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If you’ve ever watched a stable, HD webcast of a product announcement, easily registered for an event or enjoyed a high-speed internet connection while…

The way most businesses talk about their advantages is so boring. How many companies are “the best”, “faster”, “biggest”, “most trusted”, and so on?…

We first heard about ValuationUP, the financial performance analysis, benchmarking and valuation tool for SMBs when it won the Ignite startup competition at African…

For people in emerging markets like South Africa to buy online, they pretty much have to use a bank card of some sort. And…

Despite a struggling global economy and a notable downturn in Series A funding in the US, 2012 left a veritable smorgasbord of startup deals,…

If startups have a one in 10 chance of surviving, music startups’ odds must be one in 10 000. The industry’s most famous success…

While the US is seeing a downturn in Series A tech startup funding, 2012 has been a bumper year for seed/angel deals. In more…

If you’re looking for a lightweight version of über note taking app Evernote, you might want to take a look at Life Note, a…

Online social music startup Boom.fm is set to close down after its funding was withdrawn by investment incubator hybrid World of Avatar. In an…

When we broke the story about HealthQ’s open source metabolic chamber — the first of its kind in the world — we came away…

“The Hardware Renaissance”. It’s unmissable. Paul Graham has noticed it and, certainly, my credit card has. Where once, entrepreneurs turned to software to form…

Countries around the African continent have a chance to do something really special when it comes to news innovation. With a highly mobile literate…

We love Quicket, the ticketing service that allows you to sell tickets for your event and promote it online. Create an event page, promote…

Back in March, we reported that Naspers’ investment arm MIH had teamed up with Obox to launch QikCommerce — a WordPress-based eCommerce tool that…