Safaricom, Kenya’s leading telecom company, has today announced that they have invested in Sendy, a Kenyan package-delivery startup that was in the 2014 list of PIVOT EAST semi-finalists as the very first beneficiary of the ...
Safaricom has now closed submissions for the 2015 Appwiz Developer competition with over 320 participants submitting their entries for the final prize of KES 1.5 Million. These entries that have been received are currently under ...
Safaricom has announced plans that it has started final preparations for the launch of the 2nd generation of its M-PESA platform. This comes as the telecommunications giant prepares to perform a full scale system upgrade aimed at ...
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 ...
More Kenyans are expected to have better access to the Airtel network on the 3G platform wherever they are, after the telco announced that it was undertaking a 3G network upgrade project, which will see ...
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 ...
Ugandans in the country’s capital Kampala and Entebbe will wait no more as they have started their journey towards enjoying high-speed internet services, after Vodafone Uganda moved to commercially make available its 4G LTE services ...
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 ...
Do you have an idea but you are unsure of how to make it grow into a business? Have you tried the available funding organisations but have not met the requirements? Or you are just ...
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 ...
Kenya is planning to help improve internet speeds for South Sudan through a new fibre network project aimed at reducing connectivity costs for the young country. The project will lay out the fibre cables from ...
Customers of the Airtel network will now browse the internet for as low as KSh 10 per MB and will make calls for as low as KSh 9 per minute while roaming in Uganda, after ...
More Kenyans are reported to have come online with the number of internet subscriptions going up by 5.8 per cent to stand at 14.8 million in the quarter ending September, 2014 from the 4 million ...
Kenya’s largest mobile network operator, Safaricom, has introduced a new online portal that is aimed at helping those with ideas to transform them into products that will help solve real world problems and at the ...
To the end of last year, there were reports of Uber launching in Kenya when it announced vacant posts for its operations in the capital Nairobi. Now, the date of the launch is set and ...
