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[Carole Kimutai] Safaricom has posted a KSh47.1 billion profit in the first half of its financial year that ended on 30 September 2010. The mobile operator continues to enjoy the lions share of the market with 17.71 million subscribers out of a total of 21.78 million. |
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[Carole Kimutai] John Sergon, ICT director at the Directorate of e-Government Kenya in the Office of the President, has lauded Kenya for making efforts towards becoming an open country through promoting citizens' rights to access information provided for in Kenya's new Constitution that came to effect on 27 August 2010. |
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[Carole Kimutai] The mobile payment phenomenon has led to the rapid growth of small enterprises in Kenya and seen large corporates embracing mobile payments. However, according to business analyst and publisher of Ratiomagazine.com Andrea Bohnstedt, the big challenge is setting up a back office for client service and developing a sustainable business concept. |
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[Carole Kimutai] Google held an event, called Google G-Kenya, that brought together hundreds of tech-savvy entrepreneurs and developers at a web and mobile conference at Strathmore University, Nairobi on 6 September 2010, where over 1200 engineers, product managers, entrepreneurs, students and web developers gathered to discuss the future of web application development, and receive training on Google's products and online business skills. |
| MARKETING & MEDIA  [Carole Kimutai] Safaricom and Huawei Technologies have signed a three year strategic partnership that will see Safaricom use Huawei as its vendor of choice for the supply of its core network requirements, and roll out of the 4G network, at a cost of KSh12 billion.
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[Carole Kimutai] Three years after Kenya's Safaricom launched its mobile money transfer service, MPesa, the company now has more than 11-million customers with money transfer worth KSh525-billion as of July 2010. The number of MPesa agents countrywide has risen to 19 502. |
| MARKETING & MEDIA [Carole Kimutai] With just hours before Kenya's constitution referendum to be held on 4 August 2010, research has cited the media as the main source of information about the contents of the proposed constitution. |
| MARKETING & MEDIA [Carole Kimutai] According to Synovate's 2009 annual Media Publicity Index; Safaricom, Kenya Commercial Bank, East Africa Breweries Ltd (EABL) and Coca-Cola led in the number of media clips. Others included the Kenya Power and Lighting Company, Zain, Telkom, Equity Bank, Kenya Airways and Barclays Bank. When the publicity was translated to advertising value Coca-Cola, Safaricom and EABL topped the list. |
| MARKETING & MEDIA [Carole Kimutai] Banks are now the next target for cybercrime, ICT experts have warned. Tom Omariba, UUNET MD, says cyber criminals have perfected the art of hacking into people's or organisations' bank accounts through replication of domain names. They then use the information to acccess banking details that enable them to withdraw money from their victim's accounts. |
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[Carole Kimutai] On Monday, 21 June, the Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK) in partnership with the country's four mobile operators - Safaricom, Zain, Orange and Yu - launched a campaign for SIM card registration. |
| MARKETING & MEDIA [Carole Kimutai] Equity Bank has partnered with Safaricom's M-Pesa money transfer service to launch a mobile bank account product known as M-Kesho - a Swahili term that refers to the future of mobile banking. M-Kesho will enable customers to transfer money to and from their M-Pesa Equity bank accounts via their mobile handsets with additional benefits. |
| MARKETING & MEDIA [Carole Kimutai] As the battle for consumers rages on in Kenya, CompuLynx, an international IT and business solutions provider has unveiled iSMART Lite - a locally developed retail management software solution targeting small size supermarket outlets. |
 | Hey penman! You do know you've just validated my article with this comment. I'm talking about endorsements not advertisements. Kenyan celebs have been featured on ads for decades but endorsement deals in Kenya have been, and still are, rare. |
| Thanks Jue. This is an avenue that hasn't been fully exploited. Go for it! |
 | A great article.
The hard work now is to convince the Corporates. I am totally sold to this and we do what is possible to influence endorsement. |
| MARKETING & MEDIA [Carole Kimutai] The Kenya Commercial Bank Group (KCB) has launched a quickserve ATM in the country. The new MCR's Intelligent Deposit ATM has a touch screen and is capable of handling cash in both Kenya shillings and US dollars. The ATM costs about KSh5.4 million. |
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[Titus Kaloki] Safaricom has signed a deal with the Kenya Power and Lighting Company (KPLC) to use the latter's national distribution network to expand its data footprint across Kenya. Under the terms of the contract signed by the two firms, Safaricom operate an optical fibre pair on KPLC's Optical Ground Wire (OPGW) system as built on the national power grid. |
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[Titus Kaloki] There seems to be a calculated effort by the Kenyan government to protect mobile data services from competition by keeping the required license fee too expensive. Safaricom is currently the only service provider with one. Zain, Yu and Orange have suffered from this prohibitive move by government. |
| MARKETING & MEDIA [Carole Kimutai] The Kenya ICT Board, the state corporation charged with developing and promoting the business process outsourcing sector (BPO) has extended the deadline for bandwidth capacity support to the BPO industry. |
