Uber Eats just added a tenth city to its South African operations. As of Thursday last week, Uber Eats is now available in Soweto...
Andy Walker 6 Jun 2019
The world, in general, is going through a fuel revolution...
Evan-Lee Courie 10 Dec 2018
Uri Levine, serial entrepreneur and co-founder of Waze, spoke about disrupting inefficient markets and improving under-functioning services by focusing on solving big problems, at a breakfast event hosted by BusinessLive...
Jessica Tennant 20 Nov 2018
RentMyRide is empowering locals by giving them the tools for a low-touch small business and creating competition for conventional car rental companies...
Evan-Lee Courie 13 Nov 2018
Did you know that South Africa has some of the worst road-safety statistics in the world?[i] Accidents hit the economy hard when vehicles have to be repaired or replaced and often goods in transit are destroyed or delayed...
Morné Stoltz 16 May 2018
People across Africa face considerable challenges - many of them existential. But, without the right devices, connectivity, and skills, those who badly need their problems solved often can't access available solutions...
Greg Morris 8 May 2018
It is heady days for the African tech startup space, but which ecosystem has the most going for it?
Tom Jackson 13 Apr 2018
Rwanda-based ride hailing startup SafeMotos is marking International Women's Day by adding the first three female moto-drivers to its network...
Tom Jackson 8 Mar 2018
Kenyan ride-hailing startup Mondo Ride has secured $2m in funding from investors in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Egypt to help it expand across the continent...
Tom Jackson 1 Feb 2018
Logistics marketplace Bwala Africa has launched in Kenya, allowing users to hire cars, trucks and delivery vans and source for repairs, service and maintenance from trusted dealers and mechanics...
Tom Jackson 19 Jan 2018
More than ever before, technology drives our world. It powers businesses, cities and governments, and shapes individual lives in a hugely impactful way...
Colin Thornton 7 Nov 2017
Us humans have a heuristic bias to sell our winners and hold onto our losers. That's not the way to build wealth. Better to hang onto your winners and cut your losers loose...
Alan Knott-Craig 18 Oct 2017
Kenyan startup Lori Systems has been crowned the winner of the inaugural TechCrunch Battlefield Africa in Nairobi, winning $25,000 in equity-free funding...
Tom Jackson 17 Oct 2017
I recently had a very inspiring conversation with Marcela Guerrero Casas, co-founder and MD of Open Streets Cape Town about the power of streets and its ability to bridge social and spatial divides...
Ilse van den Berg 26 May 2017
Ethiopian taxi app RIDE pivots away from SMS, relaunching next year...
Tom Jackson 21 Sep 2016
The World Economic Forum on Africa 2015 conference, held to mark 25 years of economic change in Africa, concluded last week...
Cari Coetzee 8 Jun 2015
Africa offers enormous growth potential for e-retailers given that online shopping is in its infancy in the region. The Shop the World! report reveals that emerging markets offer the highest growth potential...
Sumesh Rahavendra 31 Oct 2014