Category Archives: Business

Hive Colab Announced in Uganda

Earlier in the day we announced Apps < 4> Africa, a competition for app developers across Africa. Also, today in Uganda, Appfrica Labs in ...
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Apps for Africa Contest Announced in Nairobi

Over the past few weeks myself, Solomon King of NodeSix.com, Joshua Goldstein an Appfrica Fellow, Jessica Colaco at the iHub in Nairobi, Philip Thigo and ...
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.XXX Discussed in Nairobi

The .xxx domain has been mired in controversy since it was first proposed. Some adult companies and spammers are against the idea as it ...
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Indian Rupee Now a Major Currency

Computer manufacturers are going to have to rethink the layout of keyboards being shipped to India and elsewhere. Why? The Union Cabinet is ...
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Solar Sustainability

Last month the Lighting Africa Conference and Trade Fair rewarded five innovative organizations providing solar power technologies to the African continent. Twenty-four entrants were rigorously ...
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Fringe with Benefits

There’s a discussion over at White African about what to tell to the powers-that-be at Nokia in regards to their Africa strategy. My favorite ...
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Opera’s State of the Mobile Web 2009

Opera has released their monthly State of the Mobile Web report which tracks market penetration of Opera Mini, their mobile client. It includes information like ...
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Outsourcing to India (Prisons)

Firms looking squeeze every last possible cent out of the lucrative Asian BPO markets have found a new way to increase productivity and profits. Decreasing ...
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Capacity Versus Competency

This is a lesson in hiring software developers in Africa where, for the past two years I’ve run an incubator/software company called Appfrica Labs. As ...
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Marc Andreessen’s Home Internet Costs vs Uganda’s

Silicon Alley recently reported that Netscape creator turned investor, Marc Andreessen pays around $4,000 a month for his home internet connection…100 mbps to his house. ...
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