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Mon, September 2nd, 08:30 · Tom Jackson
Top Google executive joins China’s Xiaomi
Google’s vice president of product management for Android has left the company to join Chinese smartphone firm Xiaomi. → Read more
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Mon, September 2nd, 08:00 · Paul Adepoju
Q&A: Lanre Akinlagun, managing director of Drinks.ng
Lanre Akinlagun, managing director of Drinks.ng, a website allows Nigerians, especially residents of Lagos state, to order various beverages online. → Read more
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Mon, September 2nd, 07:00 · Kamau Mbote
Facebook may add profile pictures to face recognition database
Facebook is considering adding over one billion users’ database photos into its face recognition database in a move aimed at improving its tag suggest feature. → Read more
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Mon, September 2nd, 06:00 · Nanine Steenkamp
Microsoft to invest in Foursquare – reports
Microsoft is reportedly entering discussions to invest in social networking company Foursquare Labs, while stakeholders compete for share acquisition. → Read more
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Mon, September 2nd, 05:00 · Jack Barton
Orange appoints new VP for mergers and acquisitions
Arnaud Castille has replaced Vincent Benoit as vice president (VP) for mergers and acquisitions at telecommunications giant Orange. → Read more
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Sun, September 1st, 09:30 · Richard Cutcher
FEATURE: A week in startups 01/09/2013
As ever there has been mixed fortunes for the startup and innovation scene across Africa this week, but there has been no shortage of developments for HumanIPO to sink its teeth into. → Read more
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Sat, August 31st, 12:00 · Paul Adepoju
Drinks.ng set to start selling ice online
Drinks.ng is to start selling ice online after it successful establishment allowing Nigerians to order drinks online, according to managing director Lanre Akinlagun. → Read more
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Sat, August 31st, 08:00 · Susan Mwenesi
Tanzanian lawmakers propose e-tax collection for more revenue
Tanzanian parliamentarians are petitioning the government to speed up e-collection of taxes in a bid to curb the loss of about TSh700 billion (US$4.37 million) each year through corruption and theft. → Read more
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Fri, August 30th, 20:00 · Jack Barton
Instabug creators “honoured” to represent Africa at TNW awards
Virus detection app Instabug is honoured to be the African representative at The Next Web (TNW) Conference USA in New York, according to co-founder Moataz Soliman. → Read more
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Fri, August 30th, 19:30 · Brandon Gregory
FEATURE: Discrimination against women in IT all in the mind?
In Africa, men seemingly dominate the fields of software programming, IT, business analysis and consultancy. Charlene Tshitoka and Chimwemwe Sichali of ThoughtWorks ask whether women on the continent feel they have more to prove and what role African men play in preventing their daughters from studying and entering IT professions. → Read more
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Fri, August 30th, 19:00 · Jack Barton
Cell C limits BlackBerry data usage
South African operator Cell C faces anger from customers after it set a data usage limit of two gigabytes per month for its BlackBerry users. → Read more
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Fri, August 30th, 18:30 · Brandon Gregory
SABC executive calls for 70 per cent good news
Hlaudi Motsoeneng, the South African Broadcasting Corporation’s (SABC) controversial chief operating officer (COO), has called for 70 per cent of news broadcast in the corporation’s bulletins to be positive. → Read more
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Fri, August 30th, 18:00 · Nick Sato
Kenya Power blames fibre optic cable installations for recent outages
Kenya Power has claimed its recent power outages have been caused by the ongoing fibre optic projects in the nation’s capital Nairobi. → Read more
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Fri, August 30th, 17:30 · Richard Cutcher
ANC still playing party politics over SABC board appointments
The Democratic Alliance (DA) has expressed concern the ruling African National Congress (ANC) is trying to position more party loyalists within the new South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC). → Read more
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Fri, August 30th, 17:00 · Nick Sato
Kenyan online firms register huge traffic, urges government policy on e-commerce
Kenya’s online companies have urged the government to make clear frameworks and policies in support of e-commerce in the country, with experts terming the sector as “mammoth”. → Read more
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Fri, August 30th, 16:30 · Tom Jackson
Afrihost, MTN internet problems due to cyberattack
South African internet service provider (ISP) Afrihost has confirmed an outage on the MTN network on Wednesday which affected Afrihost and Axxess customers was caused by a denial-of-service attack. → Read more
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Fri, August 30th, 16:00 · Nanine Steenkamp
Yahoo! to launch new mobile web experience
Yahoo! will be launching a mobile web renovation of its services, with new features expected to be added and performance improved. → Read more
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Fri, August 30th, 15:30 · Kamau Mbote
Kenya’s CDSC upgrading IT system
The Central Depository and Settlement Corporation (CDSC), Kenya’s repository for electronic shares, is upgrading, to improve the usability of the system. → Read more
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Fri, August 30th, 15:00 · Jack Barton
Vodacom sues Telfree for over $5 million
Vodacom has initiated legal action against bulk messaging service Telfree over failure to pay for SMS deliveries worth over ZAR54 million (US$5.2 million). → Read more
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Fri, August 30th, 14:30 · Brandon Gregory
Econet’s 60% cut being investigated by Potraz
Econet Wireless is still facing investigation by the Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) despite complying with a directive regarding the 60 per cent tariff cut. → Read more
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