Officially Launched: Tutamee Asks “What Is The Best”
Tutamee lets you find the best there is of anything out there. All you do is to ask what the best is and let the community debate and vote on...
Posts Tagged: "Africa"
Google Launches Android Developer Challenge for sub-Saharan Africa
Yesterday Google officially launched the Android Developer Challenge for sub-Saharan Africa. The Android Developer Challenge is designed to encourage the creation of cool and innovative Android mobile apps built by...
Garage48 To Expand Into 5 African Countries
Garage48 events started in Estonia in April 2010 and have expanded to other countries in Northern Europe and Africa since then. All Garage48 events are held in English and have...
txteagle Raises $8.5 Million To Help Businesses Reach Mobile Users in Developing Countries
Boston-based txteagle has raised $8.5 million in new funds, in a round led by Spark Capital; the company had raised just over $1 million last year. Founded in 2009 by...
Africa Overtakes Western Europe In Mobile Connections
The total number of mobile connections in Africa overtook Western Europe during the fourth quarter of 2010, according to figures published by Wireless Intelligence. The new report by the research...
5 Startups Graduate From Australia’s StartMate Incubator
Australia’s StartMate, a new seed fund for early stage companies has just graduated its first class of 5 startups. StartMate is a three-month program that offers mentorship and investment to...
Google Launches A New African Technology Incubator In South Africa
Google has chosen Cape Town as a pilot for its new technology incubator called Umbono which aims to bring together seed capital, Google mentorship, angel investors, local tech stars, entrepreneurs...
Mobile Advertising Opportunities In Africa
# By 2015, there will be 265 million mobile broadband subscriptions in Africa # InMobi , an advertising company claims to reach 50 million Africans through nearly three-billion ad impressions...
LAUNCH Conference 2011: NandiMobile’s Gripeline Wins Best Business Product
The LAUNCH Conference offered steller technology companies the opportunity to demo their products to a panel of judges, investors, entrepreneurs, the press, influential bloggers and the audience. The event took...
Spice Launches Mobile Radio-iDJ For Safaricom Subscribers
India’s premier mobile Value Added Services (VAS) company, Spice, has announced the launch of one of its flagship services, Mobile Radio, in partnership with Safaricom Branded iDJ, the service will...
South African Mobile Service-MzansiSMS Wins Global Award
Telfree, a South African based research and development arm of the international telecommunications group has been awarded the Outstanding Regional Achievement Award for Excellence in Mobile Content at the United...
AfriLabs Launches To Connect Tech Entrepreneurs In Africa
Erik Hersman, director of operations at Ushahidi, today announced the launch of a network of startup incubators and tech communities throughout Africa. On March 3rd 2010, founders from several established...
Airtel Africa Launches Virtual Payment Card- Airtel 1time Shopping Card
The Mobile phone firm Airtel Africa, the Standard Chartered Bank and the MasterCard Worldwide has announced the launch of its virtual card that operates off a wallet residing on a...
Craft Silicon of Kenya Wins 2010 Africa Awards For Entrepreneurship
Legatum, a privately owned international investment group and Omidyar Network, a philanthropic investment firm, yesterday announced that Craft Silicon Ltd of Kenya has won the US $100,000 grand prize of...
Rupu Launches The Groupon Of Kenya
Groupon has been a massive success in the United States. It’s a deal-of-the-day site, with projected revenue of US$500m in just it’s second year of operations. This has attracted a...
How 7 African Countries Use Mobile Technology To Improve Healthcare
With reported mobile subscriptions to be over 379 million, Africa is home to one of the fastest growing mobile markets in the world. This creates an enormous opportunity to leverage...
eTranzact To Launch Mobile Money Solution In Nigeria
eTranzact International Plc, a mobile and electronic payment company in Nigeria has received approval to launch Mobile Money solution in Nigeria. The mobile money approval was granted to eTranzact on...
Top 10 African Mobile Startups
Africa is an expansive and growing mobile market. With mobile phone technology spreading so rapidly across the African continent, there are so many opportunities to reach out to Africa’s mobile...
Bongo Live: A Tanzanian Advertising And Mobile Services Startup
Taha Jiwaji of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania made presentation about Bongo Live at this year’s startup strategy roundtable. Bongo Live is an advertising and mobile services company that has subscribers...
Startup Pitch Slam In Kenya, 8 Startups Made Presentations
Access to capital remains one of the major constrains for technology startups in Africa. Innovative technology, mobile, commerce, enterprise ideas remains in books and business plans for a long time....