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Map of Africa Infographics: 20 Interesting Designs You Must See

Chuka Udeze — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 04:44:55 +0000

20 Interesting and Informative Maps of Africa Infographics Map is a representation, usually on a plane surface, of a region of the earth or heavens according to thefreedictionary.com, although many maps are static two-dimensional, geometrically accurate (or approximately accurate) representations of three-dimensional space, while others are dynamic or interactive, even three-dimensional, what they have in [...]

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8 Useful Resources for Big Brother Africa Fans

TechTalkAfrica — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 15:36:27 +0000

Big Brother Africa is the African version of the Big Brother reality game show. For those unfamiliar with the show, it’s a reality TV show that involves “a group of people living together in a large house, isolated from the outside world and continuously monitored by television cameras”. Each series of the show lasts for about 12 weeks with [...]

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Africa Top 10 Internet Countries 2013

Chuka Udeze — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 13:06:37 +0000

Africa Top 10 Internet Countries: Internet Penetration & Usage A lot of investments have been made in Africa’s Internet and Broadband sector between 2009 and now, with most parts of Africa gaining access between 2009 and 2010, according to reports, wholesale prices for Internet bandwidth have come down by as much as 90% from previous levels [...]

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Africa Internet Usage and Statistics

Chuka Udeze — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 11:23:24 +0000

Africa is the second-largest continent, after Asia, in both size and population; it is located south of Europe and bordered to the west by the Atlantic Ocean and to the east by the Indian Ocean at about 30.2 million km² (11.7 million sq mi) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth’s total surface area and 20.4% of [...]

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73 Best Companies To Work For in South Africa

Staff Writer — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 02:34:42 +0000

BEST Companies to work for (South Africa’s Best Employers) updated on April 17, 2013 The Corporate Research Foundation (CRF) Institute is an institute that identifies top performers in the areas of HR, leadership and strategy, it reviews pay and benefits, career opportunities, working conditions, training and development and company culture. These organisations are at the cutting edge [...]

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5 African Business Ideas That Can Make Millions

Chuka Udeze — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 00:32:40 +0000

Africa is the new frontier for entrepreneurship based on disruptive new business models. We are beginning to see many success stories emerging from the continent of Africa, many African entrepreneurs are now pioneering innovative solutions, creating new markets, solving persistent problems, and generating new wealth but how are they doing it? How can One make it in [...]

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Top 10 Social Media Sites You Haven’t Heard of in Africa

Chuka Udeze — Sat, 06 Apr 2013 08:04:05 +0000

“Social networking” has been around for a long time. It simply means the grouping of individuals into specific groups, like small rural communities or a neighbourhood subdivision in such a way that they are able to communicate, interact and expand in number, in today’s world, “it’s the use of a dedicated website to communicate informally with other members of [...]

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Present State of South Africa’s Tech Startup Industry

Staff Writer — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 01:17:03 +0000

In 2012, Silicon Cape which is a community of tech entrepreneurs, developers, creatives, angel investors, and VC’s who are passionate about entrepreneurship and the roles we play in the future of South Africa conducted a survey titled “The State of South Africa’s Tech Startup Industry” the aim was to access the nature of South Africa’s tech startup industry It was [...]

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Top 25 Web Hosting Companies in South Africa

Staff Writer — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 12:05:34 +0000

A good web hosting is very crucial to any website or online business, it is one of the basic foundation of your online business and should always be treated as part of a whole, if your host has a problem, your business has a problem, if you are serious about your online business, you need to ensure [...]

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African Websites: Top 50 Most Visited Websites in Africa

Chuka Udeze — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 18:29:56 +0000

Africa’s Most Popular websites – Top 50 It will be very interesting to know the top 50 Most visited websites in Africa and there’s one websites that knows how to rank websites based on their popularity worldwide, therefore in compiling this list, we had to turn to Alexa which is a leading provider of free, global [...]

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10 Positive Roles of Satellite Internet Providers in Rural Development of Africa

Guest Writer — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 14:30:58 +0000

Ten Positive Roles of Satellite Internet Providers in Rural Development of Africa A general internet connection offers speeds up to 100Mbps, which is pretty good. The only issue is that there are still quite a lot of regions where it is not possible to buy wired connections. Thus, if there is a way in which the same [...]

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$10 Billion Hope City Technology Project Launched in Ghana

Chuka Udeze — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 04:10:59 +0000

Hope City Technology Metropolis to Host Africa’s Tallest Building Ghana’s President, John Dramani Mahama, has officially launched a project dubbed Hope City, the project will cost $10bn (£6.6bn) and will create 50,000 jobs, the project which is expected to be completed within three years will have Africa’s tallest building, 75 storey building at a height of 270m [...]

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10 Most Technologically Advanced Countries in Africa

Chuka Udeze — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 14:31:59 +0000

This is a contribution by Answers Africa: A Tech Talk Africa Publishing Partner Top 10 Most Technologically Advanced Countries in Africa Technology is growing very rapidly with United States at the fore front while Europe and Asia is also within the circle. Africa is comparatively lagging behind and a lot dependent on acquisition of already [...]

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13 Year Old Kenyan Boy’s Invention That Scares Off Lions

Staff Writer — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 10:40:32 +0000

It was a serious problem for the thirteen-year-old bright Kenyan Richard Turere when hungry lions started attacking his family’s precious herd of cattle. So the little boy had to devise an innovative low-tech but ingenious solution to tackle the problem and keep the lions away from humans. courtesy of YouTube, TEDTalentSearch “I grew up hating lions very [...]

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Are South Africans Buying More Tech than their US Counterparts?

Staff Writer — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 09:05:09 +0000

Surprisingly, a new survey (Accenture’s 2013 Consumer Electronics Products and Services Usage Report) has revealed that South Africans spent more on consumer technology in 2012 than the average US consumer, it was also discovered that South Africans spent more than many countries in Europe including the UK, Germany, France, and Sweden. The report reveals that South [...]

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