Blockchain Kenya roadmap team to be led by Dr. Bitange Ndemo
Blockchain Kenya roadmap team to be led by Dr Bitange Ndemo. The Kenyan Government has created a taskforce to be chaired by Dr. Bitange Ndemo that will explore …
Google Mpesa Payment now enabled on Play Store
Google Mpesa Payment has been enabled on Google Play Store to allow Kenyans pay for Apps using Mpesa payment. Before, customers could only pay using credit …
Mobile money payments declined considerably in 2017
Mobile money payments declined considerably in 2017. The growth of mobile money payments declined considerably in 2017, raising queries about the health of the …
Airbus Little Engineer robotics programme launched in Kenya by Airbus Foundation, The Little Engineer and The Travelling Telescope
Airbus Foundation together with it’s partners The Little Engineer and The Travelling Telescope has rolled out the Airbus Little Engineer (ALE) robotics …
Safaricom, Telkom, Airtel launch Mobile money interoperability
Safaricom’s MPesa, Telkom money, and Airtel money have launched a mobile money interoperability. The three service providers signed a contract to bring …
Top 10 Africa Telecom Companies highest annual revenue
MPESARATES.COM TAKES A LOOK AT THE TOP 10 AFRICA TELECOM COMPANIES WITH THE HIGHEST ANNUAL REVENUE IN 2017. In the past few years the centre of global …
Lori Systems wins Startup Battlefield Africa (BFX Africa)
Lori Systems wins TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield Africa (BFX Africa) after gaining majority votes of the event’s 15 judges. The Kenyan-based Logistics …
eCitizen developers sues Treasury for denying it access to MPesa paybill number
Goldrock Capital, the developers of eCitizen portal has sued the Treasury and Webmasters Kenya, for denying it access to the website’s mobile money MPesa …
Gulf Bank and Safaricom to launch M-Sharia banking service
Gulf African Bank and Safaricom are set to launch M-Sharia, a Sharia-compliant banking service through MPesa which will enable customers to open and operate …
Safaricom, suffered 3 – 4 million USD Mpesa lost revenue during 2017 election
Safaricom, suffered an assessed 3 to 4 million USD MPesa lost revenue from its money transfer business in the past two weeks due a slowdown caused by a tense …
Masoko an African equivalent of Amazon.com has been announced by Safaricom
Masoko an African equivalent of Amazon.com has been announced by Safaricom, as they eye to tap into the growing online marketplace in Kenya. Masoko is a …
mVisa Kenya to offer free payments using QR-code
mVisa Kenya is to offer free person-to-person (P2P) transactions, through nine Kenyan banks that have either enabled mVisa on their mobile banking applications …
Vodacom Cape Town to acquire 34.9 percent Safaricom shares in Kenya
Vodacom – Cape Town is concluding its R35 billion entry into the profitable Kenyan mobile banking market after its smaller shareholders agreed to acquire …
What you need to know about the ‘housing bubble’ in Kenya
I first wrote about it in 2012. I stated that the bubble is bursting. Wait—I qualified it—that it will not be on a large scale like most countries, that …
