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Mon, June 18th, 07:45 · HumanIPO

Startup in SA launches a photo-filtering app on Mxit called MxPix

South Africa-based mobile social networking startup the Motribe launched its second Mxit app called MxPix in “stealth mode” on the South African social network Mxit last week Tuesday. In just a week, the growth has since been impressive, notes the HumanIPO. → Read more
Mon, June 18th, 07:34 · HumanIPO

Samsung pledges support for Kenya’s Android developers

Kenyan Mobile App developers have been urged to come up with solutions for the global market if they have to be featured in the Samsung App store. → Read more
Mon, June 18th, 06:47 · HumanIPO

New biometric cards to save South Africa R800-million annually

South Africa’s agency that administers social security, the South African Social Security Agency (SASSA), has begun rolling out a new biometric card to social grant beneficiaries to cut down on fraud and corruption in its grants system. → Read more
Mon, June 18th, 05:00 · HumanIPO

Software Engineers from Meltwater Ghana ready to showcase their skills

Seventeen Ghanaian software engineers have graduated from the Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST). → Read more
Mon, June 18th, 04:00 · HumanIPO

World Bank to roll out ICT hubs across Africa

The World Bank, after developing two ICT incubation hubs in Kenya, is now considering rolling out various similar centres in other parts of Africa, says Infodev’s programme manager Valerie D’Costa. → Read more
Fri, June 15th, 13:50 · HumanIPO

Top Russian funder launches local Web portal in Nigeria

Just like the clone leader Rocket Internet brothers, a Russian Venture firm named the Genesis Technology Partners has entered Nigeria's Internet space. → Read more
Fri, June 15th, 12:24 · HumanIPO

Africa’s job search engine leader goes French

Africa’s premier job search engine Njorku will within the year launch its job search engine in Senegal, Ivory Coast and Gabon, the founder has revealed to HumanIPO. → Read more
Fri, June 15th, 08:10 · HumanIPO

AirTouch to serve up Ghana’s mobile operators with new wireless devices

HomeConnex X1500 wireless device is set to enable home and office users to receive voice, text and data without the need to use landlines and computers. → Read more
Fri, June 15th, 07:47 · HumanIPO

Ghana’s 20,000 plus disabled people targeted for free ICT training by end of 2013

The Ghanaian Vice-President John Dramani Mahama says the government intends to train about 20,000 people with disabilities (PWDs) countrywide in ICT by the end of 2013. → Read more
Fri, June 15th, 07:04 · HumanIPO

Another US$35m for African ICT development

Barely a week after the launch of a Silicon style Savannah Fund, IFC a member of the World Bank Group, has announced an equity investment of $35-million for development of ICT across Africa. → Read more
Fri, June 15th, 05:00 · HumanIPO

Africa gets set for the Unreasonable at Sea mentor trip

Unreasonable at Sea, a mentor driven accelerator institute for tech entrepreneurs who desire to take their ventures into new international markets, are aboard a ship to 14 destinations Africa included. → Read more
Thu, June 14th, 13:15 · HumanIPO

US intensifies spy operations in Africa with high-tech surveillance

The US plans to deploy spy planes equipped with high-tech surveillance technology and open a number of intelligence air bases in the Sahara, the Washington Post reported. → Read more
Thu, June 14th, 07:19 · HumanIPO

New fund to step up 30 plus East African startups in less than 3 years

East African Tech entrepreneurs have a reason to smile following the launch of a new seed capital funding. → Read more
Thu, June 14th, 04:00 · HumanIPO

IBM partners to nurture IT skills in South Africa

IBM has started a programme at Stellenbosch University in South Africa aimed at giving graduates appropriate business and technology skills. → Read more
Wed, June 13th, 13:28 · HumanIPO

US partners to boost engineering and entrepreneurship in North Africa

The US-Tunisia-Morocco (USTM) and the North American-Tunisian Engineers Group (NATEG) have partnered to scale up the skills of entrepreneurs in North Africa. → Read more
Wed, June 13th, 07:06 · HumanIPO

South Africa’s new tablet counting on local content

The Wise Touch tablet claims to be Africa’s first locally designed and developed tablet set to beat the Apple’s iPad, given its wholly customised local content. → Read more
Wed, June 13th, 04:00 · HumanIPO

Ghana’s new chat service eyeing more than 50 million devices by 2014

Saya Mobile's co-founder and CEO Robert Lamptey says they are set to end the use of SMS in Africa and globally with their free cross-platform chat service. → Read more
Tue, June 12th, 12:07 · HumanIPO

Cheki car classified site seeks Swahili to draw more buyers

Kenya-based car dealer website Cheki.co.ke, established in 2010 in English, is set to launch a Swahili version of an East African online car marketplace to “reach a wider audience.” → Read more
Tue, June 12th, 12:01 · HumanIPO

FrontlineSMS launches its browser based SMS platform

Two years after the redesign of FrontlineSMS open-source SMS software began, the software’s developer will today launch a new browser-based SMS software around the world dubbed FrontlineSMS Version 2. → Read more
Tue, June 12th, 11:20 · HumanIPO

Virgin Mobile merges to ease communication hitch in Africa and Middle East

Virgin Group and Friendi Group are merging their regional telecom operations to create a combined entity to be called Virgin Mobile Middle East and Africa (VMMEA), which will develop and operate mobile telecommunications businesses across the region, the group said Monday. → Read more