Press Release | Safaricom shareholders have approved two new subsidiaries, one dedicated to investing in seed-stage and another on growth-stage start-ups. These significant developments, approved at...
Kenyan wireless carrier opened a US$2 million operations center in the country’s capital, Nairobi to enhance its M-Pesa mobile money platform and prepare for launches into...
Last May, the Nigerian presidency launched the Nigeria Startup Bill in collaboration with a group of Nigerian tech leaders and several government bodies to govern how...
There has been an uptick in local acquisitions in Africa
U.S. companies should be committed to diversity and inclusion in hiring, and tech companies, which have some of the lowest diversity rankings among large employers, are...
By Jack Smith IV Every week, the American tech sector uses the most advanced mobile technologies in the world to create some new meaningless distraction. Tinder...
By Zoe Henry At first blush, you might not think of Nairobi, Kenya, as being especially ripe for startups. Public concerns about security, government red tape,...
Kenyan-based start-up accelerator Nailab, has unveiled the five startups selected for its fifth cohort, to participate in the 5-month program ending in June. Nailab works to...
Innovative African university graduates have developed many new tech products in recent years, but they prefer to work in Western countries where there is more support and more...
The developers of Saya call their Ghanaian chat app the “SMS killer”. Meanwhile, an app called TanaMe is fighting for a niche by aggressively undercutting Skype...
By Bitange Ndemo Kenya is a frontrunner in technology and communications, but it must not slacken pace: the next decade will throw up opportunities to succeed...
It is projected that average gross domestic product (GDP) growth in Africa in 2013 will range between 5.6 and 6 percent. The middle class in sub-Saharan...
Artistic Impression of Hope City. IMAGE/File Forbes Magazine, is predicting that Ghana will undergo a massive tech boom, should various interventions in the sector proceed unhindered....
The new Black Technology Council recently launched by the the Capital City African American Chamber of Commerce in Austin, Texas and co-chaired by Lola Bakare and...
In a bid to encourage more innovation and entrepreneurship in Kenya, the government has partnered with a local business incubator, Nailab to launch a KSh 140...
Dropifi founders.,Kamil Nabong (l), David Osei (c) and Effah Philips Mensah (r). PHOTO/Dropifi Dropifi, a startup tech company in Ghana has taken the top spot in...
Africa has huge potential when it comes to technology start-ups. IMAGE/stock.xchng Industry analysts make an interesting point about fledgling technology businesses in Africa: unlike markets generally...
Juliana Rotich, co-founder Ushahidi.com. PHOTO/Andreas Rentz/Getty Images Many people’s view of Africa is outdated, and, quite frankly, inaccurate. The Western main stream media continues to project...
