Since the beginning of this year, Safaricom has embarked on opening up regional offices. These offices are meant to act as hubs and are located in strategic are...
Carrier neutral data centres are a relatively new concept in Kenya. Most data centres here are owned and operated by Internet providers. Carrier neutral data ce...
The winners of the SOMA Awards 2017 have been announced at a gala event at Radisson Blu Nairobi. The SOMA Awards recognizes outstanding companies and individual...
In what is definitely music to the ears for Kenyan artistes, Safaricom last week announced a 36% increase in the amount that they will earn for music sold throu...
Safaricom yesterday officially launched the 5th edition of the Safaricom Athletics Series. The athletics series features a line up of nine long distance races a...
Safaricom has today announced that Vodafone Group has proposed to transfer its interest in the telco to South Africa based Vodacom which is its African subsidi...
Safaricom has today launched a new payment proposition called Mpesa 1 Tap. M-pesa 1 Tap reduces the number of steps a customer requires to make Lipa Na M-pesa...
Safaricom has announced that it has laid its home fibre in the proximity of 53,000 homes. The telco shared the news at the FY 2017 financial results announcemen...
Safaricom has today announced their results for the year ended 31st March 2017 and as usual they have not disappointed having posted a net income of Ksh. 48.4 B...
The M-Pesa Foundation Academy is now taking applications for its 2018 class. The institution is a state-of-the-art co-educational and residential 8-4-4 secondar...
The introduction of Lipa na M-Pesa (buy goods) provided a convenient way for customers to pay for goods and services. The best thing about the service to custom...
Safaricom and USIU-Africa have been announced as winners of distinct categories at The African Excellence Awards 2017. The awards were created to honor the most...
International Jazz Day will be held on Sunday 30th April at the Carnivore Grounds. The concert, dubbed Kenyan Jazz All Stars Edition, will open the 2017-2018 se...
Safaricom is like that loyal girlfriend or boyfriend who texts all the time. At a particular time each day or even at any given moment, you can expect a message...
The Bloggers Association of Kenya (BAKE) has today announced that the voting phase of this year’s blog awards has kicked off. This year over 10,000 blogs were s...
Safaricom has announced the reduction of Lipa Na M-Pesa charges for merchants. The charges will drop from the current 1% of the transaction value to 0.5%.
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The BLAZE BYOB Tv show concluded this past Sunday and Valentine Nekesa a part time designer and model emerged the winner. Valentine walked away with a grand pri...
Safaricom last night launched a new bundle for internet, calls and SMS called FLEX. The product targets people who use a lot of resources on internet, calls and...
Safaricom which is the telecommunications sponsor for the Barclays Kenya Open has today announced a Ksh. 3.5 Million sponsorship. The 49th edition of the tourna...
M-pesa yesterday marked 10 years since it was launched on 6th March 2007. To some of us it feels like it has been around forever. A true earnings report done by...
Release your inner Kalenjin and join several runners at the Safaricom Marathon in the Lewa Conservancy on Saturday 24th June 2017. Sweat as you run in raving te...
What comes to mind when you think of investment? It is probably property, land or shares. However, little by little the East African region has begun to accommo...
Dr. Bitange Ndemo and Vivek Badrinath have been appointed to the Safaricom board of directors. The appointments are effetive today and were approved at a board ...
As fans trickled into the Safaricom Stadium Kasarani, the all too familiar tunes of DJ D-lite welcomed them in anticipation of a fun filled afternoon. One could...
Safaricom has announced that it will be taking 63 university students under its 2017 technology internship program. The internship program known as Safaricom Te...
Some time back there was furor on Social Media when people came to learn that the Lipa na M-pesa service had hidden charges. The bone of contention was that Saf...
The Safaricom Spark Venture Fund has today announced that it will be investing in a startup called FarmDrive. FarmDrive is a data analytics startup that is able...
When Uber came into the Kenyan market, there was cause for celebration from Nairobians who were tired of being fleeced by cab drivers. Back then what used to ha...
In a star studded gala that went down last night at KICC, Vivian Cheruiyot the Double Rio Olympic medalist emerged the overall winner of the 2016 Safaricom Spor...
The BLAZE BYOB TV show, a youth entrepreneurship reality show, has announced the 12 contestants and the 3 judges in the contest. The reality show will air on KT...
M-pesa is the poster child for the mobile revolution in Kenya. Every publication that has written about the mobile revolution here almost always uses M-pesa as ...
Kenyan digital agency, Bean Interactive, has won a platinum award in the AVA Digital Awards 2017 in the Information Experience category for their work on the BL...
A recently published study on the long-run effects of mobile money on economic outcomes in Kenya provides some valuable insights that will benefit economic deve...
Youth entrepreneurship show BLAZE BYOB (Be Your Own Boss) will air on KTN in February and March next year. The show will begin airing on 6th February 2017 and w...
There was a time when Uber was on its way to becoming a monopoly in the taxi service industry in Kenya. This was because with its deep pockets there was no othe...
A very important aspect of online retail is logistics. Without it one cannot be able to fully exploit the capabilities of an online store. Every online retailer...
Safaricom last week announced their results for the period ended 30th September 2016 and as always they posted impressive results. This saw their net income inc...
Founded in 2014, Moringa School offers courses that train students to become strong mobile and web developers. Some of its graduates work at companies such as S...
There is nothing as bad as slow internet, the kind that makes you feel as if you want to pull out your hair. If you are a Safaricom subscriber living outside Na...
For the Jazz enthusiasts, I have some good news for you. The Safaricom Jazz Lounge is back and will be going down on 5th of November at Uhuru Gardens. This time...
Safaricom through its Foundation is set to benefit at least 240 people with ear surgeries across 8 regions. The surgeries are being conducted in partnership wit...
Safaricom has launched a new consumer promotion campaign dubbed Shinda Ma Mili with Stori Ibambe. The campaign will run for 60 days (till 4th December 2016).
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