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Mon, June 2nd, 11:30 · Chris Udemans
SANRAL ordered to remove “misleading” e-toll adverts
South Africa’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has upheld three complaints against claims made in South African National Roads Agency Limited (SANRAL) advertising commercials. → Read more
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Mon, June 2nd, 10:30 · Susan Mwenesi
Easy Taxi registers 200 Kenyans drivers in two months
Africa Internet Holding (AIH)-owned taxi app Easy Taxi has signed up 200 drivers and recorded 300 rides since a soft launch in Nairobi, which it attributes to the high usage of smartphones amongst drivers. → Read more
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Mon, June 2nd, 09:00 · Tom Jackson
FEATURE: Does fear of failure hold back SA startups?
Silicon Valley has long tolerated failure, perhaps to the point of it being over-glorified. Yet the consensus of entrepreneurs in South Africa is that the acceptance of failure as a potentially necessary evil has not yet penetrated the mindset of startups in the country, with a fear of failure preventing entrepreneurs from pushing the boundaries as their American counterparts have done. → Read more
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Mon, June 2nd, 08:00 · Gabriella Mulligan
Film streaming service launched for African, Latin American content
United States (US)-based MojoCreatives has launched a film streaming platform for African and Latin American content, WuraTV, aimed at making “content of culture” accessible to all without the high fees and administrative burden of pay-TV stations. → Read more
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Sun, June 1st, 08:00 · Chris Udemans
FEATURE: The week in startups 01/06/2014
Along with events from around the continent, Egyptian startups dominated HumanIPO headlines this week, offering products from photograph verification to online fitness platforms. → Read more
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Fri, May 30th, 19:00 · Gabriella Mulligan
ICASA not licensing extremely high frequency spectrum
The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) has rejected claims it is planning to licence extremely high frequency (EHF) spectrum bands, saying the regulator currently has no regime under which such technology could be allowed to be used in South Africa. → Read more
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Fri, May 30th, 18:00 · Chris Udemans
Vodacom data transfer ad misleading – ASA
South Africa’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has ruled a Vodacom advert promoting a service whereby subscribers can gift data bundles to others is misleading. → Read more
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Fri, May 30th, 17:30 · Susan Mwenesi
Spice launches Mziiki app for music streaming
Mobile value added services firm Spice VAS Africa has launched its Mziiki app, allowing users to stream and shares music of all genres. → Read more
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Fri, May 30th, 17:00 · Gabriella Mulligan
SA, Tunisia, Algeria have best quality broadband in Africa
South Africa’s consumer broadband connection has been ranked 39th of 50 countries included in Ookla’s Household Quality Index, with only three African countries making the top 50 countries. → Read more
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Fri, May 30th, 16:00 · Susan Mwenesi
MobiKash launches mobile merchant payment service in Kenya
MobiKash Afrika has unveiled a merchant payment service to deliver mobile money transactions in real time, making cashless transactions at the grassroots level a reality for thousands of Kenyans. → Read more
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Fri, May 30th, 15:00 · Gabriella Mulligan
Seychelles, Namibia post fastest African internet speeds
The Seychelles had the quickest internet speeds in Africa in May followed by Namibia, with the two the only African countries in the top half of global speeds, according to Ookla’s Net Index. → Read more
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Fri, May 30th, 14:00 · Chris Udemans
Egypt’s Telecosys helps telecoms reduce revenue leakage
Egyptian startup Telecosys has developed a software-based data integrity and consistency system allowing telecom companies to operate efficiently and prevent revenue leakage. → Read more
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Fri, May 30th, 13:00 · Paul Adepoju
Petition launched to bring PayPal to Nigeria
A petition has been launched on Change.org asking PayPal to bring its online payment service to Nigeria by Lagos-based design company CreativityKills. → Read more
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Fri, May 30th, 12:30 · Gabriella Mulligan
Kenya leads Africa in M2M uptake
Kenya leads Africa as an early adopter of machine-to-machine (M2M) technologies, with uptake more prevalent than for other enterprise solutions including videoconferencing and cloud computing, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC). → Read more
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Fri, May 30th, 12:00 · Chris Udemans
South Africans online grew 20% in 2013 – study
Twenty million South Africans had access to the internet in 2013, growing 20 per cent year-on-year from 2012, according to a study. → Read more
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Fri, May 30th, 11:30 · Gabriella Mulligan
Kenya’s Anza launches iOS real estate app
Kenyan real estate platform Anza.co.ke has launched an iPhone app to cater for high levels of iOS access to its website, in a bid to facilitate real estate searches across all platforms. → Read more
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Fri, May 30th, 10:30 · Chris Udemans
Google takes steps to comply with EU “right to be forgotten” ruling
Google has taken steps to comply with a European Union (EU) court ruling indicating individuals have the “right to be forgotten”. → Read more
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Fri, May 30th, 10:00 · Paul Adepoju
Lagos to host Seedstars global startup competition
Seedstars Lagos is to take place next week in partnership with the Co-Creation Hub, offering Nigerian startups less than two years old and with less than US$500,000 the chance to compete at the global competition. → Read more
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Fri, May 30th, 08:00 · Gabriella Mulligan
Egyptian startup looks to end need for physical addresses
Egyptian startup LocName is set to launch a web and mobile service intended to remove the need for physical addresses and long directions by marking locations with unique usernames. → Read more
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Thu, May 29th, 18:00 · Paul Adepoju
NBC seeks advance payment on free spectrum to raise digital migration funds
Nigeria's National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) is considering asking for advance payment from those bidding for freed spectrum as a way of raising funds needed for Nigeria to meet the international deadline for digital migration. → Read more
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