Cellulant, a digital payments service provider, has won in the Payments & Transfers category at the 2016 African FinTech Awards at the Finance Indaba Africa...
The Tecno Phantom 6 (single SIM) is now available from Safaricom. The phone was made available on pre-order from Safaricom in late September.
The Phantom 6 i...
The Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) has released their communications sector report for the period April and 30th June 2016. One of the key stats in the ...
PIVOT East has announced the semi-finalists for their startup competition this year. The call for applications this year was announced in August with over 120 s...
Telkom Kenya has introduced new data bundles while also introducing validity periods for the different data offerings. Most of their bundles previously had a 90...
PayPal withdrawals to Equity Bank accounts will now take 3 days. The withdrawals process previously took 5-8 days.
PayPal withdrawals were introduced in Keny...
In Kenya there used to be a time when the phone market was dominated by a few major brands like Nokia and Alcatel. These days one is spoilt for choice in terms ...
Huawei has launched 4 new phones, the Y3II, Y5II, Y6II and GR5 mini, as part of a campaign targeted towards the youth. The campaign, dubbed Light up with colour...
Gebeya which means marketplace in Amharic is an online marketplace for top IT professionals. The platform when launched will allow these professionals to showca...
Uber has significantly lowered its prices in Kenya in what seems to be a price war with new entrant Little Cab. Customers will now pay 100 (base fare) + Ksh. 35...
If your business relies on the TEAMS cable for internet you need to brace yourself for slow internet speeds. This is due to the scheduled maintenance works on t...
Last week we told you about the Precious Blood Riruta students who managed to make it the the finals of the Technovation Challenge. The 5 girls namely Harriet K...
Wambui Kinya has been appointed the Chief Strategy Officer at tech talent firm Andela. This comes on the back of $24 million funding that Andela received from C...
Telkom Kenya has launched an affordable Android smartphone in the Kenyan market dubbed the Kaduda Smart. This is the third branded mobile phone they have launch...
Five students from Precious Blood High School in Nairobi have are finalists in the Technovation Challenge 2016, a global technology and entrepreneurship competi...
Safaricom and Craft Silicon have today launched a new taxi hailing service in Kenya called Little Cab. The new service launches in a market where there are othe...
According to a survey carried out by Safaricom Business on 181,000 businesses spread across 21 counties. Lack of capital, cash flow management and an inability ...
Uber is the current market leader in the taxi hailing business in Kenya. It launched in January last year and despite a few challenges, it has gone from strengt...
It's a proven fact that introducing technology in a business reduced costs and improves efficiency and service delivery. The cost factor is especially a key poi...
In a bid to enhance their customer experience, Safaricom has today launched a suite of products. The aim is to give customers more control on how they use voice...
Uber launched in Kenya in January last year with Nairobi being its first port of call. They then launched in Mombasa in March this year.
Uber has today annou...
BAKE Business hosted an event with BLAZE that sought to clearly explain what the new sub-brand by Safaricom is (and isn't). There was a panel discussion that wa...
Tecno has launched their new smartphone, the Camon C9 in Kenya. The phone is a successor to the Camon C5 and C8.
The Camon C9 is a 4G phone and comes wit...
Africa Prize is a challenge that encourages ambitious and talented Sub-Saharan Africa engineers to apply their skills to develop scalable solutions to local cha...
Mwalimu National sacco has partnered with Intel to provide teachers with low interest loans to enable teachers acquire modern computers under an initiative dubb...
Remember Saleh Wanjala, the man who hang precariously on the helicopter that was transporting Jacob Juma's body to his burial site? The Bungoma Hangman, as he w...
Orange has finally exited the Kenyan market after being bought out by investment firm Helios Investment Partners. The Kenyan telco has since rebranded from Oran...
UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, has partnered Nailab, a technology business incubator, to launch an initiative, dubbed iAccelerator. The initiative w...
Since its launch in 2007, M-Pesa had grown into a force in money transfer in Kenya. Since it's launch it has pivoted from just being a money transfer service in...
It used to be that we would buy applications, install them on one device and use them on that device only. It then followed that the files created with the appl...
Safaricom has today launched BLAZE a communication and empowerment platform designed for the Kenyan youth. If you are like me who has been wondering what the BL...
At approximately 19.04 hours the International Space Station( ISS), a world class lab orbiting the Earth at a distance of between 330 and 435 km will be visible...
Safaricom yesterday announced the availability of its new interactive app named MySafaricom app for Android and iOS. The app will enable the 7.8 million smartph...
Taxi service service Uber and Sidian Bank have partnered to offer Ksh. 10 Billion loan facility to Uber drivers. The facility will be available to current Uber ...
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) launched its African regional engagement office in Nairobi yesterday. ICANN is a not-for-profit ...
The Samsung Galaxy J1 mini and J3 2016 are now availble for sale in Kenya. The J1 mini is an entry level phone and the J3 is a mid level phone. The two phones a...
For the longest time working mothers have had a challenge creating a work life balance. In a bid ease this challenge, Intel and Lenovo have partnered to make th...
Mobile loans service Mkopo Rahisi has rebranded to Tala in Kenya. The service was launched in Kenya about 2 years ago. It is a product of Inventure which was fo...
The 5th edition of the Kenyan Blog awards aka the BAKE Awards was held at the Radisson Blu Nairobi. The event attracted over five hundred guests saw various blo...
YouTube has terminated the NTV Kenya YouTube channel (youtube.com/ntvkenya) after receiving multiple third party claims of copyright infringement regarding the ...
The ICT Minister has appointed 7 people to the Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) board.The board members were announced in a gazette notice dated 4th May 2...
China’s leading mobile browser UC Browser has been launched in the Kenyan market providing millions of Kenyans with the opportunity to experience fast browsing ...
