TechMoran has been duly informed that the CEO of Telecom company, Safaricom has gone on a necessary medical leave which would last for some months. The Chief Financial Officer of the coy would take the reins during this period. Read the press release below... Safaricom Plc (NSE: SCOM) today announces ...
The director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Keriako Tobiko has directed that six Safaricom officers and Jubilee Party chief agent David Chirchir be investigated for allegedly playing a role in the flawed general election held on August 8 2017. Tobiko wants the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) Ndegwa Muhoro to probe ...
Bob Collymore, CEO Safaricom Privacy is an issue subscribers in Kenya hold closely to their hearts so it is no surprise that the country is buzzing with the news of Justice Isaac Lenaola’s letter to Safaricom, a telecommunication giant in Kenya. In the letter that was ...
Bob Collymore, CEO Safaricom “Digital disruption is no longer a novel phenomenon. It impacts each industry and economic sector in myriad ways,” said Safaricom CEO Bob Collymore in his speech at the United States International University Africa during the first Chancellors public lecture on June 7th. ...
Safaricom has launched its regional headquarters in Mombasa and a new retail shop in Malindi, as it bolsters its presence and distribution network at the Kenyan Coast. Situated at the Avenue Building in Nyali, the regional headquarter will coordinate operations across the Coast. The establishment of headquarters in the six ...
Bob Collymore, CEO Safaricom Bob Collymore's tenure at Safaricom was supposed to end in August this year after he took over from the beloved Michael Joseph in August 2010 but today Safaricom board chairman Nicholas Ng’ang’a said the board has extended Collymore’s contract for two more ...
Against the backdrop of increased innovations, mobile banking partnerships as well as the long awaited bringing of M-Pesa servers home as well controversies to do with data bundles and Karibu post paid Tarriff, Safaricom has posted Ksh 31.9 bn profits after taxes. The telcos’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Bob Collymore ...
Bob Collymore, CEO Safaricom Kenya’s Safaricom has said before it uses advanced technology and security systems to source out any unlawful and fraudulent activity taking place across its business network, providing the number of fraud and bribery cases they identify every year in their annual sustainability ...
Bob Collymore, CEO Safaricom Safaricom Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Bob Collymore has announced the exit of two top executives at the firm; Mr. Peter Arina, general manager consumer business and Ms Pauline Warui, director of customer management citing the Telco’s disconnection from customers. Arina worked at ...
After two days of not being able to access popular mobile money services on Equity Bank Automated Teller Machines, clients can now access the service after the bank restored Safaricom's M-Pesa, Orange Money and Yu mobile money services yesterday. The Daily Nation reports that customers were not able to access ...
Macharia Kenya's leading mobile network operator Safaricom today said it has no plans to and has not acquired Kenyan-based ICT multinational Seven Seas Technology but the firms have just partnered to work together in a move expcted to harness technology for the greater good. The two ...
M-PESA as a mobile concept for money transactions is budding in Kenya. However, in a more economically stable country like Nigeria, M-pesa is lagging behind due to factors such as unawareness, poor target market, noted Bob Collymore, Safaricom's CEO. Collymore in an interview noted that mighty lobbies in most African countries don't want M-pesa ...
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 to the service subscriber as well as the provider with ...
Mobile subscriber Safaricom has officially withdrawn from Essar’s mobile company Yu purchase not long after the regulator gave the two contenders conditional ownership. Chief Executive Officer Bob colymore has echoed the move saying the dominating telecommunications company was out of the race to acquire the assets by the time the ...
Safaricom is set to tap into the education sector with the introduction of E-learning professional certification for all Kenyans and also offering online learning in professional courses such as information systems security and audits. The leading telecommunications company is looking to expand its courses to incorporate the needs of many ...
The convenience of mobile payments continues to appeal to the market. It has proved easy and most of all a secure channel for Kenyans to transfer of money, payment of bills, school fees, making savings as well as borrowing money. In the first 11 months of 2013, Kenyans transacted more ...
Kenya’s leading service provider Safaricom has been given a directive by Communications commission of Kenya to renew its license worth kshs2.3billion before June this year last refreshed back in 1999 to run for 15 years after the telco paid a fee of ksh4.7 billion. However, the commission terms the operator ...
