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The announcement of Safaricom’s new MPESA-based solution, M-Pesa 1 Tap is aiming to be a game changer in payment services for M-Pesa users. Generally speaking, this is a bold statement to make, and Safaricom is confident that the speed and…
Safaricom has finally rolled the curtains on its new product, M-Pesa 1 Tap. The solution, as its name suggests, is a Tap and Go payment method that should enhance the monetary settlement of services and products for M-Pesa customers.…
We’ve been waiting for Nintendo to release Super Mario Run on Android since last year and this week, the company promised that they will finally release it on 23rd March, which is today. Today was the D-day and Nintendo has finally…
It is not news that Twitter has had a growth slump over the years and also, it is not news that we suspected that a big percentage of Twitter accounts were bots. We are not sure about the scale of the bot army on Twitter, but a research…
There’s a very high chance that you have read, heard or seen the plans that the Kenyan government, through the Communications Authority, has to spy on its citizens. If not, well, now you know that there’s such a plan. According to Daily…
No surprises here.
Late last week, we carried a report that the Taxi Hailing space in Kenya was facing some exit. Sendy, which has fast established itself in the logistics space announced it was exiting the space and will instead focus on its core services…
While Internet speeds are already fast, expect them to be even faster in the future with Fiber, Vectoring, and DSL bonding. If you belong to a generation that wasn’t brought up with the Internet, perhaps someone who marvels at the…
A month ago, Vice’s Motherboard reported that a potential security breach may have taken place at Yahoo in which 200 Million records were stolen. According to Motherboard, data from the accounts was being sold through the dark web, with…
We won’t be surprised if this ships before the Idol 4 and 4S to most regions.
Have you ever requested or needed some information from government and they simply didn’t get back to you, couldn’t trace the information or simply said the information was classified? Fear no more: the Access to Information Act, which was…
Samsung is at the moment in the news for all the negative reasons. There’s that huge Galaxy Note 7 recall going on and now this: Oculus won’t recommend using the new Gear VR meant for the Note 7 until users have had their (Note 7) units…
One step at a time, he says.
Kenyan logistics startup Sendy finally enters the taxi and motorcycle hailing space with introductory discounts.
In a move aimed at accelerating payments using Safaricom’s Lipa na M-Pesa merchant solution, Safaricom is conducting a pilot for a Lipa na M-Pesa card. The pilot is taking place internally with 1,500 of its employees using the card to pay…
Safaricom has today announced the launch of a service called bill manager that allows M-Pesa customers to manage and pay all their bills in a single transaction. Bill manager allows you to set automatic reminders and save Paybill numbers…
Cubot, a mobile device brand from China that you may have heard of recently thanks to their ultra-cheap Note S smartphone, is also keen on capturing a slice of the virtual reality market. According to The Droid Review, Cubot has plans to…
The rise of digital marketing has introduced a relatively new set of careers for people out there and one of the careers is being a social media executive. We have interviewed others players in the industry like Ahmed Salim about Digital…
Anonymous, the hacker group is famous for many things including a social networking site called Minds. Last year, the group announced it had decided to shut down social media accounts of ISIS sympathizers in a cyber war against terror.…
Safaricom has partnered with eight more financial institutions to enable businesses which use Lipa Na M-PESA to transfer funds from their Lipa Na M-PESA tills to their bank accounts real time. The new partnerships include KCB, Equity bank,…
Safaricom’s Mobile Money platform has grown in leaps and bounds since its inception in 2007. In announcing the FY 2014/15 financial results, the Telco announced that the platform contributed 20% of the company’s total revenue with…
Chrome OS, an operating system based on Linux and centred around Google’s Chrome browser, has been around since the year 2009. It is available only on computers (Chromebooks) designated to run it. With almost all the user data stored in…
Nintendo’s President, Satoru Iwata passed away 2 days ago due to a bile duct growth according to a press release from the company. Satoru Iwata was the fourth President of the company who had risen through the ranks in the company after…
