Afrifunding.com is an online community platform where entrepreneurs who have plans for starting or expanding a business in Africa meet with global investors who want to invest in Africa. The idea is to provide a service whereby private investors from around the world and entrepreneurs with focus on Africa can connect easily online.

Afrifunding claims to be the premier Africa business investment network and venture capital funding portal that matches serious and active private business investors with entrepreneurs’ seeking investment capital and business funding to start-up their new venture or expand their existing business within Africa.

The service acts as the “meeting point”, essentially allowing entrepreneurs who want to build up a business in Africa to showcase a brief synopsis of their business or business ideas in order to seek contact with potential global investors who could bring investment and expertise.

The online service, which has just been launched, has already registered investors through a new start-up angel network called AfricaBAN with substantial amount of capital available (over $1 million) and ready for investment into the right innovative business ideas in Africa.

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Editor’s note: This is a Guest Post from Oyelaja Adebambo Oyekan, CEO of Cybernator Solutions. He is a software developer and is about to launch a social networking site called Benebo. The article is aimed at providing tips and advice on how wannabe software developers can choose the best programming languages. 

Last week I wrote about some tips on How to Choose the Best Programming Languages. Today, my goal is to provide several programming languages that you can choose to start with depending on your needs.

Now I will provide some language reviews for some popular languages out there. I’ve also covered some web languages. It should be noted that these are not actually programming languages. Some are scripting and some are called Markup languages. Also note that this is not a full review of these languages. You should do more research on a language that might interest you in order to find out more.

This is not a full list of languages! I tried to include many of the major languages but there are just so many that the list would just become too large and start to confuse beginners. For a larger list of languages check out this link.

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eTranzact is the first online real-time payment system that allows individuals and corporate account holders to pay for goods and services purchased from merchants without stress. The service allows cardholders to use any of the following channels to transact:

• Web (using any internet browser in a secured transaction)
• Mobile Phones (GSM, CDMA or Analog)
• POS (Point of Sale)
• ATM (Automated Teller Machines)
• Other Mobile Devices
• Bank Branches

Some of eTranzact solutions include the following:

1. eCommerce Services

Rather than you face the numerous challenges of building an eCommerce solution for your business, the eTranzact eCommerce services provides a full spectrum of eCommerce solution to which, your business easily plugs into. This enables your organization to build her own online shopping mall that gives your business a 24/7 global access.

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Since Dana Air announced their commencement of commercial flight operations on November 10, 2008, following the award of its Air Operator Certificate (AOC) by the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authorities, the new airline has proved that they can become Nigeria’s first new world carrier.

Dana Air was recently awarded Best ICT-Driven Airline of the year 2009 at the National ICT Merit Award (NIMA) held at the prestigious Eko Hotel & Suites on Thursday, April 9, 2009. NIMA is an annual ICT award organised by Technology Africa in recognition of individuals and organisations that are at the forefront of technology deployment and adoption in the country.

Why Was Dana Air Awarded Best ICT-Driven Airline?

According to Mr. Don Pedro Aganbi, Managing Consultant of Technology Africa:

Dana Air was chosen as the recipient of the Best ICT Driven Airline award, despite being a new entrant in the aviation industry, because of its early deployment of ICT solutions. The introduction of e-booking and payment services by the airline is proof of the airline’s commitment to passenger convenience and comfort, and deserves to be complimented.

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One of the products launched at the MTN Innovation Day held last week in Lagos and Abuja is the MTN F@stlink E170M USB Modem. A pocket friendly high speed access USB Modem, MTN F@stlink E170 offers an enhanced internet experience with its HSPA technologies. It has been described as a multi-mode wireless terminal ideal for business professionals.

But just how fast is the USB Modem?

The MTN F@stlink E170 has been touted to have capabilities of download speeds of up to 7.2 Mbps. The device is ideal for downloading large files from the internet as well as video clips, music tracks or games to your laptop, PDA or smartphone. Now that sounds cool, doesn’t it?

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