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The streets are flooded, it has been raining all night and all morning, and I need a cab. I have a couple of meetings…

Around the world, governments and businesses are facing an ever complicating conundrum: high levels of youth unemployment and a shortage of job seekers with…

8Bit Media has been extremely busy in the past six months. In between 88mph’s accelerator programme, founder Tom Kennedy and his significant other having…

Photo-editing startup Over is all about inspiration. Just follow its Instagram account and you’ll find a range of motivational — often quirky — images…

It’s the end of the work day, I get into my Uber and settle in for contemplative ride home. The driver begins the trip…

I have a penchant for books about entrepreneurship and starting a business from almost nothing. Books about ideas, making those ideas work for you…

DEMO Africa has just announced the 40 chosen tech startups that will launch their product on the DEMO Africa stage in September 2014. The…

In the past few weeks, the global Seedstars World competition has been making its rounds across Africa in an effort to find the most…

It sounds like the kind of pitch that would leave any investor with a disbelieving smile and a pile of cash stashed safely in…

You can see it in its logo. The familiar grey elephant symbol stamped onto the green icon. Evernote’s got a deep connection with the…

The first time I ever heard the expression about where the big gorilla sits, I became irrationally angry. But of course, that’s how it’s…

iKubu is a hardware company based in Stellenbosch, South Africa that focuses on building products in the field of radar and computer vision. It’s…

For startups, the fintech space is a good industry to be in. People are always looking for ways they can make the most out…

We all have these ideas that we think could change our world but never do. Ideas that lie dormant and ultimately die. It’s sad,…

There is a very popular notion that Africa hasn’t been able to shirk for some time now, namely that it’s a dark continent in…

NowFloats is an ambitious startup coming out of India — with offices in Hyderabad, Bangalore, Delhi — that wants to help SMEs across the…