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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
Thu, April 19th, 13:27 · Vincent Matinde

ForgetMeNot and Econet Wireless launch SMS service in Burundi

Burundi’s Econet Wireless and Zimbabwe’s ForgetMeNot Africa companies have announced a new SMS service called ‘eco-msg‘ set to give any mobile phone access to Internet services. → Read more
Thu, April 19th, 13:23 · Elly Okutoyi

Mobile money a high risk for fraud in Africa

Mobile money leads to outsourcing development of key financial systems without looking at the inherent risks responsible for increased internal fraud cases, top mobile money service providers say. → Read more
Thu, April 19th, 11:49 · Vincent Matinde

Google Does More with Maps and Graphs in Kenya

Google has improved the content on Kenya’s Open Date initiative allowing over 31,000 primary and 6,900 secondary schools to be searchable via Google Maps for Kenya. → Read more
Thu, April 19th, 11:04 · Vincent Matinde

Africa’s first ever puppet satire TV show introduces online TV

Buni Media, the production team behind Kenya’s first ever satire TV program yesterday launched an online TV called Buni TV set to show exclusively innovative and visually arresting Pan-African content. → 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, 15:33 · Vincent Matinde

Google+ redesigns as competition hots up

For Google+ enthusiasts, the social site redesigned its pages last week. The new look is aimed at giving an easier user experience, says Google. → Read more
Wed, April 18th, 15:30 · Vincent Matinde

E-learning site to fill in for syllabus flaws

BriteSkills, a Kenyan startup, aims to enable students and interested learners to acquire and share new skills anytime anywhere through lessons shared by specialists in a domain field. → 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, 15:20 · Vincent Matinde

Africa Web space stirred by SA’s newly unveiled mimiboard

Mimiboard, South Africa’s digital equivalent of a community noticeboard, has sparked an interest in the African Web space with top sites including Capitalfm.co.ke already integrating its services one month after launching. → 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, 10:10 · Vincent Matinde

More African Celebrities taking to Google+

Google’s report indicates that more and more African artistes are trooping to social networking sites to launch their latest videos and singles online. → 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
Tue, April 17th, 14:41 · Vincent Matinde

Orange Kenya to launch country’s first 3G Wi-Fi Device

Orange Kenya, one of the East Africa’s leading telecom companies could launch the country’s first ever 3G Wi-Fi router before the end of the year. → Read more