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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
Whive wins Vision 2030 ICT award for Gender, Youth and Vulnerable Groups Sector
Kenyan based social media aggregator Whive.com has won a Vision 2030 ICT award for the Gender, Youth and Vulnerable Groups sector. The award ceremony which was at Leisure lodge Diani, Mombasa, Kenya also featured 10 other companies being given awards in different sectors of the Vision 2030 ICT pillar. Present to receive the award from [...]
Design,Host & Market with Whive
Whive.com is a Social Media Platform developed and managed by Space Kenya Network Limited.
At Whive we Host over 90,000 Kenyans, 5 Social Media Applications that provide the most comprehensive Social Marketing tools ever developed for the African Market.
Our partnership with Nokia Corporation in particular enables to understand the Business and Marketing Platforms of the [...]
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