James Wamathai

Q&A Monday: Wanja Kavengi

James WamathaiFebruary 22, 2016

Wanja Kavengi is an exhausted mother (of one) lying on the couch in her faded, food-stained XL Harpic t-shirt and pyjama pants that are ripped in the middle, dr...

Standard Group buys 50% stake in Bamba TV

James WamathaiFebruary 19, 2016

The Standard Group has bought a 50% stake in Radio Africa Group owned Bamba TV for Ksh. 300 million. The deal is both in equipment and cash. The deal will also ...

M-KOPA launches solar powered digital TV for its customers

James WamathaiFebruary 19, 2016

M-KOPA has launched a solar-powered 16 inch digital flat screen TV that is available to its clients via several payment plans. M-KOPA customers who have f...

Kenyans can now apply for a Bahrain visa online

James WamathaiFebruary 17, 2016

Kenyans travelling to Bahrain will now be able to apply for a visa online. eVisas have been introduced for Kenya and 10 other African countries. The countries a...

Juliana Rotich joins Africa Technology Ventures as a venture partner

James WamathaiFebruary 17, 2016

Juliana Rotich has joined Africa Technology Ventures as a venture partner. She announced this in a blog post where she shared that there are gaps in funding tec...

Infinix Zero 3 review: Delivering on specs at an affordable price

James WamathaiFebruary 17, 2016

Infinix has impressed in recent times with devices that are feature rich at affordable prices. The Zero 3 X552, which is the successor to the Zero 2, is no diff...

Huawei eyes enterprise market with launch of Mate 8 in Kenya

James WamathaiFebruary 16, 2016

Huawei has today launched their latest flagship device, the Mate 8, in Kenya. The Huawei Mate 8 is a phablet that also has 4G. The Mate 8 rungs on Android 6....

Safaricom to provide free Internet to schools in support of laptop project

James WamathaiFebruary 16, 2016

The Ministry of ICT has announced the launch of a pilot phase of the laptop for schools project. The schools laptop project will be eventually launched in 22,00...

First ever Ladies European Tour golf event in Kenya to be at Vipingo Ridge

James WamathaiFebruary 15, 2016

Kenya will this year host the Ladies European Tour (LED) golf event from 11th to 20th November 2016. This is the first time that the event will take place in Ke...

Emerging Enterprise Initiative by Safaricom and British Airways announces winners

James WamathaiFebruary 15, 2016

Safaricom and British Airways have announced the winners of the Emerging Enterprise Initiative. The initiative was launched in November 2015 and the entry perio...

Q&A Monday: Gathoni Kimuyu

James WamathaiFebruary 15, 2016

Gathoni Kimuyu, AKA @QueenGathoni, is a mother on of one, shoe addict, hopeless romantic, TV producer and scriptwriter. She is also a peer sex educator and a di...

Why you should attend the Safaricom Jazz Festival with Branford Marsalis

James WamathaiFebruary 12, 2016

As we recently reported, the third Safaricom Jazz Festival will be going down on 21st February at the Safaricom Stadium in Kasarani. Launched in 2014, it has ho...

Q&A Monday: Magunga Williams

James WamathaiFebruary 8, 2016

Magunga Williams Oduor is a writer, Nairobi bachelor and a half toothed goon who likes to tell stories. If you want, you can find his stories curated on his cre...

Samsung launches the 2016 Galaxy A3, A5 and A7 4G smartphones in Kenya

James WamathaiFebruary 1, 2016

Samsung has today the announced the launch and availability of the Galaxy A (2016) range of smartphones in Kenya. The smartphones launched are the Galaxy A3, Ga...

Q&A Monday: Jamila El-Jabry

James WamathaiFebruary 1, 2016

Jamila El-Jabry, AKA @Mombasa_Gal, is the founder of digital marketing company Muse Digital and lifeinmombasa.com. She is a professional communication specialis...

Attacks on Uber drivers increase as service gains traction in Kenya

James WamathaiFebruary 1, 2016

Uber is seen as unfair competition by traditional taxi drivers all over the world with protests being held from Sao Paolo to Brussels to Johannesburg. In Kenya ...

How to get your full M-PESA statement via email

James WamathaiJanuary 27, 2016

Safaricom have announced that their customers will now be able get their full M-PESA statements free of charge via email. Previously such statements were availa...

Industrialization Ministry & KAM to develop policy that will create 1 million jobs

James WamathaiJanuary 20, 2016

Officials from the Kenya Association of Manufacturers (KAM) and the Ministry of Industrialization and Enterprise Development have today met to discuss various i...

Garissa now has fiber Internet through Liquid Telecom

James WamathaiJanuary 20, 2016

Liquid Telecom has has extended its Internet fiber network to Garissa County. The fiber in the county spans over 21km and includes a redundancy link. The networ...

Zuku to increase their fiber Internet prices on February 15

James WamathaiJanuary 20, 2016

Zuku will from February 15 2016 increase their prices of their fiber internet, both to homes and offices. The lowest package for homes will now be Ksh. 1,799 an...

Airtel customers to register their lines afresh to comply with regulations

James WamathaiJanuary 12, 2016

Airtel Kenya have today announced that all their customers have to register their lines afresh. This is because they want to comply with the Kenya Information a...

Nairobi Restaurant Week 2016 – List of participating restaurants #NRW2016

James WamathaiJanuary 11, 2016

The food fest that is the Nairobi Restaurant Week is back for the third time. Organized by EatOut, the 10 day food festival has had a good run and is a fantasti...

BRCK receives Ksh. 300M funding from Steve Case, Synergy Energy and others

James WamathaiJanuary 8, 2016

Kenyan technology company BRCK has received funding to the tune of Ksh. 300 million from a variety of investors to further expand its business. The investors ...

Show love, submit your favourite blogs in the Kenyan Blog Awards 2016 #BAKEAwards

James WamathaiJanuary 8, 2016

The Bloggers Association of Kenya (BAKE) has just announced the launch of the 2016 Kenyan Blog Awards. This is the 5th edition of the awards with the last one h...

Finally competition for DSTV with launch of Netflix in Kenya

James WamathaiJanuary 7, 2016

Netflix is now available in Kenya which means that finally DSTV now has some serious competition. It has also launched in South Africa, Nigeria and 127 other co...

Applications to the 2016 Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Programme are now open

James WamathaiJanuary 2, 2016

The Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Programme (TEEP) for up and coming African entrepreneurs is now open. The initiative was launched in December 2014 and the fir...

Apply for 2,000 scholarships Equity Bank is giving to needy students

James WamathaiDecember 30, 2015

Equity Bank, through its Equity Group Foundation, will give 2,000 scholarships to needy KCPE graduates under the Wings to Fly scholarship program. The scholarsh...

Fastjet to fly to Nairobi from January 2016

James WamathaiDecember 23, 2015

Low cost carrier Fastjet will begin flying to Nairobi from January 2016 after years of trying to get into the market. On 11th January 2016, Customers will b...

Kenya’s Ongair receives $125,000 for expansion into Asia

James WamathaiDecember 16, 2015

Kenyan startup has received an investment of $125,000 from Nest, Zeytin Limited, Venture Kinetics and other angel investors. Ongair was founded by Trevor Kim...

Peris Bosire, Alex Mativo & Susan Mueni Waita are Kenyan winners of Queen’s Young Leaders Award

James WamathaiDecember 16, 2015

Three young Kenyans, i.e. Alex Mativo, Peris Bosire and Susan Mueni Waita, have been announced as the Kenyan recipients of the Queen’s Young Leaders Award. They...

HEVA Fund invests in 6 Kenyan fashion businesses

James WamathaiDecember 16, 2015

HEVA Fund, a finance and business support facility for creative businesses, has invested in 6 Kenyan fashion businesses with an aim of helping them achieve comm...

Infinix Note 2 X600 smartphone launched in Kenya

James WamathaiDecember 16, 2015

The Infinix Note 2 X600 smartphone has been launched in the Kenyan market. Infinix phones with their great specs and affordable prices have pushed Infinix's sma...

Wanuri Kahiu among winners of the Triggerfish Story Lab

James WamathaiDecember 16, 2015

Kenyan filmmaker Wanuri Kahiu is among 8 winners of the inaugural Triggerfish Story Lab. Wanuri Kahiu's feature film The Camel Racer, which is in collaboration ...

Entry level smartphones, Huawei Y5C and Y360, launched in Kenya

James WamathaiNovember 27, 2015

Huawei has launched two entry level smartphones, the Huawei Y5C and Huawei Y360, in the Kenyan market in order to boost its market share. The Huawei Y360 run...

Unilever launches a new Blue Band with Omega 3 and 6 fats

James WamathaiNovember 16, 2015

Unilever East Africa has unveiled the new Blue Band spread with Omega 3 and Omega 6 with an aim of improving nutrition in Kenya. In Kenya, nutrition related ill...

Radisson Blu Nairobi has finally opened its doors

James WamathaiNovember 11, 2015

The five star Radisson Blu Hotel in Nairobi has opened its doors. The Radisson Blu Hotel franchise is operated by the Carlson Rezidor Group based in Belgium. Th...

Orange sells its 70% stake in Telkom Kenya to Helios

James WamathaiNovember 10, 2015

Orange Group has divested from Telkom Kenya with the sale of their 70% stake in the Kenyan telco to Helios Investment Partners. Orange bought a majority sta...

KCB swipe at NIC Bank on Twitter backfires on them

James WamathaiNovember 10, 2015

KCB Bank this morning took a swipe at NIC Bank with a Tweet that was apparently supposed to put them in their place as a small bank trying to catch up on social...

Jameson and Kevin Spacey are looking for the next big Kenyan filmmaker

James WamathaiNovember 3, 2015

Jameson has partnered with award-winning American actor Kevin Spacey and Trigger Street Productions to launch Jameson First Shot, a film competition that aims t...

Markit Opportunity has won the Barclays Africa Supply Chain Challenge

James WamathaiNovember 3, 2015

Kenyan company Markit Opportunity has been announced as the winner of the Barclays Africa Supply Chain Challenge. Markit also won $10,000 (Ksh. 1 million). Fres...

Barclays Bank’s ReadytoWork programme to help prepare graduates for the job market

James WamathaiOctober 31, 2015

Barclays Bank Kenya yesterday launched the ReadytoWork programme, a free online resource website that will help prepare college and university graduates for the...

M-PESA now allows customers to confirm who they are sending money to

James WamathaiOctober 16, 2015

Safaricom has introduced a feature on M-PESA that will allow customers to confirm who they are sending money to. The feature went live in September and is acces...