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African Venture Capital: Nigeria and Kenya are leading the continent with...
EXCLUSIVE: While still small compared to much of the rest of the world, Africa’s startup scene is starting to gather momentum, led by Nigeria and Kenya, according to a new report. Published by Venture...
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One year after launch, Google brings Android One to Africa, starting with 6...
Google has finally launched Android One, a standard created for Android devices in developing countries, in Africa. First revealed last September, Android One launched in India initially, but has since...
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BlackBerry is bringing BBM mobile payments to Africa
BlackBerry announced Monday that it plans to allow BBM users in Africa (starting with Nigeria) to send money or airtime “as simply as they transfer photos or files.” It’s part of a wider push by...
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Tencent’s new $3.5M seed-stage fund aims to help small businesses in South...
Barely two weeks after launching its peer-to-peer mobile wallet in South Africa, Tencent announced on Tuesday a new $3.5 million seed-stage fund to get small businesses and startups in the country...
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Google Play Music makes its African debut, launches in South Africa for...
Google Play Music has finally arrived in Africa, as the music-streaming service launches in South Africa for the first time today. Google Play Music offers three main ways to listen to tunes. Anyone...
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Internet gambling starting to emerge in Africa
The Internet and gambling know no borders. So it’s not surprising that online gambling is emerging in Africa. It’s hard to measure how much is happening with Internet gambling, but it has grown large...
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3 keys to unlocking Africa’s tech potential
GUEST: Africa is on the verge of a tech revolution and investors, entrepreneurs, thought-leaders and decision-makers the world over are paying attention. A large number of African nations are at a...
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Meet Andela, the remarkable African startup receiving the Zuckerberg...
When the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative announced today that it was leading a $24 million investment round into an African startup called Andela, much of the press focus was what we learned about Facebook...
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From tweets to streets, Zimbabwe social media anger erupts into anti-Mugabe...
(Reuters) — Organizers of a general strike against Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe pledged on Thursday to continue action until he falls, as a spontaneous social media movement has coalesced into...
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Africa is the next frontier for VCs
GUEST: According to Clarium Capital founder Peter Thiel, entrepreneurs should look for secrets where no one is looking and turn them into business opportunities. Thiel says it best in his book: “The...
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Behind Azuri Technologies’ push to bring solar power into rural African homes
(Thomson Reuters Foundation) — Access to off-grid solar energy in rural areas of Africa goes beyond lighting up homes — it also enables people to connect to the wider world and boosts their economic...
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Microsoft beats Google and Amazon to announce first African data centers,...
Microsoft has announced a milestone moment for its cloud aspirations with the news that it’s launching its very first data centers in Africa. Beginning in 2018, Microsoft will operate its range of...
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ZTE partners with MTN and Ooredoo to bring 5G to the Middle East and Africa
Closing out the heavily 5G-focused 2018 Mobile World Congress, ZTE today announced partnerships with major carriers MTN and Ooredoo to bring 5G wireless technology to Africa and the Middle East. The...
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Blockchain’s big potential in Africa
GUEST: At the beginning of March, some of the brightest minds from the blockchain world joined representatives from the financial, legal, and global technology industries to discuss widespread...
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AI Weekly: Google’s research center in Ghana won’t be the last AI lab in Africa
This year, we have seen an acceleration of Silicon Valley tech giants opening AI research labs around the world as they seek to gain traction among researchers and fulfill their global ambitions. In...
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Bancor launches blockchain platform in Kenya to enable community currencies
Cryptocurrency platform Bancor announced today that it will launch a new blockchain service in Kenya as part of a financial system designed to help alleviate poverty. The service will facilitate the...
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Vodacom launches Africa’s first commercial 5G service in Lesotho
In the latest illustration of the ambitions and challenges involved in launching early next-generation cellular services, Vodacom has announced the launch of Africa’s first commercial 5G network — an...
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Amazon’s first African AWS datacenter will open in Cape Town in 2020
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is launching datacenter infrastructure in Cape Town -- its first cloud region in Africa.Read More
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Major AI conference is moving to Africa in 2020 due to visa issues
The International Conference on Learning Represenations will take place in Africa in 2020 to give Africans denied visas more access to the AI community.Read More
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Facebook brings Express Wi-Fi to Ghana, quietly expands Free Basics to...
Facebook's Express Wi-Fi has reached its sixth market: Ghana. The move comes months after Internet.org quietly expanded to Morocco and Laos markets.Read More
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Andela will use AI to pair African developers with high-growth startups
Andela, which recently raised $100 million, will soon recommend developers to growing startups using AI and data from years of programmer tests.Read More
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Global video streaming market is largely controlled by the usual suspects
Here's a look at the players that dominate the video streaming market, the regions where they operate, and how they are trying to win customers.Read More
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How AI researchers used Bing search results to reveal disease knowledge gaps...
Insights drawn from Bing search results may inspire the National Institutes of Health's exploration of the intersection of biomedical research and AI.Read More
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The Masakhane project wants machine translation and AI to transform Africa
Masakhane is an open source project being undertaken by young African technologists to translate African languages using neural machine translation.Read More
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U.K. debunks 5G-coronavirus link after conspiracy theorists burn cell tower
The U.K. government responded publicly to a disinformation campaign falsely linking 5G to COVID-19 outbreaks, as lives and infrastructure are at stake.Read More
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Amazon launches its first African AWS datacenters as demand for cloud...
Amazon has opened its first datacenter infrastructure in Africa, as AWS launched three new availability zones in Cape Town, South Africa. Read More
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Researchers propose ways to apply AI to agriculture and conservation
A workshop at the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2020 highlighted efforts to apply AI to challenges in agriculture.Read More
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AI researchers detail obstacles to data sharing in Africa
Coauthors argue that failure to consider ethical concerns associated with obstacles to data sharing in Africa could cause irreparable harm.Read More
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Mara to build pan-African cryptocurrency exchange with $23M raised
Mara has raised $23 million in funding to build a pan-African cryptocurrency exchange. The aim is to create crypto portal for Africans.Read More
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Nvidia teams up with UN to boost data science in 10 African nations
Nvidia has teamed up with the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa to boost data sciencein 10 African nations.Read More
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