Rwandan President Paul Kagame and Alibaba Group Executive Chairman Jack Ma recently witnessed the signing of three Memoranda of Understanding (MoU) between the Rwanda government and Alibaba establishing an eWTP (electronic world trade platform) hub in Rwanda. […]
By Emily Kinuthia Small market enterprises are an important mix to economic growth and are a key catalyst in improving the living standards of Africans through employment and entrepreneurship in the business value chain. According […]
Sendy, the Kenya-based delivery platform, has reduced prices of Pickup, Van and Truck deliveries by up to 33% in a move to have more small and medium businesses do deliveries through the platform. A Pickup and […]
IBM Research and Twiga Foods, a business-to-business logistics platform for kiosks and food stalls in Africa, have announced that they have extended access to microloans to 220 food stall retailers across Kenya using a blockchain-based financing […]
Mastercard has announced that it will use Facebook Messenger to provide technology to small businesses in Africa and Asia to drive affordable acceptance of electronic and mobile payments. Access to digital payments will help these […]
Around the globe, you don’t have to look far to find anecdotes about the increasing need for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to ramp up their cybersecurity arrangements. In South Africa, Professor Basie von Solms, […]
Kenya is touted as one of the fastest growing tech countries in the world. It also has one of the highest internet penetration rates in the world at 89.7% as per the Communications Authority statistics […]
Mastercard has announced a collaboration with South African fintech company Yoco to roll out 15,000 mobile Point of Sale (mPOS) devices to small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) by the end of the year, while educating […]
iHub will tomorrow host a workshop on how to engage with SMEs on user rights tomorrow, Thursday 25th May. The session, organised by Global Partners Digital (GPD), is the first of a two-part event, with the second forum taking […]
In support of Rwanda’s Sustainable Development Goals, the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth has confirmed a grant of up to US $1 million over 3 years to support the growth of SME business owners in […]
A single cybersecurity incident now costs large businesses US $861,000 while small and medium enterprises (SMEs) end up paying US $86,500 for such breaches according to Kaspersky Lab’s new report titled “Measuring the Financial Impact […]
Merchant service provider, Kopo Kopo, has partnered with Mastercard to roll out Masterpass QR across 11 markets in Sub-Saharan Africa, impacting over 250,000 micro and small businesses over the next five years. The announcement was made […]
BitPesa has partnered with Bitbond to improve access to financing for SMEs in Africa. Bitbond, which is based in Berlin, Germany, connects fixed-income investors with small business owners who need loans. To make global cross-border lending […]
Safaricom has announced the availability of high-speed internet services in Thika Town, as it moves to progress its country-wide fibre rollout targeting Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) in the region. So far, over 2,000 SME customers […]
Microsoft East Africa and Liquid Telecom have joined forces to improve and accelerate the use of cloud services across Africa. The joint project will help boost the continent’s access to world-class software. Microsoft has a […]
Mastercard is set to empower 100,000 micro merchants in Kenya by giving them access to its Masterpass QR. The Masterpass QR, a mobile driven, person-to-merchant payment solution, will be introduced through various financial institutions and […]
KodaCloud Inc, a provider cloud service Wi-Fi powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI) to enterprise customers, has announced the release of Wi-Fi research findings conducted by iGR. The results show that 64% of over 12 million small […]
By Teddy Njoroge Over the years, data capacities and speeds were the determinants that users in Kenya used to decide the best suited ISP to work with. With the rise in internet penetration in Kenya standing […]
SMEs in Malindi can now enjoy affordable internet following the introduction of Safaricom fibre at a cost of Kshs 5,000 per month. Malindi becomes the latest town to benefit from high speed internet connectivity in […]
Safaricom has launched a new internet bundle offer for small business owners for a monthly rate of Kshs 6,000. The service, dubbed Easy50 data bundle, offers up to 50GB of data on Safaricom’s network including 4G. […]
SMEs in Eldoret are set to benefit from high speed affordable internet connectivity from as low as Kshs 5,000 per month. This is after Safaricom, through its Enterprise Business Division, kicked off its second phase […]
Safaricom has rolled out a new business solution targeting small and medium enterprises (SMEs) aimed at making their operations easier. The solution dubbed, ‘Ready Business’ bundles together various technology and advisory services to empower entrepreneurs […]
The World Telecommunication and Information Society Day (WTISD-2016), which marks the establishment of ITU in 1865, is set to be celebrated on May 17, 2016. An opening ceremony at ITU will be followed by keynote […]
By Steven Cohen A common misperception is that SMEs using old software could put their companies at risk and that such solutions are based on databases considered to be “antiquated”. Companies like Sage maintain a […]
ITU Telecom World 2016, the UN global technology event, will take place this year in Bangkok, Thailand, from 14 to 17 November 2016. The focus will be on the most effective ways to grow our […]
Tiny Totos, Pegg Entertainment, Ukall Limited, Zamoyo Limited and Jiinue Holdings were last Friday awarded by British Airways and Safaricom for winning the Emerging Enterprise Initiative. The campaign was launched in November 2015. The five companies falling under SME categories […]
SMEs, which account for the vast majority of private-sector employment throughout the world, also fail at a rate of two thirds due to fraud and mismanagement. Timothy Mwirabua, a 25 year developer from Nairobi, set […]
Facebook hosted a roundtable with small and medium sized enterprises from Ghana and Nigeria on Tuesday this week as part of its effort to support entrepreneurship in West Africa. The session focused on how Facebook […]
Safaricom has, through its M-PESA service, now set its sights on the medium and small entreprises with the launch of Lipa Na M-PESA- a campaign aimed at entrenching the use of its payment services as […]
Ericsson is calling for students and small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) who have an idea for a great app to enter the Ericsson Application Awards 2013. The Ericsson Application Awards gives apps developers an opportunity […]
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