WeFarm raises Ksh. 1.3 Billion in Series A round of funding

Staff WriterOctober 30, 2019

WeFarm, a marketplace and networking site for small-holder farmers has raised $13 million in a Series A round of funding. They plan to use the funds to reach mo...

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Wanafunzi Investment is the first students’ backed unit trust fund in Kenya

Staff WriterOctober 30, 2019

Wanafunzi Investment Unit Trust Fund is the first ever students’ backed unit trust fund in Kenya and has been launched in Kenya. The Fund is regulated by Capita...

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Tusker Lite Neon Rave Party to take place in Mombasa on November 1

Staff WriterOctober 30, 2019

Tusker Lite has announced that it will host the second edition of the Neon Rave party this coming weekend on 1st November 2019 at Mint Lounge in Bamburi, Mombas...

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Equity Bank to provide 80% financing to Massey Ferguson tractor buyers

Staff WriterOctober 29, 2019

Equity Bank Kenya and AGCO have signed a partnership agreement to enable customers buying Massey Ferguson tractors and accompanying implements to access 80% fin...

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Too Early For Birds to hold shows celebrating the life of Tom Mboya on November 9-10

James WamathaiOctober 29, 2019

Too Early For Birds is slated to host 2 shoes to celebrate the life and death of Kenyan politician Tom Mboya who was assassinated on 5 July 1969. It will be dir...

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Jambojet to start flights to Kigali & Mogadishu in November

Staff WriterOctober 28, 2019

Budget airline Jambojet has announced that it will commence flights to Kigali, Rwanda and Mogadishu, Somalia in November. The entry into the Kigali route mak...

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Vivo Energy launches new campaign to reward its lubricant customers

Staff WriterOctober 28, 2019

Vivo Energy Kenya has launched a new consumer promotion dubbed Celebrate with Shell Lubricants to reward its lubricant customers. The promotion will take pla...

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Kenindia Assurance to use AI to fight car insurance fraud

Staff WriterOctober 28, 2019

Insurance company Kenindia Assurance has announced that it will start using artificial intelligence (AI) in its fight against car insurance fraud. The company h...

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Women enterprise fund partners with KEBS to enable SMEs get certification

Staff WriterOctober 26, 2019

Women Enterprise Fund (WEF) has partnered with Kenya Bureau of Standards (KEBS) and other organizations to provide support for women running small and medium-si...

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Airtel & Ecobank to enable African customers to access mobile financial services

Staff WriterOctober 26, 2019

Telecommunication company Airtel Africa and Ecobank have signed a partnership which will allow Airtel Money and Ecobank customers across Africa to access a vari...

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B S Sharma is the new Kenindia Assurance Managing Director

Staff WriterOctober 25, 2019

Insurance Company Kenindia Assurance Company Limited has appointed B S Sharma as the new Managing Director effective October 17th 2019. He succeeds Mr Inder...

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Corine Mbiaketcha appointed as the Visa General Manager for East Africa

Staff WriterOctober 25, 2019

Global payments company Visa has appointed Corine Mbiaketcha as Vice President and Country Manager for Visa in East Africa effective 5 November, 2019. Corine jo...

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580 Kenyan youth have benefited from a Ksh. 20M job creation program by KCB Foundation

Staff WriterOctober 25, 2019

580 young people in Kenya have benefited from a program by KCB Foundation and the German International Development Agency (GIZ) that offers training and startup...

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Global healthcare company Novo Nordisk opens regional office in Nairobi

Staff WriterOctober 25, 2019

Global healthcare company Novo Nordisk has announced that it has opened a regional office in Nairobi to serve as the headquarters of its operations in Sub-Sahar...

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The Tecno Camon 12 Phone Review

Staff WriterOctober 23, 2019

When the Tecno Camon series of phones arrived in the Kenyan market a few years back, it became quite popular with the ladies. This is most probably due to the f...

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Guinness launches campaign to fly Five-A-Side team to Lagos for a Pan African Tournament

Staff WriterOctober 23, 2019

Guinness has launched a 12-week campaign dubbed ‘Guinness Night Football’ to give consumers an opportunity to represent Kenya in a pan-African tournament in Lag...

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Airtel Africa partners with Ecobank in a bid to improve their mobile money offering

Staff WriterOctober 23, 2019

Airtel Africa has partnered with Ecobank Transnational Incorporated, the parent company of Ecobank a banking group that operates in 33 countries. The partnershi...

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Moi University launches locally assembled MU brand of computers

Staff WriterOctober 22, 2019

Moi University has partnered with jp.ik, a portuguese Information and Communication Technologies company to a range of premium computers. The computers are asse...

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How the Safaricom Youth Orchestra is impacting lives through music

Staff WriterOctober 21, 2019

The Safaricom Youth Orchestra was launched in 2014 by the then CEO Bob Collymore, this was after he watched children playing at an event in Sweden and was inspi...

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Visa appoints Corine Mbiaketcha as General Manager for East Africa

Staff WriterOctober 18, 2019

Visa has announced the appointment of Corine Mbiaketcha as Vice President and Country Manager for Visa in East Africa, effective 5 November, 2019. Corine joins ...

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17 teams battle it out to win a trip to the 2019 F1 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix

James WamathaiOctober 18, 2019

The second leg of Johnnie Walker GP Karting Championship started today at The Great Rift Valley (TGRV) Circuit in Mai Mahiu. Seventeen teams battled out for a c...

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KCB appoints a new board at NBK, chaired by John Nyerere

Staff WriterOctober 18, 2019

KCB Group Plc has appointed a new board for National Bank of Kenya (NBK), the Kenyan bank it recently acquired. The new Board will be expected to provide lea...

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The Tecno Camon 12, Camon 12 Pro and Camon 12 Air have been launched into the Kenyan market

Staff WriterOctober 17, 2019

Tecno launched the latest flagship phones in the Camon series that is the Tecno Camon 12, Camon 12 Pro and Camon 12 Air into the Kenyan market. The phones are a...

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Human rights defenders to hold Mashujaa Festival on 20th October at Alliance Francaise

Staff WriterOctober 16, 2019

The Defenders Coalition will this Mashujaa Day October 20th 2019 hold a Heroes concert dubbed Mashujaa Festival in Nairobi to celebrate human rights defenders i...

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How NOT to handle a Social Media crisis: A case study of Silverstone Air

Muthuri KinyamuOctober 15, 2019

Every dog has its day or so they saying goes and so every organization small big, private or public, commercial or non-profit will have a crisis at some point. ...

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Cellulant launches Tingg, a payment app in 8 countries

Staff WriterOctober 12, 2019

Cellulant has launched Tingg, an all-in-one, multi-functional consumer super app that will include a wide array of payment, commerce and financial services into...

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Safaricom to offer Free YouTube Bundle to watch the INEOS 1:59 Challenge

James WamathaiOctober 11, 2019

Safaricom has announced that it is offering support to Eliud Kipchoge as he seeks to make history by running a full marathon under 2 hours in Vienna. The par...

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Kenyan loan service Lipa Later selected for the Mastercard Start Path Program

Staff WriterOctober 11, 2019

Kenyan loan service Lipa Later is among 8 later-stage global start-ups that have been selected to to participate in the 2019 Mastercard Start Path program. The ...

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Mpesa recognized as among the most influential finance projects over the last 50 years

Staff WriterOctober 9, 2019

Mpesa has been recognised as one of the Top 10 Most Influential Finance Projects of the last 50 years by Project Management Institute (PMI) in its 2019 Most Inf...

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Airtel Africa partners with Mastercard to launch a virtual card for its customers

Staff WriterOctober 9, 2019

Airtel Africa has announced a partnership with Mastercard which will the telco’s 100 million customers across 14 African countries access to the payment platfor...

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Boehringer Ingelheim partners with Kenyatta and Strathmore universities to launch health competition

Staff WriterOctober 9, 2019

Boehringer Ingelheim, has collaborated with Kenyatta and Strathmore Universities to launch the Making More Health Venture4Change idea competition (MMH). The com...

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Can Libra compete with Bitcoin?

Staff WriterOctober 8, 2019

We are living in a world where business transactions could be made without third parties. The legislature, agreements, banks - those systems can't control busin...

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Musicians to win Ksh. 10 million in the Old Mutual Amazing Voices singing competition

Staff WriterOctober 7, 2019

African musicians stand a chance to win Ksh. 10 million ($100,000) in the Old Mutual’s Amazing voices reality pan-African singing competition. The initiative is...

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KCB lists new shares on the NSE after NBK takeover

Staff WriterOctober 7, 2019

KCB Group Plc has listed an additional 142,979,717 shares at the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) after its successful acquisition of the National Bank of Keny...

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Equity unveils new logo as it celebrates 35 years of existence

Staff WriterOctober 3, 2019

Equity has unveiled a new logo which is part of its refreshed identity that is in line with the ongoing journey of transformation and regional expansion. The ne...

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Africa Practice acquires Global Reporting Initiative trainer’s certification in Kenya

Staff WriterOctober 3, 2019

Africa Practice East Africa Limited, a strategic advisory firm based in Nairobi has now been officially recognised as a Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) certif...

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UAP & Estée Lauder launch breast cancer awareness campaign in Kenya

Staff WriterOctober 2, 2019

UAP Old Mutual and The Estée Lauder Companies have partnered for the month of October to raise awareness on Breast Cancer. The partnership will see the UAP ...

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Companies should seek ISO-27001 Certification in order to comply with Data Protection Laws

Staff WriterOctober 1, 2019

A certain sage once advised a classroom full of students that, ‘to every problem, there is a solution, even if the solution is learning to live with the probl...

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Tatu City is constructing a rugby facility to be operated by Shamas Rugby Foundation

Staff WriterSeptember 30, 2019

Tatu City has started the construction of a rugby facility at its facility, which will be operated by Shamas Rugby Foundation. The new facility will provide ...

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Cellulant’s Ken Njoroge receives the 2019 Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award

Staff WriterSeptember 30, 2019

Ken Njoroge, the co-founder & co-CEO of Cellulant, has been named as the recipient of the 2019 Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award. The awar...

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The Third Season of the Chapa Dimba na Safaricom football tournament has kicked off

Staff WriterSeptember 30, 2019

The Chapa Dimba na Safaricom is back with us for the third season, so far over 1,500 teams have registered for the youth football tournament which kicked off wi...

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Tiny Totos emerges a winner at the regional final of the 2019 MIT Inclusive Innovation Challenge

Staff WriterSeptember 25, 2019

Tiny Totos, a Kenyan-based start-up emerged a winner at the Africa regional finale of the MIT Inclusive Innovation Challenge (IIC) which was held on 20 Septembe...

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