WorldRemit has launched WorldRemit for Business, a new service that enables small and medium-sized business (SMEs) owners to quickly pay their employees and contractors in 140 countries worldwide, including fast-growing emerging markets such as Kenya, Ghana, [c]
Telkom has introduced a new cloud-based fixed voice service dubbed “Omniconnect”, allowing SMEs and corporates to outsource for robust and secure cutting-edge technology. Telkom Hosted PBX service will deliver an end-to-end software and hardware system, [c]
Sendy is targeting small and medium sized businesses (SMEs) in Nairobi with its new same-day delivery option, ‘Sendy Standard’. Customers will now pay a fixed price of Kshs 250 to do deliveries anywhere within Nairobi [c]
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. [c]
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 [c]
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 [c]
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 [c]
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 [c]
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, [c]
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 [c]
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 [c]
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 [c]
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 [c]
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 [c]
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 [c]
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 [c]
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