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South Africa’s Click n Compare Launches to Make Price Comparison Simple

Price comparison is a must for most shoppers across the world as most people want the best deals of their products or services. A new price comparison site Click n Compare, has launched with plans to give users transparency...

Tech

Organizations turn to tech to counter health problems in Kenya

The health sector is getting a shot in the arm by organizations forming partnerships to deal with the recurring problems in health as well as the upcoming ones a good example being Samsung East Africa which will give healthcare...

Business

CEO Weekends: CIC Group to branch out to South Sudan

CIC insurance can now begin operations in South Sudan after the government gave their approval. According to the Business Daily, the expansion will cost the firm Sh500 million, to be funded through internal cash reserves and proceeds of the upcoming...

Business

CEO Weekends: See How Easily You Can Import a Car From Japan

By Brian Syuki As we all know, importing a car to Kenya can be hectic, costly and time consuming especially if you don’t know how to go about it. This article will outline everything you need to know when importing...

Mobile

Microsoft Unveils Lumia 930 & Lumia 630 | Priced at KES 60K & 16.5K

At just Kshs 16,500 and Kshs 60,000, Lumia lovers can get themselves the Lumia 630 and 930 respectivelyafter the firm unveiled them today in Kenya, both running on Windows Phone 8.1. The Lumia 630, the successor to the successful Lumia...

Tech

What you post on Facebook could cost you a job

Facebook Inc’s unofficial mission is to make the ‘world more open and connected’, says the company’s chief executive Mark Zuckerberg. Still, there are limits to how open one should be on the social networking site and while you may...

Startups

Kenya’s M-Changa & South Africa’s Creditable Among Startupbootcamp’s Top Ten Finalists

South Africa's Creditable, a firm that enables credit unions, lenders, businesses and individuals to give loans to their customers, employees, suppliers and family professionally in five minutes and Kenya's M-Changa, an inexpensive SMS fundraiser for East Africa are mong...

Tech

Alcatel-Lucent Partners With Senegal Government In The mDiabetes Program

Alcatel- Lucent has joined the Senegalese government, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) to support the “Be Healthy, Be Mobile” initiative. The mDiabetes project aims at combating diabetes with an ambitious and innovative campaign based...

Mobile

Mobile phones used to fight Diabetes in Senegal

The Ministry of Health in partnership with other stakeholders are in a drive to combat diabetes using mobile phones for creating awareness among diabetic patients and in training health professionals. The mDiabetes project is themed “Be Healthy, Be Mobile” will...

Business

CEO Weekends: New CBK KBBR to promote transparency in banking sector

The recent unveiling of the new Kenya Banks’ Reference Rate (KBRR) by the Central Bank of Kenya is set to promote transparency in the banking sector as it will help customers see what rates local banks are offering for...

Business

CEO Weekends: Ecobank Donates State Of Art Equipment To Curb Cancer In Kenya

Ecobank has sponsored cancer patients for treatment following the recently concluded Ecobank Cancer Caravan in which, out of more than 3,600 people screened for cancer, about 200 people tested positive for either prostrate, cervical cancer or breast cancer and...

Startups

DEMO Africa Names 40 Best Startups |Nigeria Shines With 14 out of 40

DEMO Africa has announced the 40 best tech startups that will take part in the competition in September this year with Nigeria taking the lion’s share followed by Kenya, Ghana and Egypt. Other African countries to be represented are Rwanda,...

Business

KCB & Safaricom Launch Biashar@Smart to Give Loans to SME’s & Bring Them Online

SMEs in Kenya employ up to 80 percent of the population and account for 92 percent of all new jobs that are created and contribute up to 45 percent of the Gross Domestic Product. In a move to make business...

Startups

CEO Weekends: Hema Wants to Replace Traditional ‘911’ Services

Nairobi-based Safaricom Academy is among the leading hubs incubating a range of innovations that are tipped to shake East Africa’s tech scene in the future. TechMoran met Jemimah Kiiru, one of the developers of a new Kenyan app...

Tech

MicroEnsure reaches 10 million enrolled clients

Microinsurance firm using airtime to sign up masses MicroEnsure has today announced it serves more than 10 million enrolled clients after gaining key partnerships with mobile network operators, microfinance providers and banks in Africa and Asia, including Telenor in...

Business

South African Software Firm Develops Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange System in Weeks

In just eight weeks, South Africa's Securities and Trading Technology (STT), a trading, clearing and settlement technology firm has build the Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange (DSE) system from start to finish. According to Moremi Marwa, CEO of DSE, "This...

Business

Mercer Will Be Buying 34 Percent Of South Africa’s Alexander Forbes

Mercer has made an announcement that it will be acquiring 34 percent of the South Africa-based Alexander Forbes Group Holdings (Alexander Forbes). This means that Mercer will be a key share holder in the company as well as the...

Tech

African Insurers Need to Review Their Mobile Strategies

A report by Juergen Weiss based on the Gartner 2013 Global CIO survey, predicts that by 2015 at least 40 percent of the currently existing insurance-related, customer-facing mobile applications will be abandoned due to lack of demand. Reason being, insurers...

Business

Kenya’s PesaPoint To Launch “Super Agent Network”

Safaricom's M-PESA, Airtel Money and all the banks have agents counting to over 100,000 in total countrywide. Now, PesaPoint a Paynet Group member says it will launch a super agent network in the country with over 1200 agents countrywide and...

Business

Barclays Uganda signs up Airtel for Mobile bulk payment

Barclays Bank (Uganda) has signed a deal with Airtel, the mobile network firm, to provide a mobile bulk payment solution for the bank’s corporate customers countrywide Airtel Uganda and Barclays Bank of Uganda Limited have today signed a Memorandum...

Tech

Kenya Bus Service & KCB Partner To Make Bus Fare Cashless

Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB) and Kenya Bus Service (KBS) partnership has unveiled the Abiria card, a cashless payment debit card, for their commuters. With this MasterCard enabled card, commuters will be able to pay their farse as well as use...

Business

Nigeria Unveils Credit Facility For Infrastructure Projects

The partnership between Nigerian Sovereign Investment Authority (NSIA) and GuarantCo that was looking at developing a strategy towards redressing Nigeria’s infrastructure deficit, the two have launched a credit facility for infrastructure projects. The existing funding gap has been identified as...

Business

Nomanini Announce Partnership With Nigeria’s Aurora VM

As Africa’s economic development continues to reach new heights, Nomanini has announced its expansion into West Africa having secured a partnership with Nigerian enterprise Aurora VM. Nomanini is a Cape Town-based technology solutions provider that builds tools to facilitate cash...

Startups

7 startups that pitched at Net Prophet’s Sparkup!Live

By Marguerite Heyns Big names in technology and investment scene in South Africa yesterday met up in downtown Cape Town with some of the most promising startup offerings in the city. Net Prophet’s Sparkup!Live is a self-professed business gauntlet connecting...

Business

What Heshan De Silva Really Does | Part I

Heshan de Silva needs no introduction. He has been in press for both good and not so good reasons but the devout Christian says he is not stopping his good deeds to the businesses he has funded and the...

Telcos

Safaricom Hires Technology Giant Huawei To Install New M-Pesa Servers Locally.

After eight years of Safaricom’s mobile money platform systems operating from Germany, the telecommunications company has contracted 200 experts from Huawei to install a new M-Pesa server that will be located in Kenya. The move definitely comes with added advantages...

Business

Grameen Foundation & MasterCard Introduce AppLab Money in Kenya

MasterCard is indeed cementing its presence in Kenya because the car company has partnered with Grameen Foundation to bring AppLab Money in Kenya. This initiative is designed to create mobile financial services products for the unbanked and under-banked in the...

Business

Safaricom and DTB join NMG’s SME’s Top 100 survey.

Nation media Group’s annual survey that ranks the fastest growing mid-sized companies “Top 100 survey” sponsored by sage Pastel, Nairobi Securities Exchange, UAP Insurance has doubled its contribution this year thanks to the newly joined Safaricom and DTB Group. The...

Tech

The Need for Biometric National ID Cards in Africa

By Mohammad Shahnewaz ”In the United States, when a child is born, he/she is assigned a number. This is the social security number (SSN). That number follows the child till death. That number is unique and captures the child’s life...

Startups

Nomanini Launches in Mozambique to Power Transactions for the Unbanked

Nomanini,a firm that combines physical vouchers with direct, electronic delivery to informal retailers has launched operations in Mozambique after sealing a deal with a local prepaid mobile distributor in the country, helping it fuel its continued African growth and...

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