Tandaza Technologies, the mobile applications development subsidiary of Pamoja Media, launched Payuka today at the Android marketplace.
I spoke to Comark Maloba, chief technical officer at Pamoja Media and also the brains behind Payuka, about well, the app! Excerpts.
When did you come up with the Payuka idea?
It was around September 2011. Two things contributed to the [...]
Hey Kenyan Premier League, English Premiership, Spanish La Liga, etc, junkies! Check out Payuka, a cool, free, smartphone football app developed by Tandaza, the mobile-phone apps subsidiary of Pamoja Media.
Evidence that Kenya is a cash obese economy is overwhelming: notices in cafés instruct you to pay first before you place your order and also remind you that they don’t provide credit, matatu conductors place currency notes between their index and middle fingers, banks resemble war zones when armed policemen escort cash carrying vans to [...]
Today’s post finalises Joshua Wanyama’s views on the state of e-commerce in Kenya. It’s a continuation of where Part 1 ended. Read on.
Google recently launched the Kenyan Business Online initiative to encourage Kenyan companies to build their own free websites. Does this mean that without such initiatives from [...]
Joshua Wanyama, CEO of Pamoja Media, sketches his views on the current state of E-commerce in Kenya. We will publish part 2 of the interview next week.
What ecommerce virtues and traits have you noticed in Kenya’s e-commerce environment since you founded Pamoja Media in 2008?
E-commerce is picking up, but [...]
The Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology’s (JKUAT) Society of Computer Science and Information Technology (SCOSIT) held its SCOSIT hackathon between 28/10/11 and 29/10/11. The theme was: ‘Using selected APIs to build real world apps’.
Ukulima.net, developed by Pamoja Media, was one of the application programming interfaces (APIs) the JKUAT students developed applications for. The [...]
The year 2010 saw one of the biggest surge in both individuals and Kenyan organizations joining Twitter thus giving a clear indication of the current growth the country is experiencing in the social media sector. Here are some of the main highlights:
January
I truly cant remember much about January. Its always the hectic month with too [...]
Most blogs in Kenya are personal ones, many of the bloggers describe and offer their readers a glimpse into their lives, consequently they make for interesting reading. These are followed by political commentary blogs, what with the fascination with politics. Follow this with a couple of financial blogs, poetry blogs and technology blogs and you [...]
White African writes, “Joshua Wanyama found himself in a bind. He had just moved back to Kenya after growing a successful web firm in the US.
Now he wanted to put Pamoja Media on the map in Africa, and he realized quite quickly that there was a major knowledge-gap in the interactive marketing space. [...]
