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Five years ago, there was a heated debate online; both twitter and FB. Kenya developers, led by the late Idd Salim complained that Safaricom was busy paying lip service on its support of local tech ecosystem, yet it was busy…
For the better part of this month, we have been treated to stories of blackmail and extortion at Safaricom. While that is the bigger story, the amounts that were paid to suppliers were out of reach for many. Think of…
It is not everyday that the CEO of Safaricom calls a press conference to complain about blackmail and extortion. Being the telecom giant it is, you would expect it to be insulated against such acts and also expect that the…
Yesterday, Safaricom launched sh. 90 million Venture Capital fund, aimed at local startups seeking to scale. You can read the story I did here or Kachwanya’s take that the fund is a game changer or this one from Techmoran. You…
Safaricom will donate Ksh. 5 million to match the views on this video. It is the story of young Susan, her struggle and acceptance of living with visual impairment. It is very moving. Watch the kids in the field as…
About three weeks ago, Safaricom held a function to celebrate the book “money, real quick” which relates to Kenya’s use of mobile money, commonly known as Mpesa. The reason why I say celebrate is because the book was launched in…
Once is a while, Kenya’s social media or online constituency is touched by various causes. The most famous was Kenyans4Kenya and the most recent was Bring Zack back Home campaign. For some reason, both were led by Safaricom; either because…
Days ago, when I was researching and talking to information security experts on an article on Kenya’s online banking security and Africa CERT and cybersecurity, one of the experts asked why there was such low reportage of security vulnerabilities within…
Few years age, a blogger wrote a blog post, largely addressing the issues faced by Safaricom advantage users. The thrust of the post was that Safaricom neglects its post paid users; they get no promos on double your airtime, they…
In the last few days, many things have been called into question, chief among them, the Independent Electoral and Borders Commission’s (IEBC) network. Many experts thought that it had been hacked, a especially after a Database error was reported. The…