Africa

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…

Pearson looking to fund, incubate Africa’s top edtech startups

Pearson, in collaboration with US accelerator Village Capital, has announced its Edupreneurs programme which seeks to support entrepreneurs across Africa trying to solve pressing…

Video on demand startup iROKOtv expands to East Africa

Online television startup iROKOtv will be opening up its doors to Rwanda, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda in the following week. The move comes as…

WeChat, Dream School partnership brings second screen content to mobile

Dream School SA, the prime time series featured on SABC, will transcend the television’s square box and push additional content via mobile channels, most…

PwC Vision to Reality Awards reveals top 10 SA startups

PricewaterhouseCooper (PwC) has just announced the top 10 startup finalists of its Vision to Reality Awards that will be taking part in its three…

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…

Uber launches in Lagos as it further expands into Africa

The popular San Francisco-based car ordering service Uber has just launched in Lagos, Nigeria. This puts Uber’s active countries across the globe at 42,…

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…

Failing is OK: Brains behind iROKOtv Jason Njoku inspires at TEDxEuston

Nigerian internet entrepreneur and CEO of iROKO Partners, Jason Njoku, addressed a captivated audience at TEDxEuston about the value of failure for entrepreneurs. The…

Microsoft paving the way for Africa’s youth with YouthSpark

Microsoft really cares about Africa’s youth — so much so it has designed a new initiative to help empower them. The company has announced…

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…

Incubator Fledge closes funding round as its startup BURN gets cooking

Young startup incubator Fledge, and the most successful company from its 2012 summer programme, BURN Manufacturing, had a fruitful week after closing the first…

How the internet is beginning to transform Egypt’s economy

A study by Google and Boston Consulting Group (BCG) has revealed the great potential behind an internet-driven economy. The country at the heart of…

10 business lessons for the young entrepreneur

Alex Fraser, Silicon Cape chairperson and head of business development at venture capital firm, Invenfin, recently shared her business philosophies with an audience of…

Nigerian video streaming service iROKOtv signs deal with Nokia

Nigerian video streaming service iROKOtv has signed a deal with Nokia to launch a free mobile app for the Lumia range of Windows 8…

Google’s Eric Schmidt: Nairobi could become the African tech leader

Google’s Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt has presented a summary of his Africa trip in which he said Kenya’s capital Nairobi was “a serious tech…

Where are the women in African tech?

This article by Hilda Moraa Morara originally appeared on Venture Capital for Africa, a Burn Media publishing partner. The clamour for innovation in the…

Why African tech entrepreneurs need to learn from each other

“Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.” – John Cotton Dana Learn. Teach. Two words that startups and members of tech hubs…

Entrepreneurs speak about their motivations for 2013

What motivates entrepreneurs building great companies in Africa? At VC4Africa, the largest online community of African entrepreneurs and investors, ‘creating better lives’ and ‘feeling…

How tech entrepreneurship is driving development and innovation in Africa

In just the past five years, Africa’s mobile phone market has rapidly expanded to become larger than either the EU or the United States…

5 ways to grow the amount of early stage VC funding in South Africa

A new report set out to explore the reasons for the lack of early-stage VC in South Africa and to provide some proposals for…

Protecting your inventions: IP and the perceptions of Kenyan startups

Economies can lose billions of dollars due to piracy and IP infringement. Therefore, a country that values intellectual property (IP) can potentially create an…

20 African news startups you really have to know about

Countries around the African continent have a chance to do something really special when it comes to news innovation. With a highly mobile literate…

OpenAI Quietly Launches ChatGPT-5 — And It’s a Game Changer

Lenovo Yoga Slim 7 Aura Edition Review: A Sleek, AI-Powered Ultrabook for the Work-Anywhere Era

WeThinkCode_ and South Cape TVET College Bring Software Engineering Training to Rural SA Youth

Fintura Heads to Silicon Valley After Winning SA Startup World Cup

Capitec and Mama Money Launch Fintech Partnership to Empower Migrant Workers Across Africa

Flow Unveils World’s First Shoppable Audience Marketplace – A Fintech-Led Revolution in Digital Targeting

Acer Unleashes Beastly New Predator BiFrost and Nitro GPUs with AMD Radeon RX 9000 Series

Philips Evnia Drops Jaw-Dropping QD OLED Monitors: 240Hz, Ambiglow, and All the Good Stuff

Microsoft launches new Surface devices in new AI era

Omoda C5 X review

TDK enhances IMUs for extreme temps

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