By the end of last month an internal memo by Telkom Kenya indicating that the struggling telecommunication company intends to fire 575 employees was shared with us. Later Telkom Kenya sent a Press Release ..
The semi-finalist judging panel for this year’s Africa Netpreneur Prize Initiative (ANPI) have been announced. The ANPI is a prize competition for African entrepreneurs spearheaded by the Jack Ma Foundation. ..
Facebook continues to push features aimed at making it a one stop shop for all online services. From being a purely social media platform to an e-commerce portal, Facebook recently unveiled options where ..
When Trump banned Huawei from US, several US companies including Google were forced to end engagement with the Chinese giant. Google terminating engagement with Huawei meant that Huawei would not be receiving ..
For the first time in the history of Samsung Galaxy Note Series, Samsung unveiled two versions of the Note Series – Samsung Galaxy Note 10 and Samsung Galaxy Note 10+. The Samsung Galaxy Note 10 is a new line ..
Students Lyad Taher and Tanvi Hirani have been crowned Young Scientists of the Year for showcasing the best innovation at the 2019 Young Scientist Kenya (YSK) National Science & Technology Exhibition. ..
NilePay PLC, the leading Electronic Financial Services Company partnered with Zain South Sudan to launch the first licensed mobile money service in South Sudan dubbed NilePay Mobile Money. The partnership ..
On Saturday I went to Nakuru town to shop for an affordable phone, and by affordable phone I mean a functional phone I can buy for shs 7,000. After walking up and down and seeing that the only reasonable ..
Complains against Zuku have been on the rise lately, forcing even some of the most Zuku adent fans to finally decide that enough is enough, Safaricom here we come. Safaricom on the other hand has acted ..
An abstract appearing at Taylor & Francis Online on the topic of relationship between religion and corruption reads, “There is a growing interest in understanding how religion affects corruption. ..
AVIC International in partnership with the Ministry of Education today announced the launch of a regional competition targeted at youth in Technical Training Institutions across Africa. Dubbed Dream and Invent ..
I can’t remember when, but once upon a time my good friend Fredrick Ombako asked on his Facebook timeline if Facebook is capable of reading our thoughts. This he asked because on that day he had thought ..
If there is something Wangari Maathai was wrong about, is the thinking that cremation is superior to burial. Wangari Maathai reasoned that since burial needed the use of trees in form of coffins, she’d ..
A few months after completing her high school diploma, Nimone Odeka found herself employed as the only female math teacher at the high school in her rural Kenyan community. The odds did not favor Odeka ..
Huawei reported its business results for the first half of 2019: USD $58.34 billion in revenue, a 23.2% increase over the same period last year. The company’s net profit margin for H1 2019 was 8.7%. ..
Key Highlights from the Airtel Africa PLC Financial Report Customer base grew by 9.3% to 99.7 Mn Reported revenues increased to $ 795.9 Mn, up 6.9%, with constant currency growth of 10.2%. This was the 6th consecutive ..
You can now grab a Huawei Y Series smartphone for a low as Kshs 10,500 following an end month discount the device manufacturer has offered across all stores in Kenya. The offer will see consumers purchasing ..
Safaricom’s (NSE: SCOM) has today announced that mobile agriculture platform DigiFarm is projected to outgrow M-PESA in the next five years. Launched in 2017 in partnership with iProcure, Arifu and Farmdrive, ..
In the two months since Microsoft recruited a handful of women software engineers to work in its new Africa Development Centre (ADC) in Kenya and in Nigeria, Microsoft has continued to bolster its support ..
David Bunei was announced as the Managing Director of Oracle Kenya. In this role, David will be responsible for helping Kenyan public and private sector organisations achieve strategic objectives by driving ..
80 million people, myself included, are the minimum number of people who have submitted their photos to FaceApp for the FaceApp Challenge. FaceApp challenge is not anything complicated as other challenges ..
BLAZE by Safaricom launched a new platform dubbed BLAZE LINK, an aggregator of e-learning resources built to enable young people upgrade their skills through online courses and empower them to pursue success ..
Safaricom (NSE: SCOM) has announced plans to expand its e-commerce proposition Masoko to other countries in Sub-Saharan Africa by year 2020. This is on the backdrop of an expected growth of Smartphones ..
South Sudan is set to enjoy its first mobile phone-based money transfer service. Trading under the brand name m-GURUSH (m-for mobile and GURUSH for money in Arabic), the new mobile commerce platform is a joint ..
Three students from Kenyatta University (KU) and Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) universities are the winners of this year’s #MyLittleBigThing SDG’s Innovation Challenge. ..
As promised, we tested the Safaricom VoLTE Network, and it is awesome. Without exaggeration, Safaricom VoLTE voice call sounds as if you are talking with the person in the same room. The high definition ..
A recent report shared to us by Microsoft revealed that Kenya has only 1.700 cybersecurity experts despite ranging cyber attacks that cost the country over shs 30 billion last year. To help train more ..
You know you have elected a useless government when they can’t bend to listen to simple reasoning. In 2013, Uhuru Kenyatta and his counterpart William Ruto, dubbing themselves the digital duo, went ..
A friend who knows that I do not use Safaricom Internet just called to tell me that I no longer have reasons to not use Safaricom Internet, as, according to him, Safaricom suddenly reduced its data prices ..
The African Women in Technology (AWIT) Conference is scheduled to take place from July 18 – 20, 2019. Hosted yearly by IBOM LLC, the 3-day conference focuses on empowering, educating and connecting ..
