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 [...]

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 [...]

1. Social Venture Acquisitions
It happens in every industry, A few companies are breakout successes and everyone wants piece. In this case Clean Tech and Social Ventures ‘doing good’ will increasingly be targeted by larger corporate entities with deep pockets. Think General Motors buying Optimal Energy (the alternative energy car-maker) or Microsoft buying a group like [...]

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 [...]

dotSUB wants to crowdsource the translation of video, from any language, to any language.

dotSUB is a browser based tool enabling subtitling of videos on the web into and from any language. There is nothing to buy and nothing to download. Recognizing the potential of global communication powered by the Internet, the founders of dotSUB created [...]

Two Ugandan programmers, Harry Barry (22) and Seruyinda Simon (24), have built an Internet platform to enable investors to trade virtual stocks online. The platform, called Libre Exchange is set to be operational in 2009. It will allow users to start trading virtual shares from seven mock companies and will later go on to [...]

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Appfrica is a project that was started by myself, an individual living and working in Uganda. There’s a real desire expressed by students here to be able to learn and work with the latest technologies. In fact, it was one of the things specifically mentioned to me by local students at Barcamp Kampala [...]

The Question Box Project is an interesting group using mobile devices to bring the internet to rural communities, even to places that don’t have computers….
Question Box brings the power of the Internet to people in the developing world using voice and a mobile phone. The idea is a very simple - Question Box [...]

The new mashup site Startup Warrior bills itself as a tool that allows entrepreneurs to find jobs with startups, explore their neighborhoods, or decide where they should start their own company. The application is still a bit buggy but it’s a great tool to see where you might start a new company. The mashup [...]