The Netflix matchup between Mike Tyson and Jake Paul has redefined what a modern boxing event can be, fusing old-school boxing prestige with digital-age…
Built in Africa: Cipher256 is solving one of Africa’s biggest problems with an app
Built in Africa focuses on entrepreneurs, startups and technologies that hail from the continent and empower its citizens. The miracle of birth is still…
Physics, healthcare and imagination: meet Africa’s future
Every year, Microsoft asks university students to imagine what they could do with technology through its Imagine Cup competition — a skills-based challenge comprised…
Many fragments of a whole: unmasking Nigeria’s tech industry
“Things don’t work like that here,” someone in the audience responds as Gareth Knight, founder of popular tech conference Tech4Africa, talks about the need…
Taking Nigerians cashless: Q&A with PayPal’s business lead for Africa
Nigeria’s 170-million plus population has an estimated 60-million internet users, making it the largest potential market for PayPal of all the countries it has…
Disrupt everything: Lagos and the transportation overhaul
The streets are flooded, it has been raining all night and all morning, and I need a cab. I have a couple of meetings…
The Western Cape Taxi Council is not loving Uber and its tech savvy ways
It’s the end of the work day, I get into my Uber and settle in for a contemplative ride home. The driver begins the…
‘Work is a sideline. Live the holiday’: welcome to the cult of entrepreneurship
I have a penchant for books about entrepreneurship and starting a business from almost nothing. Books about ideas, making those ideas work for you…
Ushahidi’s BRCK raises $1.2M to connect the 4-billion in emerging markets
Good news for BRCK after a very successful Kickstarter campaign is that Ushahidi has announced a new round of funding to the tune of…
Uber [enter African city here] is happening sooner than you think
Like it or not, Uber’s path to world domination cannot be stopped. The San Francisco-based car ordering technology company is making its play for…
Are we beginning to over-indulge, over-romanticise and over-glamorise failure?
This week, I read a very insightful piece in the Guardian about failure and the culture of failure that currently exists in Silicon Valley….
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