Vivo Energy appoints Peter Murungi as the new Managing Director

Staff WriterNovember 19, 2019

Vivo Energy Kenya has announced the appointment of Peter Murungi as their new Managing Director. He will take over the new role as at 1ST December 2019. This is...

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Liquid Telecom in partnership with Microsoft to launch new enterprise cloud services

Staff WriterNovember 15, 2019

Liquid Telecom, is working with Microsoft to launch new enterprise cloud services that are designed to improve business collaboration, increase productivity and...

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Taurus Events & Tanqueray hosts second edition of Rhythm and Brunch

Staff WriterNovember 13, 2019

Events company Taurus Events has partnered with Tanqueray 10 from East African Breweries Limited (EABL) for the second edition of the Rhythm and Brunch at Four ...

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Ogilvy Africa appoints Vikas Mehta as their new CEO

Staff WriterNovember 13, 2019

Ogilvy Africa has named Vikas Mehta as its new Chief Executive Officer. He takes over from Mathieu Plassard who is moving to Ogilvy South Africa in a new role. ...

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Equity Group reports a profit after tax of Ksh. 17.46 Billion for Q3

Staff WriterNovember 12, 2019

The Equity  Group has announced a third quarter profit after tax up of Ksh. 17.46 Billion which is a 10% rise from the previous year which was Ksh. 15.83 Billio...

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Galina Kenya introduces new wine brands in Kenya including Thr3 Monkeys

Staff WriterNovember 12, 2019

Galina Kenya, a distributer of wines and spirits, has introduced a mix of Spanish, Swedish, South African and Italian wines to cater for the growing demand for ...

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Lori Systems raises Ksh. 3 Billion in a Series A round of funding

Staff WriterNovember 11, 2019

Lori Systems an on demand trucking logistics company has reportedly raised $30 Million in a Series A round of funding that was led by Hillhouse Capital, Crystal...

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Turnkey Africa receives the 2019 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Partner award

Staff WriterNovember 7, 2019

Turnkey Africa has been named the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Partner of the Year in Kenya and East Africa. The award was presented at this year’s Oracle Partne...

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Trace acquires Qwetu Radio and rebrands it to Trace Radio

Staff WriterNovember 6, 2019

Global entertainment network has set up in Kenya and has acquired Qwetu Radio, a music-only radio station, and rebranded it to Trace Radio. Trace has finaliz...

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Visa launches security capabilities to prevent and disrupt payment fraud

Staff WriterNovember 6, 2019

Visa has announced the introduction of an innovative suite of security capabilities to help prevent and disrupt payment fraud at the Visa CEMEA Security Summit ...

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Impact Africa Summit to take place in Nairobi from December 4-5

Staff WriterNovember 5, 2019

The Impact Africa Summit 2019 is set to take place in Nairobi on December 4-5 at the Kenya School of Monetary Studies. More than 500 delegates will meet in Nair...

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Communications Authority to hold Kikao Kikuu an ICT consumer forum in Nyandarua County

Staff WriterNovember 5, 2019

The Communications Authority (CA) which is the regulatory authority for the communication sector in Kenya is set to hold an ICT consumer forum in Nyandarua Coun...

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Young Ghetto are the Mountain Region Guinness Night football winners

Staff WriterNovember 3, 2019

Young Ghetto Football Club are the Mountain Region champions in the Guinness Night football champions after defeating Wazoefu Football Club at the regional even...

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Team Sim-U-Nation win a trip to the 2019 F1 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix

James WamathaiNovember 3, 2019

Team Sim-U-Nation won the Johnnie Walker GP Karting Championship finals at the Kenya Racing Festival finals that were held at Whistling Morans in Athi River yes...

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Liquid Telecom wins three awards at the 2019 Global Carrier Awards

Staff WriterNovember 1, 2019

Liquid Telecom has won three awards at the 2019 Global Carrier Awards, the World Communications awards. The company was awarded the Best African Wholesale Ca...

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Standard Group’s Betty Njeru to attend the Sanlam Summer School for Financial Journalism

Staff WriterOctober 30, 2019

Betty Njeru, a sub-editor at the Standard Media Group, has been selected to attend the annual Sanlam Summer School for Financial Journalism in South Africa. The...

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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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