Red Cup Village, a Cape Town-based lifestyle brand, will be launching its first biodegradable design patent cup made from sugarcane & corn-starch in May of 2019. The company uses 3D printing technology to manufacture a unique drinking cup using a...
September 16, 2018 •
Southern Africa •
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The South African satellite industry had the opportunity to showcase their inventions at the South African Innovation Summit (SAIS) organized by the Department of Trade and Industry (the dti) in Cape Town from 12 to 14 September this week. The SCS Space...
HouseME, a property technology company that launched in 2016 has released their latest rental collection statistics showing that on-time rental collection are nearly 30% higher than the national average. These are impressive statistics considering that...
STE(A)M educational specialist, I-Innovate is bringing another 21st Century learning programme to South Africa to open up opportunities in our under-served school communities for learners to develop the talents and skills that are sorely needed in the Digital...
Vodacom, in partnership with Microsoft introduced Microsoft Azure products to its Cape Town customers. Through Vodacom Business, Vodacom is one of the first Telco companies to go to market with a full suite of Azure products that offer local customers...
Afrika Tikkun is a global not-for-profit organisation working to develop, empower and support the youth of South Africa in disadvantaged communities in Cape Town and Johannesburg. Their intention is to shape the youth of today to become the next...
On 2 February 2018, South African online marketplace and store, bidorbuy, revealed that the site has seen a sharp rise in the demand for water related products as the severe water shortage in Western Cape continues and the ever present threat of #DayZero...
On Tuesday 21 November 2017 Pan-African entrepreneurial training program, seed fund, and incubator MEST announced the launch of two new Incubator spaces in Lagos, Nigeria, and Cape Town, South Africa, as the program continues to expand its presence across the...
WhereIsMyTransport has announced that Cape Town is now the world’s first city to have both its formal and informally-run transport system data captured, integrated and openly available. People will now be able to access data for the entire public...
VRCade, a graduate of the Venture Lab Incubator run by MTN and the UCT Graduate School of Business, has launched a virtual reality arcade in Cape Town. Over the next three weekends, a pop-up arcade will be run in Workshop17’s events space before VRCade...
According to the latest market analysis from Acuity Market Intelligence, the combination of tumultuous world events and the proliferation of innovative, disruptive biometric and mobile technology has created a perfect storm that is driving the evolution of...
November 19, 2015 •
General, Top Stories •
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The AfricaCom Awards for 2015, attracted more entries than ever before, with some serious heavyweight projects giving the judges some added food for thought. Three of the big winners on the night were Huawei, Project Isizwe and FNB Connect, who both won two...
October 9, 2015 •
Top Stories, Video •
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Yasmina McCarty is the Head of Mobile for Development for the GSMA who works with members and partners to develop innovative, scalable and sustainable ways to achieve social impact with the mobile phone. She joined the GSMA in 2010, and has held various roles...
October 8, 2015 •
Features, Top Stories •
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At the latest GSMA: Mobile 360 Series – Africa conference, it was revealed that the growth of 3G connections in Sub-Saharan Africa largely reflects the rising smartphone adoption rate, which has doubled in the last two years to 20 percent of total...
At the latest GSMA: Mobile 360 Series – Africa conference, it was revealed that Sub-Saharan Africa had 367 million unique subscribers and 680 million connections (excluding M2M) as of the second quarter of 2015. The report further revealed that the...
The mobile industry in Sub-Saharan Africa contributed more than US$100 billion to the region’s economy last year… This is according to a new GSMA study published at the ‘Mobile 360 Series – Africa’ conference being held in Cape Town, South...
