Tag: mpesa
Latest MySafaricom Update Makes MPESA So Much Better
MySafaricom app is one of the most useful apps from Safaricom and it offers a lot of features. One of them is offering an...
Safaricom & Vodacom Plan Kshs 1.3 Billion Purchase of MPESA Rights
Kenya's Safaricom and South Africa's Vodacom are planning to have a joint venture to acquire the intellectual property rights of MPESA from the British...
MPESA Gets 2 Hour Countrywide Outage
Safaricom's mobile messaging service, MPESA is one of their most used products and people use it for different ways. Well it is experiencing a...
Online Card Transactions In Kenya: A Slow Death?
The Kenyan e-commerce market keeps on growing by leaps and bounds. This has been further fueled by the 90.4% mobile penetration rate that roughly...
Senegalese-Born Artiste Akon To Launch Cryptocurrency, Akoin and Other African Tech Stories
Akon to launch Akoin and is building his own Wakanda
The American-based Senegalese artist says the cryptocurrency will be the currency of choice in Akon...
Hack To Buy A Full Year of Showmax For Only Kshs 1000
You can get a whole year's subscription on Showmax for way less than you think
Taxify Integrates MPESA Ahead of Rivals But Only For iOS
Taxify has integrated MPESA payments as an option but only for iOS
Safaricom is Planning Another MPESA Upgrade This Week
MPESA is one service that we get to enjoy using on the Safaricom network. Due to its importance, the platform needs to be serviced...
This Kenyan Telegram Bot Calculates MPESA Fees For You
It even understands Sheng to some degree!
To Fight Fraud, M-Pesa Agents Will Now Use Photo Identification on All Transactions
"Hello, please nitumie zile pesa kwa hii number, usitume kwa ile yangu sababu imeblock mpesa", all M-Pesa users have at one point received such...
Making Payments with M-Pesa 1 Tap Will Focus On Speed and Ease of Use
The announcement of Safaricom’s new MPESA-based solution, M-Pesa 1 Tap is aiming to be a game changer in payment services for M-Pesa users. Generally speaking, this is a bold...
How Much Do You Rely On Mpesa?
Just how much did the Safaricom outage that occurred the other day impact on your daily routine such as your interactions and businesses? Admittedly,...
Bitwala’s New Product Involves Sending Bitcoins To MPESA For Free
The mobile money revolution in Africa has made people send money across geographical borders. It is one of the best innovations we have had...
Can Kenyan Banks End Mpesa’s Dominance with PesaLink?
Since Kenyan banks lost to Mpesa in 2006, their sole strategy has been to catch up. Kenyan banks are running out of ideas, resorting to copying Mpesa.
Report Recommends M-Pesa to be Detached From Safaricom to Reduce Market Dominance
The Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) hired Analysys Mason - an independent international consultant - to look at the country’s telecommunication and broadcasting industry on market...
Safaricom planning to Release holistic M-Pesa API for Developers
The M-Pesa API to be released in 2017 will have expanded capabilities to accommodate various platforms developers use.
Safaricom’s M-Pesa Kadogo: What is the Bigger Picture?
Why Safaricom Scrapped Charges for Transactions Below Kshs. 100 with M-Pesa Kadogo
M-Pesa and Data Push Safaricom’s Half Year Profits to Kshs. 23.9 Billion
Safaricom's non-voice revenue surpassed voice revenue for the first time
Number of 30 day M-Pesa users hits 17.6 Million customers
Data revenues grew...
Safaricom Appoints Ronn Webb the New Head of Financial Services
Safaricom has today announced Ron Webb as the new head of the financial services division. The division houses Safaricom's mobile money service M-pesa. Webb joins...
As Safaricom Hits 15, what’s been the Impact on Kenyan Tech Scene?
Safaricom was launched in the year 2000 as an underdog in the telecom sector. The green company headquartered in Westlands, Nairobi from the...
E-citizen Services Via Lipa na M-pesa: The How and The Why
The Kenyan government has been keen on delivering services to citizens through different platforms and especially the internet. To this effect, the government revamped...
Airtel Teases Safaricom’s Mpesa Downtime with New Ad
Airtel took no chances and swiped a jab at Safaricom's Mpesa down time taking place over the weekend. In a new, cunning and provocative...
BREAKING: Safaricom Now Hosting Mpesa Servers In Kenya
Safaricom is a market leader in mobile money, both locally and globally. The company is doing well by any means. But there are some...
Mpesa To Be Unavailable For A Chunk Of The Weekend
M-pesa service will be unavailable this Saturday on a scheduled maintenance. The maintenance is set to take 9 hours starting 11pm Saturday March 21, 2015...
Why Mobile Is Still King In Kenya And Africa
Mobile innovations are the future of technology in Kenya. Since the entry of mobile in the late 1990s, a lot of vibrancy, growth and...
Safaricom’s “Lipa Na Mpesa Shinda A Home” Drives Mobile Payments Growth, First Winners Awarded
Safaricom has an ongoing promotion that seeks to drive growth of mobile money payments usage. The campaign dubbed "Lipa Na M-Pesa Shinda A Home"...
Safaricom’s New Acquisition M-Ledger App Covers Large Gap In Personal Payments Reconciliation
Safaricom on Wednesday launched an app that will assist in tracking mobile money transactions on an easy to use user interface for Mpesa. The...
Safaricom Not Rattled By Equitel Entry, Collymore Says The Market Still Big
Safaricom Tuesday announced the half year results with an impressive 79.3 Billion in revenues for the Half year 2015. Mpesa revenues were reported...
KEeping It Local: Windows Phone Apps for Kenya
As mobile landscape in Kenya transitions from “dumb” feature phones to smartphones, the need for apps with local content grows every day. Apps enable...
Airtel Wins Case to Compel Safaricom To Open Up Mpesa Agency Network
Safaricom's main advantages that led to an edge over rivals in Kenya's mobile money industry include the vast agency network alongside the 21 million...
