The Next Web

OCTOBER 15, 2012

With Safari Yetu, you pay online or via mobile, receive an SMS reservation or ticket and go to the bus station once; the day you are traveling. Africa ahead in mobile. Many hackers are using M-Pesa’a API to build products and services on top of the platform or as a opportunity to innovate around SMS.

Silicon Valley 148

Silicon Valley Tanzania Chile Rwanda 148

Agile VC

JUNE 12, 2012

Mobile Payments: The Trillion Dollar Industry That’s Never Happened. Mobile payments are the trillion dollar industry that everybody’s been waiting for but has never materialized. But nearly everyone has wrongly placed emphasis on the mobile technology part and not on the payments aspect. June 12, 2012.

Mobile 250

Mobile Disintermediation SMS Government 250

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

It's this side of East Africa this brief report is about and which brought me here, to the mobile revolution I had only read about, and to the IPO48 event with its great bunch of start-ups: Sponsor. Bruno is a European-born entrepreneur currently busy building a new venture, work|i|o , in New York. Also SMS-based.

Africa 138

Africa SMS Kenya Startup 138