In 2014, Safaricom launched a Ksh100 million venture fund to help accelerate growth for mobile tech start-ups in Kenya. So far, the fund has benefited six startups including Sendy, mSurvey, M-Ledger, iProcure, Eneza and Lynk. “The Fund is a venture capital fund that aims to support the successful development and growth of high potential mobile
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In 2017, iProcure, a supply chain platform in Kenya, became the sixth startup to benefit from Safaricom’s Spark Fund, a venture fund that invests in late seed to early growth stage support start-ups. iProcure is a mobile-based platform that links farmers and farmer cooperatives to manufacturers of agricultural inputs. Spark Fund was first launched in
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Having limited airtime is the order of everyday life for most mobile phone subscribers who are forced to run on a budget. Such subscribers do not have the luxury of talking through the phone for a long time, despite the having to make important calls, concerning family, business or work. Such people do not have
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With proper data management tools, one can remain within their data plan, without having to complain about ‘unusual’ data consumption.
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As we all become increasingly comfortable with sharing every aspect of our lives on social media, we face the risk whereby that publicly shared information may be used against us in our moments of weakness, like when relationships break down or we become involved in Family Court proceedings. Popular Perth blogger Constance Hall is like
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Only one hour on social media a day is enough to reduce the happiness of children, with the effect worse for girls than boys, a new study suggests. Researchers found the longer children spend chatting on Facebook, Snapchat, WhatsApp and Instagram, the less happy they feel about a number of aspects of their lives. These
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Vietnam has joined the chorus of outrage against United Airlines after news spread that a passenger forcibly removed from a plane this week is Vietnamese American. Reuters reports that social-media users in Vietnam are calling for a boycott of the airline after video footage of David Dao, a 69-year-old doctor, went viral in the country.
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As if being mercilessly pilloried on social media and by talk show host Jimmy Kimmel wasn’t enough, now legislators are lining up against United Airlines. CEO Oscar Munoz, despite making a belated public apology Tuesday, should buckle up for more turbulence, including possible political, regulatory and business fallout. What this tumult ultimately means for Munoz
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In the fantastic Netflix series Black Mirror, there is an episode called Nosedive that perfectly chronicles how social media controls its participants, not the other way around. The main character, Lacie, lives in a world eerily similar to ours, where people can use their smartphones to rate all of their social interactions from one to
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