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Tue, November 13th, 12:54 · Elly Okutoyi

Dropifi named Global Startup Open 2012 winner

West Africa’s Dropifi has been named world’s best technology startup company, after garnering the grand prize in the 2012 Startup Open beating over 50 best and brightest new startups from 56 countries. → Read more
Tue, November 13th, 06:32 · Elly Okutoyi

Google to boost it venture capital arm with more funds

Google is looking to boost up its venture-capital division with an additional US$ 100 million, to US$300 million, expected to enable it to invest into later-stage startups globally. → Read more
Mon, November 12th, 13:00 · Elly Okutoyi

App to help bust cheating spouses

A startup in West Africa has created an app dubbed Qoqoriqo, that enables people in relationships to confirm whether their partners are cheating on them, by simply using their spouse’s email addresses or phone numbers. → Read more
Fri, November 9th, 11:08 · Vincent Matinde

There is space for Kenyan talents at Konza, ICT Board says

Kenyan talents will benefit from the Konza Tech city, says Kenya ICT Board’s chief executive adding that he is positive foreign companies will hire local talents. → Read more
Fri, November 9th, 10:21 · Tefo Mohapi

SA’s GustPay launches Event Intelligence product for cashless payments at events

South Africa-based mobile payments startup GustPay recently held its second cashless event dubbed the “Grim Furdango 2.0”, in partnership with RAMfest and Boom.fm to refine its Event Intelligence product. → Read more
Thu, November 8th, 12:12 · Gythan Munga

Kenya’s music buying service ‘Mdundo’ featured on BBC’s Click

Kenya’s new scratch card buying service dubbed Mdundo was featured on Click, BBC's flagship TV show, for introducing innovative means of selling music downloads in Africa. → Read more
Thu, November 8th, 08:18 · Vincent Matinde

Tourism Radio hits its 1 millionth device rental day

South Africa’s a digital tour guide Tourism Radio has hit its 1 millionth device rental day this month, edging it closer to monetisation. → Read more
Wed, November 7th, 13:05 · Nanine Steenkamp

Kenya’s 2-yeard-old startup MoDe keen on global expansion

Kenya’s Mobile Decisioning (MoDe), an emergency prepaid airtime startup, has announced plans to expand across Europe and South America. → Read more
Tue, November 6th, 13:09 · Nanine Steenkamp

Kenyan MoDe wins IBM award

Kenya’s Mobile Decisioning (MoDe), a mobile nano credit startup, is this year’s overall winner of the IBM Africa SmartCamp contest at Tech4Africa. → Read more
Tue, November 6th, 10:06 · Tefo Mohapi

Easy2Map wins Startup Knight software startups challenge

Startup Knight competition, which targets South African software-based startups, was launched just last month receiving numerous entrants. → Read more
Tue, November 6th, 06:53 · Gythan Munga

Silicon Valley’s reality show ‘Start-Ups: Silicon Valley’ premieres

A new reality TV series about America’s technology jewel Silicon Valley, Start-Ups: Silicon Valley, premiered Monday, November 5 at 10 pm ET/PT on Bravo TV, a program service of NBC Universal Cable Entertainment. → Read more
Mon, November 5th, 11:49 · Vincent Matinde

New audio service streams top Kenyan Music Awards

Waabeh, a new audio streaming service, made a splash entry to the market with the streaming of the tenth edition of the Kisima Awards held on November 2. → Read more
Thu, November 1st, 14:06 · Gabriella Mulligan

Virtual tax assistant TaxTim says Demo-Africa positive but could improve

The founders of South African virtual tax assistant TaxTim say that, for all its strengths, last week’s DEMO-Africa event in Nairobi, Kenya lacked the organisation required to make the event more smooth running. → Read more
Wed, October 31st, 13:28 · Elly Okutoyi

Nokia partners with Kenya’s government to encourage creation of social apps

Finnish mobile phone-maker Nokia has partnered with the Government of Kenya through the Kenya ICT Board to work towards ensuring tech startups specialising in agricultural, health and educational apps benefit from technical and monetary support. → Read more
Wed, October 31st, 12:18 · Elly Okutoyi

Sasa Africa, selling African heritage to the world online

Sasa Africa, one of DEMO Africa’s 2012 top five startups, has launched an e-commerce platform to connect offline artisans to buyers online using feature phones. → Read more
Wed, October 31st, 08:47 · Elly Okutoyi

No more fake documents, Kenyan startup guarantees

mVerified, a new mobile- and Web-based verification app, is set to ensure counterfeit documents such as car log books, title deeds and graduation certificates do not find a place in the Kenyan market, the founders of the application say. → Read more
Tue, October 30th, 13:08 · Elly Okutoyi

Acumen Fund and Dow partner to scale social enterprises in East and West Africa

Acumen Fund, a non-profit global venture fund addressing poverty across Africa and South Asia, has announced a partnership with The Dow Chemical Company in a venture that would ensure the two scale innovative social enterprises in East and West Africa. → Read more
Tue, October 30th, 08:54 · Elly Okutoyi

WiselyHired wants to make retirees useful in old age

A startup in South Africa has developed a professional services platform named WiselyHired set to help tap into retirees’ skills and experiences by enabling them to earn incomes upon selling their services online. → Read more
Mon, October 29th, 09:08 · Vincent Matinde

Kenya’s Lipisha helps businesses track transactions on mobile money

Businesses operating in Kenya can now track their M-Pesa transactions in real time, thanks to a new application called Lipisha. → Read more
Mon, October 29th, 07:56 · Elly Okutoyi

No takers for US$10 million investment money, AfDB says

The African Development Bank (AfDB) has said it has set aside over US$10 million in an investment fund for youth and other development institutions that has not yet been “fully” utilised. → Read more