Mandy De Waal writes about recent controversies with Google SA’s policies and apparent discrepancies in their reseller certification program…

Google South Africa set the cat among the pigeons when country manager Stafford Masie revealed intentions to moderate SA’s search industry, saying some e-marketing companies were committing “fraud” against customers.
Masie stated “Google-certified agencies” would be introduced in [...]

Appfrica’s only been around about six months, but in that time we’ve had some really interesting stories. So, I decided to look back to see what the most popular content of the year was. These aren’t necessarily the most important news articles, simply the posts drawing the most attention and traffic. While the ‘most popular [...]

A number of pretty interesting job openings in the African Tech/Web/Software space this month…

Geographic Specialist - Nairobi, Kenya - Google.com
Google, the world’s leading search engine, is extending their local team in Nairobi, Kenya. The objective of this local team is to promote local content generation, as well as further the introduction and adoption of several [...]

Greenman reviews African language wikimedia contributions and how far they’ve come since May…

Afrikaans remains the largest African language Wikipedia (and 79th largest overall), remaining comfortably ahead of Swahili. At 2007’s growth rate, Swahili looked likely to pass Afrikaans this year, but 2008 has seen new momentum for Afrikaans. Yoruba though has seen rapid growth, and [...]

James Tour and his students at Rice University have created vehicles only slightly bigger than strands of DNA…

The inventor of a car slightly wider than a strand of DNA took the top prize in nanotechnologies this week. James Tour, a professor of chemistry at Rice University, won the Foresight Institute Feynman Prize for experimental nanotechnology [...]

What are some of the best Africa related podcasts? Well, we’re quite partial to our own Appfricast, but if our show isn’t your thing, here are eight other podcasts (in no particular order) worth following. We found several shows that were either apparently defunct or that updated too infrequently to be counted. For instance the [...]

Africa and music go back like…well….as far back as Africa and Lucy (Australopithecus afarensis). If you’re still shopping for christmas gifts there’s some real gems waiting to be served this year. In fact, if you’re looking for some new music, just forward this post to your friends with the subject “hint, hint”. Here’s a list [...]

Despite the reference to Handsome Boy Modeling School, this post is actually about women and how they’re faring around the world. The Gaurdian UK, offers insight looking at the best and worst places for women today. Read the full list of facts here, but below are some highlights….

In Malawi an estimated 600,000 women are HIV [...]

Developers rejoice, in addition to Facebook, Google and AOL, you can now leverage the millions of people who use Yahoo Mail for your next big App idea. Om Malik writes…

Yahoo, after a rotten week, might actually get some positive press! The company is launching Yahoo Mail as a platform tomorrow and organizing a big shin-dig [...]

Is the African mobile more lucrative than India’s? Indian VAS (Value Added Service Provider) Companies are racing to tap emerging African and Middle Eastern Markets…

African and Middle Eastern countries are becoming new playground for the Indian mobile value-added services (VAS) industry. With improvement in telecom infrastructure, mobile markets in these countries are growing at a [...]