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Net1 Mobile initiative brings solar-powered solutions to SA communities

Net1 Mobile Solutions recently partnered with South African-companies and organisations to bring care-packs to hundreds of pupils at Jon Kotlolo School and the local…

Take Action to bridge gap between community and service providers

Service delivery sucks. Even when it works, it generally requires you to go stand in a queue, wait on hold, make extra payments… you…

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…

Global Innovation Index 2014 spells promising signs for Africa

Swizerland, the United Kingdom and Sweden have been named the world’s most innovative countries of 2014. The seventh annual Global Innovation Index (GII) study…

Rwanda’s Think tech incubator calls for Africa’s savvy entrepreneurs

Based in Kigali, Rwanda, and brought to us by Tigo and Millicom, the Think tech incubator has now opened its doors and is looking…

PayFast’s 30k merchants can now accept bitcoin as online payment

Starting today, one of South Africa’s most popular online payment service, PayFast, is enabling sellers using its services to easily start accepting bitcoin payments…

6 inspiring insights to learn from photo-editing startup Over’s story

Photo-editing startup Over is all about inspiration. Just follow its Instagram account and you’ll find a range of motivational — often quirky — images…

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…

Screw Silicon Valley, Brazil actually has a startup show worth watching

Anyone on the tech startup scene will have at least heard mention of a Silicon Valley reality TV show. Well Brazil looked at that,…

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…

4 ways to help build your tech startup in Africa

There are many issues that African tech startup entrepreneurs have to deal with in building successful global businesses, but I’d like to highlight these…

Broadband Africa Forum 2024

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