Hemingways Collection commits to retaining employees after suspending operations due to COVID-19

Staff WriterApril 3, 2020

Luxury hotel brand Hemingways Collection has announced the suspension of its operations in its Ol Seki Mara and Hemingways Nairobi properties due to the COVID-1...

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Britam Holdings announces an improved FY 2019 Ksh. 3.5 billion net profit

Staff WriterApril 3, 2020

Britam Holdings has today announced a Ksh. 3.5 billion profit after tax for the year ending 31st December 2019. This is rapid increase from the Ksh. 2.29 billio...

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UAP Insurance Kenya FY 2019 net profit rise to Ksh. 1.249 billion

Staff WriterApril 2, 2020

UAP Insurance Kenya has announced a Ksh. 1.249 billion profit before tax for the financial period ended 31st December 2019. This is a 316% increase from the Ksh...

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Prudential to offer cash benefits to customers diagnosed with COVID-19

Staff WriterApril 2, 2020

Prudential has announced that it will offer its customers cash benefits in addition to other benefits in their existing policies should they be diagnosed with C...

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Kenyans can now live stream news on Showmax

Staff WriterMarch 31, 2020

Video on demand service Showmax has added news live streaming on its platform in Kenya. Kenyans can now stream six live news channels on the platform. Showma...

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Tatu City has planted 10,000 trees in the Kamiti catchment area

Staff WriterMarch 31, 2020

Tatu City and the Kamiti Water Resource Users Association have planted more than 10,000 trees in two years of cooperation. So far in 2020, the environmental...

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Nokia 2.2 gets Android 10

Staff WriterMarch 31, 2020

HMD Global has announced that the Nokia 2.2 smartphone will get the Android 10 in Kenya. The new update on the Nokia 2.2 makes a total of seven (7) Nokia Smartp...

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Kenya bans the importation of mitumba

Staff WriterMarch 31, 2020

The Kenya Bureau of Standards (KEBS) has issued a notice temporarily banning the importation of second hand clothes, popularly known as Mitumba, and shoes in Ke...

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Airtel is offering free Internet access to the Longhorn Publishers e-learning platform

Staff WriterMarch 24, 2020

Airtel Kenya has partnered with Longhorn Publishers to offer free internet access, on its network, to enable students continue learning through the Longhorn e-l...

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EABL commits Ksh. 50 million to produce & distribute hand sanitisers to Kenyans

Staff WriterMarch 24, 2020

The EABL Foundation has committed Ksh. 50 million to fund the production of 135,000 litres of hand sanitisers by two Nairobi-based industries in the fight again...

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Safaricom partners with matatu operators to collect fares via M-PESA

Staff WriterMarch 23, 2020

Safaricom has partnered with public transport sector players in Kenya to accept cashless payments through M-PESA in the ongoing battle to combat the spread of t...

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Loon receives cabinet approval to launch in Kenya

Staff WriterMarch 23, 2020

Loon has finally received cabinet approval to launch its service in Kenya. The Google owned company has partnered with Telkom to launch balloon-powered Internet...

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KBL launches Baileys Delight in Kenya

Staff WriterMarch 20, 2020

Kenya Breweries Limited (KBL) has launched Baileys Delight alcoholic drink in the Kenyan market. The new drink is a variant of the Baileys Original Irish Cream ...

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Equity Group registers a Ksh. 22.6B net profit for FY 2019

Staff WriterMarch 20, 2020

Equity Group has announced a 14% increase in profit after tax for the period ending 31st December 2019 that grew to Ksh. 22.6 billion from Ksh. 19.8 billion in ...

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Polycarp Igathe rejoins Equity Group as the Chief Commercial Officer

Staff WriterMarch 16, 2020

Polycarp Igathe has rejoined Kenyan financial company, Equity Group, as the Chief Commercial Officer 7 months after quitting to join Vivo Energy. In his new rol...

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Safaricom suspends charges for M-PESA transfers below Ksh. 1,000 in response to the Coronavirus crisis

Staff WriterMarch 16, 2020

Safaricom has announced that it has suspends charges for M-PESA transactions below Ksh. 1,000 in response to the Coronavirus crisis in Kenya. Kenya currently ha...

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KBL takes the Red Star Experience to Thika

Staff WriterFebruary 27, 2020

Kenya Breweries Limited (KBL) recently hosted the Red Star Experience in Thika at Club Blend to provide an opportunity for consumers to taste and experience Red...

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KAM launches the Manufacturing Priority Agenda (MPA) 2020

Staff WriterFebruary 27, 2020

The Kenya Association of Manufacturers (KAM) has today launched the Manufacturing Priority Agenda (MPA) 2020. The MPA highlights immediate action plans to estab...

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Safaricom partners with Amazon to become a reseller of AWS cloud products

Staff WriterFebruary 27, 2020

Safaricom has announced that it has partnered with Amazon Web Services (AWS), which will see the Telco become a reseller of AWS cloud products. Safaricom has...

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First 2020 edition of Folk Fusion, hosted by Ayrosh, to take place on 7th March

Staff WriterFebruary 27, 2020

The first edition of Folk Fusion in 2020 is set to take place on Saturday 7th March at 910 James Gichuru Rd from 2pm to 11 PM. The fourth edition of Folk Fus...

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JKIA has a new cashless parking management system

Staff WriterFebruary 27, 2020

The Kenya Airports Authority (KAA) has launched a new parking management system at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA). The new system will be manage...

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New Uber safety feature will enable customers to provide a PIN to drivers before starting a trip

Staff WriterFebruary 27, 2020

Uber users in Kenya will have the option of receiving a four-digit PIN code to provide to their driver before starting a trip. This adds a layer of verification...

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Hemingways Nairobi is the first Kenyan hotel accepted into the American Express Fine Hotels and Resorts program

Staff WriterFebruary 27, 2020

Hemingways Nairobi is the first hotel in Kenya to be accepted into the American Express Fine Hotels and Resorts program. Hemingways Nairobi is part of the Hemin...

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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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