All stories by Nmachi
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Why winning in African tech is a patience game
There is a lot of hype surrounding Africa’s nascent technology scene today. As all shrewd investors know, it is often best ...
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How Nigeria’s Afrinolly app got almost half a million downloads in 10 months
For Chike Maduegbuna and his team at Afrinolly (a mobile phone app focused on Nigeria’s entertainment industry, Nollywood), ...
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Funding East African startups: Interview with Savannah Fund's Founding Partner, Mbwana Alliy [Video]
One of the oft-cited reasons for the lack of globally successful startups coming out of Africa is funding. As the Africa ...
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The affordable African smartphone battle begins: Samsung's Galaxy Pocket vs Huawei's Ideos X1
The Samsung Galaxy Pocket vs the Huawei Ideos X1.
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Local transactions by Kenya's mobile money service, M-Pesa exceeds Western Union's global transactions
Local transactions by Kenya's mobile money service, M-Pesa currently exceed transactions made by Western Union globally, ...
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The Internet in Africa - still an alien concept
With all the excitement surrounding the arrival of undersea cables in East and Western Africa and the prospects of the smartphone ...
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BlackBerry takes flight in Africa as sales slump in North America
Research In Motion's Blackberry line might be losing market share in North America but it is growing rapidly in Africa. In ...
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Google launches YouTube in Kenya
Google recently launched YouTube in Kenya (Youtube.co.ke)
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Garage48 spurs 11 innovative startups in Uganda
Garage48, an Estonian 48 hour hackathon aimed at turning ideas into working prototypes or services within one weekend, recently ...
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Paga aims to bring mobile money services to millions of unbanked Nigerians
With the success of Safaricom's mobile money service, M-Pesa in Kenya, analysts have looked to other African countries as ...
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Google launches program to help get Kenyan businesses online
Google has announced the launch of Getting Kenyan Businesses Online Program (G.K.B.O), an initiative targeted at thousands ...
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Jobberman.com redefines online recruitment in Nigeria [Interview]
Nigeria's Jobberman.com redefines online recruiting in Nigeria [Interview]