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Tue, July 1st, 16:30 · Susan Mwenesi

Microsoft-backed VetAfrica app helps EA farmers in disease diagnosis

Microsoft has partnered Glasgow-based tech company Cojengo to develop software seeking to provide East African farmers with innovative diagnostic tools and disease surveillance data. → Read more
Tue, July 1st, 15:30 · Susan Mwenesi

Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda working on cross border mobile money platform

East Africa will soon have a common mobile money platform that will enable users to send money from one country to another without any difficulty under exchange rates approved by central banks. → Read more
Thu, June 26th, 12:00 · Tom Jackson

Kenyan startups dominate PIVOT East competition

Kenyan startups emerged winners in four out of five categories at the 2014 edition of the mobile startups event PIVOT East, with winning companies receiving US$10,000 each. → Read more
Thu, June 19th, 16:00 · Susan Mwenesi

Ugandan TV banned from covering Museveni – report

NTV Uganda has been banned from covering President Yoweri Museveni after reporting he was sleeping in parliament, according to an AFP report. → Read more
Mon, June 16th, 13:00 · Paul Adepoju

Hivos, DOEN Foundation, Indigo Trust in $500k grant for African tech hubs

Hivos has announced a partnership with the DOEN Foundation and Indigo Trust to launch a EUR373,000 (US$505,000) fund to support technology hubs around Africa with the aim of empowering more sustainable entrepreneurship. → Read more
Thu, June 12th, 17:30 · Agatha Nduku

Liquid Telecom launches 1st East Africa Fibre Ring

Liquid Telecom has announced the completion of its East Africa Fibre Ring connecting Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and Tanzania, which creates the first fully redundant regional fibre ring connecting these countries to each other and the rest of the world. → Read more
Tue, June 10th, 13:30 · Gabriella Mulligan

SA costliest, East Africa cheapest for startup launches

South Africa is the most expensive country in Africa in which to launch a startup, while East Africa offers the lowest infrastructure, human resources and administrative costs for entrepreneurs, according to research by venture capital (VC) group Savannah Fund. → Read more
Mon, June 9th, 15:30 · Paul Adepoju

Volo to provide Silicon Valley quality, high-speed broadband service in northern Uganda

Volo has launched its cloud-based automation platform for internet service providers (ISPs) in Gulu, northern Uganda, in order to accelerate high-quality broadband internet access in emerging markets. → Read more
Wed, June 4th, 12:00 · Tom Jackson

Zapmedic connects patients to doctors in Uganda

A Ugandan startup has launched Zapmedic, an online medical appointment scheduling service that bids to ease the process of finding a doctor in a country with a low doctor to patient ratio. → Read more
Tue, June 3rd, 09:00 · Paul Adepoju

African e-learning professionals confident about future – report

The eLearning Africa Report 2014 has confirmed African e-learning professionals are confident about the future. → Read more
Thu, May 29th, 10:00 · Susan Mwenesi

eLearning conference kicks off in Uganda

The eLearning Africa conference has kicked off in Kampala, Uganda, bringing together 1,500 participants and 300 speakers from the continent and the rest of the world to explore the latest innovations and ideas that are “opening frontiers to the future”. → Read more
Wed, May 28th, 13:30 · Chris Udemans

PIVOT finalist Beyonic deploys cloud to track mobile money payments

Ugandan startup Beyonic has developed a cloud-based platform allowing businesses to make, track and manage payments to mobile money accounts across numerous providers. → Read more
Mon, May 26th, 12:00 · Susan Mwenesi

CIPESA criticises Ugandan laws on internet, media freedom

The Collaboration on International ICT Policy in East and Southern Africa (CIPESA) has faulted new laws in Uganda touching internet and mobile usage as well as freedom of journalists, saying they create a hostile environment for civil society, opposition and media. → Read more
Mon, May 26th, 06:00 · Susan Mwenesi

Uganda latest addition to Google’s Android movie app

Google has added Uganda to its Android movie application, allowing Ugandans to enjoy their favourite movies. → Read more
Fri, May 23rd, 13:00 · Tom Jackson

Ugandan startup brings exam revision online

Ugandan startup Moquestions is building an online depository for exam papers, allowing students to access questions from learning institutions across the world via a subscription model. → Read more
Fri, May 23rd, 09:00 · Chris Udemans

Rural Ugandan women relying on agents to make mobile transactions

Women in rural Uganda are relying on mobile money agents to make transactions for them, highlighting a lack of mobile and numerical literacy, according to Lisa Kienzle, mobile financial services programme director at the Grameen Foundation. → Read more
Tue, May 20th, 12:30 · Tom Jackson

The Founders Hive bringing advisory services to African startups

Europe-based, African-run firm The Founders Hive is expanding its operations in Africa, bringing advisory services to startups as the company moves towards profitability by the end of the year. → Read more
Mon, May 19th, 12:30 · Gabriella Mulligan

Orange sells Ugandan operations to Africell

The Orange Group has sold its 95 per cent stake in Orange Uganda to West African mobile operator Africell Holding for an undisclosed amount. → Read more
Mon, May 19th, 10:00 · Susan Mwenesi

East African banks launch payment system

Central bank governors drawn from the East African countries of Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania on Friday launched the East African Payment System (EAPS), allowing for faster cross-border transfers. → Read more
Tue, May 13th, 12:00 · Tom Jackson

Askari platform looks to tackle Ugandan crime rate

Mobile, web and SMS platform Askari has been developed in a bid to lower the crime rate in Uganda through crowdsourced danger reports, with the developers targeting advertisers for revenues. → Read more