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WooThemes enters online course market with Sensei WordPress plugin

WordPress theme and extension developer, WooThemes, is entering the online course market through Sensei, the company’s latest WordPress plugin. Launched earlier this week, Sensei…

Q&A: Vinny Lingham on Gyft, the festive season and living in Silicon Valley

South African technology entrepreneur Vinny Lingham is not resting on his laurels despite the success of Yola and it having raised US$25 million from…

Studentology’s mobile payment app attracts international investor attention

In November last year, eleven promising startups boarded a plane bound for London where they would be introduced to potential investors and mentors. The…

HealthQ: groundbreaking African startup launches, attracts funding, blows minds

When we broke the story about HealthQ’s open source metabolic chamber — the first of its kind in the world — we came away…

Ex-Mxit boss admits IM startup 2go is a threat

The South African tech scene is quite abuzz with news of Alan Knott-Craig and post-Mxit information. In a recent Memeburn article, some insight was…

Enterprise social media startup WyseTalk secures $1M funding round

Social media for enterprise startup, WyseTalk, has secured first phase funding in excess of $1 million from an investment consortium comprising high nett worth…

Socialbakers raises $6m in new round of funding

Popular social analytics site, Socialbakers has just raised US$6-million in a new round of funding to aid its expansion plans according to the company’s…

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