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Sproxil takes on Africa's drug counterfeiters

Not many tech startups save lives. Sproxil may be one of them. The company tags pharmaceutical products in emerging markets with a scratch-off code which is verified by sending a text message to...

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How one mobile startup is planning to change health services in Africa (video)

July 9-10, 2013 San Francisco, CA Tickets On Sale Now When it comes to thinking big, MedAfrica takes the cake. The founders are aiming to revolutionize how people in developing areas, particularly on...

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Genocide refugee, CEO, and astronaut-to-be gives back to Africa with accelerator

My first question to Ashish Thakkar, CEO of a pan-African conglomerate, one-time genocide refugee, and one of the continent’s first space tourists: “When do you find time to sleep?” He chuckles and...

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African startups sprint off on silicon safari

July 9-10, 2013 San Francisco, CA Tickets On Sale Now As Mufasa said in the Lion King, everyone has a place in the Circle of Life. In the animal kingdom, as in startup land, a dynamic, highly...

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Ericsson’s massive mobile report: 6.4B global cellular plans, 75% of all new...

Sept. 9 - 10, 2013 San Francisco, CA Early Bird Tickets on Sale Telecommunications giant Ericson has released a massive report on the state of the mobile world. And clearly, unless you live in the...

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How Bill Gates, (RED), & others are using the web for World AIDS Day

Today is World AIDS Day. Every December 1, we take a single day to remember the millions around the world living with HIV/AIDS and to raise awareness about the spread of HIV/AIDS and its prevention....

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Apple needs China Mobile, China Mobile needs Apple

July 9-10, 2013 San Francisco, CA Tickets On Sale Now Will the iPhone 5 be coming to China Mobile’s 700 million subscribers? Apple needs this, sure, but make no mistake: China Mobile needs it just as...

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Free knowledge, freely delivered: Wikipedia Zero expands to 212M mobile users...

July 9-10, 2013 San Francisco, CA Tickets On Sale Now Information may want to be free, but the organization behind Wikipedia wants knowledge to be free, too. So Wikimedia has formed a partnership with...

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Microsoft and Huawei bring the smartphone battle to Africa

July 9-10, 2013 San Francisco, CA Tickets On Sale Now There are over 1 billion people in Africa. And Microsoft wants to sell them all Windows Phones. Teaming up with Huawei, Microsoft is introducing...

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Startup Spotlight: Nomanini’s orange box helps poor South Africans see more...

July 9-10, 2013 San Francisco, CA Tickets On Sale Now A little orange box is making its way across South Africa, leaving a trail of opportunity and economic empowerment in its wake. Nomanini is a...

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6 things climbing Mount Kilimanjaro taught me about being an entrepreneur

July 9-10, 2013 San Francisco, CA Tickets On Sale Now When I told people I planned to climb Kilimanjaro, their reactions were similar to when I started a business – a mix of indifference, awe, envy,...

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‘Amazon of Africa’ Jumia heats up with $26M

July 9-10, 2013 San Francisco, CA Tickets On Sale Now Africa doesn’t need Amazon. It has its own rainforests and its own e-commerce giants. Online retailer Jumia has secured $26 million (€20 million)...

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Health hack: iPhone + glass + flashlight = life-saving microsope in Africa

Scientists have hacked together a microscope out of an iPhone, a piece of glass, double-sided tape, and a cheap flashlight that is good enough to detect intestinal worm infections with 70 percent...

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African accelerator weaves loose strands of local startup scene together

July 9-10, 2013 San Francisco, CA Tickets On Sale Now The African startup ecosystem is coming to life. 88mph, a South African accelerator program, just received backing from the local venture capital...

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In Africa, devs struggle to create modern games for 3K cultures

SAN FRANCISCO – At GDC today, execs from an African game studio talked about the 55 countries, 3,000 cultures, and myriad languages that make up their “target demographic.” Leti Games’ CEO Eyram Tawia...

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Former Amazon exec wants to give free e-books ‘to every child on the planet’

July 9-10, 2013 San Francisco, CA Tickets On Sale Now While volunteering at an orphanage in Ecuador, former Amazon executive David Risher came across a padlocked library. When he asked the orphanage’s...

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Adsolut pioneers ad-tech in Nigeria, a country with ‘advertisers but no...

July 9-10, 2013 San Francisco, CA Tickets On Sale Now With around 50 million users, Nigeria has the largest Internet market in Africa. Internet access and mobile phone usage are exploding thanks to a...

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Africa’s entrepreneurs say their ideas aren’t a ‘dime a dozen’ like in...

July 9-10, 2013 San Francisco, CA Tickets On Sale Now At a recent tech conference, one Silicon Valley investor told me his strategy is to go where most traditional venture capitalists don’t. He plans...

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Africa’s youngest billionaire pitches Africa as the next emerging market

July 9-10, 2013 San Francisco, CA Tickets On Sale Now With more than 85% of its population under the age of 35, the most naturally rain fed arable land in the world, a huge power deficit, and over 650...

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Why a Twitter exec took a year off, volunteered in Africa, became a yoga...

BrittneyBushLast year Twitter sales exec Amanda Levy quit her job, lived in a hut in Africa with no power and no water, cycled with her father on the Oregon Coast, became certified as a yoga...

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