James Wamathai

In Pictures: Kenyans celebrating Supreme Court’s decision to overturn presidential election

James WamathaiSeptember 1, 2017

Kenya’s Supreme Court has today declared the Presidential Election where IEBC declared Uhuru Kenyatta as the winner invalid due to irregularities. It also order...

DStv packages prices in Kenya effective September 2017

James WamathaiSeptember 1, 2017

DStv recently announced a reduction in prices of their TV service in Kenya effective 1st September 2017. The new prices, in comparison with the old ones, a...

All you to need to know about the new Kenyan Passport

James WamathaiAugust 31, 2017

The Kenyan ePassport was announced in 2016 and was initially meant to be launched in December 2016 but the launch date was first moved to April 2017 and later S...

You can now watch Showmax on Xbox One

James WamathaiAugust 30, 2017

Showmax can now be watched on the Xbox One. The Showmax app is now available for download on the Xbox Store. Showmax is now available on Android, iOS, Androi...

iFlix launches their video on demand service in Kenya

James WamathaiAugust 30, 2017

Video on demand service, iFlix, has launched in Kenya. The service was launched in 2014 and targets emerging markets. Kenya is the second African country that t...

DStv to reduce prices of its services in Kenya from September 1st

James WamathaiAugust 29, 2017

Pay TV company, DSTv, has today announced that it will reduce prices of its TV packages from 1st September 2017. The company last reduced its prices in October ...

Tecno Spark K7 has been launched in the Kenyan market

James WamathaiAugust 28, 2017

Tecno has today launched the Spark K7 smartphone in Kenya. The new smartphone is a mid-range phone and will retail at Ksh. 9,999 and will be available from Kili...

Safaricom, Creative Y&R, Scanad & Ogilvy win at the Loeries Awards 2017

James WamathaiAugust 21, 2017

Safaricom, Creative Y&R, Scanad & Ogilvy have scooped awards at the Loeries Awards 2017. This year's competition saw more than 3,000 entries being submi...

Zuku to increase Internet prices again from 8th September

James WamathaiAugust 7, 2017

Zuku has sent notifications to its customers to inform them that they will increase their fiber internet prices from 8th September 2017. The company cites incre...

Nokia 6, Nokia 5, Nokia 3 & 3310 are now available in Kenya

James WamathaiJuly 28, 2017

Nokia has made a comeback in Kenya with the launch of Nokia 6, Nokia 5, Nokia 3 & the iconic 3310 2017 in Kenya. The Nokia phones are now manufactured by HM...

Limited edition Manchester City Camon CX is available for sale in Kenya

James WamathaiJuly 17, 2017

TECNO and Manchester City Football Club have teamed up to unveil a Limited Edition Camon CX. TECNO launched its sisters, the Camon CX and CX Air, in Kenya in Ma...

Huawei launches the P10 Lite in Kenya

James WamathaiJuly 12, 2017

Huawei has today launched the P10 Lite in Kenya. The P10 Lite is the smaller sister to the P10 and P10 Plus which were launched in the country earlier. The P...

Inside Icolo’s plan to operate affordable & carrier neutral data centres in Kenya

James WamathaiJuly 5, 2017

Carrier neutral data centres are a relatively new concept in Kenya. Most data centres here are owned and operated by Internet providers. Carrier neutral data ce...

Abigail Arunga

Q&A Monday: Abigail Arunga

James WamathaiJune 26, 2017

Abigail Arunga is the author of Akello and a Side of Raunch, both poetry collections. She runs her personal blog, akello.co.ke, and a current affairs blog on na...

SOMA Awards 2017 full list of winners

James WamathaiJune 23, 2017

The winners of the SOMA Awards 2017 have been announced at a gala event at Radisson Blu Nairobi. The SOMA Awards recognizes outstanding companies and individual...

Bean Interactive CEO, Martin Kiarie, to be on judging panel at the Loeries Awards 2017

James WamathaiJune 15, 2017

Martin Kiarie, CEO and Co-Founder of Kenyan digital agency Bean Interactive, has been invited to be one of the judges in this year’s Loeries Awards. Kiarie will...

Telkom Kenya launches 4G in 9 towns across the country

James WamathaiJune 7, 2017

Telkom has launched its 4G network as part of its rebrand. It becomes the second telco in Kenya to do so after Safaricom. To access 4G, customers need to acq...

The rebrand of Telkom Kenya after Orange exit is now complete

James WamathaiJune 7, 2017

The rebrand of Telkom Kenya, formerly known as Orange Kenya, is now complete. The Kenyan telco reverted back to its original name after Orange Kenya exited the ...

Tune Hotel to rebrand to Ibis Styles after takeover by Accor Hotels

James WamathaiJune 5, 2017

Tune Hotel in Westlands will rebrand to Ibis Styles Westlands in the second half of 2017. This is after AccorHotels, which owns the Ibis Styles brand, signed a ...

Safaricom announces that it has rolled out 4G+ on its network

James WamathaiJune 3, 2017

Safaricom has announced that it has rolled out 4G+ on its network in major towns in Kenya. Safaricom launched 4G on its network in 2014, becoming the first Keny...

Here is the full list of Groove Awards 2017 winners

James WamathaiJune 2, 2017

The Groove Awards 2017 winners were announced at a gala event last night. Among the winners on the night were Mercy Masika who won the Female artist of the year...

Tickets between Nairobi and Mombasa on SGR to start from Ksh. 700

James WamathaiMay 30, 2017

President Uhuru Kenyatta is set to officially launch the new Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) tomorrow 31st May 2017. The new railway will make movement of people b...

Kenyan cars to have a Third License Sticker from July 1st

James WamathaiMay 30, 2017

NTSA (National Transport and Safety Authority) has introduced a Third License Sticker that will be mandatory for newly registered vehicles, both new and used, f...

The Huawei P10 has officially been launched in Kenya

James WamathaiMay 26, 2017

Huawei Mobile has officially launched its newest flagship phone, the Huawei P10, in Kenya as it continues to push to gain more market share in the Kenyan smartp...

Tecno donates Ksh. 2 Million to Kajiado school feeding program

James WamathaiMay 25, 2017

Phone manufacturer Tecno has donated Ksh. 2 million to a school feeding program in Kajiado County. The donation was done in partnership with ActionAid Kenya. ...

The last scheduled train trip on Kenya’s old railway in pictures

James WamathaiMay 10, 2017

The Saffir Lunatic Express, a train trip from Nairobi to Mombasa on the old railway, took place on 28th April 2017. It was coincidentally the last time there wa...

Caroline Mutoko to sponsor a young Kenyan to attend the One Young World Summit in Colombia

James WamathaiMay 10, 2017

Caroline Mutoko has launched an initiative dubbed the Caroline Mutoko Leadership Award that will sponsor a young Kenyan to attend the One Young World Summit 201...

Safaricom Home Fibre is now in the proximity of 53,000 homes

James WamathaiMay 10, 2017

Safaricom has announced that it has laid its home fibre in the proximity of 53,000 homes. The telco shared the news at the FY 2017 financial results announcemen...

Jacque Njeri redesigns postage stamps in the most amazing way

James WamathaiMay 9, 2017

Postage stamps are a nostalgic reminder of a time when letters were one of the main means of communication. They are also contain a piece of history, in the for...

Huawei launches the GR3 2017 smartphone in Kenya

James WamathaiMay 9, 2017

Huawei has launched the GR3 2017 smartphone in the Kenyan market. It is a successor to the GR3 phone was that launched in Kenya last year. The phone is a mid...

Brookside launches Fruitness premium yoghurt

James WamathaiMay 6, 2017

Brookside Dairy has launched a new range of premium yoghurt called Fruitness. Fruitness Yoghurt contains real fruit and does not have preservatives and arti...

Peter Reinartz worked at Wananchi Group as MD for 7 months without a work permit

James WamathaiApril 27, 2017

The Immigration Department earlier today asked Kenyans to report anyone working in Kenya without a valid work permit. The Tweet reminded me of a story that I ha...

French bakery chain Le Grenier à Pain officially launches in Nairobi

James WamathaiApril 27, 2017

French bakery chain, Le Grenier à Pain, has officially launched in Nairobi. The chain has over 30 branches worldwide and the Nairobi one is the first in Africa....

Chris Diaz wins Modern Marketing Leader award at the 2017 Markie Awards

James WamathaiApril 27, 2017

Chris Diaz, Bidco Africa's Group Sales and Marketing Director, has won the Modern Marketing Leader of the Year award at the 2017 Markie Awards. He and other win...

Loop

CBA Loop review: It is pretty useful despite having a few kinks

James WamathaiApril 25, 2017

It's becoming clear with each passing day that banks as we know them will not . Unlike in the past, customers are increasingly looking to access their money awa...

Buy a 3 month ShowMax subscription with MPESA & get 1 month free

James WamathaiApril 25, 2017

Video on Demand Service, ShowMax is offering customers a 1 month free if they buy a 3 month subscription by M-Pesa. The offer applies to both ShowMax Premium an...

How to block annoying promotional SMS messages on Safaricom

James WamathaiApril 25, 2017

The introduction of Lipa na M-Pesa (buy goods) provided a convenient way for customers to pay for goods and services. The best thing about the service to custom...

Q&A Monday: Joy Doreen Biira

James WamathaiApril 17, 2017

Joy Doreen Biira is a media personality who is currently with the Standard Group as a Business News Anchor and reporter for their TV station KTN. She hosts eco@...

Inside Surf’s plan to provide high quality & affordable Internet to Kenyans

James WamathaiApril 11, 2017

Surf launched the Express Wi-Fi service in Kenya late last month, in partnership with Facebook and Internet Solutions. Express Wi-Fi is a public wi-fi hotspot s...

Best Western Hurlingham rebrands to Four Points By Sheraton

James WamathaiApril 10, 2017

The Best Western Premier in Hurlingham is now Four Points By Sheraton Nairobi Hurlingham. The Kamcan Properties' owned hotel becomes the Marriott property in Ke...

ShowMax is heavily banking on local content to push uptake in Kenya

James WamathaiApril 7, 2017

Video on Demand service, ShowMax, officially launched in Kenya in October last year. It launched with two products, Select and Premium. The Select version was a...

Hoji launches a mobile vote tallying service for candidates

James WamathaiApril 6, 2017

Election season is here with us again where citizens get to vote in leaders into various elective positions. Candidates in the election rely on the Independe...