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Tag Archives: Business
Great African Singularities
The singularity is defined by futurist Ray Kurzweil as being the point at which technological advancement exceeds human capacity to control and fully understand it. ...
What’s the Business case for an African App Store?
A few weeks back one of our Fellows, Oliver Haas, asked me an interesting question. “Would a Mobile App store work in Africa?” He just ...
A Global Passport for Innovators
This morning Erik Hersman and I had a conversation about all the innovation spaces turning up across Africa. We agree that it’s incredibly exciting to ...
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 ...
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