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Category Archives: Startups
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
Also posted in Industry News Tagged distro, free, gnu, Linux, low bandwidth, South Africa 2 Comments
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
The Grid Launches in Nigeria