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Thu, May 24th, 07:00 · Vincent Matinde

Kenyan bank readies to tap into Diaspora remittances with its new portal

Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB), a leading Kenya-based financial institution in terms of assets, has launched a portal set to link Kenyans in the Diaspora with the country’s banking and investments. → Read more
Wed, May 23rd, 17:07 · HumanIPO

Over 200 Africa’s delegates to converge in Nairobi for next week’s OIAS

Over 200 top policy makers, developers, entrepreneurs and private enterprises will converge in Nairobi next week for the second Open Innovation Africa Summit (OIAS). → Read more
Wed, May 23rd, 16:09 · HumanIPO

Over 13000 students to receive free laptops in Namibia

More than 13,000 students at the University of Namibia (UNAM) are set to receive free laptops, as well as benefit from unlimited wireless network. → Read more
Wed, May 23rd, 15:40 · HumanIPO

World’s top cloud computing firm to showcase at Benin bound eLearning Africa

Wyse, a global leader in cloud computing, today said it will be exhibiting its latest digital classroom solutions it developed in partnership with Microsoft at this year’s eLearning Africa, the continent’s premier annual ICT-enhanced learning forum, slated for May 23 in Cotonou, Benin. → Read more
Wed, May 23rd, 14:12 · Vincent Matinde

SA bank Absa furbishes up Internet banking with an additional app for its customers

After two years of restructuring its online presence, Absa bank, now with over 1.25 million members, has finally launched a new online platform for its customers. → Read more
Wed, May 23rd, 13:00 · Elly Okutoyi

Opera wins first ever African award

Opera Software, a Norwegian company best known for its mobile Web browser Opera Mini, on Saturday received its first ever African award from the Africa Technology Awards held in Johannesburg. → Read more
Wed, May 23rd, 12:12 · HumanIPO

Ericsson, Tigo to connect 30,000 in northern Ghana

Millennium Village Project, a nonprofit organization committed to helping rural African communities lift themselves out of extreme poverty, has been established in northern Ghana to connect over 30, 000 people living in the region’s rural villages with Internet. → Read more
Wed, May 23rd, 11:00 · HumanIPO

SA’s new multipurpose smartcard IDs poised to cut crime rate

South Africa's government is trailing a new identification system in the country set to enable South Africans move around with a multipurpose identity card. → Read more
Wed, May 23rd, 10:27 · HumanIPO

GLOBA SMS money transfer to service Africa’s unbanked population

Started just five years ago in SA as a small company, Globa, now an international money transfer and mobile payment platform, continues to grow rapidly changing every stone unturned in the money transfer sector. The firm is now looking to go global after taking over the whole of Africa first. → Read more
Wed, May 23rd, 08:00 · HumanIPO

Three investors buy into Musoni, Kenya’s first mobile-based moneylender

Kenya’s first microfinance institution to provide financial services to the poor entirely via mobile phones, Musoni Kenya, has secured itself funding from three new investors. → Read more
Wed, May 23rd, 07:10 · Vincent Matinde

Africa’s MTN among the world’s top brands

In its 2012 BrandZ Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands, Millward Brown, a leading global research agency focusing on brands, media and communications, listed MTN, a major South Africa-based mobile telephone network, among the world’s top brands. → Read more
Tue, May 22nd, 19:30 · Gythan Munga

Upcoming African Startup Events, 22-31 May

Africa is experiencing growth on all fronts and not left out are the burgeoning opportunities of investment that are realized through events and conferences. Here’s a schedule of upcoming events in Kenya, South Africa and Ghana in the next week. → Read more
Tue, May 22nd, 16:51 · HumanIPO

The 2012 eLearning report to be unveiled tomorrow in Benin

The eLearning Africa 2012 report set to give the status of ICT application in the education system in Africa will be unveiled tomorrow in Cotonou, Benin, during the opening session of the eLearning Africa conference. → Read more
Tue, May 22nd, 16:37 · HumanIPO

Ghana to host fifth AITEC conference next week

The fifth of its kind, Aitec Banking and Mobile Money West Africa conference, the region’s leading forum, is scheduled to take place in Accra, Ghana, Tuesday next week. → Read more
Tue, May 22nd, 15:35 · Elly Okutoyi

Malawian government seeks out a broadband partner

The Government of Malawi today officially announced of its intentions to seek a Public Private Partnership (PPP) arrangement towards the provision of quality and affordable international broadband connectivity to the country. → Read more
Tue, May 22nd, 15:05 · Vincent Matinde

Google Chrome edges out Internet Explorer to become world’s number one browser

Google Chrome overtook Internet Explore to become the world’s most popular and most used Web browser. → Read more
Tue, May 22nd, 13:02 · HumanIPO

Cape Town to mentor entrepreneurs through a new portal

South Africa’s Cape Town city has launched a new Web portal, dubbed Cape Town Activa Web Portal, complete with online resources, tools and links for use by the business people. → Read more
Tue, May 22nd, 11:30 · Vincent Matinde

Malawi yet to unveil plans meant to advance ICT sector

The government of Malawi is set to start implementing policies aimed at supporting the country’s telecommunication and ICT sector → Read more
Tue, May 22nd, 10:46 · Elly Okutoyi

SA’s communication regulator blocks Vodacom’s Freedom 99 offer launch

South African mobile telephone operator Vodacom failed to launch its new 99 cents offer due to what it termed as a technological lapse. → Read more
Tue, May 22nd, 10:30 · HumanIPO

High-speed broadband platform set for launch across Sub-Saharan Africa

Eutelsat Communications, a France-based telecommunications company, Monday announced plans to launch a new broadband platform set to extend high-speed Internet across Sub-Saharan Africa. → Read more