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5 days agoEngineers should embrace technology and solve problems
Engineer David Mulongo, chief executive of Kenya’s User Experience Technologies (EXT), has told his peers can use technology to solve (more)
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6 days agoNiaje.com seeking investment to become a full media house
Niaje.com is set for more major expansion after it was recently announced the best blog in Kenya by the BAKE Awards, completing an (more)
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6 days agoKenya’s EXT to release new mobile apps
Smartphone users in Kenya could be set to have more convenient, secure and financially managed lives once User Experience Technologies (more)
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7 days agoEast Africa single tourist visa held back by poor tech infrastructure
The plan to have a single East Africa Community (EAC) tourist visa has been delayed because of a lack of sophisticated ICT equipments.
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13 days agoEricsson commends Apps for City Life winners
The Tokelezea and Easy Parking teams from Kenya were on Tuesday commended by Ericsson following their performance at the Apps for African (more)
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13 days agoYoung African talent held back by lack of mentorship
Africa’s technological and entrepreneurial talent needs better mentoring and managing, according to the founder of mobile financial (more)
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15 days agoKenyan government to offer bandwidth to support digital villages
The government of Kenya, through the ICT Board, will from this May subsidise internet provision for all digital villages, with the high (more)
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19 days agoKenya, Ghana reach Ericsson app challenge semi-final
Three teams from Africa are among the semi-finalists of the global Ericsson Application Awards, competing for prize money of €25,000 (more)
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20 days agoPan-Africa Network to invest $95 million in 2013
Digital signal distributor Pan-Africa Network will spend KSh8 billion (approx US$95.2 million) this year to enhance its Kenyan (more)
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20 days agoText-based survey app launched in Kenya
A new text-based survey tool, mSurvey, has been released in Kenya, allowing individuals and companies to run surveys from mobile phones.
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22 days agoNew credit card firm looking to dominate East African market
Credit card company afb, from Mauritius, has launched its operations in the East Africa region hoping to capture the market share of the (more)
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26 days agoGoogle chairman praises Kenyan innovator
Google chairman Eric Schmidt has acknowledged a Kenyan innovation that allows cellphone users to charge their phones using their shoes, (more)
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26 days agoHellofood’s mobile app among leading food apps globally
Food delivery app Hellofood is among the leading food delivery apps globally with 250,000 app downloads in less than three months, topping (more)
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28 days agoKopo Kopo partners with Eat Out Kenya to offer mobile payments for meals
Online restaurant guide and booking engine Eat out Kenya has partnered with Kopo Kopo and Safaricom’s M-Pesa service to enable restaurant (more)
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29 days agoAfrica Apps Quest targets tourism sector
Visa and SA Tourism have launched the search for a unique app for the tourism industry, in order to capitalise on the increase in tourism (more)
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1 month agoInnovate Kenya challenge launches for solutions to local challenges
Global Minimum has launched the Innovate Kenya 2013 challenge, inviting high school students to submit tech solutions to locally pressing (more)
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1 month agoCape Town mapping startup launches mydoorhandle
A unique mapping device for all web enabled phones has been launched in Africa with the potential to aid couriers, take-away deliverers and (more)
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1 month agoVC4Africa launches new online mentoring tool
VC4Africa has launched “Mentorship Marketplace”, offering budding entrepreneurs the chance to be matched with experienced mentors (more)
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1 month agoWorldreader mobile launches with half a million readers per month
Worldreader, an application that enables book reading on feature phones, has reached the 500,000 readers per month mark.
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1 month ago88mph partners with the eVA Fund, enhances Africa-Europe link
Cape Town and Nairobi-based accelerator 88mph has formed a unique partnership with the eVentures Africa (eVA) Fund, potentially turning the (more)
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1 month agoSite to recognise African web designs goes online
Design Afrique, a portal showcasing the best web designs across Africa, has been pre-launched in Kenya, giving a voice to website builders (more)
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1 month agoMusic app Mdundo set to pay royalties to artists
Music distribution app Mdundo is set to pay royalties to musicians who use their service, just five months after launching.
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East Africa science and technology boot camp slated for May
Global Innovation through Science and Technology (GIST) will be holding a boot camp for technology entrepreneurs, slated for May 6 to 8 in (more)
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1 month agoMasterCard launches second wave of Project Inspire
MasterCard and UN Women Singapore kicked off the second wave of Project Inspire yesterday, setting aside US$25,000 for the woman that will (more)
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1 month agoBoom Wireless Media player launched in the African market
Canadian based technology company, Digifon, has launched its Boom Wireless Media player in Nigeria and is targeting the wider African (more)
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1 month agoEthiopia to begin construction of Ethio ICT park
Ethiopia has begun the construction of an ICT park that will cost ETB5 billion (US$270 million) and is funded by the government.
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1 month agoSA venture capitalists invest in 88mph
Cape Town-based venture capital firm 4Di Capital has invested in African seed accelerator 88mph, a first for the continent’s accelerator (more)
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1 month agoMicrosoft, m:Lab and iHUB enter into partnership
Microsoft has announced a strategic cooperation with Kenyan startup incubators m:Lab East Africa and iHub that will make it easier for (more)
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2 month agoEight Kenyans make it to the Forbes African list
Mark Kaigwa is among eight Kenyans who have made it into the Forbes Annual list of African entrepreneurs under the age of 30 for making the (more)
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2 month agoOnline company registration website now live in Kenya
Entrepreneurs seeking to register their companies with the Kenyan government can now do so online following the launch of a web-based (more)
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2 month agoiHub and Intel partner to mature local tech scene
iHub has today announced a partnership with chipmaker Intel that will see the two organisations train developers in Kenya while scaling (more)
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2 month agoOPINION: Is the African tech scene made up of just four countries?
For the past five years, Africa has moved from the dark continent to one where the next billionaires will be made, thanks to a booming tech (more)
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2 month agoHivisasa.com closes due to lack of investment
Kenyan online county-based newspaper Hivisasa.com has closed after failing to secure the follow-on investment needed to survive.
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2 month agoSafaricom is not the problem, app developers are
Kenyan developers have been told to stop complaining that Safaricom, the leading telecommunications services provider, is killing the local (more)
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2 month agoStop copying Silicon Valley, Kenya warned
Kenyans in the tech industry have been cautioned to stop copying Silicon Valley’s model by a panel of experts attending the Mobile Web (more)
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2 month agoGoogle to launch election apps in Kenya
Google Kenya will tomorrow unveil seven apps built by Kenyan students ahead of the March 4 polls to help monitor the election process.
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2 month agoKukubo to leave Kenya ICT Board
Paul Kukubo is on his way out of the Kenya ICT Board after serving as its chief executive officer for five years.
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3 month agoStartup crowdmapping site launched at Strathmore University
A startup crowdmapping website, Startup Kenya, has been launched by a Strathmore University student in a bid to improve the visibility of (more)
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3 month agoKenya’s MoDe wins IBM’s global entrepreneur of the year award
MoDe, a Kenyan startup that offers instant nano-credit for pre-paid mobile phone users, has received the IBM Global Entrepreneur of the (more)
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3 month agoGame raises Kenyan malaria awareness
Kenya-based Momentum Core has released a malaria awareness game, Mosquito Hood, with the aim of educating the population and reducing (more)
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3 month agoBuni TV hits 1 million views
Buni TV, a major African video-on-demand platform, has announced it has reached the one million views milestone, with 60 percent of its (more)
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3 month agoKenya ICT Board in US$1.6 million partnership with NaiLab
The Kenya ICT Board has launched a US$1.6 million partnership with private tech business incubator NaiLab as part of efforts to support (more)
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3 month agoOnline research repository Hadithi to be launched in Kenya
Kenya’s academic researchers and university students will soon have access to an online tool known as Hadithi, allowing them to access (more)
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3 month agoKonza City actualization nears
Kenya’s President Mwai Kibaki will tomorrow officially launch the country’s first smart city at a ceremony that will mark the start of (more)
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3 month agoVirtual incubation programme to be launched in East Africa by InfoDev
InfoDev, a global grant program run by the World Bank to promote ICT, has announced a pilot virtual incubation project to bring up (more)
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3 month agoQ&A: Europe is missing out on Africa, says AfricaHackTrip
A group of eight to 12 European software developers will tour Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania in the second half of 2013 on an (more)
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4 month agoBlueKite raises US$1.5m to help people in Diaspora to pay bills home
Electronics payment technology firm BlueKite has announced a US$1.5 million seed fund led by PeopleFund, whose contribution amounts to $1.3 (more)
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4 month agoKenya’s mLab announces applications for mobile training
mLab East Africa, a Kenya-based incubation hub for mobile-oriented startups, has announced its intake for the 2013 training to be held in (more)
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4 month agoNew gravity-powered light bulbs provide alternative to kerosene lamps
Touted as capable of replacing the kerosene lamp, GravityLight is an invention that uses gravity as an energy source to generate (more)
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