. → Read more
Thu, July 12th, 08:21 · HumanIPO

Cell C, third operator to stock iPhone 4 in South Africa

Cell C, South Africa’s third cellular network operator, is set to stock iPhone 4, one of Apple’s most celebrated smartphones, in its South African stores from July 15. → Read more
Thu, July 12th, 06:00 · HumanIPO

Mobile users in Nigeria loyal to their networks

Over half of Nigeria mobile subscribers are satisfied with their mobile operators, according to InMobi, a leading mobile advertising firm. → Read more
Wed, July 11th, 15:00 · HumanIPO

Universities in Uganda to go “smart” on Samsung Galaxy Tabs in 2013

Samsung Electronics has vowed to make learning in Uganda's universities “smart” in 2013. The South Korean firm is working on a partnership that will see students in the country's major colleges do their assignments using its gadgets. → Read more
Wed, July 11th, 07:12 · HumanIPO

GIST schedules boot camp for West African techies

A 2-day bootcamp organised by Global Innovation through Science and Technology (GIST) is on in Senegal’s capital Dakar. → Read more
Wed, July 11th, 05:00 · HumanIPO

Microsoft to acquire Perceptive Pixel Inc

Microsoft is set to acquire flat panel multi-touch interface developer, Perceptive Pixel. → Read more
Wed, July 11th, 04:00 · HumanIPO

Revenues from mobile games and infotainment to peak in 2016

Mobile games and infotainment are set to drive mobile entertainment revenues to $65-billion by 2016 up from $36-billion last year, according to a report by Juniper Research. → Read more
Tue, July 10th, 12:56 · HumanIPO

Consumers steadily turning to cloud storage services, Gartner notes

Consumers are increasingly turning to cloud-based storage systems to save personal contents including photos, videos, and music files, according to findings by Gartner, a technology research company. → Read more
Tue, July 10th, 12:05 · HumanIPO

Nokia partners to offer classic games for its new Asha Touch consumers

Users of Nokia’s new Asha phones will soon access a set of rare 22 classic games on their phones courtesy of a partnership between the phone maker and Namco Bandai, a Japan-based mobile, arcade and home video game publisher and developer. → Read more