Opinion: Why Facebook’s New Cryptocurrency Is a threat to Mpesa and Safaricom
According to sources, Facebook Is developing a cryptocurrency for WhatsApp Transfers known a Facebookcoin. If true, this spells doom for Mpesa and Safaricom as they will soon end up as [...]
How is Fuliza different from Mshwari and KCB Mpesa?
In case you have not heard, Fuliza is the new buzz in town. It is Safaricom’s newest mobile phone based overdraft facility. “How is it different from Mshwari and KCB [...]
5 Ways to Provide Your Employees with the Best Tools on Budget
When it comes to running a business successfully, you have to make sure that all your efforts are invested in it. There are many factors that play a very critical [...]
Guest Post; How do we get pension funds to play a bigger role in Infrastructure financing in Kenya?
By George Bodo As the public debate around Standard Gauge Railyway (SGR) funding and its attendant costs continues to emit varied nuances, the broader debate we need to have is [...]
Guest Opinion; NSE should take the lead in helping businesses to grow
Kenyans are entrepreneurial people. Hardworking and business minded. And every day you find people who are trying to profitably satisfy a society need. Challenge is most of them are informal, [...]The Future of E-commerce in Africa: Leapfrogging towards Africonomics
According to the chief executive of Ringier One Africa Media (ROAM) Clemens Weitz, Africa’s digital-driven e-commerce sector will change significantly over the next ten years which will enable it to [...]Guest Post; Lessons from Greece
There was once a country that harboured great ambitions. It dreamt of growing its economy and gaining membership into the exclusive club of developed nations. Easy access to cheap loans [...]Guest Post; How banks are becoming telcos telcos are becoming banks in Africa
I come from Malawi. A country where only 12% of the population have access to electricity, 36% have access to mobile and 19% have a bank account. In the rest of Sub-Saharan Africa, the [...]Guest Post; Roles responsibilities of shareholders
In the recent past, we have seen headlines of exuberant salaries paid to companies’ top executives. In light of the tough economic times we are in, you would expect some [...]Guest Post; To realise its long term plans for Africa, China must play its part
China has been around for ages, but it’s only recently that many are feeling its weight. It has come to Kenya and Africa at large with a bang, and we [...]Guest Opinion; Crypto currency adoption from global technology dynamics
By Robert Ochieng, Let us talk about the unstructured data perspective of how the global geopolitics and culture is going to affect the adoption of crypto currencies. Cryptocurrencies being money [...]How The Chinese, Opera Browser A Bitcoin Mining Company Are About To Change African Payments
I think before this blog and thread, the global cryptocurrency community will not appreciate the strategic relevance of Bitmain’s $50 million investment round into one of Africa’s most popular Chinese [...]
