Afrigator wins bronze at The Bookmarks digital awards

On Thursday 12 November 2009 Afrigator won a bronze award in the Publishing Integrated Campaign category at the second annual Bookmarks awards ceremony.
The gala event, held at the posh Movida night club in Johannesburg, saw big agencies such as Gloo and Stonewall+ as well as large publishers like 24.com and Avusa win multiple awards. Afrigator [...]

Afrigator gets honourable mention in the Top 10 RSS and Syndication Products of 2008

ReadWriteWeb has given Afrigator an honourable mention in the Top 10 RSS and Syndication Products of 2008 list.
This Top 10 list features FriendFeed, Google Reader, Twitterfeed, Feedburner and Yahoo! Pipes. Here’s what RRW had to say about us.

Finally, we love African social media aggregator Afrigator – it’s a great way to learn about what’s happening all over the continent and it’s a [...]

Afrigator on ReadWriteWeb and the New York Times as a Top 10 International Product for 2008

This almost went unnoticed but on Friday Afrigator was voted one of the Top 10 International Products for 2008 by ReadWriteWeb. This is obviously a massive accolade for all of us involved in Afrigator and at times like this I’m left perplexed at how a small garage startup like Afrigator has managed to gain such credibility outside the borders [...]

MIH acquires stake in Afrigator

We’ve been holding off on the big news but we can finally confirm today that MIH Print Africa (Pty) Ltd, a subsidiary of Naspers Limited, has secured a majority stake in Afrigator Internet (Pty) Ltd.
We could not have chosen a better partner in MIH Print Africa as their strategy for Africa aligns perfectly with ours [...]

Afrigator featured in the World’s hottest startups

Afrigator has hit yet another milestone and this time we’ve been featured in one of the leading business and technology magazines in the world, Business 2.0.
The CNN backed publication recently picked 31 of the world’s hottest non-U.S. startups of which Afrigator is featured atnumber 20.
Being featured among big players like Joost and Naspers owned Pixrat is a huge honour for us [...]