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Mon, March 12th, 09:02 · Gythan Munga

SA: New Nokia Data Package to Rival Blackberry’s

South Africa Telecommunications Company Nashua Mobile and Phone Manufacturer Nokia have introduced a unique data service for Nokia that will compete with the BlackBerry Internet Solution (BIS). → Read more
Fri, March 9th, 08:42 · Vincent Matinde

New Fashion Site FabHunter Launched

Social media marketing is a craze and Africa is not being left behind. Inspired by the American fad site, Pinterest, FabHunter a South African startup was launched in January 2012. According to the founder Werner Geyser, “FabHunter is a Social Fashion Discovery Engine relying on user generated content through images to enable fashion discovery and trend forecasting.” → Read more
Wed, March 7th, 10:46 · Elly Okutoyi

Cloud Computing – Best Option for African Startups?

Cloud computing has been gaining a lot of attention from the IT experts all over the world. The raging debate has been between the advantages of cloud computing, as compared to the traditional local server environment. Collectively, most experts have agreed that cloud computing saves a huge capital investment during the initial setting up, but it might be expensive in the long run. → Read more
Tue, March 6th, 13:02 · Vincent Matinde

Umuntu Media Launches Two East African Portals

Umuntu Media, based in South Africa, has launched two portals for the Rwanda and Uganda Market. The portals contains “up to the minute information about entertainment, property, jobs, accommodation and news specifically relevant to people across these great countries,” their news release reported. → Read more
Mon, March 5th, 13:20 · Elly Okutoyi

Bozza- App for Promoting African Content

Bozza is a new application launched in South Africa, specifically aimed at musicians, poets, filmmakers and artists. The application allows them to self-publish their content and earn a 50% revenue share off their channels. → Read more
Mon, March 5th, 11:54 · Vincent Matinde

E-Tax- Solution for Revenue Collection in Africa

The Ugandan Revenue Authority (URA) is taking technology very seriously. They have realized more collection in taxes on their e-platform and are thinking of expanding their use of IT to collect even more. → Read more
Fri, March 2nd, 11:52 · Vincent Matinde

The New Face of Digital Publishing in Africa

The publishing industry has faced many challenges, especially magazine production in East Africa. The high cost of printing on glossy paper has deterred some publishers from venturing into this field. But with changing technology, publishers are gaining more insight on how to distribute their material digitally. → Read more
Thu, March 1st, 08:25 · Vincent Matinde

Kenyan App Wins Nokia Contest

A Kenyan has done it again. James Mwai, the creator of the Ovi Store app AroundMe, has bagged himself a cool 75,000 Euros for his ingenuity and courage to enter the Nokia competition Create 4 Millions Series. → Read more
Wed, February 29th, 07:50 · Gythan Munga

Mentorship Platform Inuka Wins Startup Weekend Nairobi

Nairobi, Kenya- 54hrs was all it took for 56 of 120 participating teams to pitch ideas; 13 of them to be shortlisted; and one team to emerge winner at the Startup Weekend in Nairobi. → Read more
Tue, February 28th, 14:10 · Elly Okutoyi

App to Help Visually Impaired Send Text Messages

According to World Health Organization (WHO), 314 million people across the globe are visually impaired, with 41 million people blind. 87% of the visually blind people live in developing countries mostly in Africa. → Read more
Mon, February 27th, 15:03 · Elly Okutoyi

Visa to Start Mobile Money Transfer in Africa

VISA, the international payments service provider, is set to launch its mobile money transfer designed specifically for the African market. → Read more
Fri, February 24th, 08:52 · Elly Okutoyi

MXit Ranked Top in Forbes Africa Start-up List

South Africa’s mobile messaging service MXit, has been ranked number one technology start-up in Africa according to Forbes Magazine. → Read more
Thu, February 23rd, 16:39 · Gythan Munga

Day One @ Mobile Web East Africa

Mobile Web East Africa (#mwea2012) competition, organized by All Amber (UK) and hosted by ICT Board, kicked off at the Southern Sun in Nairobi Kenya yesterday morning. Here are some of the ideas which prevailed. → Read more
Thu, February 23rd, 14:02 · Vincent Matinde

FloCash: Africa’s Answer to Paypal

We will never hear the end of it, and with good reason. Money transfers and e-payment solutions are fires that simply won’t be put out. With more and more telcos jumping into this pool, African citizens are spoiled for choice on which e-payments to choose from. → Read more
Wed, February 22nd, 17:46 · Elly Okutoyi

Africa’s First Touch Screen Medical Tablet

A young Cameroonian Engineer Arthur Zang, 24 years old, has invented Africa’s first Touch Screen medical tablet, called the Cardiopad. → Read more
Wed, February 22nd, 07:14 · Gythan Munga

Facebook Verification to Control Impersonation

Facebook, with its over 37.7 million users in Africa, had until recently stayed away from verifying the identity of high profile users, unlike Twitter that provides an indisputable way of identifying VIPs through the blue ‘Verified’ badge. Impersonation as a result has long been an issue of concern. → Read more
Tue, February 21st, 14:19 · Vincent Matinde

Robbery Stopped by a Tweet

It reads like a movie script. Thieves broke in a rural neighborhood in Kenya, plan in hand to commit somewhat a familiar illegalities. Little did they know that a neighbor was on his phone sending a distress call through his Twitter account. Dozens of followers, who received the tweet through an SMS text alert, responded to the message and foiled the robbery attempt. → Read more
Tue, February 21st, 12:55 · Elly Okutoyi

Significant Growth in African Mobile Money Transactions

Africa is now showing a significant embracing of Mobile Money Transfers than before. More people in Africa’s poorest countries have mobile phones than bank accounts. Projections show that 68% of Africans will have a mobile phone by 2015. → Read more
Mon, February 20th, 08:27 · HumanIPO

Startup Garage Nairobi Launched!

For HumanIPO and Kenyan accelerator/seed fund 88mph, February 17th was a big day. On Friday, they launched Startup Garage Nairobi and opened the doors to Africa’s largest co-working space for web/mobile startups. → Read more
Sun, February 19th, 16:08 · Gythan Munga

Startup Weekend Goes to Nairobi

A 54 hour start-up event, Startup Weekend, that canvases cities around the world will be in Nairobi on February 24-26. → Read more