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CrowdPesa Launches: The first 3rd Party Application built on Whive SMS
Crowdpesa an application built on top of Whive SMS API has launched in Nairobi on 14th December 2011 at the iHub. Crowdpesa is a location-based service aimed at providing the average consumer with the convenience of finding the nearest mobile payment service, financial institution, financial intermediary and retail outlet around the World.
The Whive team has been [...]
SMS for Millions, why Whive is a great platform for reaching “the African mobile phone user”.
The first year of business as a company has been an exciting one for Whive.com. We recently hit the 100,000 mark in user subscriptions and we continue to experience modest growth.
We have also grown our contact base to around 500,000 contacts all whom will be the beneficiaries of our exciting offers in the year 2012.
Earlier [...]
WordCamp Kenya is here bee there or bee square :-)
WordCamp Kenya (@WordCampKe) 2011 is finally here from Nov 12th-13th at Cray Fish Camp Naivasha. Organized by a good friend of Whive David Mugo (@Raidarmax) this will be a great opportunity for bloggers, readers, publishers and advertisers to connect with each other and understand each others social media needs.
WordCamp is a fun gathering organized by local [...]
Emerging Mobile Opportunities :: Internet Governance Forum Panel
Last week Kenya hosted the Internet Governance Forum Summit at the United Nations Gigiri, Nairobi.
Whive Founder and C.E.O John Karanja was a panelist at the Emerging Mobile Opportunities workshop. He made a presentation on the mobile applications being developed in Kenya that are addressing the market opportunities in Africa.
The Internet Governance Forum (IGF) is a [...]
Whive integrates Kenyan Open Data
The government through the Ministry of Information and Communication Technology recently released a treasure trove of Open Data to Kenyan developers about 3 weeks ago at an event officiated by the President Mwai Kibaki at KICC.
This was in response to the challenge posed to the Kenya ICT Board and Ministry of ICT by Kenyan developers to [...]
World’s First Kikuyu Mobile Application is launched by Whive.com
Whive.com launched the world’s first Kikuyu Mobile Application on 20th July 2011 at @KamemeFm radio station between 7PM-8PM.
The Application dubbed Aterere has been in development for the last one year and is the first in a series of localized and colloquial applications developed for Africa.
Whive recently won Kenya Vision2030 Award for innovation in ICT for [...]
WhiveSMS Interview and Mobile Monday Presentation
Whive were @ihubnairobi to make their Mobile Monday presentation to developers and geeks. This presentation focused on monetizing of Applications.
Whive C.E.O John Karanja spoke [See Pics] about the progress of mobile applications made by Whive see reports and video below produced for Kachwanya TV.
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Whive launches apps.whive.com @Pivot25
Whive.com launches apps.whive.com @Pivot25 on 14th June 2011. Pivot25 was the premier Mobile Apps competition for East Africa held at Ole Sereni Hotel in Nairobi on 14th/15th June 2011.
John Karanja Founder and C.E.O of Whive.com/Whive.mobi made our pitch and also took the opportunity to launch apps.whive.com at the event.
This platform allows Africans to download our [...]
Whive.com acquires SMS254.com
Social media aggregator Whive.com (@whive) has now acquired SMS254.com (@sms254) which according to Google page rank is the number one Bulk SMS provider for Kenya. Whive now supports bulk SMS services for individual, business and corporate use. SMS254.com will continue to be a gateway SMSC for Kenya but will not provide direct SMS services which [...]
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