This year’s edition of DEMO Africa is now open to applications, with startups being invited to send their applications starting March 18, 2015 and is set to run until the end of May when the ...
Customers of Airtel’s mobile money platform Airtel Money in Burkina Faso will now be able to send money to friends and family or business partners on the Orange network in neighbouring Cote d’Ivoire and vice ...
Safaricom has been making baby steps into partnerships lately, with CEO Bob Collymore saying the telecom is planning on more collaborations in its growth journey and now in a new agreement with the Kenya Commercial ...
Have you waited for this day like I have? When Safaricom will allow M-Pesa transfers to family and friends between two countries at no extra cost? Well, through a new partnership with Tanzania’s Vodacom, customers ...
Kenya’s Safaricom has introduced a new service that is aimed at helping Corporates and Public Benefit Organisations (PBOs) to track transactions of funds once they are released to beneficiaries, in a hope to monitor how ...
Airtel customers in Uganda are set to benefit from the telecom’s mobile money application for Android users, which allows anyone with the App to carry out a range of transactions from sending money to purchasing ...
Everyone is realizing that payments by mobile is the current market disruptor, and with that there are new mobile wallet products being unveiled across the globe. East Africa has seen tremendous growth in the sector ...
While most Kenyans may know of KenSwitch and Ugandans may know of Inter-Switch, those in Rwanda know of R-Switch. What you may not know is that the Switches that help ease digital payments have come ...
BitPesa, the Bitcoin exchange service company based in Kenya’s capital Nairobi, is planning to expand its operations to neighbouring Uganda and Tanzania in the next weeks after raising 1.1Million Dollars (KSh99 Million) in its second ...
Earlier in the week, Kenya’s capital Nairobi was listed among the top 21 most intelligent cities around the world, making it the smartest city in the African continent as it was the only African city ...
Last year, Unilever held a contest for young entrepreneurs with the most innovative solutions that seek to change the way things are being done in our societies and now two participants have received recognition for ...
Seedstars World is a global startup competition where new opportunities that are expected to disrupt the economy are showcased. The competition is currently in its final stage where about 36 startups have come together in ...
A recent survey listing the top most powerful brands in Kenya has put Safaricom’s mobile money platform MPesa in first position, which is five places up from the position it held in the previous survey ...
Kenya is doing well in the mobile money sector, thanks to Safaricom’s mobile wallet MPesa that has garnered much praise and popularity across nations around the world. Through partnerships, Kenyans in the diaspora can now ...
In December last year, Kenya’s county of Kiambu decided to automate its receipting system in order to provide an effective and more efficient way to pay taxes and in return generate more revenue for the ...
You must have heard of iROKOTV, the once upon a time Nigerian startup that has now become a popular by allowing its users get access to Nollywood movies as well as other TV shows online, ...
Motorists in Kenya are about to have it more rough with parking attendants starting this holiday season, as the city council of Nairobi makes new plans in efforts to increase revenue from parking payments by ...
Bharti Airtel is not happy with the maximum limit that the central bank of Zambia has imposed on the mobile money transfer service for telecommunications companies in the country and is now asking the bank ...
