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VC4A calls on startups to pitch at event and raise up to $5m

Looking to raise a Series-A round of between $250 000 and $5-million for your high-growth startup? VC4A is looking for 10 innovative high-growth startups…

Entries open for fifth annual AppsAfrica Innovation Awards

Think your firm’s products are among some of the best mobile and tech solutions from across Africa? Entries are now open for the fifth…

Africa50 Innovation Challenge seeks innovators to boost internet access

Infrastructure investment platform Africa50 has launched an innovation challenge aimed at helping increase access to affordable and reliable high-speed internet in under-served areas on the…

Here are 14 African tech conferences startups should attend this year

As anyone in the tech sector knows, conferences and expos can often provide the ideal opportunity for those in the scene to network and…

Meet the winners of the Feed the Future Fall Armyworm Tech Prize

Nairobi-based startup Farm.ink has clinched the $150 000 grand prize of the Future Fall Armyworm Tech Prize. The announcement was made yesterday (15 November). The US…

Here are the 2018 AppsAfrica Innovation Awards finalists

Tech portal and advisory service AppsAfrica.com has announced the finalists of the fourth AppsAfrica Innovation Awards. The winners of this year’s awards will be announced in…

Here are the eight startups that will pitch for Series-A funding at VC4A summit

African startup funding platform VC4A has selected eight startups that it will showcase at next month’s Africa Early Stage Investor Summit in Cape Town. The eight…

Fifth Africa VC summit to kick off Global Entrepreneurship Week in Cape Town

The fifth edition of the Africa Early Stage Investor Summit (AESIS 2018) will kick off Global Entrepreneurship Week in Cape Town this year, organisers…

15 conferences and summits you should consider attending in 2018

Get your calendars out and diarise these key dates for the most important tech conferences and summits taking place in Africa in 2018. Africa Tech Summit…

Two days left to apply to join Liquid Telecom’s entertainment Launchpad

Internet service provider Liquid Telecom is on the hunt for the best African entertainment startup to join its Cape Town-based Liquid Launchpad — and startups have until…

CT conference to connect African startups to the world

Major business and tech incubator AfricaCom, in collaboration with Ericsson, are set to kick off their AHUB conference in November at the Cape Town International…

Ericsson AHUB coming to AfricaCom conference

Aimed at bringing together entrepreneurs, tech startups, and investors, Ericsson AHUB at AfricaCom will be taking place from 17-19 November at the CTICC in Cape Town. The…

Here are the 3 winners of the Orange African Social Venture Prize

The winners of the Orange African Social Venture Prize have been announced at AfricaCom 2014, with Modisar and its agriculture app coming out top. Part of major telecom…

Google removes ‘stalkerware’ apps with over 130k installs from the Play Store

130k people cancelled Netflix in the US after price increases

Uber charged some US riders R18k for R180 trips thanks to a glitch

CiTi chair Joshin Raghubar in running for $100k John P McNulty Prize

A fail-safe way to moving IP offshore: Part 1 [Opinion]

wiGroup grows 25% in year after financial management almost shut SA company

The next crop of iPhones could be the ugliest ever made

Luigi’s Mansion 3 is coming to Nintendo Switch on Halloween

Xiaomi Mi A3 seems both better and worse than the Mi A2

Audi’s new cars in Germany will count you down, pace you to green lights

Two Ford Focus trim levels also found to have lock issues

South Africa’s govt ministers really love German cars and big Toyotas report reveals