Facebook and PayPal have made investments in Gojek, a Southeast Asian ride-hailing startup also offering food delivery and mobile payments. Facebook and Paypal will be participating in the ongoing Series F financing round to raise to over $3 billion. However, the two companies did not disclose the amount of investment in ...
PayPal has acquired an undisclosed stake in Tala, a micro-lending app with operations in Kenya, Tanzania, Philippines and Mexico in move that will see Tala reach more underserved populations in emerging markets across the globe. More than two-thirds of the world’s adult population has no formal credit bureau record, making ...
As a local web and mobile app developer, Joshua Mutua, the founder and CEO of KejaHunt and KejaMove, businesses in real estate and relocations respectively; struggled to buy domain names online on sites such as Godaddy, Namecheap and domains.com because he had no credit card. His bank also limited his ...
Following its launch in Nigeria last October, AfroMillionsLotto has linked up with leading Nigerian payments provider Paga to offer payments for lotto games in Naira, making it even easier to play for Africa’s biggest jackpots. James Leppard, Ofertas365 CEO, stated: “We are delighted to partner with Paga to offer ...
PayPal and Safaricom have announced a collaboration that will see users in Kenya deposit and withdraw between their M-PESA and PayPal accounts seamlessly in a move expected to take on Equity Bank-PayPal withdrawal only service. According to Joseph Ogutu, Director of Strategy, Safaricom, “M-PESA’s cooperation with PayPal will open up global market places and ...
Equity Bank has reviewed withdrawal charges on its Equity PayPal Withdrawal service in a move that will see users pay as low as 1% on withdrawals made from their PayPal account. According to Equity Bank Group CEO and MD, Dr. James Mwangi: “Financial inclusion continues to remain at the core ...
South Africa's Slide Financial founded by three young South Africans who recently returned from living in the States is simplifying the way South Africans pay each other by making payment as easy as sending a message. Inspired by PayPal-owned Venmo, the Slide app is a safe, simple and free way of ...
Microsoft and PayPal have announced a partnership that would enable peer-to-peer payments on the Skype mobile app. With the new Send Money feature, users in 22 countries users will be able to use PayPal directly from their Skype mobile app to seamlessly send money to other Skype users. The feature also includes options ...
If there is one area in which online casinos have been looking to improve over the recent years, it's how they can create a safer and secure monetary transactions process. There can be no argument as to why this is the case, as both operators and players alike seek to ...
Remittances from online payments platform PayPal, now account for close to 70 per cent of all Equity Bank Diaspora Banking revenue after the two enhanced the system to process customers’ withdrawal transactions within 3 business days, down from the previous 8 business days. The Bank did not reveal how much ...
Juma Ahmed is a sculptor based in Mombasa Kenya. He makes around 20 to 30 medium sized sculptures in a month to a growing clientel base in his homw town. For years, Ahmed turned down international orders from his website because he didn't know how he could recieve payments. Then ...
London-based international money transfer firm TransferWise has raised a $58m round led by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz's ANDREESSEN HOROWITZ for its global expansion. Horowitz will join the firm's board to help the firm which operates mostly in Europe, US and India to expand globally. If it fully launches in ...
Black Friday and Cyber Monday, which mark the beginning of the festive season when most major American retailers offer promotional sales to kick off the holiday shopping season, are US's biggest digital shopping days of the year that bring down e-commerce websites and generate the most online transactions of any single ...
''Tens of thousand'' of Nigerians have signed up on PayPal after its official launch in Nigeria and are already purchasing stuff online from local sites such as Konga, Jumia and from Britain, China and the US according to a report by Reuters. "We have seen great uptake by Nigerians in ...
PayTabs, a new payment processing solutions firm has launched in Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and the rest of the GCC to be a“one stop shop” to help SME’s accept online payment without hassles. PayTabs also aims to launch into the entire MENA region in the coming months. According to AbdulAziz AlJouf ...
Online payments firm PayPal is launching in Nigeria, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, and Zimbabwe and four other nations- Paragua, Belarus, Macedonia, Moldova, Monaco and Montenegro according to a new report by Reuters. Going live in Nigeria, and the three other markets will be able to able to make payments through PayPal ...
Nigeria's Payme is set to be the country's replacement of Paypal. Launched this year and powered by Nigeria's online payment platform QuickTeller, Payme allows users to receive payments form anywhere anytime. Users link their mobile numbers to their bank accounts to be able to receive cashless payments from anyone with ...
PayPal, an online payment and money transfer service which allows users to accept payments, pay for goods and send or receive money online without revealing their financial information. For a transaction to take place a buyer and a seller (merchant) each ought to have a PayPal account which is linked ...
