Glovo opens new technical centre in Kenya to improve service delivery

Staff WriterFebruary 27, 2020

On demand delivery service Glovo has opened a new technical center in Nairobi, dubbed Glover Center, in a bid to service delivery to customers and riders. Th...

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Equity Afia opens new clinic in the Nairobi CBD

Staff WriterFebruary 27, 2020

Equity Afia has opened its 12th satellite clinic within Nairobi’s Central Business District (CBD). The new clinic is located on Laxmi Plaza along Biashara Stree...

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Uber launches entrepreneurship training initiative for women drivers

Staff WriterFebruary 27, 2020

Uber has launched a training programme to help women drivers to develop the skills needed to thrive as independent entrepreneurs. Uber has partnered with Africa...

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Women Enterprise Fund plans to impact 200,000 women in Kenya in 2020

Staff WriterFebruary 27, 2020

The Women Enterprise Fund (WEF) has announced that it will provide 200,000 women across 47 counties in Kenya with entrepreneurship training and access to capita...

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Applications for the Siemens Design Challenge to open on March 4

Staff WriterFebruary 27, 2020

Engineering for Change (E4C), in collaboration with Siemens, has announced a design challenge for clean water and zero hunger technology solutions. Applicati...

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Introducing the Naivasha Love Festival – February 13-16

Staff WriterFebruary 5, 2020

Naivasha's rustic and wild charm has defied many things; the vagaries of time, the Maasai who called the place Naiposha and led their cattle through the thorn t...

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Rajyz the Deejay is the Nakuru Smirnoff Battle of Beats Season 2 winner

Staff WriterFebruary 5, 2020

Edwin Gitonga a.k.a Rajyz the Deejay has been crowned as the Smirnoff Battle of the Beats season II Nakuru winner. Over 100 Nakuru DJs turned up for the event a...

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Chapa Dimba Na Safaricom Eastern finals to be in Machakos on Feb 8-9

Staff WriterJanuary 30, 2020

Machakos County is set host the Eastern Regional finals of the Chapa Dimba Na Safaricom youth football tournament. The matches will be played on 8th and 9th Feb...

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Airtel Kenya to now charge customers 1 bob for 5MB of data

Staff WriterJanuary 30, 2020

Airtel Kenya has now introduced a new default data cost for its customers. Customers will now be able to access internet for just Ksh. 1 for 5MB of data.  This ...

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Wanuri Kahiu is set to direct new Hollywood film, “The Black Kids”

Staff WriterJanuary 30, 2020

Award winning Kenyan filmmaker Wanuri Kahiu has landed a new project, directing a Holywood film called Black Kids. The new film is an adaptation of the upcom...

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Jack Daniel’s launches Tennessee Campus in Kenya to train Kenyan bartenders

Staff WriterJanuary 30, 2020

Jack Daniel’s Whiskey has launched the Tennessee Campus in Kenya, which will provide training and mentorship to Kenyan bartenders. This is the first time Tennes...

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KCB Foundation offers Ksh. 78M high school scholarships to 240 students

Staff WriterJanuary 30, 2020

KCB Foundation has sponsored 240 Kenyan high school students to the tune of Ksh. 78 million. The students that are being supported by KCB have reported to vario...

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Popular antivirus Avast is selling users data

Staff WriterJanuary 28, 2020

The popular antivirus program Avast has been selling users data to giant companies like Google, Home Depot, Microsoft and Pepsi, according to an investigation b...

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Falling Waters FC and Ulinzi Youth emerge as the winners in the Chapa Dimba Central Region finals

Staff WriterJanuary 20, 2020

Falling Waters FC from Laikipia and Ulinzi Youth from Nanyuki both beat their opponents 3-1 to become Chapa Dimba Na Safaricom Central Region champions. Fall...

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Amethis Finance a French PE Fund set to acquire a 30% stake in Naivas

Staff WriterJanuary 20, 2020

French private equity fund, Amethis Finance, is set to acquire about a 30 percent stake in Naivas Limited in a deal estimated to be worth billions of shilling. ...

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Bolt secures Ksh. 5.6 Billion loan from EIB, to be invested in research & development

Staff WriterJanuary 17, 2020

Taxi hailing firm Bolt has secured a Ksh. 5.6 Billion loan from the European Investment Bank (EIB) which it intends to invest in research and development. Th...

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Facebook ditches plan to push ads on Whatsapp

Staff WriterJanuary 17, 2020

Facebook is ditching plans to sell ads that would have otherwise been placed inside the messaging app. The social media giant has been looking for ways to monet...

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QuickBus a bus booking platform launches in the Kenyan market

Staff WriterJanuary 16, 2020

QuickBus which is an online bus booking service has launched into the Kenyan market and seeks to enable passengers to book buses at the comfort of their homes o...

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Glovo to start charging per kilometer for food deliveries

Staff WriterJanuary 16, 2020

Glovo the on-demand delivery service has introduced dynamic pricing for food deliveries based on distance. Previously the service provider has been charging ...

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Safaricom partners with M-Gas to offer prepaid cooking gas

Staff WriterJanuary 14, 2020

Safaricom has  partnered with M-Gas to launch a prepaid gas service for Kenyan households. The service is expected to empower millions of Kenyan homes to enjoy ...

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Kendi Ntwiga–Nderitu is the new Microsoft Kenya Country Manager

Staff WriterJanuary 7, 2020

Microsoft has announced the appointment of Kendi Ntwiga – Nderitu as the new Country Manager for its operations in Kenya. She replaces the previous country lead...

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Tatu City contracts Landis & Gyr to provide smart utilities infrastructure

Staff WriterJanuary 6, 2020

Tatu Connect, the utilities company at Tatu City has embarked on improving the efficiency of power usage and quality of service to consumers by investing in Adv...

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Dj Big Sam emerges as the first Smirnoff Battle of Beats Season II winner

Staff WriterJanuary 6, 2020

Smirnoff Battle of the Beats season II kicked-off in Thika region and DJ Big Sam emerged as the first undisputed winner, in a hotly contested competition. In...

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Aleph Hospitality opens the Best Western Plus Westlands hotel

Staff WriterJanuary 6, 2020

Dubai-based independent hotel management company Aleph Hospitality has opened the Best Western Plus Westlands hotel in Nairobi. This is the second such branded ...

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Emirates is offering discounts on return flights starting from $484 until 21 January

Staff WriterJanuary 6, 2020

Dubai based airline, Emirates, has announced that it is offering discounts on return flight fares to various destinations it flies to. Kenyan travellers will...

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Equity awards 1,136 top performing KCPE students with Wings to Fly Scholarships

Staff WriterJanuary 3, 2020

Equity Group has awarded the top performing but needy students  with Wings to Fly scholarships at a ceremony held at Kenyatta University. This year’s 1,136 scho...

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JamboJet is selling tickets to local destinations for Ksh. 2020 as part of New Year celebrations

Staff WriterJanuary 2, 2020

JamboJet has announced that it will be selling over 10,000 tickets at the price of Ksh. 2,020 part of its new year celebrations. The promotion which will run...

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Wings To Fly students shine in the 2019 KCSE results

Staff WriterDecember 31, 2019

Students who are beneficiaries of the Equity Bank Wings To Fly initiative performed well in the 2019 KCSE exams. 24 of the students managed to score a mean grad...

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Laban Irungu and Boniface Njuguna are the winners of a brand new matatu in the Vivo Energy Weka Collabo competition

Staff WriterDecember 24, 2019

Laban Irungu and his conductor Boniface Njuguna emerged as the winners of a a brand new 32-seater matatu valued at Kshs 5.2 million in the just concluded Weka C...

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Safaricom Foundation assists in the resettlement of families affected by floods in West Pokot

Staff WriterDecember 24, 2019

Safaricom Foundation has donated Ksh. 4 Million towards the resettlement of at least 300 families who were displaced and require support to rebuild their homes....

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Opera Mini and Mdundo partner to provide free downloadable music in 9 African countries

Staff WriterDecember 21, 2019

Opera and Mdundo have entered into a partnership that will see Opera Mini users listen to and download their favourite songs from the most recognized artists in...

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Glovo raises Ksh. 16.7 Billion in Series E funding

Staff WriterDecember 21, 2019

Glovo has announced that is has raised Ksh. 16.7 Billion in series E funding with this round of investment being led by Mubadala and previous investors like Dra...

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Tecno Mobile awards 50 customers with Christmas gifts courtesy of the Tecno Take Me Home Campaign

Staff WriterDecember 20, 2019

Tecno has awarded 50 lucky customers with a range of gifts as the #TECNOTakesMeHome campaign came to an end. The digital campaign achieved an impressive 27 Mill...

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Carbon a digital financial services company enters the Kenyan market

Staff WriterDecember 20, 2019

Carbon a Nigerian digital financial services company, has entered the Kenyan market. With the app, one will be able to access instant loans, ranging from Ksh 50...

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K1 Club House celebrates its 21st anniversary with 3 day festival

Staff WriterDecember 19, 2019

K1 Club House celebrated 21 years since it started out through a three day mini festival (13th -15th Dec) that was held in partnership with Tusker. The three...

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Equity Bank partners with KQ to offer 30% discounts on flights

Staff WriterDecember 19, 2019

Equity Bank has partnered with Kenya Airways to give the bank’s customers a 30% discount on flight bookings. The promotion will run till the 6th  of January 202...

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Kenya Airways has issued a profit warning

Staff WriterDecember 18, 2019

Kenya Airways has in a statement indicated that it expects a 25 per cent drop in profits for the financial year ending 31 December 2019. According to the boa...

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Eaton Towers restores services to Telkom Kenya after intervention from the Communications Authority

Staff WriterDecember 18, 2019

The Communications Authority has intervened in the row between Telkom Kenya and Eaton which operates the telco towers in a bid to restore services. The row aros...

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PR firm Gina Din Group set to be acquired by Edelman Kenya

Staff WriterDecember 18, 2019

Gina Din Group a public relations firm is set to be acquired by Edelman Kenya for an undisclosed fee according to reports. Gina Din Group was founded by Gina...

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Instagram to label fake news shared from Facebook

Staff WriterDecember 17, 2019

Instagram has indicated that it will be automatically flagging fake new posts. It is basically expanding its fact checking program and part of the move is to la...

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Stream Football emerge as the winners of the Guinness Night Football tournament

Staff WriterDecember 16, 2019

Stream Football Club who are the Lake region representatives emerged as the inaugural champions of the Guinness Night Football tournament after beating Bangers ...

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Get an insurance cover on the go with CoverApp

Staff WriterDecember 16, 2019

For the longest time, getting an insurance cover has been a tedious process that involves a lot of paperwork and visits to agents/insurance companies. For some ...

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