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…

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…

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…

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…

 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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

  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,…

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…