The Safaricom Jazz Festival is back and will be going down on 21st February 2016. The main act this time around will be Branford Marsalis, a 3 time Grammy Award...
Safaricom have announced that their customers will now be able get their full M-PESA statements free of charge via email. Previously such statements were availa...
Safaricom has poached staff from Airtel Kenya's marketing department. The move from Airtel to Safaricom started with Charles Wanjohi who is now the head of Cons...
Safaricom unveiled their 2016 Capture Kenya Calendar at a colourful Kenyan themed event at the Michael Joseph Center. The highly anticipated project saw three t...
It is often said that a lack of rules will lead to chaos/anarchy. So when rules are set it is expected that they will/should be followed more so by the individu...
Safaricom has launched a new health payment platform ‘M-Tiba’ in a bid to deepen the ability of citizens to access healthcare. The platform will deliver a mobil...
In a move aimed at boosting regional trade, Safaricom has partnered with MTN Rwanda to enable customers to make M-PESA transactions between Kenya and Rwanda. Th...
British Airways (BA) and Safaricom have partnered to launch an initiative that will provide international exposure for five business owners in Kenya’s Small and...
Safaricom has invested in Sendy, a Nairobi- based package delivery start-up company. The young company was identified as the first recipient of Safaricom’s 1 mi...
Earlier this week Huawei launched a new flagship store at the Garden City Mall in Nairobi. The launch was both unique and important for Huawei Technologies as t...
Here are the 2015 Shangwe Mtaani winners classified by the amounts, region and the date they won.
Shangwe Mtaani week one and two Winners – Kshs.1,000,000
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Safaricom has introduced a feature on M-PESA that will allow customers to confirm who they are sending money to. The feature went live in September and is acces...
Two weeks ago, we covered the introduction of the Shupavu 291 service by Safaricom. Let's walk through how the subscription service works shall we?
Step 1: D...
Safaricom has launched a new consumer promotion campaign dubbed Shangwe Mtaani. The 60 day campaign will culminate with celebrations to mark Safaricom’s 15th An...
The Safari sevens tournament dubbed “Africa’s premier sevens tournament” has surely come a long way since its first inaugural tournament in 1996. The fact that ...
The CEO of Safaricom, Bob Collymore, Marc Benioff, Chairman and CEO of Salesforce and Sharan Burrow, General Secretary of the International Trade Union Confeder...
These are not the best of times to be a KCPE/KCSE candidate in Kenya, more so if you attend a public private school. The closest many pupils are getting to thei...
Safaricom last week made a turnaround and announced that it would sponsor the 2015 Safari Seven tournament set to be held from 2nd to 4th October. This announce...
Following an interview session held at Strathmore University last week, 13 start-ups have been shortlisted to proceed to the incubation phase of the Safaricom A...
Safaricom has finally made the M-PESA API available. Developers will now be able to use the API to create aplications that will connect to the M-PESA platform d...
Some years back like most Kenyans I had a kaside hustle, it involved making numerous calls per day as I tried to push my products. As you can imagine I had to k...
Safaricom (NSE: SCOM) has been named the ‘Best Managed Company in Kenya’ by Euromoney Magazine. The magazine awards its Best Managed Companies ranking based on ...
We broke it to you about a month ago that Safaricom had launched the 3rd edition of the Safaricom Appwiz Challenge and that they were receiving applications for...
The news that Safaricom was launching the Waze app in Kenya in partnership with Google was greeted with dismay by Kenyans on social media. Guys wondered why Saf...
KRU has been in the process of re-shaping the organization in order to attract its main sponsors back to the sport after they expressed concerns over accountabi...
Google has today launched an interactive mobile app Waze in partnership with Safaricom. The app offers motorists access to accurate and real time information ba...
The M-PESA Foundation Academy has put out applications across all 47 counties seeking applicants in their final year of primary school. Two successful candidate...
Strathmore Business School in partnership with Safaricom has today launched the second Safaricom Business Journalism Fellowship for business journalists. The fe...
Safaricom has this week launched the 3rd edition of the Safaricom Appwiz challenge, a 3 month developer challenge targeting Kenyan innovators in mobile ICT. Thi...
Safaricom has launched a new post pay tariff dubbed Advantage plus which is meant to be an improvement to the Karibu Post Pay tariff. They had unsuccessfully tr...
Standard Chartered has partnered with Safaricom to introduce a solution that will see business customers and M-PESA agents deposit and access their float in rea...
Safaricom has today announced new data bundles after an outcry from their customers when they changed the pricing and validity period of data bundles in Februar...
Since it was announced that Lupita would be hosting a dinner in which one had to pay Kshs.10,000.00 per person. Kenyans on social media have raised a furore...
I had heard about the Lewa conservancy and the annual Safaricom marathon but I didn’t know much about it. Google being my friend I decided to do some resear...
My dad has played a huge role in my life, molding me into the kind of person I am today. Words cannot entirely express what he means to me. On this Father's...
Digital advertising in Kenya is approximately 7 years old. As digital advertising continues to grow in Kenya with more and more brands seeing the value of adver...
Over 200 Kenyan start-ups have applied for funding in the Safaricom Spark Fund. The Spark Fund is a venture capital fund that was launched by Safaricom in N...
It seems that Kenyan companies are paying attention to the sentiments of Kenyans online. Safaricom has twice changed product terms and conditions after an o...
Safaricom has finally launched it’s long awaited decoder “The Big Boxâ€. It is supposed to revolutionize the way Kenyans watch television. It is a diff...
A model of the Mpesa Foundation Academy, aerial view
The Mpesa Foundation has announced that it is building a state of the art high school along the Thika- ...
In a statement sent to the media, Safaricom has announced that it is withdrawing it's sponsorship of the Safaricom Sevens and the Safaricom National Sevens ...