Startups, Page 28
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Fri, January 24th, 06:00 · Gabriella Mulligan
TwinPine brings mobile ads to MTN Play
Nigerian mobile advertising startup TwinPine has partnered with MTN Nigeria to bring mobile advertising to the operator’s MTN Play service. → Read more
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Thu, January 23rd, 17:40 · Paul Adepoju
Mavis Computel boosts Nigeria’s teaching quality with digital education solutions
Innovation technology firm Mavis Computel is looking to tackle the lack of quality teachers in Nigeria with an array of digital education solutions. → Read more
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Thu, January 23rd, 16:20 · Gabriella Mulligan
Ethiopian educational mobile app set for launch
Ethiopian startup AhadooTec is set to launch an educational mobile app to make study materials more accessible and to serve as a personalised learning platform, in efforts to boost secondary education in the country. → Read more
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Thu, January 23rd, 13:40 · Paul Adepoju
Conducive economy needed for startups to perform optimally – TechCabal
Startups can perform optimally only when they are in an economy that is conducive for growing their business, Bankole Oluwafemi, editor of Nigerian tech blog TechCabal, has told HumanIPO. → Read more
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Wed, January 22nd, 17:40 · Chris Udemans
Foodstantly cuts out middlemen with online food platform
Nigerian startup Foodstantly is hoping to provide a platform for buying and selling fresh farm produce as well as pre-cooked meals on the internet, cutting out the middleman in the country’s agricultural industry. → Read more
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Wed, January 22nd, 08:00 · Paul Adepoju
Q&A: Olaoluwa Samuel-Biyi, co-founder, SureGifts.com.ng
In 2013, three employees of Jumia Nigeria left the company after gathering enough experience to further build the booming e-commerce sector in Nigeria. Three months later, Olaoluwa Samuel-Biyi, Adeoye Ojo and Babafemi Lawal launched SureGifts.com.ng, a platform that aims to popularise gift cards in Nigeria. Samuel-Biyi tells HumanIPO how the platform plans to revolutionise the act of giving without losing the personal touch. → Read more
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Tue, January 21st, 19:00 · Chris Udemans
Emerge Mobile bringing MPOS services to Africa
South African startup Emerge Mobile hopes to bring mobile point of sale (MPOS) services to Africa, affording business owners reasonably priced access to on-the-go payment services. → Read more
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Tue, January 21st, 13:40 · Paul Adepoju
New e-commerce platform adds practicality to gifting in Nigeria
SureGifts.com.ng, a platform that gives gift recipients control over what they receive, is not taking the personal touch away from gifting but only adding practicality to it, according to co-founder Olaoluwa Samuel-Biyi. → Read more
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Tue, January 21st, 11:00 · Tom Jackson
TechCabal launches Battlefield startup competition
Nigerian technology blog TechCabal has partnered with Stanbic bank, Jobberman and Social Media Week (SMW) Lagos to launch startup competition Battlefield, allowing Nigerian startups to compete for US$10,000 plus other prizes. → Read more
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Mon, January 20th, 16:20 · Chris Udemans
Rwandan startup provides electronic remittances at lower prices
Rwandan startup MERGIMS is aiming to provide a method for African diaspora to pay for products and services for their families in their home countries, minimising the need for expensive person-to-person money transfers. → Read more
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Mon, January 20th, 12:20 · Gabriella Mulligan
Ndemo joins iHub board
Former permanent secretary at Kenya’s Ministry of Information and Communication Dr Bitange Ndemo has joined the board of advisors at Nairobi-based technology incubator iHub. → Read more
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Mon, January 20th, 08:00 · Paul Adepoju
Mobile web platform launched for Nigeria’s SMEs
A new mobile web platform aimed at deepening online business in Nigeria has been launched, allowing small business owners to sell their goods and services at affordable costs. → Read more
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Sun, January 19th, 08:00 · Chris Udemans
FEATURE: The week in startups 19/01/2014
From announcements of mobile tech conferences in East Africa to the opening of the first video game studio in Central Africa for a Cameroonian startup, this week has proven to be an exciting one for the world of African tech startups, with the host city of one of the continent’s premier startup events also confirmed. → Read more
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Sat, January 18th, 08:00 · Paul Adepoju
Q&A: Femi Okanla, founder and CEO, Nitestay.com
Nitestay.com is one of the Nigeria’s first online hotel booking services, which since its launch has grown both in the number of listed hotels and bookings. Femi Okanla, founder and chief executive officer (CEO) of the platform, told HumanIPO how the platform came into being, what is unique about it, e-commerce in Nigeria and his plans for 2014. → Read more
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Fri, January 17th, 15:00 · Chris Udemans
Cape Town startup launches e-signing tool
Cape Town-based startup QuicklySign is seeking to make e-signatures a reality in South Africa, reducing the transit time of documents in contractual agreements. → Read more
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Fri, January 17th, 12:20 · Paul Adepoju
Q&A: Somto Ifezue, founder of CVFlash
CVFlash is a Nigerian platform that helps people to create, format, convert and send their CVs online via CVFlash dashboard or via SMS to anywhere in the world. Founder Somto Ifezue spoke to HumanIPO from Port Harcourt, southern Nigeria, on how the platform was conceived, the art of CV writing, and how CVFlash can help unemployed users find jobs. → Read more
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Fri, January 17th, 05:00 · Gabriella Mulligan
Mobile phones, TVs most popular in Nigerian e-commerce – Jumia
Nigerian e-commerce was led by mobile phone and television purchases in 2013, local online shopping platform Jumia Nigeria has revealed. → Read more
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Thu, January 16th, 17:40 · Chris Udemans
Cape Town Youth Cafe to open next week
The Rocklands Youth Cafe, a Cape Town-based startup on the Cape Flats designed to provide youth between the ages of 17 and 25 with opportunities, skills development services and entrepreneurship training, is set to open on Monday. → Read more
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Thu, January 16th, 09:00 · Paul Adepoju
Social media can make or break job applicants – CVFlash
Somto Ifezue, founder of CVFlash, a platform that allows users to create, preview and send CVs to any part of the world, has revealed that an individual’s employability could be boosted or ruined by social media. → Read more
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Thu, January 16th, 07:00 · Paul Adepoju
Optimal SEO easiest way for online businesses to drive traffic – Nitestay.com
Femi Okanla, founder and chief executive officer (CEO) of Nigerian online hotel booking platform Nitestay.com, has identified optimal search engine optimisation (SEO) as the easiest way for service-based online services to drive traffic. → Read more
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