Safaricom CEO Peter Ndegwa Safaricom is officially in Ethiopia . While it is far from rolling out products and services to the country’s more than 110 million people, the operator has been making notable gains as it preps for a commercial launch. Just the other day, we learned that the company has started hiring talent […]
Safaricom Limited’s headquarters, Nairobi. PHOTO FILE | NMG The European Commission (EC) has cleared a joint venture between Safaricom and its parent firm Vodafone for Ethiopia entry after initially announcing plans to scrutinise it over competition concerns. In a letter seen by the Business Daily, the commission said the consortium did not pose any threat […]
Nairobi — Digital billboards around the Kenyan capital today started to live stream Nairobi’s real-time air pollution in an effort to increase air quality awareness among the city’s 4.7 million inhabitants. The initiative – by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), in collaboration with IQAir, a Swiss air quality technology company, Safaricom, a telecommunications provider in […]
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When M-Pesa was launched in 2007 within a year it became widely popular. By 2010, the company had a near monopoly on the market. Even today despite the launch of rivals like Equitel, Airtel Money, Orange Money, Tangaza Pesa and MobiKash – M-Pesa still has 70% of Kenya’s 68 million mobile money accounts. And in […]
Foreign investors in August turned net buyers for the first time since January at the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE), indicating increased confidence in blue chips such as Safaricom and selected tier one banking stocks that have reported higher profits. NSE data shows that net foreign inflows stood at Sh1.72 billion in the month, the first […]
Digital billboards around the Kenyan capital today started to live stream Nairobi’s real-time air pollution in an effort to increase air quality awareness among the city’s 4.7 million inhabitants. The initiative – by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), in collaboration with IQAir, a Swiss air quality technology company, Safaricom, a telecommunications provider in Kenya, Alpha […]
An employee assists a customer to set-up M-Pesa money transfer service on his handset inside a mobile phone care centre in Nairobi. Safaricom Plc run mobile money transfer platform M-Pesa has hit the 50 million active users, stamping its authority as the pioneer global mobile money platform. The milestone comes 14 years since the launch […]
Army stages coup in West African nation of Guinea NAIROBI, Sept. 6 (Xinhua) — China’s smartphone maker, OPPO, on Monday launched its Reno6 5G in the Kenyan market. Muthoni Wachira, head of projects and public relations at OPPO Kenya told journalists in Nairobi that the new mobile device will be available for pre-order on e-commerce […]
MPESA Mshwari Safaricom Safaricom Telecommunications Ethiopia PLC has announced a countrywide staff recruitment drive and introduced its leadership team as it affirmed its commitment to investing in Ethiopia’s digital future ahead of its commercial launch. At a media conference today held at Safaricom Ethiopia’s new offices, Mr. Peter Ndegwa , Chief Executive Officer of Safaricom […]
Safaricom Telecommunications Ethiopia has announced a countrywide staff recruitment drive and introduced its leadership team in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. This is as the company affirmed its commitment to investing in Ethiopia’s digital future ahead of its commercial launch early next year. Safaricom Ethiopia aims to recruit 450 graduates over the next three years into a […]
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