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The priceless advice I got that made Little Cab a success
Little Cab’s Kamal Budhabhatti. Kamal Budhabhatti remembers his chat with late Safaricom chief executive Bob Collymore when he dropped by the giant East Africa telco offices along Waiyaki Way in Nairobi. He had just developed the Little Cab app and wanted advice and partnerships with like-minded technology companies to penetrate the market. At the time […]
Centum share drops marginally as investors mourn Kirubi
Centum Investment board member Chris Kirubi and the firm’s managing director James Mworia at a past investor briefing held in Nairobi. The share price of Centum Investment, a Nairobi Securities Exchange diversified investment firm dropped marginally yesterday as investors following the death of business mogul Chris Kirubi. The share traded at Sh15.75 on Tuesday, 1.87 […]
Revving up Self-Disruption: Standard Chartered’s African Odyssey
Africa was the birthplace of the mobile wallet in the mid-2000’s, a digital payment revolution that was driven by necessity given limited access to Bank Branches and Banking services. Africa has made great strides in its mobile and digital adoption with some truly world scale success stories like Safaricom’ s MPesa. Airtel Money and MTN […]
Market is now ripe for long-term investments
The global impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, especially the sudden shock to economies has been unprecedented in recent history. The severe impact and prolonged spell of the pandemic paint a gloomy picture. With the different policies undertaken to ensure a speedy recovery of economies and markets, we are likely to see positive recovery despite new […]
Safaricom takes fight to global payment firms with M-Pesa App
Mpesa signage at a Safaricom shop along Banda Street, Nairobi. February 25, 2021. In 2017, Safaricom Chief Executive Bob Collymore sought to defend the company’s growth ambitions against a growing call to split the firm by hiving off M-Pesa from the rest of the business. During an annual investor briefing, the late CEO responded to […]
Kenya: Safaricom Hands Sh17.5 Million Boost to Three Safari Rally Drivers
Mitsubishi’s Baldev Chager and Ravi Soni compete in the 22km SS 3 Soysambu stage of the 2019 Safari Rally (file photo). Safaricom Tuesday unveiled a Sh17.5 million sponsorship for three drivers nominated to compete in the Safari Rally and select World Rally Championship (WRC) events under the International Motorsport Federation (FIA) Rally Star Programme open […]
Bob Collymore’s widow to wait longer for court to clear her to manage wealth
The distribution of millions left behind by former Safaricom CEO Bob Collymore was pushed forward after the High Court learnt his children could not participate as they were in the United Kingdom. Consequently, Collymore’s widow Wambui Kamiru will have to wait a little bit longer to know whether she will be granted letters to solely […]
Are Mobile Operators The Next Fintech Startups?
Africa’s leading Mobile Network Operators (MNOs), MTN, Vodacom and Safaricom, have recently made bold plans to venture into the increasingly dynamic world of fintech. On 23 rd June 2021, Safaricom launched its super app, which creates an ecosystem of mini apps from the network operator as well as third party apps that feed off the […]
JTL Increases Faiba Home Internet Prices By 5%
Image courtesy Craving Tech The recently amended Finance Bill is quickly taking action as various telcos and ISPs now start to make changes in their service rates. Jamii Telecommunications ( JTL ) has now joined the crew by announcing a 5% price increase on Faiba Home internet service. The news was made known to the […]