m:Lab East Africa launches Pivot East 2013, the Region’s Premier Mobile Start-ups Pitching Competition and Conference

m:lab East Africa will be holding its third Pivot East on 25th – 26th June 2013 in Kampala, Uganda. Pivot East is East Africa’s premier mobile start-ups pitching competition and conference which has been held annually since 2011. Pivot East Continue reading

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Uhasibu, the award-winning, cloud-based, and mobile web capable accounting application designed for Kenya.

Uhasibu is a cloud-based accounting application that has been developed by Michael Pedersen whom I featured in a blog post here last month on PesaPi, an open source API for Safaricom’s M-Pesa that he also developed. It seems that Mike Continue reading

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Kenya ICT Board’s (Tandaa) Local Content Grants Statistics.

NOTE: The statistics and review results for this blog post have been taken from publicly available information currently being circulated by the Tandaa initiative of the Kenya ICT Board. As reported on this blog over 2 months ago, The Kenya Continue reading

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Brandkey Marketing brings Eyeballs mobile advertising to Kenya.

I had planned to write a post on Eyeballs, a mobile advertising application a week ago but felt it would be best if I did so after trying it out for myself. Eyeballs is an opt-in mobile advertising application that Continue reading

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Safaricom and Strathmore University partner for Mobile Applications Academy.

Safaricom, Kenya’s largest mobile network and Strathmore University, one of Kenya’s leading private Universities have partnered for mobile applications training in Kenya via the “Safaricom Academy” initiative. According to Safaricom, the goal of the Safaricom Academy is to create employment Continue reading

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Looking for a (Savvy) Senior Application Developer.

Do you love to write code?​ Want to work smarter, not harder? Do you thrive in an work environment that enables you to work on exciting and challenging projects, day in and day out? Do you like to change the Continue reading

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