The project aims at rewarding ventures using technology for development purposes. The African Social Venture Prize will reward three projects or enterprises addressing needs of the ‘bottom of pyramid’ market…
Read MoreThe project aims at rewarding ventures using technology for development purposes. The African Social Venture Prize will reward three projects or enterprises addressing needs of the ‘bottom of pyramid’ market…
Read MoreNokia recently launched a new B2B Care Centre. The company states that a great perk of the care centre is that it enables business partners to drop off their phones…
Read MoreTaking their interaction with bloggers and their online marketing further I received an email recently from a British American representative. It outlined that the Capital Markets Authority (“CMA”) has approved…
Read MoreBritish-American Investments Company Limited is a diversified financial services Group that was established in 1965 in Kenya. The company offers a wide range of Insurance and Asset Management services to…
Read MoreWe interviewed John Karanja of Whive and here is what he had to say about Whive and its significance to Kenyan mobile marketing. You have 5 Social Media Applications that provide…
Read More“The goal isn’t to get money from a VC, just as the goal isn’t to get into Harvard. Those are stepping stones, filters that some successful people have made their…
Read MoreHere are the facts about Pivot25: The 25 companies are meant to pitch to the investors, Media personalities and Tech Industry big shots. Meaning that the others who are not…
Read MorePivot 25 is the first East African Mobile Developer Challenge. The competition is backed by government and private stakeholders in the industry and is an initiative of mLab. The prize…
Read MoreAfrican youth make a substantial amount of the continent’s population. Despite the numerous challenges that they face, there are many youth who are determined to put their continent on the…
Read MoreHello Folks, here is a short presentation I first did for Small and Medium sized businesses in Nairobi at the Bridging Staff seminar in August 2010. I have updated it…
Read MoreWhen people think of success they look at it mainly from a monetary point of view. While I believe that there is nothing wrong with this, I do feel that…
Read MoreFor a lot of people starting out in the IT world, their brilliant ideas can sometimes be short lived due to the lack of a crucial and well documented set…
Read MorePress Release: Naivasha, Kenya……Sustainable entrepreneurship. Innovation ecosystem. Technology platform. These are some of the catch-phrases bandied about during the first-ever Open Innovation Africa Summit, which was held in Kenya from…
Read MoreKenyan corporate scene is full of lies and deceit..and it is funny that the Kenyan consumers let them get away with it easily. 1. Orange Kenya with 3G network The…
Read MoreThe winners of this year’s Chase Bank Enablis Business LaunchPad Competition were announced at a gala event held at Michael Joseph Centre, Safaricom Headquarters. Here are the profiles of the…
Read MoreEnablis Entrepreneurial Network East Africa today announced the first loan disbursement of KES 20 Million to a Kenyan entrepreneur through its Loan Guarantee Program with Chase Bank. Speaking of the…
Read MoreBy Gaita Wamucii Never before have we seen a technology shape our lives in ways beyond imagination like the internet is doing. Don’t you think it is an interesting time…
Read MoreSafaricom? Financial year 2010: Subscribers=15.79mn Turnover= Ksh. 83.96 bn Net Income =Ksh. 15.15bn Earning Per Share=Ksh. 0.38 Dividends= Ksh. 8.00bn Pay 20cents dividend per share The M-PESA Agents =17,652? across…
Read MoreGoing around the internet i came a cross this new funding competition. Apparently The Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund (AECF) will provide grants of upto US$1.5 million to private sector companies…
Read MoreBy Moses Muturi 1.Start Investing Now We say this not just to discourage procrastination, but because an early start can make all the difference. In general, every six years you…
Read MoreBy James Oluoch The day you make your payslip redundant is the day you shall have achieved true wealth. The almighty payslip is so powerful that loosing it gives many…
Read MoreThe recent announcement by Zain that it would be charging its customer Ksh.10 to send money in all networks is proof on how competitive money transfer business has become in…
Read MoreIt’s been months since I pulled off my heavy hat which is protection, protection, protection. A friend of mine has just made my day by saying that money has escaped…
Read MoreSorry, the above statement is alarmist but that what a friend of mine shouted at me yesterday when I ?insisted that in the long run investing on Stock Market is…
Read MoreI did not want to talk about KenGen PIBO until I received two emails from my broker Dyer and Blair asking me if I am investing in the KenGen PIBO…
Read MoreMobile banking, powered by cell phones, has become a big success story in Kenya and the whole world now talk about it. But this has been basically the M-Pesa story…
Read MoreA very close friend of mine always reminds me of how his first human resource manager contributed to the current financial mess he is in. Management analysts have rammed it…
Read MoreA recent study by a? marketing firm Peer Analytics Group, found out that almost a half the tweets are pointless babble. Take a look at the following 1.Pointless babble tweets:…
Read MoreSafaricom? has bought WiMAX operator? Packet Stream? Data Networks ?subject to approval by CCK. This will definitely boost Safaricom ability to provide the last mile connectivity to majority of internet…
Read MoreCash is famed to be the life blood of business, good living real wealth creation and dream actualization.It is the ultimate bait that employees in white collar jobs chase day…
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