Kenya

Uber celebrates its 4th birthday in Africa

Uber today celebrates its fourth anniversary in Africa. Our sister site Ventureburn first revealed the company’s plans for an African expansion in July 2013….

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…

ShowMax Select is now available in South Africa

ShowMax, on the back of its SEACOM announcement last month, has today revealed a new partnership with Vodacom. The company, alongside the telecoms giant,…

ShowMax now has servers in Kenya, thanks to SEACOM

Naspers-owned streaming platform ShowMax has announced a new partnership with pan-African data company SEACOM in a bid to improve response times of the service….

Uber by the numbers in South Africa, Kenya & Nigeria

Uber tracks you all the time, so it knows a lot about you. It knows when you’re sleeping, it knows when you’re awake. It…

ShowMax launches two-tier streaming service in Kenya

It’s been a great week for African tech. After Pokemon Go was finally made available in 31 of the continent’s countries, Naspers-owned streaming video…

Messenger Lite for Android hits Kenya, Tunisia

In its valiant attempt to connect the entire world using its software and infrastructure, Facebook has today announced a new lite version of one…

Disrupt everything: 11 Kenyan exciting startups worth your time right now

We love Kenya. So much so we recently headed to the East African country for some fun times with startups. So ahead of the…

Governments take note: SAP public sector innovation roadshow hits Johannesburg

Governments (at least South Africa’s) is perhaps the last place anyone would expect to find an ounce of innovation, but SAP Africa, the enterprise…

Africa’s mobile ways fit in well with us, says Twitter

Twitter seems hell-bent on pushing its business solutions for small- to medium-sized businesses, and like many big tech companies, Africa has entered its sphere of thought….

Going for broke: the Brideprice app just won’t quit it seems

Last week I wrote a piece about a cheeky Nigerian app that allows you or your significant other to calculate your Brideprice value. In…

We might be buying less stuff but mobile commerce is still booming

Mobile commerce is booming. Currently worth around US$1.5-trillion, the global mcommerce market is expected to be valued at around US$3.2-trillion by 2017. While that…

Google, non-profit Refugees United join forces for world’s first charity ‘Hangout-a-thon’

If you’ve watched a reasonable amount of TV in your lifetime, chances are you’re familiar with the concept of the charity telethon. Some of…

Praekelt Foundation, Wikimedia team up to bring free Wikipedia to Kenya

How often do you reach into your pocket for your smartphone and use Wikipedia to settle an argument? Whether you’re using mobile data or…

Kipochi brings Bitcoin to Africa through M-Pesa

Kipochi just launched its Bitcoin transfer service in Kenya using M-Pesa as its running platform. This service would allow people across Kenya to send…

Measurement Lab, Google want to help Africans measure their internet quality

There are loads of people who are concerned about how much internet access Africa has. In trying to address that concern it’s also easy…

From Ushahidi to Al Jazeera: the role of mobile in Kenya’s elections

The people of Kenya will today start voting in a presidential election. Things have been tense in the lead up to polling day and…

Connected tech communities and competitive advantage: the Kenyan way

In the last couple weeks I’ve had the opportunity to be in Nigeria (Maker Faire Africa), followed by South Africa (AfricaCom). Along with Kenya,…

Kenyan government plans to almost double the country’s bandwidth

Kenya’s government has announced plans to lay a fifth fibre-optic cable in the region, which is expected to practically double the country’s bandwidth capacity…

How political parties can use mobile and social media to reach voters

A political election is much like a marketing campaign showdown, and the team with the best product usually sways the biggest audience. Look at…

East African startup accelerator gets international attention

East Africa has a new tech startup accelerator fund and it’s getting international attention. The Savannah Fund is a partnership between Mbwana Alliy, Paul…

MPesa: What does Kenya’s mobile darling look like five years on?

When MPesa launched five years ago, only the most optimistic would’ve thought that it would turn into the economic force of nature it is…

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