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 Blackbox today announced the selected startups for the Blackbox Connect powered by 

Thanks to you. 2014 has been a really incredible year for us. We have reached more community members, increased the number of women in our programs and our resident startups have raised more money.

Through our partnerships, residents in our space have access to free co-working space in 24 other tech hubs around the world through the Google for Entrepreneurs tech hub passport program. 

Laura Walusimbi is a journalist with over 15 years experience. I worked with the Daily Monitor for two years. I then started a newspaper with a couple of other journalists.

The 2014 edition of PIVOT East promises to be a hotly contested competition from start to finish as 25 exceptional mobile startups are set to fight it out to win market recognition and investor interest for the fourth year running within a fast paced and high output activity schedule.

Ensibuuko, a startup that is working to increase farmer's access to saving opportunities leveraging mobile and web technologies has raised up-to USD 8,020 for it's first seven (7) modal farmers on the Kiva Platform in just 5 days.

Who is Lynn Asiimwe?

On Friday 4 October, 10.00-18.00: AfricaHackTrip-Barcamp/Unconference.AfricaHackTrip is a group of developers and designers from Europe visiting East Africa in September/October 2013. We have been coworking with people from all over the world, but not yet with creatives from the growing African tech scene. We want to meet, connect and share with our peers in East Africa.

On the September 20th at the .NET user group meeting we will see how we can use Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) to manage projects and teams to produce quality software on time. We all know that in software development teams, developers do not want to focus on the noise of tasks, bugs, methodologies but code. The project managers want information on when the project will be completed, when will tasks be completed, bugs fixed, who is available and how is the product progressing to delivery.

Matatu, the most popular, award winning, mind blasting, feel good, nail biting, finger twitching, blow your socks off, mobile game in Uganda, is having the first ever exclusive 'live' game night experience for free but only for the 1st 150 guests to confirm attendance.The EventMatatu; a card game played by generations, a nostalgic home-grown social game now on Mobile!The Matatu-thon is a competition of Matatu players battling it out and taking local gaming to a whole new level.