The Download April 14 2022: Kenya’s mobile gambling problem and earthquake algorithms Tech and Gaming Blog Technology by Rhiannon Williams - April 14, 20220 This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How mobile money supercharged Kenya’s sports betting addiction Mobile money has mostly been hugely beneficial for Kenyans. But it has also turbo-charged the country’s sports betting sector.Since the middle of
How mobile money supercharged Kenya’s sports betting addiction Tech and Gaming Blog Technology by Jonathan W. Rosen - April 14, 20220 Hitchhiking in the cab of a sand truck late one Saturday night in 2018, Bill Kirwa had almost forgotten about the bet. The wager he’d placed that afternoon had been a long shot: to win, he’d need to correctly pick which team was ahead, at both halftime and full time,
Kenya’s Wapi Pay raises $2.2M pre-seed for cross-border payments between Africa and Asia Tech and Gaming Blog Technology by Tage Kene-Okafor - August 3, 20210 According to the World Bank, it is more expensive to send money to sub-Saharan African than to any region in the world. It is also the most expensive region to send money from. In Q1 2020, people spent an average of 8.9% to send money to the region, much higher
Kenya’s AIfluence closes $1M for its AI-powered influencer marketing platform Tech and Gaming Blog Technology by Tage Kene-Okafor - July 15, 20210 Influencer marketing is one of the fastest-growing and one of the most impactful media channels today. There’s a growing ad-blocking movement and key demographics are spending less time in front of TVs. Marketers have now realized that their customers trust the recommendations of people they relate with. However, despite this being
Kenya’s Ajua acquires WayaWaya to consolidate consumer experience play in African SMEs Tech and Gaming Blog Technology by Tage Kene-Okafor - April 28, 20210 Kenyan consumer experience platform for businesses in Africa, Ajua today announced that it has acquired WayaWaya, a Kenya-based AI and ML messaging and payments company. WayaWaya’s customers and partners include the likes of I&M Bank, Interswitch and MTN. The company offers a range of services, from digital banking and payment services
AWS partners with Kenya’s Safaricom on cloud and consulting services Cyber Security by Jake Bright - March 1, 20200 Amazon Web Services has entered a partnership with Safaricom — Kenya’s largest telco, ISP and mobile payment provider — in a collaboration that could spell competition between American cloud providers in Africa. In a statement to TechCrunch, the East African company framed the arrangement as a “strategic agreement” whereby Safaricom