Posted on May 26th, 2009 by Carel
Filed under Business, Carel's Conversations, Entrepreneurship, South Africa, Technology, Venture Capital
Hasso Plattner’s African Venture fund was launched in early 2008. In February 2009 I attended the fund’s Emerging Market Africa conference in South Africa. HPVA has invested ZAR80mm of ZAR350mm in 5 companies to date and expect to invest in at least 5 more. HPVA doesn’t disclose investments and shareholding, although they did indicate that [...]
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Posted on May 21st, 2009 by Carel
Filed under South Africa, Technology
MXit is a South African social networking company with 12 million subscribers around the world. According to MXit it is “a next generation Mobile Instant Messenger that connects you to a world of expression, using both instant messaging and social networking.”
MXit recently launched an iPhone app. I’ve been a beta user for a few weeks. [...]
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Posted on May 10th, 2009 by Carel
Filed under Business, Technology
These days you can make really cheap international calls directly from your iPhone. I’ve used VIP, Jajah, ATT Wireless, Skype and Google Voice. All these services will use your mobile minutes, with the expection of Skype’s iPhone app in WiFi mode. In this post I’ll give my experience with each service from a cost and [...]
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