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Little App drivers now accepting card payments

The taxi hailing service, Little App, has partnered with Absa Bank Kenya and digital payments heavyweight, Visa, to introduce an innovative Near Field Communication (NFC) payment feature. As players in the transport sector aim to enhance efficiency, this collaboration aims to streamline and expedite the payment process for Little App taxis by enabling drivers to accept card-based payments using an Android smartphone. The new platform utilizes Absa’s Mobi Tap app, which transforms a smartphone into a point of sale (POS), allowing customers to simply tap their contactless debit or credit cards on the driver’s Android phone or tablet to make a payment. “The introduction of

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Costs uploading bakeries online

Bakery business is shifting into informal spaces, neighborhood kitchens and sold online as it increasingly becomes difficult to produce cake as a small business. Bakers say that as costs of production increase, businesses are adapting by going informal. This way, they avoid layers of taxation and enjoy lower costs on the digital space to be able to sell cake. Ever increasing number of licenses, heavy taxes, monthly and yearly payments to counties and other authorities are becoming huge burdens to shoulder for small entrepreneurs. Instead when operating online, bakers can maximize reach to get clients. What’s more, they only do it on order leaving them at…

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Before mobile loans, Helb was the first debt

By the time Waragi, an aspiring young writer and poet, completed his secondary education, his father had retired and could not afford to finance his education at a private university. The best option was to qualify for government sponsorship, where the Higher Education Loans Board (HELB) would cover his tuition and living expenses. This hope is shared within his village, where most families can barely manage to send their children to primary school, let alone high school or college. In many Kenyan households, sponsorships, at times from concerned relatives or friends, the church, and increasingly through WhatsApp groups, are relied upon, along with government assistance.

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Escalating cybercrime in Kenya fuels calls for heightened data security

Businesses and government entities have been challenged to prioritize investments in modern technologies that can safeguard sensitive data and vital systems against the ever-evolving landscape of cyber threats. This was the primary call to action following a meeting organised by tech giant Safaricom as part of Cybersecurity Awareness Month.  In a summit held under the theme “Becoming a Cyber Resilient Organization,” over 400 cybersecurity industry leaders and professionals engaged in crucial discussions surrounding the latest cybersecurity trends and the evolution of enterprise networks. “Attackers are constantly working on designing, building, and evolving solutions to bypass or overcome the most advanced cybersecurity solutions. This has created

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