Month: April 2012
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The Africa Tech News Tidbits: Week of April 25th
Here is what has been happening in the world of African Tech this week: An interview with Jason Njoku, founder of IrokoTV, known as the “netflix of Africa”. Some good insight in a young business that makes sense because the demand is there on it. On the challenges of growth in Africa, this particular nugget […]
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Titanium Studio: package org.appcelerator.titanium does not exist
After updating to the latest 2.0.1 version of Titanium Studio, i got this error while trying to deploy my applications: package org.appcelerator.titanium does not exist import org.appcelerator.titanium.TiStylesheet; Followed by a bunch of other errors related to missing Titanium libraries. And in the end, that’s just what it was. For some reason, Titanium Studio had set […]
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African Tech News Tidbits: Week of April 17th
A lot happening and since my schedule cleared up a bit, let’s do a quick round of what’s been happening in the world of AfricaTech. First, this is a must read by Prof. Chukwuma Charles Soludo, titled “Will Europe Underdevelop Africa Again?“, on the inequities of the new Economic Partnership Agreements or EPAs being negotiated […]
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Kenyan startups: As real businesses or social impact projects?
In an interesting reflection, Dinfin Mulupi over at HowWeMadeItInAfrica brings up a worry from investors in Kenya that the emphasis on social impact technology is distracting entrepreneurs from building real tech businesses. That’s a good question to ask I believe, and legitimate from an investor point of view. As argued by Nikolai Barnwell of 88mph, […]
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African Tech News Tidbits: Week of April 10th
Back for another session of ATNT, and I got some good reads for you. This week the topics covered include disruptive technology in an African context, startups raising funds, hackathons, and a robbery/kidnapping victime saved by Twitter, yes you can believe it! The always-on-point Will Mutua at AfricanBrains gives us an excellent take on the […]
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