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Cape Town Welcomes Amazon Web Services (AWS) Skills Center

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has further extended its commitment to democratising access to cloud skills training with the inauguration of its first international AWS…

Renewable energy start-up SOLA gets on the grid early

SOLA Group has reached commercial operation providing solar energy to Amazon Web Services (AWS) three months earlier than expected. This will fulfil the commission…

Vodacom to host Fast Forward Series for SMEs

Vodacom is getting ready to host its Fast Forward Series, a collection of workshops and webinars aimed at Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs). Now…

Final call for startups to enter Lagos Urban Innovation Challenge

Utopia, an organisation that helps foster and fund innovation in emerging market cities, has made a final call for startups to enter the Lagos…

The tech sector in SA is still a hot place to be [Opinion]

South Africa’s economic outlook may be gloomy, with annual growth forecast to barely past 1.5% over the next three years, but things are still…

SA startups to get access to IT infrastructure, services with Silicon Cape, AWS partnership [Updated]

UPDATE (17 September): In an earlier version of this story we misstated that startups would be able to get free access to AWS services through the…

New guidebook to be launched on Joburg’s startup scene

South Africa’s commercial capital Joburg is fast becoming the country’s next big startup city. A survey by Ventureburn in November last year revealed that…

New guidebook on Cape Town’s startup scene to launch

Startup Guide, a European publisher that produces guidebooks on various startup scenes around the globe, will next week launch Startup Guide Cape Town —…

Amazon Web Services to open data centres in Cape Town in 2020

Tech entrepreneurs in Cape Town are set to benefit, with the announcement yesterday by cloud computing services provider Amazon Web Services (AWS) that it will open…

Local startups to benefit from AWS Cape Town expansion with expertise, services

African startups are expected to benefit from Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) expansion in Cape Town with more user groups, hands-on developer labs and expert advice on technologies…

AWS full day Cape Town event to feature pitching, deep dives, panel discussions

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced that it will host a full-day event for startup founders and technical staff. The event — which is…

Q&A: ‘Not every cloud is born equal’, look for the best provider advises expert

If you run a tech startup, it is most likely that you are using cloud computing to some extent. It is no longer a…

African tech startups have three weeks left to enter DEMO Africa 2017

African tech startups have until 31 August to apply for this year’s edition of DEMO Africa. It follows the extension of the application window…

PeaceTech Accelerator looking for more startups for its next cohorts

PeaceTech Accelerator, a Washington DC based cloud innovation centre and scale-up programme devoted to peace technology, is looking for more participants for its next cohort…

6 reasons why your internet startup should be using Amazon Web Services

Y Combinator co-founder, Paul Graham, defines a startup as “a company designed to grow fast.” The definition highlights one of the hardest problems internet…

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