Mobile solutions provider Mahindra Comviva, today partnered with Gondwana-City Productions (GCP), a content aggregator in Africa to strengthen Mahindra Comviva’s…
Sam Wakoba
Sam Wakoba
Taking you on tour through Africa's tech ecosystem, one startup at a time! editor@techmoran.com.
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Tech
Books For Africa and Worldreader to Send Both E-Books and E-Readers and Content to Schools Throughout Africa
by Sam Wakobaby Sam WakobaNon-profit shipper of books Books For Africa and Worldreader, a non-profit empowering the world’s poorest people with e-readers and digital…
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Business
Airtel Partners With Consumer Finance Firm afb To Take On Safaricom’s M-Shwari
by Sam Wakobaby Sam WakobaAirtel has today partnered with afb, a consumer finance company dealing in loans, credit cards and data phones. afb launched…
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Startups
Kenya’s First Class Dating Site DateMeKenya.com Launches To Keep Off Every ‘Tom, Dick & Harry’
by Sam Wakobaby Sam WakobaDateMeKenya.com, set to launch July 27 is Kenya’s first members-only dating portal promising users genuine dates conveniently. Founded by Ian…
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MobileStartups
CEO Weekends:China’s WeChat With Over 70 Million Users Launches In Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa & Rest Of Africa
by Sam Wakobaby Sam WakobaInstant messaging service WeChat, owned by China’s TenCent, China’s biggest internet company, 34 percent owned by Naspers, has launched in…
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Startups
CEO Weekends: Zimbabwe’s Clinton Mutambo On How Esaja.com Will Link Businesses To Opportunities In Africa
by Sam Wakobaby Sam WakobaEsaja.com is a business to business marketplace that connects traders across the continent to one another. Esaja stands for: Empowering…
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Startups
CEO Weekends:Rocket Internet’s JUMIA.com.ng Brings E-commerce Conference To Nigeria With Mrs. Omobola Johnson, Minister for Communications Technology
by Sam Wakobaby Sam WakobaFounded in 2012, JUMIA has grown to be the 4th most visited website in Nigeria with over 500 employees. Jumia…
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Startups
CEO Weekends: Nigeria’s Knack International Founders Eyiolawi Peter & Mark Afolabi | Building Tablets & Laptops For Africa
by Sam Wakobaby Sam WakobaNigeria’s Knack International Limited, a new computer and ICT products start-up last week unveiled a 13.3” ultra slim, light weight…
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Mobile
Why Microsoft’s XBOX Chief Don Mattrick Is The Best CEO For Zynga Now
by Sam Wakobaby Sam WakobaDon Mattrick is next week taking over the helm of Zynga as current CEO Mark Pincus relinquishes the office to…
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Startups
Nigeria Welcomes Carmido.com.ng | A Rocket Internet-Backed Online Auto Classified Portal
by Sam Wakobaby Sam WakobaWith just 346 vehicles Carmido.com.ng, a Rocket Internet-backed online auto classifieds portal might not be the biggest in the country,…
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Press Release:Financial Services Advisory Deloitte East Africa will provide quality assurance in the voting exercise which has so far attracted…
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Tech
Southern Africa’s Ideco Introduces Handheld Mobile Identification Solution
by Sam Wakobaby Sam WakobaIdeco, Southern Africa’s biometric technology firm and distributor of Morpho fingerprint biometric solutions, has released the MorphoIDent™ handheld mobile identification…
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Startups
South Africa’s KasiMp3 Gets So Addictive | Receives Over 500,000 Unique Visitors In June & Home To A Massive 50,000+ Musicians
by Sam Wakobaby Sam WakobaKasiMp3, South African music startup helping musicians earn royalties by making their music available for free download has reported receiving…
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Startups
Nigeria’s Amazon, Konga.com Launches Pick-Up Centres | Prophesies The End Of Paid Delivery
by Sam Wakobaby Sam WakobaNigeria’s online shopping mall, Konga.com has launched Konga.com Flagship Pick-Up centres across Lagos in a move that will make online…
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Startups
Kenya’s Fargo Shopping Might Kill Your Struggling Delivery Start-up | But Remember David & Goliath
by Sam Wakobaby Sam WakobaOnline one-stop-shop Fargo Shopping recently launched in Kenya, causing worries among small and up coming online ordering and delivery start-ups.…
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Mobile
Mozilla’s Firefox OS Smartphones Here | Coming To A Store Near You
by Sam Wakobaby Sam WakobaMozilla has today said the launch of its first Firefox OS smartphones will begin soon. The devices, the ALCATEL ONE TOUCH…
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Mobile
Kenya’s M-hela Wants The Diaspora To Send Money To Your M-PESA & ATM
by Sam Wakobaby Sam WakobaSending money from the diaspora is going to be fast and more efficient with the launch M-hela, a money remittance…
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Startups
Emerging Leaders and Entrepreneurs of Rwanda Hosting A Creativity & Innovation Camp To Help Students Use Technology To Solve Problems
by Sam Wakobaby Sam WakobaThe Emerging Leaders and Entrepreneurs of Rwanda (ELE Rwanda) has taken the road less traveled by seeking to empower the…
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Mobile
Malawi Joins Better Than Cash Alliance | Announces Commitment to Transition to Electronic Payments
by Sam Wakobaby Sam WakobaThe Government of Malawi has today announced that it is joining the Better Than Cash Alliance, in a move that…
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Tech
Tony O. Elumelu Chosen as Advisor of YALI’s Alliance on Emerging African Leaders
by Sam Wakobaby Sam WakobaThe Tony Elumelu Foundation and its founder, Tony O. Elumelu, chairman of Pan African investment group Heirs Holdings Limited, have…
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Tech
South Africa’s Dac Systems Takes Solenta Aviation To New Heights Of Operation
by Sam Wakobaby Sam WakobaDac Systems, a national specialist services provider focused on turnkey implementations of leading edge industry solutions, has implemented a Microsoft…
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The advent of big data and big data analytics is changing business at bedrock level, and this will have an…
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Tech
Obama Fulfills Dreams From His Father | Launches $7 Billion Power Africa Initiative To Power His Father’s Continent
by Sam Wakobaby Sam WakobaUS President Barack Obama today announced Power Africa, a new initiative expected to double access to power in sub-Saharan Africa,…
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MobileStartups
Introducing Kenya’s SmartShop | Making Online Shopping Smart
by Sam Wakobaby Sam WakobaSmart-Shop -, a Pivot East Finalist is a mobile and web based application set to introduce seamless mobile shopping in…
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ENZI, a Kenyan fashion startup creating designer footwear and clothing founded in 2011 by Christian Ward, Sam Imende, Jawad Braye…
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InsiderObituariesStartups
PesaTalk To Close Shop | This Is What You Will Miss
by Sam Wakobaby Sam WakobaPesaTalk, a Kenyan web news startup founded in March 2012 might close shop the end of this month if no…
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