Running an event is an exciting occasion. It’s also a daunting and stressful one. Even if you’re only organizing a small celebration, there are many different elements to consider for a successful ..
Running an event is an exciting occasion. It’s also a daunting and stressful one. Even if you’re only organizing a small celebration, there are many different elements to consider for a successful ..
Huawei Consumer Business Group (BG) announced in China the HUAWEI P40 Pro+, HUAWEI P40 Pro and HUAWEI P40, the new HUAWEI P40 Series flagship smartphones featuring cutting-edge designs with ground-breaking ..
President Kenyatta has announced that the Kenya Civil Aviation Authority and Google Loon have signed an agreement to allow Loon’s balloons to fly over Kenya’s airspace to enhance 4G data health coverage. ..
The World Health Organization has struck a partnership with WhatsApp, a Facebook-owned messaging platform to bring COVID-19 facts to the billions of people on the app. WHO yesterday launched the messaging ..
As the world experience rapid escalation of COVID-19 cases, with more deaths being reported from around the world, many people have taken preventive measures like social distancing, government closing ..
Recently I had a discussion with a content distributor about the viability of Over The Top (OTT) and/or Video on Demand (VoD) content distribution models in Kenya, and the conclusion was the same story ..
In line with its mission to give people the power to build communities around the world and its commitment to supporting the community leaders who drive change, Facebook is announcing the launch of the Community ..
Approximately every five years the word AI receives a new operational definition. There was a time the word applied to any machine that could perform binary computation, where your typical calculator could ..
Government and other stakeholders in the ICT sector today converged at Strathmore University to join the world in celebrating the International Open Data Day. The event running under the theme; ‘Towards ..
Hate it or love it Safaricom still offers the best mobile Internet service in the country, although extremely expensive. But the expensive part seems to have reduced from extremely expensive to reasonably ..
Microsoft, through its Microsoft for Start-ups initiative, today announced the launch of its Global Social Entrepreneurship programme at a plenary session of the Sankalp Africa Summit 2020. The Global ..
At the beginning of 2020, Turnover Tax (TOT) officially came into effect. TOT is the tax payable by small businesses whose gross sales do not exceed Ksh5 Million per year. The tax is payable on a monthly ..
One-in-ten Kenyans would rather consult a pharmacist than go to a hospital, and almost a third buy medication over the counter without a prescription: yet that opens the door to far more than incorrect ..
The gap between men and women in STEM is still far from being bridged. Over the last decade, a lot of efforts have been put to bridge this gap and success has been slowly coming. One of the successes is that ..
DigiFarm has been recognized for demonstrating notable collaboration between stakeholders, demonstrating how old technology can be used to improve the lives. The Safaricom backed platform has been awarded ..
Kenya’s tax system is based on tax declaration, more often taxpayers do not disclose either by design or omission of their income sources forcing stringent follow-ups by the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA). ..
Despite the Global unfair trade war against Huawei, the company has remained resilient and has continued to soldier on. They are now the undisputed leader on the 5G race and also doing very well on the mobile ..
A Nairobi High Court has allowed Kenya Revenue Authority to collect Withholding Taxes from shipping lines on container demurrage charges. The Withholding Tax from different shipping lines amounts to over ..
The Coronavirus is slowly transitioning from being an epidemic to a pandemic as the COVID-19 continues to spread outside China and Asia at large. Europe and the United States of America have already recorded ..
The Women Enterprise Fund (WEF) will provide support to 200,000 women across all 47 counties in 2020. The enterprise fund program through about 300 of its support personnel will provide entrepreneurship ..
National Transport Safety Authority (NTSA) registers around 7000 vehicles monthly and 90,000 every year in Nairobi. This is owing to the growing middle class and the easy accessibility of credit from financial ..
Kenya has once again extended the deadline for using the old passport to March 1, 2021, which is exactly one year one week from yesterday. The main reason given for the extension is that some 1.8 million ..
Larry Tesler is the man you owe a lot even in his death, without his invention, I’m not sure where the world of computing would be now, probably people would have mastered the art of memorizing and typing ..
Young Scientists Kenya are currently in a boot camp hosted in Partnership with Blaze By Safaricom and The Ministry of Education. The boot camp is meant to give the forty five students 2019 Exhibition Winners ..
Yesterday Safaricom made an announcement that it introduced two new prefixes, 0110 and 0111 to the market, prefixes that should allow it add two million new subscribers to its network. The framing of the press ..
Two days ago Samsung announced four smartphones at its annual Unpacked Event. The first three were three different versions of its S flagship – The Samsung Galaxy S20, Samsung Galaxy S20+, and the super ..
There is a need for the healthcare sector in Africa to quickly catch up with the rest of the world in terms of data capture and data management. To inspire techies to device solutions for the healthcare ..
Andela Kenya, the engineering-as-a-service business that helps companies build teams quickly and cost-effectively so they can ship faster, hosted a Women in Tech event in partnership with the Australian ..
Many travelers associate Africa with its rich biodiversity. But that’s not the only thing to write home about this massive continent. Africa is so segmented that each region has a unique highlight, depending ..
Nairobi and Lagos, 5 February 2020. TLcom, the Africa-focused Venture Capital firm, today announces it has secured an additional $31M for its TIDE Africa Fund, bringing its Sub Saharan Africa (SSA)-focused ..