Archive for September, 2008
Private Equity Fund to Inject $125 Million in Africa
AllAfrica Reports,
A PRIVATE equity fund plans to put money in risk capital investments and other business support to five African countries, a senior manager announced last week. The GroFin Africa fund has so far raised $125m at its fund’s first closing.
The fund said in a statement recently that it would invest between $100,000 and $1m [...]
Interesting Reads on Cellular … with some prerspective from Africa
Here are are few of the interesting articles i have read in the past week on mobile and some of my thoughts.
SMS to the rescue, Text Messaging bridges the digital divide
“Ken Banks and kiwanja.net have developed the FrontlineSMS text-messaging hub that allows two-way communication between NGOs and their field workers using the SMS functionality of [...]
Usobomvu Youth Fund, Assisting young entrepreneurs
The Usobomvu Youth Fund is a South African goverment initiative setup in 2001, that aims to assist Youth Entrepreneurs with the setup of businesses, promoting entrepreneurship, job creation, skills development and skills transfer among South Africans between the ages of 18 and 35. The youth fund offers several programmes to meet these requirements.
Usobomvu offers [...]
Insite 2008, Pictures
Some pictures from Insite 2008
Tank, Helping you build really simple websites
Tank, a web 2.0 startup out of South Africa is online web site creator and host which makes it really easy (and i mean really easy, like Grand Ma easy) to build simple websites. This is the second startup out of South Africa that is playing in the same market. Synthasite founded by Vinny Lingham [...]
Zoopy rolls out changes, Local hosting & New Video player
After our coverage of the Investment in zoopy by vodacom and the Interview with CEO of Zoopy Jason Elk. The company has been pretty busy.
The most recent announcement on their blog is the launch of a new video player, which features a new Info button which shows:
Information about the video currently being viewed, including title, [...]
Google launches search for Mozambique
Google have announced on Google africa blog they have launched a search page for Mozambique.
“We are excited to announce the launch of our homepage for Mozambique: www.google.co.mz. This launch marks our 26th country home page in Sub-Saharan Africa, and our third for Portuguese-speaking countries in Africa - the others being Angola and São Tomé and [...]
Goog - al - Jazaer, Google launches Algerian search
Google Africa Blog is reporting the launch of Google Algeria.
“In launching google.dz, we had to comply with local rules governing top level domains in Algeria. Working with our friends at the registrar, and coordinating between Algiers, Dublin and Zürich, we were able to come up with a solution that worked for everyone. We were really [...]
International Science Innovation & Technology Exhibition (Insite), Johannesburg, South Africa
The International Science, Innovation and Technology Exhibition (INSITE) is a science and technology event which provides an international showcase for innovative science and technology solutions to some of the world’s most pressing social and economic challenges.
The theme for INSITE 2008 is the role of Science. Technology and Innovation as key drivers of economic growth and development [...]
Quick Hits, Afrigator & Google Africa
MIH Acquires Afrigator
“We’ve been holding off on the big news but we can finally confirm today that MIH Print Africa (Pty) Ltd, a subsidiary of Naspers Limited, has secured a majority stake in Afrigator Internet (Pty) Ltd.
We could not have chosen a better partner in MIH Print Africa as their strategy for Africa aligns perfectly with ours [...]
