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 – The Kenyan government has launched an online portal encouraging cooperative societies to fully incorporate ICT to meet Vision 2030 targets. A developed web portal, Africoop, enables cooperatives intending to create their web page to do business and compete with others. The Daily Nation reports Phillip Gichuki, national deputy cooperative commissioner, as saying cooperatives [...]

VENTURES AFRICA – JP Morgan Chase, the US lending colossus, is set to open a representative office in Kenya after it got a go-ahead from the country’s authorities to do so. This move will improve Nairobi’s attempt to be East Africa’s banking and life insurance hub. Last year, the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) thoroughly [...]

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 [...]