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michael joseph
TECHNOLOGY

Performance of Safaricom under Michael Joseph, Bob Collymore and now Peter Ndegwa

Safaricom has been in operation since 1997, and has had three different CEOs in its history: Michael Joseph, Bob Collymore, and Peter Ndegwa. How have these leaders influenced the performance…

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faraja
TECHNOLOGY

Interest free loans for up to Kshs 100K from Safaricom and Faraja are here – but only for shopping

Shopping online or offline can be a hassle when you don’t have enough money to pay for what you want. You might have to wait until your next paycheck, borrow…

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anwar soussa
TECHNOLOGY

Safaricom losses Anwar Soussa, the telco’s Ethiopian CEO

Safaricom PLC, the leading telecommunications company in Kenya, has announced the resignation of Anwar Soussa, the CEO of Safaricom Ethiopia. Mr. Anwar Soussa has been at the helm of Safaricom…

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MPESA in Ethiopia
BUSINESS

Safaricom licensed to operate MPESA in Ethiopia as its annual profit jumps to Kshs 74.5 billion

Safaricom (NSE: SCOM) Telecommunications Ethiopia has today officially been granted the license to operate MPESA in Ethiopia. The license came seven months after the commercial launch of GSM services. The…

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MPESA Africa
TECHNOLOGY

MPESA Africa Invests $2 Million in Shared Service Operations Centre

 MPesa Africa has launched a Shared Service Operations Centre (SSOC) in Nairobi. The M-Pesa SSOC will oversee service operations and technical support including incident monitoring and resolution, managing platform changes…

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glovo local
BUSINESS

Glovo Launches Glovo Local, a Portfolio of Solutions for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses

Glovo a pioneering multi-category app, has launched Glovo Local, a new program for small and medium-sized businesses in the retail and restaurant industries to enable them to digitise their products…

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paybill charges
TECHNOLOGY

Paybill charges set to drop as Safaricom reinstates Bank-Mpesa transaction fees

Mobile payment provider Safaricom is set to lower its Paybill charges for customers and businesses starting January 1, 2023. This move is in response to the increasing demand for mobile…

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TECHNOLOGY

Airtel, Telkom & Safaricom Interoperability Has Come A Long Way In The Last Decade

The Telecommunications industry in Kenya has made enormous steps in the last decade putting Kenya on the international grid. The Information, Communication, and Technology space and ability brought forth by…

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TECHNOLOGY

Safaricom Garners Over 30 Million Subscribers As Airtel & Telkom Struggle In New Merger

Safaricom has announced that it has hit over 30 million subscribers on its network, cementing the telco’s position as the most preferred mobile service provider in Kenya today. The amount…

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TECHNOLOGY

Bungoma Shopkeeper Now Millionaire In Shukrani Kocho Kocho Campaign

Safaricom’s Kocho Kocho campaign has been rewarding Kenyans for their loyalty to the telco across counties. The ten-week promotion now on its third week seeks to reward more than 5…

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TECHNOLOGY

Terror Suspect Blames Safaricom Over Dusit Attack Transactions

Diamond Trust Bank manager, Sophia Njoki Mbogo has accused Safaricom of allowing the release of funds to a man said to have financed the Dusit attack that took place on…

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TECHNOLOGY

M-Pesa services to be unavailable for thirteen consecutive hours

Safaricom will on Saturday 9th September 2017 conduct a planned upgrade on the M-PESA platform. This upgrade comes a decade after Safaricom launched the service and two years after the company deployed…

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TECHNOLOGY

Middle man’s loss as Kenyans pay for SGR tickets through mobile money

Passengers who consider using the recently- launched Standard Gauge Railway will now enjoy the convenience of paying for train tickets via Mpesa, thus creating a solution to the issue of…

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BUSINESS

M-Pesa Kadogo – Safaricom drops charges for sending funds below Ksh.100

Why do you have to pay money to send money? That is a question that has been posed a number of times but somehow eluded the ears of the target…

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TECHNOLOGY

How to send money from Airtel to any network subscriber in Kenya (Safaricom or Orange) for free

Most individuals in Kenya use M-Pesa to send money to friends, family and acquaintances. The downside of this is that Safaricom double charges you. Yes, that is the truth. You…

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mobile money
TECHNOLOGY

How to send money to any mobile money provider (M-Pesa, Airtel Money and Orange Money)

Every single mobile service provider in Kenya offers a mobile payment service. Safaricom are the pioneer’s in this segment with their M-Pesa platform. The other Telco’s saw how impressive this…

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TECHNOLOGY

Equitel Money has doubled its value of transactions while M-Pesa drops

Equitel money, the mobile transfer service from Equity Bank, has doubled its value of transactions in the mobile money business in three months. The latest report from the market oversight…

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TECHNOLOGY

Shs 5 million Stawisha na M-shwari winner is a 24 year old Student

24 Year old Leonard Kiplangat, a 4th year student at Moi University, has emerged as the KShs. 5 million winner in the Stawisha Na M-Shwari promotion. Mr. Kiplangat, a B.Sc. Education…

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OPINION

We do not own data: Stop burning mobile phones and tablets

The exam cheating menace has been a big shock to me, not that I am unaware this has been going on for years, but because I did not know it…

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TECHNOLOGY

Safaricom subscribers can now access M-Pesa statements on dial

Safaricom subscribers will now be in a position access their monthly M-PESA statements free of charge via email. The new development by the company has been influenced by M-PESA users…

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TECHNOLOGY

M-PESA won two international awards

M-PESA is making Safaricom proud across the globe. The mobile money solution has helped Kenyans sort out money related challenges effectively. To honor that, M-PESA has received two international accolades…

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BUSINESS

Kenya is where China was 10 years ago

Kenya has been named top of the entrepreneurial spirit ahead of any other country on the continent with scores high in tech transfer, research and development expenditures. The early released…

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TECHNOLOGY

Safaricom celebrates 15th anniversary by awarding customers

Safaricom has rolled out a 60 day promotion to celebrate its 15th anniversary. ‘Shangwe Mtaani’ will reward more than 116,000 customers in seven regions across the country. Customers in Nairobi,…

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TECHNOLOGY

Government to sell Treasury Bonds to ordinary Kenyans via mobile phones

The government has opened treasury bonds to mobile users through a new platform; M-Akiba a development that points to the growing relevance of mobile money solutions in the evolving e-payments…

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TECHNOLOGY

Safaricom lets local and international developers in on the new M-PESA platform

Safaricom (NSE: SCOM) has opened up its M-PESA platform to allow local and international developers to come up with next-generation applications that will work with the most preferred mobile money…

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TECHNOLOGY

Safaricom to apply charges on 190 banks and financial institutions riding on M-Pesa platform

Safaricom has done it again! Seen a business opportunity where no one saw. Well, we have been all merry on the new convergence of banks and telcos that has made…

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Safaricom
TECHNOLOGY

Safaricom CEO now official board member of ACUMEN

Just three months after re-appointment as CEO of Safaricom, Bob Collymore has joined the board of Acumen, a non-profit social venture fund that invests in companies, leaders and ideas that…

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TECHNOLOGY

Standard Chartered signs up M-Pesa to provide faster cash settlement to M-Pesa merchants

Business Customers and M-PESA agents will henceforth access their float in real time 24/7 following a partnership between Standard Chartered and Safaricom. The move follows the integration of the M-PESA…

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TECHNOLOGY

iTax scoops Best Award and Exhibition Experience at a prestigious awards ceremony

  The Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) has been awarded the Best Award and Exhibition Experience at the just concluded 5th Edition of the African Public Service Day held in Brazzaville,…

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TECHNOLOGY

Digital Economy: Software coding and computer literacy future key drivers in the workplace

The technology world has always been prone to buzzwords, some of which make the cut into day-to-day conversation, while others disappear in a lexicon haze. For example, the cloud is…

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