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Kenya’s Equity Bank Turns To Biometric IDs To Curtail Fraud Stars

Kenya’s Equity bank has already began the process of collecting all its customers fingerprints to curb fraud, and will be used to verify over-the –counter withdrawals as well as ATM transactions. The only verification documents that are currently used in...

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Former KQ Boss Titus Naikuni Appointed Chairman, Airtel Kenya

On May 23, after 15 years of service as Bharti Airtel Kenya Chairman, Mr. Naushad N. Merali announced his retirement. Mr. Merali had served as the chairman of the company from its begining as the founder of Kencell, now...

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South Africa will be spending $13 billion on IT come 2015, Says IDC

International Data Corporation (IDC), in a report, predicts that South Africa will be spending a total of $13 billion on IT by 2015. The leader of the pack will be consumer, finance, and government verticals, with the former expected to...

Startups

CEO Weekends: SokoText, FarmbizAfrica Graduate from GrowthAfrica Agribusiness Accelerator

Nailab's SokoText, an SMS based ordering service for Mama Mbogas and African Laughter's FarmbizAfrica, a farmer news and information portal are among the 12 startups that have received funding from the Bestseller Fund organised by GrowthAfrica. The twelve were showcased...

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Share Your Lumia Story & Win Goodies With Nokia Lumia 530

Nokia Lumia 530 is giving out Coloud speakers and we want you to be the winner as long as you're based in Kenya. Firstly, Coloud speakers were created in 2012 in Stockholm, Sweden with the idea that they will be...

Mobile

The Blackphone is Set to Launch in Kenya

Manufactured by Silent Circle and Geeksphone, The Blackphone is launching in Kenya, as it's first stop on Africa to help users in control of their data by using a customized operating system, PrivatOS, with apps all designed to optimize...

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The Future of Travel is Online

Online travel agency, Travelstart Kenya in collaboration with global distribution system firm , Amadeus and payments service provider, 3G Direct Pay have organized a one day seminar aimed at discussing the opportunity the internet brings to the travel industry...

Startups

Kenya’s TenderSoko Wants to be the Country’s Biggest Tender Marketplace

Julius Munene believes that tenders should be free to view, an open playing field for all companies who wish to participate and should be free of corruption. Sadly, that's not the case. He teamed up with his friends to launch TenderSoko.com...

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Equity Bank to Issue Over 9 Million American Express Cards in East Africa

Kenya's Equity Bank has signed a deal with American Express to issue American Express cards in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. as well as sign up new merchants on to the American Express network in the region. Dr. James Mwangi, Equity...

Business

Kenyan Pension Firm Launches M-Pension, Mobile Pension for Low Income Earners

Low income earners especially those in the informal sector have largely been neglected by the formal pensions industry, ultimately condemned to poverty in old age. But now with today's launch of M-Pension, individuals, farmers, fishermen, craftsmen, mechanics and other...

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Equity Bank, Safaricom Named Best in Customer Service

Equity Bank, Safaricom, University of Nairobi, Nakumatt among others have been named the best in customer service in Kenya by the Institute of Customer Service Kenya (ICS-Kenya), a professional body for customer service in the country. ICS in partnership with...

Startups

Kenya’s Totohealth Taking Maternal Care to Every Mother with a Mobile Phone

Kenya's Felix Kimaru and his friends at Totohealth, a social enterprise applying affordable and innovative mobile technology tools to address the high maternal and newborn mortality rates in Kenya, realized that living with a disabled child can have profound effects...

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New e-health product for low-income Kenyans launched

Grameen Foundation, MicroEnsure, and Penda Health have launched a new health insurance product that is aimed to cater for low income individual and families in Kenya. “The initiative, called the "Uzima Project", will focus on providing low-income people access to high...

Startups

Travelstart Kenya Hits Three Years | Records Increasing Demand for Flights

Travelstart Kenya, an online travel agency which allows users to search, compare, book and pay for their domestic and international travel arrangements has hit three years of operations in Kenya. Speaking to TechMoran on the milestone, Travelstart Kenya Country Manager ...

Startups

Introducing Kenya’s Revision844 |New Digital Revision Platform

Though based in London, Andrew Mugoya, Asilia's Technical Director knows the 8:4:4 system pretty well and he knows that exam time is around the corner. With exams around the corner, students all over the country are busy revising for their...

Business

South Africa’s Nedbank Acquires 20% Stake in Ecobank for $493m

South Africa's Nedbank Group is set to acquire a 20 percent shareholding Ecobank Transnational Incorporated (ETI) for USD493.4 million 4,512,618,890 new ETI shares. Though the 20% sale increases Ecobank's capital base, it also answers Nedbank's African expansion plans and strengthens...

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South Africa’s TomTom VIP boat To Provide Coverage Of The RiskSA Regatta

TomTom South Africa has announced that they will be sponsoring one of the VIP boats at the inaugural 2014 RiskSA Regatta. The biggest corporate sailing event this side of the Atlantic, will be held on 25 – 26 October...

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Financial institutions in MEA regions to spend more on IT

Financial institutions in the big four markets of the Middle East and Africa (MEA) — Saudi Arabia, South Africa, the UAE, and Turkey are set to increase their spending on IT, the region being ready for strong year-on-year growth...

Startups

Orange Launches New Accelerator in Ivory Coast |Invests 60K Euros in 4 Startups

Orange has launched a new accelerator in Ivory Coast dubbed “Orange Fab Ivory Coast” in a move to facilitate the development of start-ups in the Ivorian economic system. Mari-Noëlle Jégo-Laveissière, Senior Executive Vice President of Innovation, Marketing and Technologies of...

Startups

TrustedCompany.com Secures US$1M Series A Round to Expand into Africa & LatAm

South East Asia's and India's review authority TrustedCompany, has raised $1M Series A round to expand in emerging markets and expand into Africa and Brazil. The round was led by German TENGELMANN ventures and co-invested by 500 Startups and...

Startups

Of Unrequited Brand Loyalty & Customer Bora | The New Loyalty & Reward System by Juliani

By John Masiwe I want to tell you a story about Jubilee Insurance (K) Ltd, Kiwi and Bata. Let me start with Jubilee Insurance (K) Ltd. I am their client. On the morning of my birthday, I got a text message...

Startups

South Africa’s Phonefinder Wants to be the Biggest Cellular Services Price Comparison Site

Cell phones have come an extremely long way in South Africa and have become not only a necessity, but a symbol of social status and even a fashion statement - yet the local market around cell phones has hardly...

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The MasterCard-branded National eID Card Births a New Era for e-commerce in Nigeria

After PayPal and Western Union launched in Nigeria, the country's new National eID card is a big plus for both security and e-commerce especially because it's MasterCard-branded and will power electronic payments for over 13 million Nigerians. The initiative, the...

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Nigerian President to Launch National Electronic Identity Card

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan is scheduled to launch the National Electronic Identity Card for all the citizens Thursday. The president directed the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) to ensure that the registration is concluded by the end of this year. NIMC...

Business

CEO WEEKENDS: Kenyan Microfinance firm honored for spurring mobile money adoption

Kenyan microfinance firm Musoni has been honored with the '2014 Kenyan Frost & Sullivan Award for Technology Leadership.' The award that is based on Frost & Sullivan’s recent analysis of Kenya’s microfinance industry recognises Musoni's efforts for spurring adoption of...

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CEO Weekends:Uganda to benefit from new iWayAfrica managed service solution

Pan-African telecoms operator Gondwana International Networks (GIN) has revealed the launch of managed infrastructure and services solution for the SME market in Uganda by its iWayAfrica business. It is a joint product offering with managed services company SevenC Computing. Winston...

Business

Uganda SMEs to benefit from iWayAfrica managed service solution

Uganda’s Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) stand to benefit from a new iWayAfrica managed infrastructure and services solution that will ensure that all IT processes are managed on a single strict service level agreement. These include business email; data storage...

Tech

Pamoja Cloud service launches Rapid Response apps in South Africa

Rapid Response apps are now available to South African mobile-users. The app provides a fast link to help at hand when they need it most. Pamoja, the Cloud services business unit of Pan-African ICT enabler SEACOM, has been outsourced by...

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Airtel & VeriFone Mobile Money Enter Kenya’s Transit & Retail Sectors With New Mobile Tap n Pay Partnership

In a move set to revolutionize Kenya's public transit and merchant payments, Bharti Airtel and VeriFone Mobile Money have partnered to deploy VeriFone Mobile Money’s merchant enablement applications for mobile Tap n Pay across Airtel’s 17 operating countries in...

Startups

Nomanini mobile POS reaches a million transactions

Just 14 days after raising $450 million for international expansion, Nomanini, the South African-based mobile Point of Sale platform announced that informal vendors and micro-entrepreneurs across Africa have made a million cash transactions using its tough terminal. Nomanini enables cash...

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