Articles by Susan Mwenesi

Articles by Susan Mwenesi, Page 32

Mon, February 17th, 08:00 · Susan Mwenesi

MTN Uganda increases money transfer charges

MTN Uganda has raised its charges for payment of bills via mobile money to Umeme Electricity and National Water and Sewerage Corporation, meaning customers who use mobile money to pay for water and electricity will have to pay more. → Read more
Fri, February 14th, 13:40 · Susan Mwenesi

Kenyan leaders irked over Konza delays

Kenyan political figures, especially those drawn from Machakos County, are unhappy with the slow progress on Konza Technco City, a year after the groundbreaking ceremony of the much touted technopolis. → Read more
Fri, February 14th, 08:00 · Susan Mwenesi

Intel invites Kenyan vending innovators for global competition

Intel Corporation is inviting Kenyan innovators over the age of 18 who work in the field of vending systems to its Intelligent Vending Competition, seeking to get new ideas, talents and projects for the vending machine market of the future. → Read more
Fri, February 14th, 06:00 · Susan Mwenesi

Vodacom Tanzania launches morning voice promotion

Vodacom Tanzania has launched its Hello Tanzania campaign, providing its customers with one free minute of calling time every morning. → Read more
Thu, February 13th, 17:40 · Susan Mwenesi

Ignore social data at your peril, companies warned

With the explosion of social media there has arisen a need for companies to embrace social media data strategies so as to push sales of their products and provide consumers with the specific products they are looking for, according to Tanzania-based AIM Group’s head of digital strategy Nduta Maina. → Read more
Thu, February 13th, 12:20 · Susan Mwenesi

ZTE courts Kenyan government on cloud, LTE technology

China’s ZTE Corporation is currently in talks with the Kenyan government in an effort to provide the latter with cloud computing and LTE services geared towards effective service delivery. → Read more
Wed, February 12th, 17:00 · Susan Mwenesi

Mobile is a moneymaker – Mobile East Africa

Mobile is a profitable business as long as aggregation of all that pertains to it, such as consumers, markets and employees, takes place alongside other factors such as the addressing of security concerns, according to participants at the ongoing Mobile East Africa 2014 event in Nairobi. → Read more
Wed, February 12th, 15:00 · Susan Mwenesi

Mobile is the way of the future – Ahonen

Mobile is clearly the way of the future, given PC companies are now going mobile in one way or another and governments are angling their services towards mobile, according to mobile expert Tomi Ahonen. → Read more
Wed, February 12th, 11:00 · Susan Mwenesi

Mobile East Africa 2014 kicks off in Nairobi

The rebranded Mobile East Africa 2014 kicked off today in Nairobi, bringing together industry players seeking to expand mobile data usage and drive monetisation through industry collaboration. → Read more
Wed, February 12th, 07:00 · Susan Mwenesi

BAKE extends submissions for Kenyan blog awards

The Bloggers Association of Kenya (BAKE) has extended the deadline for submissions for its annual awards by seven days to February 17, giving bloggers more time to enter into any of the 17 categories → Read more
Tue, February 11th, 19:00 · Susan Mwenesi

M-Pesa, MoneyGram in money transfer service agreement

M-Pesa - through its parent company Vodafone - and global money transfer and payment services firm MoneyGram have signed an agreement enabling consumers to transfer funds directly from around 200 countries to the millions of M-Pesa users → Read more
Tue, February 11th, 14:20 · Susan Mwenesi

Paynet merges PesaPoint network with Pep Intermedius

Kenyan payments provider Paynet has merged its PesaPoint agent network with that of Pep Intermedius, aimed at growing the PesaPoint brand and expanding its network → Read more
Tue, February 11th, 12:20 · Susan Mwenesi

New Huduma Centres to be launched in Machakos

The Kenyan government is to open Huduma Centres in Machakos county, providing residents with digital access to government services → Read more
Tue, November 19th, 10:00 · Susan Mwenesi

Q&A: Ghanaian banking startup DreamOval

Ghana’s DreamOval is taking great strides within the country’s banking sector with its revolutionary software. Derrydean Dadzie, chief doer at DreamOval, spoke to HumanIPO about their experience so far. → Read more
Mon, November 18th, 19:30 · Susan Mwenesi

Q&A: Tanzanian startup Karibu Solar Power

Karibu Solar Power is a Tanzanian startup making high quality solar power affordable by producing a modular solar lamp for lighting and charging mobile phones. The startup has just won the United Nations SEED Award, and HumanIPO caught up with Adam Camenzuli, executive director, to talk about the company → Read more
Mon, November 18th, 15:30 · Susan Mwenesi

Nailab’s hackathon set for Kisumu

The Kenyan lakeside town of Kisumu will host the Nailab’s next hackathon, geared towards bringing together tech and business developers to produce ideas that could help tackle the town’s perennial problems of unemployment, insecurity and health. → Read more
Mon, November 18th, 07:00 · Susan Mwenesi

Rwandan government partners with ICT firms for youth online forum

Rwanda’s Ministry of Youth and ICT, in partnership with three ICT firms, is launching an online youth forum to give young people a chance to contribute to the country’s development agenda → Read more
Sun, November 17th, 12:00 · Susan Mwenesi

Kenya extends laptop tender

Kenya’s Ministry of Education has extended the deadline for the submission for its free laptops for primary schools programme to Thursday, November 21, citing the need to address bidder concerns. → Read more
Fri, November 15th, 16:00 · Susan Mwenesi

WIOCC to launch undersea cable connectivity in Somalia

Africa carrier WIOCC, in conjunction with local shareholder Dalkom Somalia, is set to launch fibre connectivity to and from Somalia via the EASSy cable in the first quarter of 2014. → Read more
Thu, November 14th, 16:30 · Susan Mwenesi

FibreCo’s 2,000km SA broadband network goes live

FibreCo Telecommunications has launched its fibre-optic network between connecting South African cities Johannesburg, Bloemfontein, East London and Cape Town. → Read more