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Mon, April 23rd, 09:53 · HumanIPO

Ghanaian portal to name and shame African companies

Ghana’s newly developed online portal called, Kuzima, is expected to oversee poor customer care services provided by continent’s corporate service providers. → Read more
Mon, April 23rd, 07:34 · HumanIPO

New app set to eliminate real-estate agents

A new Kenyan startup called Home Search has developed a real estate app set to make it easy for homebuyers to buy homes without having to involve real estate agents. → Read more
Sun, April 22nd, 11:23 · HumanIPO

HP raises red flag over fake printing consumables

HP has raised a red flag over Kenya’s counterfeit printing consumables saying it has eliminated over 15,000 of illegal ready for sale laser and inkjet cartridges, boxes and security labels across Africa. → Read more
Sat, April 21st, 16:33 · HumanIPO

Mobile phones becoming major promotional tools ahead of Web

The mobile advertising has become an indispensable advertising tool as many businesses are shifting focus from the Web to using mobile phones, according to John Stoneman, InMobi’s sales director, Europe and Middle East. → Read more
Fri, April 20th, 13:15 · HumanIPO

ZunguZ poised to outpace PayPal in Africa

Banking on Africa where an estimated 38 million people use Facebook, according to Internet World Stats, ZunguZ has vowed to introduce new online payment system compatible with the social site to defeat world’s top online payment platforms. → Read more
Fri, April 20th, 12:26 · HumanIPO

City bus company introduces Kenya’s first passenger electronic cards

Kenya’s passenger transit industry has seen a change in the fare payment system following a move by several Nairobi based bus companies to launch a smart card called Beba card. → Read more
Fri, April 20th, 11:30 · HumanIPO

Yola intends to make site-building easy for all

Web building could no longer be a reserve of programmers and software engineers with the coming of Yola, an application that helps people lacking programming skills and languages including HTML and graphic design to build their own websites. → Read more
Fri, April 20th, 09:12 · HumanIPO

CITI conference to examine Africa broadband challenges set for Lusaka

Africa’s first international conference scheduled to examine the viability and the challenges of broadband as a video platform is slated for May 22 and 23 in Lusaka, Zambia. → Read more
Fri, April 20th, 07:17 · HumanIPO

MTN’s new educational bundle to further learning experience for Nigerian pupils

MTN Nigeria has launched a product called MTN Education Bundle set to optimize children’s educational, skills development and socialisation experience. → Read more
Thu, April 19th, 17:17 · HumanIPO

Guest post: What to cover before you talk to an investor

While these tips can apply to other sectors, the mobile/web space is what I know so my comments are mainly applicable there. Besides investing in Europe, together with 88MPH, I have invested in 8 Kenyan mobile/web start-ups since August. My observations are thus derived from both the European and Kenyan start-up scene. → Read more
Thu, April 19th, 13:56 · HumanIPO

Kenyan animated feature scoops international award

Kenya’s Shujaaz.Fm has scooped the International Digital Emmy Award in the Digital Program: Children & Young People category puttilng Kenya on the world map of film technology. → Read more
Wed, April 18th, 17:48 · HumanIPO

Kenya records 95.63 % increase in Internet use

Kenyan Internet users increased by 95.63 % in the last one year showing a tremendous growth in the country’s technology fuelled by high number of mobile phone usage, reveals the Communication Commission of Kenya, CCK, 2011/2012 sector report. → Read more
Wed, April 18th, 15:26 · HumanIPO

Snaglur gearing up for an African duel with Facebook

A new South African startup called Snaglur has vowed to beat Facebook’s daily estimates of 60 million posts texts, photos, links, music and videos. → Read more
Wed, April 18th, 14:38 · HumanIPO

Technology could accelerate growth, African leaders say

African countries must make concerted efforts towards developing new science and technology innovation policies if the continent’s socio-economic development has to accelerate, according to Africa's Ministers in charge of Science, Technology; Finance and Economic Planning and Education. → Read more
Wed, April 18th, 14:30 · HumanIPO

Country’s first ever online blood bank to check deficits

A Kenyan nonprofit organisation has launched a new Web portal Kunavijana.org to help patients across the country receive blood donation services within 24 hours. → Read more
Wed, April 18th, 13:22 · HumanIPO

70% of Kenya could receive digital TV signals by July

Kenya’s broadcasters could start producing DVB-T2 content across the country by July this year. This follows a statement made yesterday by Kenya’s Information and Communications Permanent Secretary Dr. Bitange Ndemo. → Read more
Wed, April 18th, 11:30 · HumanIPO

New diet app readies for Kenyan uptake

Glosoft Group Company’s health and fitness application called the Personal Nutritionist can finally find its grip in the Kenyan market eight months following it launch, after its developer finally announced its suitability. → Read more
Wed, April 18th, 08:50 · HumanIPO

African governments closing in on cybercrime

Several African countries have began enacting cyber security standards aimed at curbing Internet insecurity. The move follows a spate of hackings of a number of websites owned by African governments pointing to weak ICT security systems and regulations in the continent. → Read more
Tue, April 17th, 15:53 · HumanIPO

Latest crowd-sourced documentary tells of Egyptian revolution woes

Egypt’s crowd-sourcing platform 18DaysInEgypt has launched a Beta public that allows users to share their photos and stories in addition to helping them sign up. → Read more
Mon, April 16th, 17:30 · HumanIPO

The US$200,000 up for grabs as Google’ contest enters homestretch

The Google sponsored ‘Ebda2 with Google’ competition is finally entering its homestretch after an eight-month four-step competition with the winner set to win US$200,000 grand prize on May 3, 2012, during the contest’s final leg. → Read more