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The Bloggers Association of Kenya BAKE will on  April 12 host a training on the use of Social Media for businesses at the Nailab, 4th Floor Bishop Magua Centre on Ngong Road. The training will be a chance for social...

Launched in Kenya by Vodafone's Safaricom in 2007,  M-Pesa has gone live in Romania, the first country in Europe to power mobile money transfer and payment services. According to Vodafone Director of Mobile Money Michael Joseph (who was then Safaricom's...

Telecoms tower company, Helios Towers Africa (HTA), has achieved the internationally recognised OSHAS 18001 standard in the DRC  making it the first and only OSHAS 18001 certified tower company in each of its existing markets. The firm says the...

UBA (UBA Kenya) bank in partnership with Airtel Kenya have launched a mobile banking product, Akiba Mkononi, which aims to encourage low income earners to save money. Akiba Mkononi allows subscribers to open and manage accounts from a mobile phone...

In a move that will see AccessKenya Group become East Africa's top managed security service provider, the Dimension Data-owned firm has partnered with Security Risks Solution Limited and Internet Solutions Kenya Limited to introduce Security as a Service solution...

 Press Release: EY today announced the finalists of the Eastern Africa Chapter of the Entrepreneur Of The Year™ Awards (EOYA).The Entrepreneur Of The Year™ Awards recognize entrepreneurs who demonstrate excellence in areas of entrepreneurial spirit, financial performance, strategic direction,...

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Equity Bank's shares have started rising steadily after it applied for a licence from the Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK) for a Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO), which will guarantee it rights to share infrastructure with any operator to...

Obutu Anyona lost his dad in 1998, when he was just 13 years and in class seven, as any normal teenager he knew that putting their dad's photo among the obituaries in a newspaper did cost money, they gave...

Launched in March 2007 by Kenya's Safaricom, M-PESA has over 17 million customers and over 60,000 Agent outlets countrywide and is the most successful such service anywhere in the world.  However, questions have been raised over its origin, and...

Kenyan MP's are the world's best paid, a report by the BBC reported that Kenya's prime minister (post annulled) earned over a third his British counterpart and almost 10% more than the US president. The report claims an MP takes...

Airtel International MD and CEO Manoj Kohli is set to step  down on fools day to a new role in non-telecom business of Bharti Enterprises, Bharti Airtel's holding company, in the firm's major international shake up with Manoj as the...

Health statistics in Kenya show that only 3 percent of the population has health insurance leaving out a whopping 38.8 million without health insurance. The good news is that some firms have come together to help end this. Safaricom Ltd,...

  Farmers in Rwanda and Zambia will soon be protected from bad weather as IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, has signed two grant agreements with MicroEnsure Ltd, valued at about $650,000 combined, to increase the supply of...

  International money transfer company, CoinFling wants you to be Santa every Christmas by allowing you to send money to your loved ones via mobile applications, conveniently. With transfers starting from $2.99 and 50,000 cash pickup locations, the app is available...

MTN Mobile Money users will now be able to make transactions everywhere that Visa is accepted as a result of a partnership agreement between both companies. Under the agreement, MTN customers’ devices will be able to pay using their...

Rhys Collins, Head of African Operations for SSP, a leading provider of insurance technology to insurers across the continent, says modern technology overcomes these challenges, and this is increasingly drawing new players into the African insurance market.  Both Hollard and...

Tanzanian Jerry Isaac Mruma, a USIU MBA student and founder and CEO of Kilimo Yetu, an agribond investment startup has been found dead after he went missing last Saturday in Nairobi. Mruma's body was found at the City Mortuary by...

Mobile banking in Kenya has proved to be a force to reckon with,  because at this rate no bank can afford not to have this application in their program. In light to this, the Equatorial Commercial Bank (EBC) has...

President Uhuru Kenyatta  has today unveiled a state of the art public service centre to serve as a one stop centre for provision of e-government services. Unveiled a few minutes ago at the Teleposta towers, the  centre is open...

FirstBank has partnered with 3AL limited to built a portal for retail, insurance products and e-ticketing solutions in a move set to revolutionize the way consumers and merchants facilitate payment for goods and services using social and digital media.  The...

In a bid to facilitate financial inclusion while improve efficiency of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises in Senegal and The Gambia through the piloting of an nouvelle tech-based solution for collecting and gathering credit information to creditors, it is...

    Two weeks after terminating the first tender, the government of Kenya has opened a new opportunity to bidders who are interested in providing laptops for primary schools as it has released a new tender. The termination of the previous process...

HR and people management software and services firm Piilo has said that new technologies are driving automation and business value across Africa. According to Piilo Software’sCEO Phil Lötter, the firm is is currently engaging resellers across 10 African countries with...

Leading Regional East African retail chain Nakumatt Holdings Limited together with MasterCard has unveiled the Nakumatt Global Prepaid MasterCard card. The card has been made possible by the two partnering with  Kenya Commercial Bank and Diamond Trust Bank. The new card, which...

Forget the $50,000 from local angel investors, innovators from Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi have a chance to win over US$350,000 from TradeMark East Africa Challenge Fund (TRAC). The US$250,000 to US$350,000 per project grants are open to private...

The Lagos State government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Microsoft on e-Governance initiatives that will drive governance in the state. The agreement focuses on e-governance in order to better serve people in Lagos. Lagos governor, Babatunde Fashola, said that...

Samsung Electronics Zambia has asked it customers in Zambia to be cautious when buying new and second hand phones for unauthorized dealers. This, the company says, will put them at risk in purchasing counterfeit products which are potentially defective...

India's Zensar Technologies Ltd has become the first Indian IT firm to close an agreement with majority black owned investment business Kapela Fund 1 (Kapela) and The Tomorrow Trust to set up a new Broad Based Black Economic Empowered...