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Appfrica Labs: Almost a Year Old!

Appfrica Labs has been incredibly fortunate over the past ten months. We’ve operated on a shoestring budget, performing what I liked to call ‘alchemy’. That ...
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Hyperlocal Journalism and South Africa

Hyper-local journalism takes the age-old idea of local news and magnifies it. Think of sites like GlobalVoices, the -Ist community and Huffington Post, drilled down ...
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GTV closure Hurts Africa

Football fans in many parts of Africa woke up to sad news last Friday. They were to miss most of what has been dubbed as ...
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Appfricast 6

Culture Wars. This episodes talks about Vodacom, A24 Media’s growing number of partners, Offline Gmail, Disruptive Journalism and more. Download or Stream the Podcast - M4A ...
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Content is King at twofour54.com

There’s a full page ad in this month’s WIRED Magazine for a media group in North Africa called TwoFour54.com an integrated, state-of-the-art environment ...
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Afro-Pop Stocking Stuffer

Africa and music go back like…well….as far back as Africa and Lucy (Australopithecus afarensis). If you’re still shopping for christmas gifts there’s some real gems ...
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Zoopy Reinvents Everything But the Wheel

Zoopy, the South African social media website has undergone a massive make-over. According to the companies blog: Almost a year ago to the day, we launched ...
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Following the FricaFacts

So this week Appfrica is rolling out a new mash-up project called FricaFact. This one is all about educating the masses about Africa ...
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Freedom of Speech or Defamation?

South Africa’s De Beers is in the middle of a heated dispute with the U.S. based domain registrar Joker.com who’s users deployed spoof ads mocking ...
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Online Advertising Projected to Rise

Multi-media firms are angling to reap from a projected rise in online advertising revenue as more clients reach out for their services. A forecast ...
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