James Wamathai

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Ethiopia has apparently rescinded the visa requirement for business travellers from Kenya.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...

M-AKiba to offer Ksh. 5 Billion government bond via M-PESA

James WamathaiSeptember 28, 2015

The Kenyan government has announced that it will float a Government bond that will be offered exclusively to mobile money users. The initiative, dubbed as M-AKi...

Peter Arina is the new East African Cables CEO

James WamathaiSeptember 28, 2015

Peter Arina has been appointed as the new CEO of NSE listed firm East African Cables. Peter replaces George Mwangi who has stepped down after 7 years at the hel...

Kenyans travelling to Ethiopia on business will now need a visa

James WamathaiSeptember 25, 2015

Kenyans travelling to Ethiopia on business will now require a visa. This was apparently effected two months ago according to the Ethiopia Embassy in Nairobi. ...

Carol Musyoka has been appointed as an EABL Director

James WamathaiSeptember 25, 2015

Consultant and Business Daily columnist Carol Musyoka has been appointed to the East African Breweries Ltd board as a Non-Executive Director. The listed company...

Tecno launches the Phantom 5 in Kenya

James WamathaiSeptember 22, 2015

Phone manufacturer has today launched their latest flagship device, the Phantom 5, in the Kenyan market. The Phantom 5 succeeds the Phantom Z which did very wel...

Blogs dominate the list of most visited Kenyan websites

James WamathaiSeptember 21, 2015

To try and get an idea of the website visiting habits of Kenyans online, I recently checked out the Kenyan top 500 most visited websites list at website ranking...

Pre-order the Tecno Phantom 5 which will be launched on September 22

James WamathaiSeptember 18, 2015

Tecno's newest flagship device, the Tecno Phantom 5 will be launched in Kenya on Tuesday September 22nd. The Phantom 5 succeeds the Phantom Z which did very wel...

Paul Tiyambe Zeleza is the new USIU Vice Chancellor

James WamathaiSeptember 17, 2015

Dr. Paul Tiyambe Zeleza has been announced as the new Vice Chancellor of the United States International University-Africa (USIU-A) with effect from 1 January, ...

Ezekiel Owuor is the new Managing Director of CIC Life Assurance

James WamathaiSeptember 17, 2015

Ezekiel Owuor has been appointed as the Managing Director of CIC Life Assurance. CIC Life is a part of the CIC Insurance Group which consists of three subsidiar...

The Infinix Hot 2 X510, first Android one phone in Kenya, is now available

James WamathaiSeptember 16, 2015

Infinix has launched the first Android One phone in Africa, the Infinix Hot 2, in Kenya. The Hot 2 was launched in conjunction with Google under their Android o...

2.2 million Kenyans use Facebook every day

James WamathaiSeptember 11, 2015

Facebook has shared new statistics revealing that 2.2 million Kenyans are using Facebook every day and 4.5 million each month, while 7.1 million Nigerians use F...

Over 1,900 Kenyans have died in road accidents in 2015

James WamathaiSeptember 4, 2015

A report on the National Transport and Safety Authority (NTSA) website shows that 1,983 Kenyans have died due to road accidents between 1st January 2015 to 2nd ...

Safaricom has finally made the M-PESA API available to developers

James WamathaiSeptember 4, 2015

Safaricom has finally made the M-PESA API available. Developers will now be able to use the API to create aplications that will connect to the M-PESA platform d...

Multichoice Africa CEO Tim Jacobs responds to Kenyan uproar about DStv price increase

James WamathaiSeptember 3, 2015

Renowned Kenyan journalist James G. Mbugua met MultiChoice Africa CEO Tim Jacobs on the sidelines of DStv showcase in Mauritius. He asked him about the recent i...

The Twitter Ads service is now available in Kenya

James WamathaiSeptember 3, 2015

Kenya is among 200 countries where the Twitter ads service is now available. It was previously only available in 33 countries with South Africa being the only A...

DStv packages are overpriced in Kenya

James WamathaiSeptember 2, 2015

DSTV sent texts to customers today informing them that their packages will more from October 1st 2015. The premium package for instance will cost Ksh. 9,400 fro...

Q&A with Robert Ngeru on Samsung’s phone business in Kenya

James WamathaiSeptember 2, 2015

I spoke to Robert Ngeru, Samsung Electronics East Africa's Chief Operating Officer (COO) on the sidelines of the launch of the Galaxy S6 Edge+ in Kenya. The con...

Samsung launches the Galaxy S6 Edge+ in Kenya

James WamathaiSeptember 2, 2015

Samsung has launched its latest flasgship device, the Galaxy S6 Edge+, in Kenya. The S6 Edge+ is an iteration and a bigger version of the S6 Edge. For one it ha...

iStats report names the biggest Kenyan brands on Twitter

James WamathaiSeptember 2, 2015

Digital company Internet Exposure released findings of a Kenyan brand research conducted by iStats, a Twitter monitoring app they own. The research was carried ...

Bhartesh Shah is the new COO of Equity Group

James WamathaiSeptember 2, 2015

Bhartesh Shah has been appointed as new Equity Group Chief Operations Officer (COO). He replaces Julius Kipng’etich who has moved to Uchumi Supermarkets to beco...

Infinix have really upped their game with the Zero 2

James WamathaiAugust 31, 2015

2015 has so far been a good year for Infinix. They launched two entry level devices, the Hot X507 and Hot Note X551, earlier in the year which did very well in ...

Uber payment problems for old users persist in Kenya

James WamathaiAugust 27, 2015

We wrote a comprehensive article earlier in the month on Uber's entry into the Kenyan market which, as we broke down, has been anything but smooth sailing. L...

Kenyans can now register and use Uber without a credit card

James WamathaiAugust 20, 2015

Uber has just announced that everyone who uses Uber in Nairobi will be able to use the cash option when paying for the service. The cash option was introduced i...

Salif Keita to headline Safaricom Jazz Concert on August 29

James WamathaiAugust 17, 2015

Kenyan music fans are in for treat as one of Africa's most celebrated musicians will be in town later this month as the headline artist for the first Safaricom ...

“Uber-guzi” – Until Uber thinks local first, there’s no winning in Kenya

James WamathaiAugust 10, 2015

Uber's foray into the African continent began in South Africa in 2012 with the launch of their service in Johannesburg and later in Cape Town and Durban. There ...

Samsung launches the Galaxy J5 & J7 in Kenya

James WamathaiAugust 6, 2015

Samsung has today launched the Galaxy J5 and Galaxy J7 smartphones in the Kenya. The two are mid-range devices that are 4G enabled. Their launch comes in the wa...

Internet & mobile penetration record growth according to CA report

James WamathaiAugust 4, 2015

The Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) has released a report for the period January to March 2015 that maps out the Kenyan telecommunication sector. Here...

Apply for the second Safaricom Business Journalism Fellowship

James WamathaiJuly 28, 2015

Strathmore Business School in partnership with Safaricom has today launched the second Safaricom Business Journalism Fellowship for business journalists. The fe...

How to upgrade to Windows 10

James WamathaiJuly 27, 2015

Microsoft's new operating system will be available from July 29th. If you have a licensed Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 you can upgrade to Windows 10 in the following wa...

Windows 10 to launch in Nairobi with cash donation to 10 Kenyan NGOs

James WamathaiJuly 27, 2015

Microsoft will launch a new version of their popular operating system Windows on July 29th. The new operating system, dubbed Windows 10, will be available as a ...