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Payfast, South Africa’s answer to paypal launches
Payfast, out of South Africa is a paypal like service. The site bill’s itself as a payment processing system and has already integrated with bid or buy.
For merchants payfast offers several ways to recieve money:
Request Money: No coding or skills required
Pay Now Button: Basic HTML skills required
Website Payments: Using the API, Programming skills required
Payment Data [...]
Bundublog, free wordpress hosting for Africans
Bundublog is a free blog host that has been built on the open source software wordpress. Each user gets a blog with the URL username.bundublog.com. Right now the site does not seem to offer customized domains but this is a great option if you dont want the hassle and cost of signingup with a wordpress [...]
Leading mobile operator Vodacom invests in Zoopy
Zoopy, the South African based video sharing and social media web site has just announced on their blog that Vodacom have invested and taken up a 40% stake in the company. Zoopy allows users to share content such as blogs, video and podcasts. Zoopy just recently passed their 10,000th upload and announced a partnership [...]
Business networking for entrepreneurs around Africa
Blue Catalyst
Bluecatalyst is an initiative in Gauteng South Africa, part of the Blue IQ project. The website and project aims to:
Increase the number of sustainable start-up technology- and knowledge-intensive businesses in Gauteng and South Africa - smart entrepreneurs.
Assist in the transfer of technology from innovators to organisations who can commercially utilise the innovations.
Assist smart entrepreneurs [...]
Afraha, a new social network from kenya
Afraha is a social network that has recently been launched from Kenya. It joins a number of other African startups in this space such as Nigeria’s Naijapals and South Africa’s Blueworld amongst others. The registration on the site is quick and simple and you cant help but be reminded of Facebook while using the site. [...]
Jobtoria, Nairobi’s Job Search Portal
Jobtoria.com is a job search engine designed to help employers attract quality candidates from around Africa. Jobtoria.com was created with the employer in mind with features designed to link up employers and candidates as quickly and efficiently as possible.
Using jobtoria.com, you can apply for jobs online, track your applications and get information about potential employers [...]
Revisting Buzzfuse with thoughts of an additional business model
The initial review of buzzfuse was by far the most negative i have done, and i hate to do that since the goal of this site is to actually promote local companies, however i feel what is much more important is being honest about your opinions. Do not get me wrong, i do think [...]
Bongoza, a search engine for Tanzania
Bongoza is Tanzanian search engine that was launched in 2005, completely bootstrapped and funded by founder Ali Damji. Bongoza currently only indexes Tanzanian webpages but there are plans to expand into other markets in East Africa like Kenya, though they have to go up against Google since as Google already has localized version.
Bongoza also features [...]
Afrigator, raises the game for other social media aggregators
Afrigator, the social media aggregator for Africa has raised the game when it comes to web 2.0. They have added a feature that allows you to automatically import your blogroll as friends.
Buzzfuse, content marketing and promotion?
Buzzfuse, a South African based internet startup is a promotion engine for your content. The features are a mix between social bookmarking where popular content is promoted to the home page, an aggregator of media, social networking and they also throw in some reporting and stats.
