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The Open Source Embargo
Or “Separate but Equal hits the Open Source Community”.
I wrote a blog post a while back about location based profiling on the web. Many websites ...
The Poor: The Last Untapped Market
When it comes to innovating for the poor, the leading technology companies of the world have either failed or simply aren’t interested. Aside from a ...
Pricing Web Development Services in an African Market
Can we talk about money? Just for a moment? I know, I know, nobody wants to give away their secret sauce, but here’s the ...
Reaction to the NYTimes Profile on African Startups
The mainstream media often has a hard time highlighting the good going on in Africa because there’s so much perceived and actual tragedy here to ...
Uganda Grows More Competitive in Global Market
The Economist analyzes the growth of various markets throughout Sub-Saharan Africa…
Sub-Saharan Africa is tending to fall behind other regions in terms of competitiveness. Human capital ...
Yahoo! to expand into Arabic market
With its acquisition of Arabic portal Maktoob, Yahoo could add up to 16 million Arabic language users to its base. Yahoo says it already has ...
Are There *Any* Advantages to Formalizing your Business?
Throughout sub-Saharan Africa, and most emerging economies, the informal economy overshadows the by formal economy. Regulation and corruption make it difficult to register a business, ...
The Future of Funding
The plight of many groups, both for profit and non, is funding. How is money acquired, who is it acquired from and what do they ...
Is There a Mortgage Boom in Sub-Saharan Africa?
As the banks continue to saturate the African commercial sector, they are turning towards retail clients for new sources of revenue. In addition to simple ...
A Global Passport for Innovators