Tag: Africa
Startups
Beat Traffik Wants to Give Traffic Updates to Motorsits on Any Road in Lagos
Founded by Odionye Confidence (CEO) and Jessica Omoro (CTO), Beat Traffik is a mobile and web application...
Tech
Mobile internet changing lives in Africa
According to the report below:
63% in Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa see "great improvement" to their lives...
Business
Global Enterprise Registration portal launched during World Investment Forum
By Jacques Coetzee
This is pretty awesome. Time and time again we have written about how business registration...
Startups
Nigeria’s BeepTool Wants to be the Whatsapp of Emerging Markets
A new app dubbed BeepTool allows users to video conference, HD calls, text and share files on...
Business
Approximately 3.7M of the world’s 10.5M mobile industry jobs are in Sub-Saharan Africa
The mobile ecosystem’s economic contribution (% of GDP) is highest in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), contributing 6% of...
Startups
Mazuri Kenya Wants to Connect Kenya’s Maasai Market to International Customers
Crafts marketplace Mazurikenya.com, a new e-commerce startup has launched in Kenya to promote African culture, create youth...
Business
Nigeria, Ghana and 5 other African countries have higher new business ownership rates than the BRICs
The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) surveys the state of entrepreneurship in 70 countries, of which 11 are...
Business
Ethiopia’s cut flower industry has grown by 147000% since 2001 and is now worth US$230M annually
Ethiopia is Africa’s 2nd largest (and the world’s 5th largest) cut flower exporter and is experiencing strong growth -...