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Shoprite app wins big at MTN Business App of the Year awards

The Shoprite mobile application, with the Money Market Account functionality at its core, is the winner of Most Innovative Solution and App of the Year…

FOMO app reaches 100K users, opens Series A funding round

FOMO, an app in South Africa focused on connecting users to restaurant specials closest to them using geo location, launched in late 2020 has…

SA startup launches new app digitising the informal market

AfriNova Digital, a local tech startup has launched an online app that allows users to make digital payments for their accounts, loans, traffic fines,…

Slide app, SA’s own version of Venmo, aims to boost person-to-person payments

South Africa has just got its own version of Venmo, one of the US’s most successful payment platforms owned by PayPal that processes $25-billion in…

Will local startup Scoop A Cab really offer meter taxi drivers a way to take on Uber?

SA ride-hailing startup Scoop A Cab claims it will offer meter taxis a way to take on the likes of Uber and Taxify with their new app and in…

Awethu Project app to provide virtual incubation to informal entrepreneurs

South African business support organisation The Awethu Project has launched an app for entrepreneurs and aspiring business owners, intended as a “business coach in…

Retired Lions rugby player’s app aims to tackle ‘administrative nightmare’

Former Lions rugby player Dylan des Fountain is looking to solve the “administrative nightmare” that many firms face collecting and reconciling staff expense claims…

Nigeria’s NetPlusDotCom taps Etisalat to rollout STORM app mPOS solution

A few weeks ago, Ventureburn focused on how African telecoms operators can have a mutually beneficial innovation-driven relationship with startups specifically by making their…

This crowdsourced phrasebook app wants to help South Africans understand each other

South Africa, like our ever globalising world, is made up of a really diverse bunch. It’s colourful but often messy. This is where Aweza…

SA mobile shopping app MySideKick announces R4m staged investment

South African mobile shopping app startup MySideKick has announced it received R4-million from EM Software & Systems‘ tech fund and accelerator Alchemy-A in a…

SA’s mobile TV app Tuluntulu part of Foundry50’s top global startups

South African TV and audio streaming app Tuluntulu is named one of Unilever’s Foundry50 top startups from around the globe. Tuluntulu is the first…

Enter your app into the MTN Business App of the Year Awards

Entries for the annual MTN Business App of the Year Awards are now open. This year the awards will be focusing on categories rather…

Travelstart’s Flapp wants to be the go-to tool for SA’s busiest flight route

Flapp — a portmanteau of Flight App — is online travel booking site Travelstart‘s entry into the app market. The recently released app is…

Startups, listen up: No, you don’t need an app

It seems like everyone who’s starting a business nowadays wants an app. They want to go mobile first and launch an app — maybe…

Phonebook replacer Truecaller says mobile-first Africa shows great potential for growth

The phonebook is a critical tool for billions of people who use it on a daily basis — but despite all of today’s advanced…

OurHood launches app, secures second round of funding

OurHood, the private digital platform for neighbourhoods, has just launched its official app for Android and iOS. The launch comes in the wake of the online platform…

Mobile startup Giraffe launches to help fill SA’s unemployment gap

South Africa’s unemployment rate hovers somewhere above the 20% mark with almost half of that number consisting of the country’s youth. A new startup,…

Wanna build a startup from scratch? Why not learn Ruby on Rails

Daniel Kehoe is the author of Learn Ruby on Rails — a book that comprehensively covers the programming language from Git to Gems. We…

Here’s how mobile apps are making shopping easier

Smartphones and tablets cater to a dynamic, cross-media lifestyle. Around 65% of tablet owners use their device while watching TV and 41% use both…

Safaricom Appwiz Challenge dubs Kenyan student news app winner

Kenyan campus news startup Magazine Reel has won the Safaricom Appwiz Challenge — an initiative by the major telecom to promote mobile developers in…

Built an app? Here are 5 clever ways you can distribute succesfully

Your app is not alone. Right now, there are more than one million apps in the App Store, vying for users’ attention in nearly…

Crowdsource location app Traffic Lite hits Nigeria’s streets

New community-based app Traffic Lite by Nigerian software developer Panthelope Technologies has been launched in an attempt too curb Lagos’ notorious traffic. Traffic Lite…

EFF’s National Shutdown on March 20: Julius Malema gets mixed reactions

A fashion show for the elderly using AI, here’s how Malik raised the bar

Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2023 event: Here’s what to expect

Lulalend secures $35m to scale its lending business

DPO Pay scoops Fintech Discovery of the Year award

Crowd gifting platform ChipIn set to take SA by storm

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