Safaricom’s (NSE: SCOM) has today announced that mobile agriculture platform DigiFarm is projected to outgrow M-PESA in the next five years. Launched in 2017 in partnership with iProcure, Arifu and Farmdrive, ..
Safaricom’s (NSE: SCOM) has today announced that mobile agriculture platform DigiFarm is projected to outgrow M-PESA in the next five years. Launched in 2017 in partnership with iProcure, Arifu and Farmdrive, ..
In the two months since Microsoft recruited a handful of women software engineers to work in its new Africa Development Centre (ADC) in Kenya and in Nigeria, Microsoft has continued to bolster its support ..
David Bunei was announced as the Managing Director of Oracle Kenya. In this role, David will be responsible for helping Kenyan public and private sector organisations achieve strategic objectives by driving ..
BLAZE by Safaricom launched a new platform dubbed BLAZE LINK, an aggregator of e-learning resources built to enable young people upgrade their skills through online courses and empower them to pursue success ..
Safaricom (NSE: SCOM) has announced plans to expand its e-commerce proposition Masoko to other countries in Sub-Saharan Africa by year 2020. This is on the backdrop of an expected growth of Smartphones ..
In a bid to improve service delivery in the taxi industry Pioneer Credit and Little Cab have a partner to provide taxi drivers with access to better quality mobile phones through the use of an innovative ..
South Sudan is set to enjoy its first mobile phone-based money transfer service. Trading under the brand name m-GURUSH (m-for mobile and GURUSH for money in Arabic), the new mobile commerce platform is a joint ..
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has now agreed to a $5 billion settlement to let Facebook off the leash.
Three students from Kenyatta University (KU) and Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) universities are the winners of this year’s #MyLittleBigThing SDG’s Innovation Challenge. ..
As promised, we tested the Safaricom VoLTE Network, and it is awesome. Without exaggeration, Safaricom VoLTE voice call sounds as if you are talking with the person in the same room. The high definition ..
Young scientists Kenya (YSK) will be holding the National Science and Technology Exhibition in collaboration with the Ministry of Education, The Embassy of Ireland and BLAZE by Safaricom. The exhibition ..
With so many eyes on the raging feud between Huawei and America, many people are really following it for the spice in it. However, with so much criticism on the president of USA it is worth finding out what ..
July 2019 marks yet another year of significant investment in financial technology in the realisation that the future of banking is in digital finance. Firms in the digital finance sector have in this ..
A recent report shared to us by Microsoft revealed that Kenya has only 1.700 cybersecurity experts despite ranging cyber attacks that cost the country over shs 30 billion last year. To help train more ..
You know you have elected a useless government when they can’t bend to listen to simple reasoning. In 2013, Uhuru Kenyatta and his counterpart William Ruto, dubbing themselves the digital duo, went ..
A friend who knows that I do not use Safaricom Internet just called to tell me that I no longer have reasons to not use Safaricom Internet, as, according to him, Safaricom suddenly reduced its data prices ..
The African Women in Technology (AWIT) Conference is scheduled to take place from July 18 – 20, 2019. Hosted yearly by IBOM LLC, the 3-day conference focuses on empowering, educating and connecting ..
There is something I asked Safaricom to do in this article, but they didn’t listen. The suggestion was that instead of charging customers to send money via MPESA, the recipient could just incur the entire ..
The question has always been, how do you increase a smartphone’s screen size without increasing the actual size of the phone? Do you make them foldable? Rollable? Maybe you do both? But before foldable ..
For some reason, phone manufacturers think that we need to have foldable smartphones. Yes it is true, people generally need big screens for watching videos, reading articles online or playing games. It is also ..
Following our article published about an hour ago, an article that explained how the argument that Safaricom Social Media Representatives were the ones that were sending out personal tweets does not make ..
Recently feted car portal, Garimoto, has seen a 30 percent revenue growth for Seaways Kenya Limited since its deployment four years ago. This is despite the myriad of challenges that the automotive industry ..
Yesterday morning Kenyans woke up to an apology by Safaricom, an apology majority refused to accept. The apology was occasioned by a series of tweets that indicated that one of the Safaricom’s social ..
Recently Safaricom announced that it had launched Safaricom VoLTE, a service meant to allow subscribers to make calls, not through the traditional CDMA or GPRS/GSM or even 3G voice protocols, but through ..
The recently launched Huawei Y9 Prime 2019 will officially be available in all retail stores across the country from 6th July 2019. This follows a successful one week pre-order period that saw over 1000 ..
In 2018, cyberattacks cost the Kenyan economy 30 Billion shillings (Kshs 29.5 B to be precise). This is according to the most recent annual report published by cybersecurity firm Serianu. The latter coupled ..
When I started blogging in 2013, one of the first articles I wrote was M-Pesa should stop being dumb and go smart in which I argued that it was time for MPESA to start Internet enabled services through ..
Following the passing on of the Safaricom’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Mr. Robert (Bob) William Collymore on 1 July 2019, the telecom giant has appointed an interim CEO. At a Special Board meeting ..
Safaricom (NSE: SCOM) has today launched voice and video calls over its 4G network, popularly known as Voicer over LTE (VoLTE) and Video over LTE (ViLTE). The services are immediately available countrywide ..
Huawei Mobile Kenya today announced HUAWEI Y9 Prime 2019, the latest Y Series device, a line of smartphones that caters to the younger generation to realize their true potential. The Huawei Y9 Prime 2019 ..