First Data and Pivotal Team Up to Deliver Simple and Secure Payment Services to Spring Developers

First Data and Pivotal announced that they will bring First Data eCommerce services to Spring developers. This new collaboration is designed to make it simple and safe for developers seeking to add payment services to their applications. Together, the companies will provide Spring developers with easy access to payment services, an abstraction layer for portability

Safaricom Opens Up its M-PESA Platform to Developers

Safaricom has opened up its M-PESA platform to allow local and international developers to come up with next-generation applications that will work with the most preferred mobile money solution. By availing M-PESA’s Application Programming Interface (API), Safaricom is fulfilling a promise made during the commissioning of the new M-PESA technological platform in April this year.