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Do you plan to be at AfricaBeta? Have done all you have to do to be there? If you haven’t, this is me at my absolute nicest. Follow this link. It takes you to where you can choose to either turbocharge your idea/startup or join the list of smart minds who will discuss the future of mobile and its possibilities in Africa at AfricaBeta. Make the best of it. The 2015 AfricaBeta is sponsored by WeChat.
Back to scheduled programming!
Can you make money from inside chat applications? Absolutely. Can you work, study, get married and raise children via chat applications? That looks like the future; the very near one. Bankole and ST, say more about this in this Channels TV interview. What else happened today?
Featured on TechCabal:
8 Kenyan Youtubers you need to watch out for
The jury’s still out on which country has the most advanced technology ecosystem in Africa. But these Youtubers make a strong argument for Kenya.
Godwin Benson brought us up to speed on his hyperlocal marketplace for tutors
Tuteria launched back in May (we wrote about them then), but a lot has happened since. TechCabal caught up with Godwin Benson, the CEO, a former employee at Deloitte to talk about the how far along they have come in the journey.
6 golden lessons on PR, for startups
As you plan, code and pitch your startup, are you putting forward the day you settle down to manage your brand equity? It’s fine, you are one of many startups who do so. These 5 nuggets (plus 1 extra) would help you manage your public facing brand.
Sallah Ram Locator: Where will you be this Sallah?
Locked in your closet punching away at your keyboard because your new app is few hours behind? Orrr maybe the real reason is because you don’t have any friends. You can legally crash a family’s Salah with this app.
Streaming Nollywood movies could be more social! Okiki is making sure of that
Imagine sitting in a room with George Lucas as you binge-watch the complete Star Wars catalog – that’s what this new app, Okiki, is trying to do.
How many African presidents are on Twitter?
It’s not all peace treaties, economic summits and trade agreements and electioneering for presidents. Some of them have a life. And manage to get a tweet or two in. Or none.
MAX is a way to send packages across Lagos via independent operators
MAX, short for Metro Africa Xpress is an end-to-end crowd-sourced logistics service currently only operational in Lagos Nigeria.
The complete guide to the 2015 Demo Africa
If you are one of the 500 attendees at this year’s event, here are other sessions that you can – and should – look forward to.
Don’t miss:
BRCK Education launches a water resistant tablet to digitize education in Kenya [Techmoran]
The easy to use, custom-made tablet is designed for use by Standard 1 pupils in harsh environments across rural Kenya where electricity is intermittent. It can be used for 8 hours without power and is rugged enough to allow for occasional drops and spills.
Groupon ceases operations in Morocco, firing over 1000 employees [TechMoran]
Groupon is shutting down its operations in Morocco, Panama, The Philippines, Puerto Rico, Taiwan, Thailand and Uruguay and will eliminate approximately 1,100 positions as the firm tries to focus its efforts on a few countries.
Smile partners with Samsung to launch VoLTE (Voice over LTE) in Nigeria [TechSuplex]
Smile also says they will have coverage “comparable to the largest 3G network in each of its current countries of operation
Easy Taxi launches Outlook-integrated mobile app [Disrupt Africa]
Taxi hailing startup, Easy Taxi, which has operations in Egypt, Kenya and Nigeria as well as hundreds of other cities across the world, has launched a version of its taxi app that is integrated to Microsoft’s email solution Outlook.
