VENTURES AFRICA – The launch of Mara Online was announced today by Ashish J Thakkar, Founder and CEO of Mara Group and Mara Foundation, during his keynote at the world’s largest entrepreneur’s conference TiEcon. Mara Online is an online and mobile eco-system allowing users to communicate, interact and collaborate with each other via social portals, [...]

VENTURES AFRICA – Nigeria’s indigenous tech company, Zinox Group has announced plans to launch what will be Africa’s largest single genuine ICT product mall in 2016. Zinox Computers group Chairman, Leo Stan Ekeh, who gave the information while speaking as a guest of Honour at the Subsidy Reinvestment Programme (SURE-P) last week said the mall [...]

VENTURES AFRICA –In an effort to “catch up” with years of Chinese investment in Africa, Japan has promised to invest $2 billion in Africa’s energy and mineral projects. This emerged a two-day J-SUMIT conference held in Japan. Japan organised the conference in an effort to prove the attractiveness of the long-term investment tactic characteristic of [...]

VENTURES AFRICA –Mama Ngina Kenyatta, the widow of Kenya’s first President Jomo Kenyatta, has become Kenya Power’s fourth biggest shareholder in the power utility. According to Kenya’s Business Daily, filings with the Capital Markets Authority in that country show that President Uhuru Kenyatta’s mother holds 2.2 million shares in the firm or a 0.11 percent [...]