Audiomack partners with Ziiki Media to support African musicians
Audiomack, a music streaming platform, has teamed up with Ziiki Media to continue investing in and amplifying African music. The partnership will see Audiomack ...
Government declares July 20th a public holiday to celebrate Idd-Ul-Adha
The Government has announced that Tuesday, July 20th, 2021, will be a public holiday to mark Idd-Ul-Adha. The announcement was made by Cabinet Secretary Ministr...
Glovo has expanded operations to cover Thika and Kiambu towns
Glovo, a delivery platform, has announced the expansion of its operations to Thika and Kiambu towns. The expansion comes after the company raised Ksh. 58 billio...
Lucozade Boost has launched the ‘Final League 11’ gaming tournament in Africa
Lucozade Boost has unveiled its first online gaming championship for Africa dubbed Lucozade Final 11 League. The championship will be hosted exclusively in Keny...
8 new international movies you can watch this July on Showmax
Showmax offers a wide array of movies and TV shows that you can stream on demand on the platform. These include local and international award-winning movies, do...
ART partners with Inchcape & Women Bikers Association to offer skills to bikers
Inchcape Kenya, in partnership with the Advanced Rider Training (ART) and Women Bikers Association, recently conducted a training exercise to equip bikers with ...
OLA Energy partners with Ecobank to offer digital financial services at its stations across Africa
OLA Energy has signed an agreement with Ecobank, expanding their partnership and providing innovative digital financial services at service stations in Africa. ...
Standard Chartered officially launches the 2021 Nairobi Marathon slated for 31st October
Standard Chartered has announced the launch of its annual Nairobi Marathon slated for 31st October, 2021. This year the marathon, which has previously been full...
Safaricom announces a Ksh. 1 Million sponsorship to support Mark Otieno’s dream to win 100m race at the Olympics
Safaricom has announced a Ksh. 1 million sponsorship for sprinter Mark Otieno’s campaign during this year’s Tokyo Olympic Games. The 28-year-old athlete finishe...
Facebook launches bonus program for content creators worth Ksh. 108 Billion
Facebook has announced plans to start paying content creators more than Kshs. 108 Billion by the end of next year through new bonus programs designed to keep cr...
The Top 10 Games Video Editors in 2021
In recent years video marketing has escalated exponentially, and competition has seen a massive increase. Now each day, millions of hours are added to the watch...
KEMSA hosts pre-bid conference as it floats two-year framework tenders
The Kenya Medical Supplies Authority (KEMSA) has floated two tenders for pharmaceutical products in a bid to guarantee access to quality Health Products and Tec...
MoData partners with Mazars to bring premium advisory services to Africa
MoData, a digital and finance solutions company, has partnered with Mazars Consulting to provide clients with sustainable solutions to enhance profitability.
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The Huawei Band 6 series is now available on pre-order at Ksh. 6,999
Huawei Mobile Kenya has launched the Huawei Band 6 series pre-orders in all its retail stores across the country. Customers can now make a pre-order for the Ban...
Safari Rally winner Sebastien Ogier donates Ksh. 2.5 million towards education & wildlife conservation in Kenya
The 2021 WRC Kenya Safari Rally winner Sebastien Ogier has donated Ksh. 2.5 million to the Nakuru Children's Project and the Ol Pejeta Conservancy. Both chariti...
YouTube Shorts is now available in Kenya
YouTube has announced the arrival of the beta version of YouTube Shorts in Kenya. YouTube Shorts is the company’s new short-form video experience for creating s...
Exploitation of creatives in film in Kenya stems from lack of enough opportunities
The power of storytelling cannot be underestimated. It has both driven human progress and curated it for future generations. It has created strong bonds in comm...
New Internet Society report has revealed that IXPs are critical in lowering connectivity costs in Africa
The Internet Society has published a new report to highlight the state of Internet interconnection in Africa and the role Internet Exchange Points (IXP) play in...
You can now make purchases on the Huawei AppGallery with M-PESA
Huawei Mobile Services has partnered with Safaricom to launch a new payment method on its AppGallery. Huawei users can now make in-app purchases in their favour...
Penda Health targets counties in Ksh. 100 million expansion plan
Penda Health has announced plans to expand to other parts of Kenya, after a successful growth in Nairobi and its environs. The expansion targets household seeki...
Carrefour to open 2 new stores at United Mall & Market MEGA in Kisumu
Carrefour, a retail chain owned and operated by Majid Al Futtaim in Kenya, has expanded its footprint across the country with the upcoming opening of two new st...
Manufacturers in Kenya Tanzania call for expedited resolution of non-tariff barriers
Manufacturers from Kenya and Tanzania have called for the resolution of non-tariff barriers (NTBs) and the review of the East African Community Common External ...
CIC Group launches a self-service portal for garages and assessors
The CIC Group has launched a claim’s self-service provider portal for Garages and Assessors to increase efficiency in the claims’ reconciliation process. The po...
Jennifer Karina appointed as the chairperson to the Kenya Re Board
Kenya Re-Insurance Corporation (Kenya Re) has named Jennifer Karina as the chair of its board with effect from July 8th.
Mrs. Karina, a psychologist and coac...
118 Equity Leaders Program scholars admitted to 56 global Universities
118 scholars from the Equity Leaders Program (ELP) have received admission and full financial aid to 56 global universities. The scholars comprise of Wings to F...
Ada Animation secures pre-seed funding from Unicorn Group to enable growth & expansion
Ada Animation, an entertainment tech company, has announced its pre-seed capital raise from Nigerian venture capital firm Platform Capital through its technolog...
Babajide Duroshola appointed as General Manager at M-KOPA, to oversee operations in Nigeria
Babajide Duroshola, ex-country head SafeBoda Nigeria, has been appointed as M-KOPA's General Manager. His appointment comes as the company plans to expand opera...
Showmax drops ‘Devilsdorp,’ its first original true crime docu-series
In its first trailer for Devilsdorp, Showmax has shown audiences a glimpse of their first true crime docu-series, which will be available to binge from 29th Jul...
Rhita Nattah is the latest addition to Spotify’s EQUAL Music Program
Music streaming platform Spotify recently launched its global initiative dubbed the EQUAL Music Program, to cultivate gender equality in music and support femal...
Exploring The Top Gig Economy Jobs
Things have changed immensely thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic. Many employees have decided to resign from their current jobs so they can find higher-paying alte...
Alex van Niekerk has been appointed as the new Ogilvy Africa Group Creative Director
Ogilvy Africa, a marketing and branding agency, has named Alex van Niekerk as Group Creative Director. Alex joins the network’s creative leadership team to serv...
MarketForce a Kenyan retail platform secures Ksh. 215 Million in funding for expansion in Nigeria & East Africa
MarketForce, a Kenyan retail distribution platform, has raised Ksh. 215,880,000 ($2 million) to launch in Nigeria and to scale up operations in RejaReja to more...
Safaricom announces a Ksh. 20 Million sponsorship for the Kenya Olympics team
Safaricom has announced a Ksh. 20 million sponsorship for Team Kenya at the Tokyo Olympics. The funds have been set aside for the ceremonial kit that will be us...
Sendy partners with ARC Ride to deploy an electric vehicle fleet for last-mile delivery
Sendy, a logistics company, is planning on launching its first electric vehicle fleets to help promote clean transportation in Nairobi. The company has partnere...
The thing speaks for itself
As it happens, there is no course that teaches you how to be an influencer. Or content creator, for that matter. Look around you, those people doing incredible ...
How to determine whether you have an alcohol use disorder and what to do about it
Alcohol is generally a social drink that is meant to be enjoyed with friends or at times solo when one just wants to chill. However, as the saying goes too much...
KQ launches Fahari Innovation Hub to accelerate sustainable data-driven solutions
Kenya Airways (KQ) has launched the Fahari Innovation Hub, a platform for new ideas and data-driven innovations to accelerate impact-driven solutions that addre...
Emirates has re-opened its First Class Lounge at Dubai International Airport
To serve the growing number of customers travelling through the Emirates Hub, the airline has re-opened its First Class Lounge at Dubai International (DXB’s) Co...
The Green Climate Fund approves Ksh. 18 million for AfDB’s LEAF program
The Board of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) has approved Ksh. 18,448,655,000 ($170.9 million) in financing for the African Development Bank’s (AfDB) Leveraging En...
Pipit Global partners with Cellulant to enable cheaper money transfer to Africa
Pipit Global has partnered with Cellulant to enable consumers in Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda, Tanzania, Mali, Senegal, and Ghana to make transactions through the Pip...
You can now stream the UEFA Euro 2020 final on Showmax Pro
The UEFA Euro 2020 is holding the finals between Italy and England at Wembley Stadium this Sunday, 11 July, at 22:00 CAT. The final will be live streamed across...
Knight Frank has expanded operations to the commercial property market in South Africa
Knight Frank, a property advisory company has partnered with Rennie Property, a South African commercial property specialist. According to Knight Frank, this pa...