Wrap-Up: Our pick of main stories, Wednesday September 30th, 2015

Comtel Africa gets exclusive contract to sell Samsung Knox Solutions…. Kenyan market ripe for digital wallet innovations….. Rupu kicks off its first beauty week in Nairobi…and much more.

Comtel Africa gets exclusive contract to sell Samsung Knox Solutions

Samsung has today announced that Comtel Africa has been appointed as the reseller for the Samsung Knox Solutions targeted for Corporate.

Comtel Africa will avail KNOX Premium and KNOX EMM for corporates for as low as three dollars. Comtel will as well offer training to customers on how to use the KNOX Solutions effectively.

Kenyan market ripe for digital wallet innovations

Digital payments in Kenya have grown exponentially over the last two years with digital cards serving more than 10 million users, a new MasterCard study reveals. MasterCard Social Listening Study analysed over 10,000 online conversations in seven countries including Kenya, Nigeria, the United Arab Emirates, China, India, Malaysia, and Indonesia between May 1 and July 30, 2015 to learn what payment innovations these markets were adopting.

Rupu kicks off its first beauty week in Nairobi

Rupu, announced the launch of its first ever Beauty Week in Nairobi at a cocktail event sponsored by Suzie Beauty, Black Silk by Haco Tiger Brands, Harley’s Limited and Liquid Africa. The Beauty Week is a celebration focused on looking and feeling great, at unbeatable offers. For one week, which started on Monday 28th September, Rupu will have flat rates for different beauty and spa treatments from as low as Kshs 600.

Why Internet use is yet to spark online business

Kenyans’ love for ‘net-on-the-go’ has registered the highest internet connections in Africa. However this is yet to translate into a vibrant online business, a report has shown. In its latest survey now on sale, Germany’s Hamburg-based business intelligence organisation yStats.com says, “Kenya is Africa’s leader in all aspects of mobile: Mobile connections account for almost all of Internet subscriptions in the country.”

Kenya’s Uwazi is crunching data to help firms unlock business opportunities

Founded by Dennis Onyango and Sharon Adongo, Kenya’s Uwazi, a data and technology consulting firm aims to help organizations efficiently manage their data and programs apart from it being a leading Salesforce Cloud Consulting Partner in East Africa. Speaking to TechMoran, Adongo said, “We started Uwazi because we wanted to solve the pain points organizations and businesses have with M&E, program management, and data organization as well as maintaining adequate and scalable in-house technical capability. Our work is primarily focused on Salesforce because it allows you to build custom relational databases, streamline and automate organizational workflow, and store all your data on the cloud thereby reducing overall operation costs.”