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TESLA smartphones are now available at Safaricom retail shops and its e-commerce platform, Masoko. The manufacturer, which has been in the Kenyan market for a while, has been selling its devices in a couple of physical stores and Jumia.…
The past few days has seen a video claiming that 4 AI robots killed 29 scientists in a secret lab in South Korea go viral on social media. The video, which features a woman narrating a story to an audience has caused a lot of speculation…
Communications Authority of Kenya has released its latest sector statistics for the first quarter of the 2018/2019 financial year which is from July-September 2018. They have several types of subscriptions they track and one of them is…
One of the biggest hurdles Safaricom has struggled to overcome has been with the Lipa Na M-Pesa process, especially at supermarkets. Aside from requiring around six steps just to make a payment, there’s always the chance of making an error…
During the announcement of the company’s Half Year results, Safaricom took the opportunity to announce that they will be introducing overdrafts on M-Pesa, the largest mobile money service in Kenya by revenue and transaction volume. The…
On the night of 12th October (EAT), Facebook released more info about the data breach that affected its users. The massive security breach was worse than initially thought. Here’s what Facebook says they know so far: The attackers used the…
The other day, a Twitter bushfire was lit when one Kenyan going by the handle @ItsMutai tweeted asking Kenyans to pay attention to their M-Pesa balances that end in cents and ask big questions to Safaricom, “If your balances end with…
Last Friday, Facebook announced that they had experienced a data breach and attackers had collected information from over 50 million accounts via “access tokens” that could potentially give them access to sensitive information from your…
Classic social network behaviour have been based on registering your details that proves your real identity. That’s why they ask basic personal things like your email address, phone number, date of birth and others like Facebook go further…
Africa’s Talking closes funding round of USD 8.5 million led by IFC and Orange Digital Ventures for expansion to African continent and talent acquisition.
We have to admit that Kenya’s third largest operator aka Telkom Kenya is striving to win its glory back by revolutionizing its business and turning it into a household name and a go-to mobile service provider. The carrier continues to…
Robots making and delivering food sounds almost unreal to many people. However, they are real. One good example of how food-making robots are changing the world of food delivery is Zume Pizzas robots. Pizza dough flipping and delivery is…
Late last week, the executives at Microsoft’s East and Southern Africa head office picked more than two dozen of us to the headquarters of Mawingu Networks (more of that in a second) to see the gains made by the technology company’s…
It appears that search engine and advertising giant Google is about to make drastic changes for one of its many messaging apps, Android Messages. Since its launch, the app focused on SMS, an older standard of sending messages that is still…
Do you feel like you’re having trouble connecting to your customer base? Seeing that your once loyal customers are going elsewhere for services or that they haven’t made any purchases in the past few months can be disheartening. The key is…
After possibly the longest wait, Kenya Railways has started the new year at a high notch after the company quietly launched an online booking platform for the Madaraka Express Train service. The platform which was supposed to launch in…
Yesterday, Safaricom sent a huge update to its mySafaricom app. The update was significant and included key additions as we discussed in this post. As a recap, the arrival of M-Shwari services was welcome as users can now use the service,…
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Kenya Railways has announced that Kenyans can now book their Madaraka Express tickets via a simple USSD application. At the moment, the only other ways to get a ticket is by physically going to the train station or by using the call method…
Four months ago, as M-Pesa was announcing its financials, the company took that opportunity to announce the coming of age of their new M-Pesa solution, M-Pesa 1Tap. M-Pesa 1Tap was meant to solve the problem of redundancy and error prone…
World Bank’s private equity and venture capital arm International Finance Corporation (IFC) will put KES 619 million into Africa’s Talking. The IT startup offers various communication solutions in effort to meet its mandate, and that is to…
One of the world’s largest data breaches has seen the leak of more than 700 million emails as well as millions of associated passwords. This has been done thanks to an attempt by spammers to break into people’s emails using programs that…
On August 1, Safaricom announced that it was going to take a more elementary and unchallenging approach for businesses to integrate M-PESA into their services to boost growth. Businesses will now benefit from this pronouncement because the…
Normally Mac’s are known for their performance, which is part of the reason why they have long been the computer of choice among designers, digital artists, and so on. That being said as remarkable as Mac’s may be sooner or later they will…
