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Tag Archives: investment
Safaricom to Pay Dividends Via M-Pesa
Safaricom’s 829,000 shareholders have until the end of September to register to receive their dividends via the popular M-Pesa mobile payment service. Bankele reports on ...
Preparing a Killer Software Demo in Africa
Over the past two weeks, I’ve been on both the giving and receiving end of a lot of product demos. Web apps, websites, mobile ...
UN to Launch New Tool to Monitor and Map Investment in Africa
The United Nations and the African Union today launched a new tool, designed in partnership with the Microsoft Corporation, to help map investment flows on ...
Vote for VC4Africa at Ideablob
VC4Africa.com, the community Appfrica recently partnered with to offer web based investment solutions to diasporans and other investors interested in supporting African entrepreneurs has entered ...
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 ...
South Africa’s Billion Dollar AIDS Scam
Authorities are looking into South Africa’s equivalent of Bernie Madoff’s Ponzi scheme, in which purchase orders for AIDS drugs were faked…
Hundreds of investors have been ...
China Africa Development Fund Grants $90M
China’s CAD Fund has granted six investment projects involving more than $90 million since it was established in June last year. The China-Africa Development Fund, ...
Affect Theory
An excerpt from an essay on social capital and investments I posted over at the TED Fellows Blog…
In Makerere’s Computer Science program they graduate about ...
VCs Turning to BRICA in Slump?
Adeo Ressi, founder of TheFunded, recently gave an interesting indictment of Silicon Valley explaining the problems with VC culture. One accusation is that venture ...
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