Orange Expands its Text-based Facebook Service in Africa
Today Orange announced a new initiative which aims to make it easier for African mobile subscribers to access Facebook on the go. A first for the continent, Orange is using…
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Google Offers Tunisians 6 Internships at Le Monde
More than a year after former President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali was ousted from power in Tunisia – an event credited with kick-starting the so-called Arab Spring – Google has…
Learning from Kenya: Mobile Money Transfer and Coworking
Since Africa is trying to solve problems that we in the Western world do not have, it’s tempting to say that innovation there isn’t really relevant to us. But upon visiting…
Google Fires its Country Lead for Kenya
Google has fired its Country Lead for Kenya Olga Arara-Kimani and “a technical guy in Zurich”, the Kenyan tech blog Nairobi Tech reports. While the information hasn’t been officially announced,…
Meet Africa's Bill Gates: ShopAfrica53
Tall and well-built, cheerful with an appearance of nonchalance, the man Inc. Magazine described as Africa’s Bill Gates is a man with a few tricks up his sleeve – as…
Wikipedia: No Data Charges for Orange Customers in AMEA
Mobile network Orange is teaming up with the Wikimedia Foundation to make Wikipedia available for free on mobile phones to more than 70 million Orange customers in Africa and the…
If Steve Jobs Had Been African
Innovation is not what it used to be. It’s no longer limited to the usual places, to the usual social groups, or the usual personality types. As it grows in…
Google Scrapes Kenya's Biggest Business Listing Site
Google has issued an updated statement on the matter, saying it is “mortified” that a team representing Google has misrepresented its relationship with Mocality. Scroll down to read the updates….
iPhone 4S Coming to China and 21 Countries on Jan 13
Apple has announced that it will launch its new iPhone 4S smartphone in China and 21 additional countries on January 13, ensuring that the handset will become available in over…
YouTube Launches in Uganda
Following yesterday’s announcement that YouTube was launching in Colombia, it seems that Uganda is next on the video-streaming website’s hit-list. In a blog post today, Google’s Elijah Kitaka, Business Development…
Airtel Africa Signs Up 50M Subscribers
India’s leading telecom carrier Bharti Airtel announced today that it had signed up 50 million subscribers in Africa, according to a report by The Economic Times. The company is looking…
Smartphones Just 27% of all Phones
It is easy to obsess over the latest iPhone or Android devices, but smartphones continue to represent a minority of mobile devices on the plant, according to new analysis from…
Durex in Twitter Joke Controversy
Condom maker Durex caused controversy in South Africa after a Twitter campaign of edgy sex jokes included a tweet that supported sexual abuse. The campaign was run by the company’s…
Africa to pass 1Bn Mobile subs by 2016
Africa is being tipped to pass one billion mobile subscriptions to become the world’s second largest mobile market by 2016 according to new research from analyst firm Informa. Mobile activations…
YouTube: Now in IsiZulu and Afrikaans
In November 2010, YouTube announced it was adding African vernaculars Kiswahili and Amharic to its repertoire of languages. And today, it announced that it’s throwing another two African tongues into…
