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Mon, January 16th, 12:36 · Gythan Munga

Google apologizes to Kenya Search Directory Mocality

Google has been accused by Kenyan business search engine Mocality for scraping their client database and using the information obtained to market their Getting Kenyan Businesses Online initiative, KBO, which sought to host Kenyan businesses by creating free websites for them. → Read more
Mon, January 16th, 09:00 · Gythan Munga

Rwandese Developers Standing out in African Mobile App Development

Rwanda has been recognized in many publications as one of the few places in the world where setting up a new business is easiest. With only over 2 million persons using their mobile phones only as a tool for communication, the opportunity for growth in the mobile industry is huge. → Read more
Fri, January 13th, 17:02 · Gythan Munga

Fireside Chat with Safaricom CEO

Thursday evening last week brought the best minds in the ICT industry in Kenya at one location once again. This time, the event was held at the iHub innovation center in Nairobi. In attendance were members of the iHub community, Mobile application developers and entrepreneurs in Kenya. → Read more
Fri, January 13th, 16:39 · Gythan Munga

Apple’s iPhone 4s is now available in Kenya

The Apple iPhone 4s will beginning Friday 13th of January be available in Kenya and 21 other countries in Africa and America. → Read more
Fri, January 13th, 11:50 · Gythan Munga

African Financial Mapping System CrowdPesa Now Launched

PesaPay launched in December last year a Mobile location-based app to map and track financial data and information in Kenya. The application, dubbed as Crowdpesa, provides access to information about people, entities and financial services located in various parts of the world. → Read more
Wed, January 11th, 13:15 · HumanIPO

Coworking Desk Swap Between Berlin & Nairobi

Imagine your usual work desk being re-located to another part of the world for a freely chosen period of time; meeting new amazing people, learning about the local market and exchanging ideas. For a number of Berlin and Nairobi based startups and freelancers it will soon become a reality. → Read more
Fri, January 6th, 10:20 · HumanIPO

Zikify – 5 Ugandans Bringing African Music Online

Believing that African musicians are not receiving the recognition they should, they're determined to change this by bringing African music to millions of mobile and computer users. Meet Zikify, music streaming & artist discovery platform, created by 5 passionate guys from Uganda. → Read more
Mon, January 2nd, 20:45 · HumanIPO

Coworking in Africa – Snowball on the Continent

Until now, the African continent has been considered as the “little brother”, when looking at the number of coworking spaces worldwide. → Read more
Tue, December 20th, 15:03 · HumanIPO

New on HumanIPO: Improved Profiles & More Visibility

Today we are glad to announce some changes on HumanIPO to improve startup profiles and make it easier to gain visibility. → Read more
Sun, December 18th, 15:37 · HumanIPO

Attention Designers: Experience the Sub-Saharan Tech Scene at First Hand!

Graphic designers, this is for you. Are you looking to change your work environment, meet amazing people and learn more about African emerging markets? Here’s a chance you would not want to miss out on! → Read more
Fri, December 9th, 11:47 · HumanIPO

Game change ahead in betting into start-ups

Interesting and possibly even table-turning news recently coming from USA regarding start-up crowdfunding. → Read more
Mon, November 28th, 11:53 · HumanIPO

HumanIPO opens East Africa’s largest co-working space in Nairobi

In the heart of Nairobi, the capital city of Kenya, the start-up scene is heating up even more, with the brand new startup incubation space of 800 sqm getting ready to officially open its doors in late January 2012. → Read more
Thu, November 24th, 16:05 · HumanIPO

Backup service for phone contacts – now in Beta!

After losing, spoiling or upgrading their mobile phone, here’s a mobile application that many of us would have liked to have. → Read more
Fri, November 18th, 12:03 · HumanIPO

Post to followers

You can follow people and post content to your followers. So post questions or share interesting content about new opportunities in the startup world that you think your followers should look at. → Read more
Thu, November 17th, 16:38 · HumanIPO

88mph makes its sixth investment in 3 months

88mph, an accelerator providing early-stage Kenyan tech companies with mentorship and funding in the range of 20-50K USD, has made its sixth investment since August, 2011. → Read more
Mon, October 31st, 10:06 · HumanIPO

M-Farm – one year of helping farmers in Kenya

It was exactly one year ago, when three Kenyan girls decided to create an app that would help their country's farmers to improve their productivity and increase incomes. → Read more
Tue, October 25th, 05:42 · HumanIPO

Planely – the startup that launched the social flying revolution

Flying tends to be an experience one mostly tolerates rather than enjoys - no matter what kind of clothes the flight attendants wear or how nice food they serve on board. Especially when flying solo (excuse the pun). → Read more
Fri, October 14th, 13:21 · HumanIPO

The difference between female & male entrepreneurs? Motives

From time to time, the topic about the lack of women entrepreneurs surfaces. The problem is also reinforced by the fact that most entrepreneurship-related books or conferences showcase men. So we took the issue to some of the female entrepreneurs on our platform to ask whether there is a gender problem in the (startup) world? → Read more
Wed, October 5th, 12:41 · HumanIPO

Making our bit for helping good deeds go viral

Our last post introduces a startup based in Denmark called Echo It that has a nice philosophy - experimenting whether social media can increase the good we have inside us. → Read more
Mon, October 3rd, 11:03 · HumanIPO

Social media experiment – will good deeds go viral?

In this era of social media dominance and everything to be out in the open comes a platform that helps you share and promote good deeds. → Read more