Africa

Wakkerstroom is the first smartphone-only town in South Africa

Wakkerstroom in Mpumalanga is now the first smartphone-only town in South Africa thanks to a partnership between Vodacom Mpumalanga and BPG Langfontein, a farming…

Vodacom launches 2020 #CodeLikeAGirl programme for learners

Vodacom, the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Education, and Durban University of Technology (DUT) have partnered to launch the 2020 #CodeLikeAGirl programme — which plans to…

Google provides emergency grants to 25 South African publications

After announcing the global Google News Initiative Journalism Emergency Relief Fund (JERF) earlier this year, Google South Africa has detailed the 25 local publications…

Opera: Women in South Africa, Nigeria and Kenya use more data than men

How do women in Africa use the internet? This is what a study conducted by Opera and Worldreader aimed to answer. The study took…

Move aside .com: Africa will soon have its own top-level domain

Africa will soon have its very own top-level domain on the internet. ICANN, a non-profit better known as the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names…

Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg visits Nigeria in African knowledge quest

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is currently on a business trip to Africa, according to his Facebook page. Zuckerberg stopped over in Nigeria, Facebook‘s largest…

Africa has a real chance at leading the next digital revolution

A theme that took centre stage at a panel discussion during the recent World Economic Forum on Africa in Rwanda is development beyond simple…

5 massive moments in Nigeria’s internet adoption

Every month, Nigeria’s telecoms regulator, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) releases the latest figures around the country’s telecoms subscribers and internet users. While the…

Tech4Africa Cape Town to explore ‘rise of the underdog’

Tech4Africa has announced the speaker line-up for its Cape Town event, which takes place on 6 August. Among the speakers are local entrepreneur Nic…

Windows 10: why Africa could be key to its success

It’s Windows 10 launch day and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella isn’t at the company’s headquarters in Redmond Washington. Nor is he in San Francisco,…

Next Einstein Forum on the search for 54 of Africa’s top young science and technology ambassadors

If you’re a young African with with a passion for community engagement and a strong track record in the science and technology spaces, then…

Connecting the Karoo: how the internet is changing South Africa’s semi-desert heartland

Back in the Victorian era of the late 1800s, farm life in the Karoo was hard and isolated. There were great distances between farmsteads,…

New survey reveals how South Africans use mobile devices in the workplace

More than 95 % of employees in South African companies rely on the use of mobile devices within the office. That’s according to the…

Facebook Africa office officially opens its doors

Facebook has officially opened its Africa office in Johannesburg, six months after Memeburn first reported it would be doing so. Based in Melrose Arch,…

16 trends and predictions around South African internet usage

By 2019, there will be 27-million South African Internet users, up from 15-million in 2014. That’s according to the latest Cisco Visual Networking Index…

Medo launches a programme to empower young women in science, technology, engineering and maths

Last night, Medo hosted a discussion and presentation of its Women in STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) programme. The event took place in…

South Africans are increasingly miffed with their mobile operators

If you find yourself increasingly annoyed with your mobile operator, then you can at least take solace in the fact that you’re not alone….

Online publication Quartz Africa launches in mission to cover the ‘next billion’

Renowned US publisher Quartz launches its second international chapter in Africa today, reiterating a ripple of international interest in the region which is said to…

The opportunities for tech in Africa have never been bigger

Turning tales of hardship into progress, passionate Africans innovatively use technology to improve life on the continent, fuelling future human progress and development especially…

Accra embraces Microsoft CityNext applications

On 22 May, Microsoft Ghana, the Accra Metropolitan Assembly and the Global Alliance of Mayors and Leaders from Africa and African Descent signed an…

#Fuelpocalypse: 10 tweets that sum up Nigeria’s crazy fuel crisis

Nigerians are not having fun right now. The current fuel crisis has left many in the country stranded as most domestic flights have been…

Orange WiFi survey offers insight into township connectivity but underestimates fundamental obstacles

A large number of people are still without internet. There are a couple of reasons for this: first, internet access is expensive. Secondly, it…

Opera VP Richard Monday tells Memeburn why its mobile browser is still so important for Africa

Before the advent of smartphones, and long before iOS got popular in Africa, Africans were using their mobile devices to browse the web. In…

Hisense Bets On Gaming And Hybrid Work With A New Monitor Push In South Africa

ClawDBot: The AI That’s Quietly Taking Over South African WhatsApp

Crypto Enters 2026 With New Momentum And A Very Different Mood

Innovate47 Launches Global Food & Agri Accelerator to Back Climate-Smart Startups

Simbi Wabote’s 10-Year Roadmap: How Nigeria Achieved 54% Local Content Growth

Records Tumble In Best Year Yet For South Africa’s Hedge Fund Industry

OPPO Reno15 Series Lands In South Africa With Big Cameras And Bigger Battery Ambitions

OPPO Reno15 Series Brings Flagship-Level Hardware Logic to the Mid-Tier in South Africa

HONOR’s customer first strategy is reshaping South Africa’s smartphone market

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