Mobile

Zapper now an option for Paygate merchants

Payment service provider PayGate has added mobile payment system Zapper to its stable of options, something that’s apparently part of the company’s strategy to…

Wallettec integrates BitPay for bitcoin PoS integration of SA merchants

South African Point of Sale (PoS) startup Walletec has announced that it has integrated global bitcoin payment service, BitPay, in an attempt to grow…

SA schools to get savvy with new virtual classroom tool by Mxit, UNICEF

Today, South Africa’s Deputy Minister of Basic Education Enver Surty, together with the MEC for Education in Gauteng Panyaza Lesufi, officially unveiled a new…

M-Pesa relaunches in SA: refined strategy, massive roll-out

Vodacom’s well-known mobile money transfer service M-Pesa is having a second go at South Africa’s mobile market. The telecom giant announced that, after two…

Worldreader brings mother-tongue ebooks to feature phones in Africa

Literacy in empoverished lands is a pressing issue, especially on the African continent. But NGOs and other organisations are looking to eradicate this discretion…

Digital security company Gemalto joins Sub-Saharan Africa mHealth initiative

The GSMA pan-African mHealth Initiative (PAMI) is receiving support from Gemalto — one of the world’s leaders in digital security. The initiative aims to…

Meet iKhokha, the latest SA player to take on mobile PoS

The South African mobile payments space may not be quite where people were hoping it would be by now, but that isn’t stopping people…

2go and iROKING partner to bring Nigerian music to millions

Nigerian music service iROKING is partnering with South African-born instant messenger and social network 2go to bring free Nigerian music downloads from the likes…

BuzzCity CEO on the rise and future of Africa’s mobile marketplace

Mobile in Africa is a well-documented juggernaut. In late 2012, Africa was well on its way to reach 750 million mobile subscribers and the…

VOX: the SMS-based banking service gaining ground in rural Indonesia

Founded by Joseph Gaol in 2008, VOX, which stands for Virtual Online Exchange, aims to help the rural population in Indonesia set up bank…

IMPI: Is this SA startup going to become the Symantec of the mobile age?

With its growing popularity, the Android mobile platform, much like Windows, is rising to number one on the cybercriminal hit list. At the end…

Nedbank launches live point of sale solution – first in Africa, Middle East

Nedbank seems to be on a bit of a mobile and digital banking innovation streak at the moment. Friday 8 February marked the launch…

8 mobile ventures get $2.4 million from Knight Foundation

The Knight Foundation has announced the latest winners of its news challenge. The media innovation challenge is aimed at getting startups to build applications…

Could an SMS purchasing startup help stop online fraud?

Any online retailer will tell you in no uncertain terms that fraud, specifically by using credit cards online, is a huge challenge for them…

14 of India’s hottest mobile startups

India is taking its place as a growing technology powerhouse, with a number of mobile startups looking to make a name for themselves. During…

Instant messenger 2go is targeting smartphones, hedging its bets, hiring

Ventureburn recently reported on 2go, the instant messaging startup that was seeing significant traction in Nigeria. The company attributed much of its success —…

RIM opens second BlackBerry apps lab in SA, further boosts entrepreneurship

RIM recently opened its second BlackBerry apps lab in South Africa, this time in Cape Town, and hopes to both accelerate mobile apps development…

Wumii: the Chinese reader app that thinks it knows what you want to read

One of China’s most innovative reading apps, Wumii Reader has just upgraded its Android app to version 2.0. In contrast to many other apps…

BlackBerry reaches out to Nigeria’s academic community

Research In Motion (RIM) seems determined to make its mark in Africa. The maker of BlackBerry smartphones and tablets has announced that it will…

Slick, two-step brand mobiliser MHub courting restaurant owners

There are many, many services that allow you to create a free mobile site for your business. Few however, are as slick as MHub,…

Make cross border payments to Lesotho and Swaziland with FNB Pay2Cell

FNB’s Pay2Cell service is quite handy. Launched in September 2011, the service allows FNB Cellphone Banking customers to make payments directly into other FNB…

Xtreme Data Premium: uncapped data for high-end Lumia phones

Following the launch of its flat-rate Xtreme Data service, Nashua Mobile will roll out the service to more Nokia devices and launch a premium…

Kuza Mobile: Put your business online with nothing more than a feature phone

Kuza is quite brilliant. Designed specifically with basic feature phones in mind, it allows its users to build a web profile to showcase and…

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