Category Archives: Startups

The Grid Launches in Nigeria

The Grid is a geographically aware social network launched in South Africa that allows you to share photos, videos, and information with friends based ...
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Coming Soon, Twitter in Your Language!

Long limited to English and Japanese, Twitter is crowd-sourcing translations for its interface. Starting with German, French, Spanish, and Italian, Twitter is going multi-lingual. ...
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New Nigerian Job Board Launches

Jobberman is a new Nigerian job board that hopes to make your job search “delightful,” or at least, a little bit less stressful. Searching for ...
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Another Linux distro comes out of South Africa

Kongoni, a Slackware based distro from South Africa announced their first stable release yesterday. Kongoni is the Shona word for the Gnu (also known as a ...
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The Afrobotics Initiative

I was please to discover a great initiative called Afrobotics.com via Emeka Okafor. What is Afrobotics? In their own words: The idea of Afrobotics robotics competition ...
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VC4Africa Mobilizes Investors Interested in Africa

Last month when Appfrica Labs relaunched Afridex, and I mentioned that more news was coming soon. Today I’m happy to make another big announcement on ...
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Africa Does the Robot With Robonica

I accept no responsibility for the title of this post. Robonica is a South African startup making programmable robots and robotic games. From ...
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Wordnik, The New Wikipedia?

How ironic that one of first truly innovative search engine to come a long in the past 5 years started out as little more than ...
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What is Question Box?

Question Box is an all questions answered service that attempts to democratize the world’s information for all the world’s people. Unlike many services that target ...
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Status.ug: A Local Mobile Portal for Facebook

Last week I rebutted an article from the New York Times about the developing world being a collective boost to Web 2.0 application user numbers, ...
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