Kenya’s Safaricom launches M-Pesa Super App with Offline Mode, Mini-apps
Kenya’s leading telecoms company, Safaricom, has launched its long-awaited M-Pesa Super App, which comes with an offline mode and a mini-app functionality.
Kenya’s leading telecoms company, Safaricom, has launched its long-awaited M-Pesa Super App, which comes with an offline mode and a mini-app functionality.
To increase the internet penetration rate in Africa to 51% by 2025, The Smart Africa Alliance, a group of primarily 32 African countries, has teamed up with Japanese technology giant, SoftBank, on the use of non-terrestrial connectivity to spread internet access to underserved regions on the continent.
Microverse has developed an online coding academy with a collaborative learning system, curriculum designed for a diverse range of candidates, and deferred tuition until graduates land a job. The company projects the more than 1,000 full-time students will go through the program this year, including about 75% from Africa and Latin America. It just announced $12.5 million in venture capital funding.
CDP BlueConic has added a data clean room option to its system, making it easier for companies to share first party data with each other without revealing personal information. It’s part of BlueConic’s suite of products aimed at helping companies cope with the loss of third party cookies.