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TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield Africa Competition sponsored by Facebook is scheduled to take place from December 11, 2018 in Lagos, Nigeria Speed Read: Startups apply HERE for Startup Battlefield Africa 2018. Selected teams pitch live December 11 in Lagos in front of top investors & the global TC audience. One startup... -
AdMaxx – a Ghanaian audio advertisement network for radio and podcast content by the developers behind AF Radio has launched today. An audio ad network for radio and podcast content, AdMaxx developed by the team behind AF Radion has launched today. This new product will enable brands to place audio ads... -
Kenyan ride-sharing app, Mondo Ride raises $5 Million and plans expansion into six African cities. Kenya is fortunate to have several ride-sharing platforms, and one of them is Mondo Ride. Today, they have announced that they have closed a second financing round of $2 million (KES 204 million) for... -
Uber’s operation in Ghana has been handed with a one-month ultimatum for drivers to brand their cars as local taxi cabs. This article highlights why GPRTU and MoT got this approach wrong. Ride-sharing service, Uber has allegedly been issued a one-month ultimatum by Ghana’s Ministry of Transport to brand... -
ITU reveals the latest global ICT Development Index country ranking with the release of Measuring the Information Society 2017 Report The 9th edition of ITU’s flagship annual Measuring the Information Society Report has been released today. The Measuring the Information Society Report is widely recognized as the repository of the... -
A Ghanaian blockchain startup; BenBen is building a land registry in Ghana to help lock in property rights for citizens and would-be realtors. Background BenBen’s founders, Daniel Bloch and Emmanuel Noah were early true believers in Bitcoin and blockchain technology. Both worked at Bitbox, the second Bitcoin exchange in... -
The Silicon Accra project, to be located at East Legon Hills in Accra, is expected to be completed in five years, with $50 million to be invested in technology start-ups for the next 10 years. It is a 60-acre, master-planned, mixed-use, “walkable” city designed with the objective of promoting... -
From the Ventureburn.com blog: 30 African startups were profiled. Their selections were based on the startup coming from an African root and secondly, it been just brilliant. From Transport apps: TaxiRank – South Africa Down in Cape Town, Taxi Rank makes it easy for the city’s 4-million citizens to...
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Paul Lee, Senior Product Manager from Google.org shares on his trip to Africa the key to understanding barriers to Mobile Internet adoption in Kenya and Ghana From the Google Africa Blog: Paul Lee, Senior Product Manager from Google.org shares on his trip to Africa (Ghana and Kenya). Google.org partnered...
