Articles by Vincent Matinde

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Sat, August 25th, 06:36 · Vincent Matinde

AfricanBrains to host Innovation Africa summit in Cape Town

AfricanBrains Ltd in conjunction with University of Western Cape will host this year’s Innovation African Summit on October 5 to 7. → Read more
Fri, August 24th, 10:01 · Vincent Matinde

Anzisha prize finalists announced

Thirteen finalists from nine African countries have been selected to compete for the Anzisha Prize award. → Read more
Fri, August 24th, 08:39 · Vincent Matinde

Kenya’s government to benefit from Kaspersky solution for e-Security

Since more and more systems can today be plugged into the Internet for functions such as file storage and transfer, security has becomes an issue that has to be persistently addressed. This is even more important when governments embrace technology. → Read more
Fri, August 24th, 03:58 · Vincent Matinde

REPORT: Nigeria to lead mobile payment sector by 2017

Africa has led the world into the forays of mobile money. A new report by Juniper Research shows that Nigeria will be leading in mobile payments by 2017, by having 54 percent share. → Read more
Thu, August 23rd, 12:37 · Vincent Matinde

Ugandan switch to digital TV dogged with decoder confusion

Uganda Communication Commission (UCC) has courted controversy with its new standardisation of set boxes to be used for the digital broadcasting switch. → Read more
Thu, August 23rd, 09:22 · Vincent Matinde

Tourism Radio makes its way into Angola

Hummba, a product from South African company, Tourism Radio is making in ways into Angola by releasing audio guides for the country’s capital Luanda. → Read more
Thu, August 23rd, 04:00 · Vincent Matinde

iAfya blackberry app launched in Kenya

A new health app iAfya has been launched in Kenya and will be available on the Blackberry operating system. → Read more
Wed, August 22nd, 12:26 · Vincent Matinde

College Campus site brings e-Learning to South African Students

The American Public University and College Campus will in September this year launch a site called College Campus where distant e-learning can be facilitated. → Read more
Wed, August 22nd, 09:27 · Vincent Matinde

NClose and Accellion partner to offer mobile file storage security

South African online security firm NClose has partnered with Accellion to offer more data protection, storage and file across a range of mobile devices. → Read more
Fri, August 17th, 13:52 · Vincent Matinde

Gaming in Africa growing with Kuluya landing $250K funding

In a span of a few months, we have seen Africans taking gaming seriously. Whether is on mobile or on the desktop or even on consoles. Nigeria’s Kuluya is the latest entry to the gaming world in Africa. → Read more
Fri, August 17th, 13:43 · Vincent Matinde

Africa’s biggest digital agency merges with advertising college

Africa’s leading full-service digital solutions firm Quirk has merged with The Red & Yellow School of Logic & Magic, a premier advertising college in South Africa. → Read more
Fri, August 17th, 10:03 · Vincent Matinde

TopTv satellite pay channel offers prepaid solution

South African TopTV has done what few pay TVs have failed to do. The company now offers prepaid vouchers for their subscribers. → Read more
Fri, August 17th, 08:33 · Vincent Matinde

Google maps out over 1 million transit stops including in Africa

Google Maps continues with its upgrade by including various aspects of the service. It has recently included transit stops totalling 1 million across the globe. → Read more
Thu, August 16th, 13:36 · Vincent Matinde

African students shine in the Google online marketing challenge

Google offered students across the world US$250 to help local businesses by advertising their products and services on Google ad platform, AdWords. The jury is in and Africa has been represented by winners from various universities. → Read more
Thu, August 16th, 11:47 · Vincent Matinde

Nevahold, a Ghanaian app makes it to Webit Congress finals

Every trying to reach any customer care representative for any brand? Then you would know how frustrating it is sometimes. One startup in Ghana helps to ease the frustration and their product has propelled then to the finals of the Webit Congress. → Read more
Wed, August 15th, 13:23 · Vincent Matinde

Asha movement continues with the Touch 311 unveiling

Nokia does not seem to have had enough of the Asha movement this time releasing Nokia Asha Touch 311. The company had just last month released its Asha Touch 305 brands in Kenya. → Read more
Wed, August 15th, 09:26 · Vincent Matinde

Cape Town chosen as venue for a global SEO expert conference

A leading software company has chosen Cape Town as its host for a major conference on search engine optimization (SEO). Online users elected the city through ‘a popular vote.’ → Read more
Wed, August 15th, 07:29 · Vincent Matinde

Simfy music streaming service plunges into South African market

In an estimated 12 days, South Africans will be able to plug into a new music streaming service known as Simfy. → Read more
Tue, August 14th, 12:48 · Vincent Matinde

SA’s Tourism Radio elated at Google’s buyout of Frommer’s

Five months of announcing their partnership with Frommer’s Unlimited, Tourism Radio the producers of Hummba audio guides, are happy that Google has acquired travel guidebook producer. → Read more
Tue, August 14th, 09:50 · Vincent Matinde

Nation Media to introduce NationHela, international money transfer service

Mobile money transfer services are fast edging out traditional money transfer systems particularly in Kenya, studies show. A new player has now entered the money transfer market combining the traditional money transfer and mobile money transfer services. → Read more