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| Apr 1, 2022 | A pandemic pandemonium has paved the way for metaverse success | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
I was surprised to find out how many peers and fr... |
| Apr 1, 2022 | A pandemic pandemonium has paved the way for metaverse success | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - August 3. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Learn more about Transform 2022
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| Feb 23, 2022 | For Workers In Africa, The Digital Economy Isn’t All It’s Made Out To Be | Staff members of an e-commerce company in Rwanda. Xinhua/Wang Teng via Getty Images |
| Feb 23, 2022 | For Workers In Africa, The Digital Economy Isn’t All It’s Made Out To Be | Staff members of an e-commerce company in Rwanda. Xinhua/Wang Teng via Getty Images
Today more than half of the world’s population is connected to the internet. In Africa, there are over 590 million internet users and over 800 million mobil... |
| Feb 19, 2022 | Is Firefox OK? | Enlarge / The Mozilla building, Friday, Jan. 19, 2018, in San Francisco, California, Mozilla is the maker of the web browser Firefox. (Photo by Santiago Mejia/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)
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| Feb 19, 2022 | Is Firefox OK? | Enlarge / The Mozilla building, Friday, Jan. 19, 2018, in San Francisco, California, Mozilla is the maker of the web browser Firefox. (Photo by Santiago Mejia/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)
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| Jan 17, 2022 | HGC ultra-low latency Eyeball-as-a-Service(TM) backs Kacific's delivery of high-speed, reliable local broadband across Southeast Asia | HONG KONG, Jan. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- HGC Global Communications Limited (HGC), a fully-fledged ICT service provider and network operator with extensive global coverage, and Kacific Broadband Satellites Group (Kacific), a next-generation ... |
| Dec 20, 2021 | Privacy Roundtable IV, problems in the metaverse, a Bitcoin trust fund, and AfDB’s $170 million loan | Share this article:
Hi there,
Ogheneruemu, Bolu, and Chimgozirim here.
You are probably wondering why all three of us are writing this newsletter. Yes, we are all hale and hearty. Hearts working fine, livers functioning perfectly, and all o... |
| Dec 16, 2021 | Entering the metaverse, Edukoya’s $3.5m pre-seed and a Wowzi funding | Share this article:
Hi there,
Today, I’m discussing:
Entering the metaverse
Edukoya’s $3.5m pre-seed
Wowzi’s funding Entering the metaverse
The metaverse has been making the headlines in the last few weeks. From someone buying a $2.5 millio... |
| Dec 8, 2021 | South Africa-based proptech, Flow, is helping real estate agents and developers automate social media advertising | Share this article:
On a cloudy day a few months ago, I sat down to chat with Gil Sperling and Daniel Levy, Co-founders of Flow.
At first, I couldn’t quite grasp what they were talking about — automating advertising for property developers ... |
| Nov 18, 2021 | Technology, funding, learning models: What is the next frontier for edtech startups in Africa? | Share this article:
“Something good is a frontier; something better is also a frontier and something excellent is just another frontier! You can always go beyond these frontiers! And so what is excellent? Just a frontier!” — Mehmet Murat il... |
| Oct 7, 2021 | M-Pesa, Opay, Telebirr, Palmpay: How Chinese tech is powering African fintech | In 2013, M-Pesa, Africa’s largest mobile money platform, was faced with a major challenge: Its users couldn’t settle insurance premiums and make bank payments in real-time. Payments made to Kenya Power took 48 hours before reflecting in the... |
| Sep 21, 2021 | A Deep Dive Into the Future of Social Media | Ernest Hamilton, Tech Times 21 September 2021, 04:09 pm
(Photo : A Deep Dive Into the Future of Social Media)
Social media platforms have evolved from being photo-sharing apps to revolutionizing communication and erasing borders. Today, to ... |
| Sep 13, 2021 | Green digital diplomacy | Introduction
In the second that just elapsed, over 116 terabytes of data were exchanged throughout the internet (1), an amount comparable to ten times that produced by the Hubble Space Telescope in one year.(2) Data has become an essential ... |
| Sep 7, 2021 | El Salvador: Where The Bitcoin Revolution Begins With A Legal Tender | On June 5, during a Bitcoin conference in Miami, the president of El Salvador Nayib Bukele took the financial and economic world by storm, announcing Bitcoin would become legal tender in the country.
The announcement left even Bitcoiners in... |
| Jul 30, 2021 | The dawn of Ghana’s tech ecosystem: Here’s what you should know | What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you think of Ghana?
The Ashanti kingdom? Relaxed and easy-going people? Jollof rice wars with Nigerians?
For many years the West African nation has been known for its prominent natural resource... |
| May 26, 2021 | Like China, like Nigeria, CBN fintech licensing fee, Internet speeds in Africa, Termii’s Ivory Coast expansion | Share this article:
Good day,
Oluwanifemi and Chimgozirim here. Today we’re discussing:
CBN’s plan to have a digital currency
A revised categorisation of financial companies and accompanying costs
Internet speeds in Africa
Termii’s Ivory Co... |
| Apr 27, 2021 | The World's Most Innovative Cities Might Not Be Where You Think | April 27, 2021 6 min read
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own.
When one thinks of business growth and innovation hubs, some of the hot spots that immediately come to mind include Silicon Valley, New York, Tel Aviv ... |
| Mar 15, 2021 | Facebook launches Instagram Lite to More Than 170 Countries | When COVID-19 closed the Facebook Inc. offices in Tel Aviv, Michelle Lourie found herself working in a shed on the kibbutz where she lives with her family in Israel. It’s a far cry from Tel Aviv, a city techno-edgy enough to merit being cal... |
| Mar 10, 2021 | Facebook : Bringing Instagram Lite to More Than 170 Countries | When COVID-19 closed the Facebook Inc. offices in Tel Aviv, Michelle Lourie found herself working in a shed on the kibbutz where she lives with her family in Israel. It's a far cry from Tel Aviv, a city techno-edgy enough to merit being cal... |
| Mar 10, 2021 | Facebook targets emerging markets with the launch of Instagram Lite, an Android app that takes up just 2MB, in 170 countries | Growth for Facebook is coming from the developing world, and so the social network today made another key move to cater better to consumers in those countries. After nearly three years in the planning, Facebook is taking the plunge today an... |
| Mar 9, 2021 | XP Health Named to Fast Company’s Annual List of the World’s Most Innovative Companies for 2021 | XP Health
PALO ALTO, Calif. (PRWEB) March 09, 2021
XP Health, the world’s only artificial intelligence-powered vision benefits platform covering employees and their families, has been named to Fast Company’s prestigious annual list of the W... |
| Feb 20, 2021 | Can Infrastructure Bets Protect Investors From Another Cleantech Collapse? For Some, It’s Not So Easy. | "But this time it's different"getty |
| Oct 9, 2020 | How Gaming Could Become The World’s Biggest Media Platform | Founder and CEO at Admix. Pioneer of "in-play." Previously ran a hypercasual game studio before they were cool. |
| Aug 28, 2020 | С Востока на Запад: как распространяется тренд на супераппы | Мы в студии разработки мобильных экосистем Heads and Hands следим за развитием супераппов во всех частях света. А также разбираем причины их появления и успешные практики. В этот раз рассказываем о том, как развивался тренд на супераппы и п... |
| Jul 10, 2020 | Digital Nomads: Nairobi to Lagos, the city where technology fails to meet up to expectations | When you ask people the most interesting countries they’ve lived or worked and they share their experiences, the answers are never what you expect. Afghanistan, Somaliland, the deserts of Saudi Arabia are some of the countries people are st... |
| Jun 20, 2020 | The Justice Department’s Thoughtful Proposals for Section 230 Reform | Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act seems to inspire bipartisan antipathy.
Former Vice President Joe Biden said it “should be revoked, immediately,” and President Trump characteristically topped that by tweeting “REVOKE 230!”
They... |
| May 27, 2020 | Carry1st has $4M to invest in African mobile gaming | Gaming development startup Carry1st has raised a $2.5 million seed round led by CRE Venture Capital .
That brings the company’s total VC to $4 million, which Carry1st will deploy to support and invest in game publishing across Africa.
The s... |
| May 10, 2020 | Коронавирус: роль доверия | В нашей прошлой истории мы открыли цикл историй о том, какие изменения готовит пандемия и связанный с ней кризис для глобальной экономики и России. В течение ближайших недель, а возможно и месяцев, мы будем говорить о том, как меняются разн... |
| Apr 20, 2020 | Delivering Education Online: Coronavirus Underscores What’s Missing in Africa | With schools closed, learning continues through mass communication and internet-based resources. GettyImages |
| Apr 20, 2020 | Delivering Education Online: Coronavirus Underscores What’s Missing in Africa | With schools closed, learning continues through mass communication and internet-based resources. GettyImages
by Moses Ngware
Almost universally, one of the first measures taken to contain the spread of COVID-19 was the closure of schools, c... |
| Mar 23, 2020 | How The Coronavirus Pandemic Is Accelerating The Future Of Work | Coronavirus Accelerates the Future of Work Heather E McGowan |
| Feb 19, 2020 | These specialized Africa VC funds are welcoming co-investors | For global venture capitalists still on the fence about entering Africa, a first move could be co-investing with a proven fund that’s already working in the region.
Africa’s startup scene is performance-light — one major IPO and a handful o... |
| Dec 22, 2019 | Whatever happened to the Next Big Things? | In tech, this was the smartphone decade. In 2009, Symbian was still the dominant “smartphone” OS, but 2010 saw the launch of the iPhone 4, the Samsung Galaxy S and the Nexus One, and today Android and iOS boast four billion combined active ... |
| Dec 17, 2019 | South Africa is the Country With the Most Expensive Internet | Internet sign. Photo by Leon Seibert on Unsplash
Just 20 years ago, only 4.1% of the world’s population had access to the internet. In 2019, there are over 4.5 billion active internet users, which makes up 58.8% of people on Earth.
The pivo... |
| Dec 17, 2019 | South Africa is the Country With the Most Expensive Internet | Internet sign. Photo by Leon Seibert on Unsplash |
| Dec 16, 2019 | «Работать с государством — престижно» и ещё три наблюдения о финских стартапах Статьи редакции | Бонус: небольшой чек-лист для российских компаний, которые решили выходить в Европу.
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| Dec 9, 2019 | Jiji raises $21M for its Africa online classifieds business | Pan-African digital classifieds company Jiji has raised $21 million in Series C and C-1 financing from six investors, led by Knuru Capital.
The Nigeria-based venture, co-founded by Ukrainian entrepreneur Vladimir Mnogoletniy, has an East to... |
| Nov 28, 2019 | Two weeks after Cameroon exit, Jumia closes shop in Tanzania in pursuit of profits | Jumia has shut down its e-commerce business in Tanzania. Users in the country will no longer be able to buy and sell goods from the retailer’s website, Jumia.tz.
In a statement to TechCabal, Jumia said its Tanzanian exit is “part of ongoing... |
| Nov 6, 2019 | Solar-based ISP startup Tizeti launches 4G LTE network in Nigeria | Nigerian internet service provider Tizeti has launched its first 4G LTE network.
The Y Combinator-backed startup — which uses solar-powered towers to deliver net connectivity — has built its premier 4G-capable tower in the city of Port Harc... |
| Oct 15, 2019 | Telco Operators in Ghana Barred from Expiring Voice & Data Bundles | The Ghanaian Ministry of communications has barred telecommunication operators in the country from expiring both voice and data bundle purchased by customers. This is to ensure that customers get the right value for their money.
Africa is a... |
| Oct 1, 2019 | Nigeria’s addressable market on the Internet is probably smaller than you think | Share this article:
Earlier this year, in May precisely, MTN Nigeria listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE). Prior to getting listed, the Nigerian unit of the South African telecom giant released its Listing Memorandum.
The memorandum ... |
| Jul 29, 2019 | How Data Science in and for Africa can Blaze New Trails | wp_booster error:
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| Jun 6, 2019 | From Eko Atlantic Lagos, to Vision City Kigali, here are Africa’s Foremost Smart Cities | The advent of technology has made things a whole lot easier than it used to be. Prior, people around the world have only been acquainted with the regular kind of cities, the city known for its infrastructure—extensive housing, transportatio... |
| Jun 4, 2019 | Africa Roundup: Jumia’s post-IPO earnings, Gokada’s $5.3M raise, Facebook’s fake-news purge, Joe Montana’s fintech investment | Jumia held its first post-IPO earnings call and weathered a short-sell assault in May, with Wall Street showing confidence in the Pan-African e-commerce company.
On the numbers, key takeaways were that Jumia’s Gross Merchandise Value (GMV) ... |
| May 27, 2019 | 10 predictions Steve Jobs made about the future of tech that came true — and 2 he got totally wrong | Jobs predicted that children as young as 10 years old would be using computers.
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Apple cofounder Steve Jobs made several predictions about the future of tech throughout his life.
Jobs foresaw iPhones in the 1980s, the... |
| May 20, 2019 | Facebook’s latest account purge exposes Africa’s misinformation problem | Facebook last week purged a network of hundreds of pages, groups and Instagram accounts it labeled as producing “coordinated inauthentic behavior” toward Africa.
The activity originated in Israel and was largely targeted toward Nigeria, Sen... |
| May 13, 2019 | Meeting the Challenges of Morocco’s Industrial Hub Dream | For centuries, Morocco has been at the intersection of commerce for Europe, Africa and the Middle East, and in recent times, the country has focused on modernizing, with plans to become a major industrial hub. Partnership with China for a t... |
| Apr 30, 2019 | Nigerian startup Tizeti launches WifiCall.ng IP voice call service | Nigeria based startup Tizeti, an internet service provider, today launched WifiCall.ng—an internet voice-calling platform for individuals and businesses.
WifiCall is a VoIP—or Voice over Internet Protocol—subscription service that allows un... |
| Jan 14, 2019 | “There’s no strong need for eCommerce in Sub-Saharan Africa” — Gloo founder, Olumide Olusanya | Share this article:
According to Internet World stats from December 31, 2017, there are 453.3 million estimated Internet users in Africa. In spite of this figure, Olumide Olusanya thinks there’s no strong need for eCommerce in the Sub Sahar... |
| Dec 3, 2018 | Geoeconomics: the Chinese Strategy of Technological Advancement and Cybersecurity | This is the third post in a series. Read the first two parts of the series here and here.
Various factors portend a movement toward a new Geoeconomic World Order characterized by a relative convergence of economics and security and increasi... |
| Oct 5, 2018 | One more dropped internet call, is just another day in life of tech startups in DRC | For Eliud Aganze who runs a business support hub in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) city of Kivu, getting cut off on an online meeting or call is an all too common experience.
“Internet connections are slow, expensive an... |
| Oct 5, 2018 | One more dropped internet call, is just another day in life of tech startups in DRC | For Eliud Aganze who runs a business support hub in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) city of Kivu, getting cut off on an online meeting or call is an all too common experience.
“Internet connections are slow, expensive and... |
| Sep 6, 2018 | With a $10 million round, Nigeria’s Paga plans global expansion | Jake Bright Contributor
Jake Bright is a writer and author in New York City. He is co-author of The Next Africa.
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| Aug 20, 2018 | How Off-Grid Energy Startups Are Using Mobile Money To Increase Access To Electricity In Africa | Solar home systems are expected to bring basic electricity services to an additional 70 million people in Asia and Sub Saharan Africa between 2017 and 2022. In the same period, off-grid capacity is also expected to almost triple reaching mo... |
| Jul 25, 2018 | Data Costs Across Some Major Cities In Africa | Internet Penetration in Africa as at December 2017 was 35% which is lower than the world average at 54%. Although the number has been growing due to the dropping costs of smartphones and data, data costs are still relatively high in many Af... |
| Jul 18, 2018 | The Road To Africa’s Next Tech Unicorn | In 2016, Africa Internet Group (Jumia’s former parent company) raised $493 million at a $1 billion valuation making it Africa’s first tech unicorn. Jumia comprises 10 businesses (sharing the brand name) spread across 23 African nations. The... |
| Jul 16, 2018 | Africa’s Broadband Internet Speeds | The Internet first came to Africa in the 80s when the first Internet networking system was setup in South Africa. Then came the the first dial-up connection (to France) connected Africa to the Internet for the first time in 1993. By the lat... |
| Jul 11, 2018 | Ethiopian Tech Entrepreneurs Are Gradually Transforming Its Education System | While Nati Gossaye was learning French with the different language apps he found, he noticed it was quite tough to learn on those platforms. So when Facebook launched its Messenger Bot Challenge for Middle East and Africa, he decided to bui... |
| Jul 10, 2018 | The Challenges Liberia’s Health Tech Innovators Are Confronting | By the time the Ebola crisis was contained in 2016, about 11,000 Liberians had lost their lives including many doctors and other health workers. During the crisis, one of the major treatment centers in the country was so overwhelmed with Eb... |
| May 29, 2018 | Papua New Guinea plans to find out how Facebook is being used — by completely blocking it | The government of Papua New Guinea announced Monday that it wants to better understand how its citizens use Facebook— so it's completely banning the social network for a month.
The decision has been strongly criticised by researchers and ac... |
| Feb 23, 2018 | The intensifying battle for Africa’s burgeoning tech landscape | Monique Maddy Contributor
Monique Maddy has spent her career as a technology entrepreneur working in emerging markets, including Africa, Asia and Latin America. She is currently founder and CEO of Ezuza, a mobile payments company located in... |
| Dec 14, 2017 | The case against Net Neutrality: An IT pro's perspective | As the vote to determine the fate of Net Neutrality regulations looms in the FCC, I've been taking a harder look at where I stand on the issue. Personally, I've got vested interests as a consumer that relies on many net-connected services i... |
| Sep 6, 2017 | 10 Countries for People That Can’t Live Without Internet | In recent decades, the internet has gone from delightfully convenient perk of the tech community to an undeniable necessity for human life. Everything from work communications and bank transactions to personal calendars and family photos ar... |
| Mar 14, 2017 | Google expands its African initiatives | Jake Bright Contributor
Jake Bright is a writer and author in New York City. He is co-author of The Next Africa.
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African fintech startup Chipper Cash raises $30M backed by Jeff Bezos
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| Mar 8, 2017 | Kenyan startup BRCK launches SupaBRCK device to solve Africa’s internet equation | Jake Bright Contributor
Jake Bright is a writer and author in New York City. He is co-author of The Next Africa.
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| Feb 7, 2017 | Draining the Valley Instead of the Swamp | Yesterday, most of the U.S.’s biggest technology firms joined the legal fight in the 9th Circuit over the President’s immigration ban, filing a brief arguing that the ban imposes “significant harm” to U.S. businesses. Over ninety firms sign... |
| Jan 7, 2017 | As Afghanistan Comes Online, It Grapples With Its First Cyber Security Laws | As one of Afghanistan's contemporary female pop stars Aryana Sayeed, is used to getting misogynist comments for her work, her music, and even her appearance. After all, her songs, her performances, and her very existence are intentionally d... |
| Sep 29, 2016 | Africa Roundup: Zuckerberg’s visit, IBM’s new research center | Jake Bright Contributor
Jake Bright is a writer and author in New York City. He is co-author of The Next Africa.
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African fintech startup Chipper Cash raises $30M backed by Jeff Bezos
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| Sep 9, 2016 | Iroko launches IrokoX online network to showcase Africa’s creative talent | Jake Bright Contributor
Jake Bright is a writer and author in New York City. He is co-author of The Next Africa.
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| Aug 30, 2016 | Cyber data bodyguards | |
| Apr 13, 2016 | This Is How Fast Internet Penetration Has Grown In Bangladesh Over The Last Decade | The internet came late to Bangladesh with the country getting connectivity in 1996. In the last decade, the country has experienced phenomenal growth in internet penetration.
According to data from Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory C... |
| Apr 2, 2016 | 7 reasons to choose Latin America for your dev outsourcing | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
There’s a new twist in America’s 20-plus-year out... |
| Apr 2, 2016 | 7 reasons to choose Latin America for your dev outsourcing | There’s a new twist in America’s 20-plus-year outsourcing narrative. U.S. companies have historically looked to India for cost-effective programming talent, and more recently to Eastern Europe for mobile development. But these days, more an... |
| Feb 11, 2016 | Startups Selling To Other Startups: A House Of Cards? | Bastiaan Janmaat Contributor
Bastiaan Janmaat is co-founder and CEO of DataFox.
“Don’t put all your eggs in one basket,” the saying goes. Well, if you’re running a startup that sells to other startups, you might be putting all your eggs in ... |
| Jan 14, 2016 | Tackling the bane of eCommerce growth and adoption in Nigeria | Share this article:
eCommerce is widely considered as the buying and selling of products and services by businesses and consumers through an electronic medium, without using any paper documents. Existing and emerging organisations have leve... |
| Sep 8, 2015 | Smile Telecoms Raises $365M To Expand Its Broadband Coverage In Four African Countries | Smile Telecoms plans to grow its broadband network in Africa after raising $365 million in debt and equity financing. The Mauritius-based company, which already operates LTE networks in Nigeria, Tanzania, and Uganda, says it will launch in ... |
| Jun 20, 2015 | Ben Parker: Bitcoin Has Potential in Fragile States | ben-parker-headshot
Most of us are familiar with the argument that bitcoin could help the unbanked, but Ben Parker, co-founder and former director of humanitarian news service IRIN, has seen firsthand how the digital currency could play a c... |
| Mar 3, 2015 | How Facebook Is Taking On “Dangerous” Speech | Rumors spread quickly in Myanmar, a southeast Asian nation now fitfully recovering from decades of military dictatorship. Unleashed ethnic tensions have already led to bloody clashes between Burmese nationalists and Muslims.
One of the nati... |
| Jan 27, 2015 | Why Russia will become Europe’s no 1 in ecommerce | Ecommerce in Europe is mainly being dominated by the United Kingdom, France and Germany, but this may be about to change. Today, Russia is still not that prominent in terms of ecommerce, but it’s just a matter of time before Russia will dom... |
| Jan 18, 2015 | Foreign Founders Should Look Beyond Silicon Valley | Sten Tamkivi Contributor
ten Tamkivi is the CEO and co-founder of Teleport. He was previously an early executive at Skype and an Entrepreneur in Residence at Andreessen Horowitz.
Silicon Valley generally believes it’s the ideal place to be ... |
| Oct 1, 2014 | How many hackers does it take to change a light bulb? | How many hackers does it take to change a light bulb? Does this sound like a joke?
Recent stats from the Internet World Stats website show that 39% of the global population is now connected to the web. That is some 2.802 billion people.
Of ... |
| Sep 30, 2014 | Tata Communications: Eight out of Ten Indian internet Users Admit to ‘Fear of Missing Out’ (FOMO) When not Connected | Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Tata Communications, a leading provider of A New World of Communications™, today announces the results of its global report, titled ‘Connected World II,’ which reveals that 82% of surveyed Indians admit to a ‘Fear... |
| Jul 8, 2014 | Digital literacy in the developing world: a gender gap | In the pervasively connected world of the 21st century, creating and sharing knowledge has never been easier. But the fact remains that many people still lack the skills required to access this information and an inequity gap is growing.
Co... |
| May 7, 2014 | Weak net neutrality won’t scare investors away from Internet startups | Aurich Lawson / Thinkstock reader comments 40 with 29 posters participating, including story author
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| Mar 17, 2014 | The Value of Facebook and WhatsApp: Connecting the Unconnected | Over the past month, I have received a number of questions from the industry audiences we present our data to about Facebook’s acquisition of WhatsApp. Most audiences I present industry trends to have a hard time recognizing the value of th... |
| Jan 15, 2014 | Keepod Unite Wants To Bring PCs to Nairobi’s Poorest Residents | Israeli startup Keepod and LiveInSlums, an NGO, have united to launch an important project, Keepod Unite, that seeks to bring personal computers to the slums of Mathare in Nairobi, Kenya’s capital. The team is currently seeking $38,000 on I... |
| Jan 13, 2014 | The Continuing Struggle for Control of Cyberspace---And The Deterioration of Western Influence | Who will run cyberspace? It’s one of the most important questions in the world today. Yet few outside a narrow group of policy wonks, lawyers, technologists, and international bureaucrats are paying attention to the question---much less the... |
| Nov 23, 2013 | Beyond the Four Walls is building cyber cafes in rural Nepal run entirely by women | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Far across the ocean, a landlocked little country... |
| Nov 1, 2013 | Why every startup should consider a multilingual strategy | For startups looking for a new competitive advantage, a multilingual presence may be the answer.
While non-native English speakers have long realized the value of pushing their products to the English-speaking market, native English speaker... |
| Nov 1, 2013 | Why every startup should consider a multilingual strategy | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
For startups looking for a new competitive advant... |
| May 24, 2013 | Google Needs To Bring Emerging Markets Online To Grow Its Business Opportunities In The Next 10 years | The WSJ has reported that Google is participating in discussions with emerging markets such as Southeast Asia and Africa about setting up wireless network infrastructure in cities and towns. A source told the WSJ that: “The wireless network... |
| May 13, 2013 | What gun safety and cyber security should have in common | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
This post originally appeared on the blog of star... |
| May 1, 2013 | Adsolut pioneers ad-tech in Nigeria, a country with ‘advertisers but no platform’ | With around 50 million users, Nigeria has the largest Internet market in Africa. Internet access and mobile phone usage are exploding thanks to a large youth population and an emerging economy, and Adsolut is ready and waiting to capitalize... |
| May 1, 2013 | Adsolut pioneers ad-tech in Nigeria, a country with ‘advertisers but no platform’ | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
With around 50 million users, Nigeria has the lar... |
| Mar 19, 2013 | 5 things you need to know about venture capital in Brazil | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Brazil has been generating a significant amount o... |
| Mar 19, 2013 | 5 things you need to know about venture capital in Brazil | Brazil has been generating a significant amount of buzz in the venture capital and startup community recently, fueled in part by media coverage of several high profile firms “planting their flags” in the country with dedicated funds or inve... |
| Feb 19, 2013 | Cyber in the Heart of Darkness | One of the most notable challenges in dealing with cybersecurity is the difficulty of adequately conveying the scope and size of cyberspace. It's easy to say that there are nearly 2.5 billion internet users in the world (35% of the world's ... |