And the ban goes on... The US is working on regulations that will ban its government from working with contractors who use technology from five Chinese companies: Huawei, ZTE, Hikvision, Dahua and Hytera. This is negative because Huawei relies on for...

The Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) has extended its Covid mitigation measures for e-payments by six months to December 2020. From our analysis of CBK data on mobile money transactions, as at 10 May, the proportion of revenue-generating transactions for...

Many weddings have been cancelled due to Covid-19, but there seems to be a rush to the altar to marry data and e-commerce lately. Preferential access to Amazon Prime from registering on the network has been one of the ways Airtel employed to attract...

Safaricom's Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Sateesh Kamath will be leaving the telco to join Vodafone Business as the Chief Financial Officer, and become a member of the Vodafone Group Finance Leadership Team, effective 1 July 2020. Vodafone Business...

The Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) released data on digital payments (mobile money) after it imposed zero rates for person to person (P2P) transfers below KES1,000 and doubling the daily transaction limit to KES300,000, as part of the government’s Covid...

Yandex (YNDX US, O/W, TP $48.3) and Sberbank (U/R) reportedly are preparing a deal on separation of their jointly owned Internet assets Yandex. Besides, cash requirements for Yandex. Reportedly, Yandex will purchase 45% Sberbank’s share at market pri...