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Whive merges SMS254, iKatiba and Whiver apps into a single service

Whive has merged the following projects into its mobile platform.

SMS254.com (Sold off to Kentext.com)
iKatiba.com
Whiver.com

For the last 8 months Whive has been testing and rolling out its SMS based Content Platform on the Whive.com Web portal. The goal of this project is to provide the Whive user with curated and personalized content directly to his/her phone.
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Find Whive at M:Lab East Africa Incubation Centre

After 6 months at the M:Lab East Africa Incubation Centre Whive has formarly opened its doors to Customers, Interns, Developers and Partners. Whive joined the MLab in August 2011 by virtue of being a winner of Pivot25 (Now PivotEast) mobile applications competition back in June 2011.
The Whive team lead by Founder and C.E.O John Karanja [...]

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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy 2012

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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 [...]

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WhiveSMS: 100 Free texts to Kenya at whiv.eu/n

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.
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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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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Whive is Pitching at Pivot25 Mobile Innovation Competition in June

Whive.com :: The Bee Network, will be pitching at the Pivot25 mobile innovation conference on the 14th and 15th of June 2011. We will be showcasing our mobile innovations. 24 other innovators will also be competing for the overall award winner price.
The competition has been classed into 5 categories.

Mobile Payments and Mobile Commerce
Mobile Entertainment, Gaming, [...]

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