James Wamathai

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...

Films by Wanuri Kahiu & Judy Kibinge shortlisted for the Triggerfish Story Lab

James WamathaiOctober 14, 2015

Feature films by Kenyan filmmakers Wanuri Kahiu and Judy Kibinge by is among 23 feature films and 12 Tv series that have been shortlisted by Triggerfish Animati...

OLX SOMA Awards 2015 full list of winners

James WamathaiOctober 11, 2015

The OLX SOMA Awards 2015 winners gala event happened yesterday at the Safaricom Indoor Arena at Kasarani. The SOMA Awards recognizes the best companies and ind...

Order drinks online on Boozeit & get them delivered in an hour

James WamathaiOctober 9, 2015

SIG Africa (Savannah Internet Group) have launched a drinks delivery platform called Boozeit. Boozeit operates 24 hours and is currently available in Nairobi. I...

Apply for a paid internship at Tuskys Supermarkets

James WamathaiOctober 9, 2015

Tuskys Supermarkets has announced a 5 year internship program that will see them take on 7500 graduates. They will train 1500 graduates every year for five year...

10 pictures from the Nairobi Instameet at African Heritage House

James WamathaiOctober 6, 2015

Kenyan instagrammers hosted an Instameet at African Heritage House on Sunday the 4th of October from 3pm. Below are some of the pictures that came out of the In...

Ethiopia rescinds visa requirement for Kenyan business travellers

James WamathaiOctober 6, 2015

Ethiopia has apparently rescinded the visa requirement for business travellers from Kenya. This happened last week on Tuesday. The Ethiopian embassy in Nairobi ...

Carol Musyoka, Juliana Rotich & 112 other women appointed to parastatal boards

James WamathaiOctober 5, 2015

Business Daily columnist Carol Musyoka, Ushahidi co-founder Juliana Rotich and 348 other Kenyans have been appointed to the boards of various Kenyan parastatals...

Kenya’s Pad Heaven selected as a LAUNCH Nordic finalist

James WamathaiOctober 3, 2015

Kenyan company Pad heaven has been selected as a LAUNCH Nordic 2015 finalist. LAUNCH Nordic is a global innovation platform that was founded in collaboration wi...

All you need to know about Shangwe Mtaani by Safaricom

James WamathaiOctober 2, 2015

Safaricom has launched a new consumer promotion campaign dubbed Shangwe Mtaani. The 60 day campaign will culminate with celebrations to mark Safaricom’s 15th An...

CBK warns supermarkets over offering sweets as change to customers

James WamathaiOctober 2, 2015

The Central of Bank (CBK) has today warned supermarkets not to offer customers at their estbalishments airtime, matchboxes and sweets in place of coins as chang...

The Galaxy Note 5 is now available in Kenya

James WamathaiOctober 2, 2015

Samsung has launched their flagship phablet, the Galaxy Note 5, in the Kenyan market. The NOte 5 succeeds the Note 4 which was launched in Kenya in october 2014...

DSTv packages prices in Kenya effective October 2015

James WamathaiSeptember 29, 2015

DSTv announced in early September that their TV package prices would increase effective October 1st 2015. The price increase announcement caused a huge uproar i...