More than ever before, the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the place of technology and elevated the need for employees to have digital skills to thrive in thi...
Safaricom has launched an Android Tv Box as part of its strategy to bring its home fibre to more homes. Unlike previous Tv boxes sold by the telco, this one com...
Coca-Cola Beverages Africa-Kenya (CCBA) has partnered with Safaricom to connect its coolers with sensors. The sensors are supposed to collect vital data that wi...
Soon after India banned TikTok and other Chinese apps over privacy concerns, Instagram has started testing Reels which is a rival to TikTok in the region.
Th...
Video on demand service, Showmax, has announced that it has launched a new service dubbed Showmax Pro that will include music channels, news, and live sport st...
Budget airline, Jambojet has announced that it will resume local flights to 5 destinations on 15th July 2020 after a go ahead from the Government.
This annou...
The Equity Group Board has appointed Professor Isaac Macharia as the Board Chairman taking over from David Ansell who did not offer himself for re-election at t...
Kenya has been awarded the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC), Safe Travel Stamp. This is in recognition of the destination’s adoption of the global health...
2020 started with a lot of promise for a lot of people in Kenya. It started with the hope that it would be a better year after the disaster that was 2019. Accor...
The Kenya Electricity Transmission Company Limited, (KETRACO) has partnered with Kenyatta University to offer scholarships to girls from vulnerable families acr...
Smartphone manufacturer vivo has announced that it has officially launched its newest smartphone, the vivo V19, in the Kenyan market.
The phone is now availa...
The COVID-19 Fund Board flagged off the first consignment of locally manufactured PPEs to public hospitals in Kenya. This was in collaboration with the Ministry...
Microsoft has launched a preview version of its antivirus. It will include protection against phishing and go a step further than Google’s built-in malware prot...
Just a week after the WhatsApp payment service was launched in Brazil which happens to be the second largest market for the service, it has been suspended by th...
Equity Group has mutually agreed with Atlas Mara (ATMA) to discontinue discussions on the proposed transaction where they had expressed the intention to acquire...
Huawei Mobile Kenya has announced that it has its new smartphones, the Hauwei Y8p and the Huawei Y6p, are now available for sale in Kenya.
The Huawei Y8p is ...
Safaricom has launched a Lipa na Mpesa business app for its more than 170,000 merchants. The app names “Mpesa for Business“, will empower business owners to ac...
Smartphone manufacturer Vivo has announced that it will launch its first ever dual punch hole camera phone in Kenya, the vivo V19, on June 24.
The vivo V19 r...
The Glenfiddich Single Malt Scotch Whisky, 12 Year Old has been given a makeover and is now known as the Our Original Twelve. The whisky also now has a new bott...
Liquid Telecom has partnered with Twiga Foods to deploy Internet of Things (IoT) solutions at Twiga’s Takuwa farm. This is in a bid to increase agricultural pro...
Microsoft has launched the Game of Learners (GOL) programme in the form of a hackathon aimed at spurring innovation among university students across Kenya.
T...
WhatsApp, which was acquired by Facebook in 2014, yesterday announced a new payments service dubbed “WhatsApp Pay”. The service will allow users to send money t...
Absa has announced that it has restructured Ksh. 54B in loans in order to cushion its customers against the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The bank announc...
Medical care in our beloved country is awfully expensive, this is sadly due to the fact that the public health function has been woefully underfunded. A situati...
The Equity Group Foundation and the Mastercard Foundation have partnered to support over 14,600 students in the Wings to Fly and Elimu scholarship programs to a...
Tecno Mobile has launched their latest phone the Pouvoir 4 into our market. The Pouvoir 4 features an enormous 6000mAh battery, capable of powering the phone fo...
The Standard Chartered Bank Kenya has given five women-led tech businesses Ksh. 1 Million each as seed funding.
This was after the the successful completion ...
Nowadays, phones have turned everyone into an expert photographer. Gone are the days of yore when the entire village had to wait for the traveling photographer ...
On-demand ordering & delivery firm, GoBEBA has announced that it has partnered with Twiga to deliver fresh farm produce to its customers.
The deal will s...
Multichoice has signed a deal with Netflix and Amazon that will see it start streaming the services on its decoder. The move appears to be intended at helping t...
With the review of curfew hours, daily activities gradually coming back to life. As a response to this, Bolt is scaling-up its service delivery options in a bid...
Carrefour which is operated by Majid Al Futtaim in Kenya has opened its eight store at the Mega Shopping Mall along Uhuru Highway.
The new hypermarket destin...
The Safaricom CFO, Sateesh Kamath, has been appointed to the role of Chief Financial Officer Vodafone Business, effective 1st July 2020. He will be reporting in...
Picture this, you are out having a good time with your friends, obviously, you have used your phone extensively through the night to take videos and selfies. Bu...
Carrefour has partnered with Red Cross to launch a charity initiative to support underprivileged families across Githembe, Nairobi whose livelihoods have been a...
The Ladima Foundation, in partnership with the DW Akademie has launched a short-film competition aimed at African women during the Covid-19 pandemic and related...
Jambojet the regional budget airline, has announced the introduction of new health and safety measures that are aimed at protecting both crew and passengers fro...
In the price range of under Ksh. 14,000, we have the Tecno Spark 5 and the Huawei Y6s. These are basically budget phones and they are for those individuals who ...
The Covid-19 pandemic has shown just how important connectivity is in the modern world. With the cessation of movement, it has become more challenging to commun...
Lack of compelling online content has been identified as one of the major reasons why millions of people are still digitally excluded especially in Sub - Sahara...
The TeleAfya app has been launched in Kenya where it will provide telemedicine services to customers in Kenya.
Through the app, patients will be able to conn...
Trading cryptocurrencies, traditional currencies, and shares of varying types have become an incredibly popular method of making extra money from home. This is ...
