Thanks to 4.0 technology that provides smart applications, guests staying at the SOJO hotel chain can book, open the door with a digital key, pull the curtain and send items with just a few touch buttons on the smartphones. In the room, they can adjust...
GlobalSoko Foundation is officially launching their DadaSoko Global Virtual Marketplace with the Afro Winter Wear in the Desert Fashion Show on December 4, 2021 at the Waldorf Astoria Las Vegas. A fashion runway will feature models showcasing the latest men’s and women’s clothing styles from Africa,...
Congrats to the PaySoko and SMG, Inc. product teams! Since the recent successful WeFunder raise, the PaySoko payments platform has been acquiring weekly users and now has an active community between the US and Africa from its partnership with the GlobalSoko Foundation. GlobalSoko Foundation, Inc. (GSF)...
SMG PaySoko is partnering with Truist Bank to provide merchant services for its customers. This partnership extends the merchant services integration options available to SMG PaySoko’s U.S. ecommerce customers. Offering our customers multiple payment methods facilitates financial services collaboration among the various businesses in our portfolio. Don't Just...
Click to see full video update:Moses here, with a quick update from Nairobi:I’m meeting with our SMG business partners here to coordinate the expansion of our operations in Kenya.I am also in discussions with additional businesses who are interested in becoming SMG PaySoko partners and clients.Everyone here is excited about...
We’re past the point where utilizing the latest technology is confined to big businesses with budgets to spare. The pandemic with its accompanying mandated lockdowns and changes in the demands and requirements of customers and markets are forcing companies to adapt to digital transformation. Put bluntly,...
Social Media Gateways, Inc. is actively involved in several social impact projects in Africa through partnerships with non-profit organizations, including GlobalSoko Foundation, Inc., which focuses on empowering local and underserved communities.GlobalSoko Foundation provides affordable access to SMG’s digital transformation tools, including PaySoko, in order to...
The Covid-19 pandemic made access to mobile phones and mobile internet more important. Yet the gender gap for mobile phone ownership and mobile internet use in sub-Saharan Africa remained largely unchanged in the past year. Compared to 2019, women in sub-Saharan Africa were just as unlikely...
The Mentor Method has added several high-profile team members recently What Janice Omadeke started a few years ago with a PDF and a dream has evolved into a business at the forefront of diversity in tech and one of fewer than 100 startups led by Black women to...
SMG AND GATES FOUNDATION PROJECTS Since the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation launched an open source banking code project, Mojaloop, at Swift’s Sibos conference in Toronto in 2017, adoption has been rather slow. Orange Group, one of the world’s leading telecommunications operators and MTN Group, Africa’s leading cellular...