Two social media platforms have proved unusable for me – Twitter and Instagram. What the two have in common is that you don’t have to have a mutual connection with another person in order to engage ..
Two social media platforms have proved unusable for me – Twitter and Instagram. What the two have in common is that you don’t have to have a mutual connection with another person in order to engage ..
An audio file that first appeared on Instagram asking guys to vote on whether they heard Yanny or Laurel is now breaking Twitter, with Twitter divided on whether they are hearing Laurel or Yanny. Here ..
There are so many people who are tired with Facebook, especially given the recent privacy scandals that rocked Facebook thanks to Cambridge Analytica. Not only that, but Facebook has become this social ..
Yesterday was Facebook’s F8 annual developer conference where the social media giant addresses developers from across the globe on the plans Facebook has for the year. In the 2018 F8 Conference, ..
Voting for the BAKE Awards 2018 has been ongoing for weeks and is set to end on 30th April 2018, which is only 13 days away, so you have less than two weeks to make your vote count. If you have done your ..
The Bloggers Association of Kenya (BAKE) has today announced the nominees in the BAKE Awards 2018. The nominee announcement also coincides with the launch of the voting phase. Voting starts on 4th April ..
Looks like Raila Odinga is the only person who will not suffer the consequences of his mock swearing in. Others like Miguna Miguna, Linus Kaikai, and now Larry Madowo are not as lucky. “I leave @ntvkenya ..
I can’t find the Facebook update but a few months ago, Frederick Ombako, a good friend of mine and one of our writers here at Kachwanya.com, updated his Facebook status asking whether Facebook had acquired ..
Informal transactions through Facebook groups are threatening the success of e-commerce giants in Africa according to a recent straw poll on the impact of the Black Friday sale promotion on this fledgling ..
If you have a few million dollars and you want to enter into competition with a company like Netflix that is worth almost a billion dollars then you have already lost, unless you are ShowMax. When it comes ..
I once wanted to buy a dress for my wife. I asked for the price. He said Shs 5,000. “Discount?. He insulted me – the same way Multichoice insulted DStv subscribers in their press statement ..
The government through National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC) has set forth to arrest and prosecute WhatsApp Group Administrators administering some 21 county based WhatsApp groups across ..
Fox Sports has inked a deal with Facebook to provide live streaming of Champions League Games in September. The games will be broadcasted in Spanish and English on the Fox Deportes and Fox Sports Facebook ..
It is been a while before Ezekiel Mutua trended on Twitter – probably because over the last few weeks Twitter trends have largely been fueled by Jubilee campaigns and NASA’s complains against ..
Looking back to 2011 as we were thinking about the idea of building a community of bloggers, I see why we need to be proud of the progress we have made over the years. The most talked about and shared ..
MultiChoice is spreading some love to its DStv Compact and Compact + customers by having an Open Window showcasing three top Premium channels. From 29 May to 23 June 2017, DStv Compact+ customers will ..
It is exactly two weeks since I wrote that Kenyans can hardly afford to watch YouTube, let alone ShowMax content. A few days after publishing the article, I received an email from ShowMax explaining to me how those ..
It was past 11pm when she started wriggling in pain – the kind of pain that stitches and stretches the stomach lining, the ulcers pain. Bad news, at 11pm there are no open pharmacies, at least ..
Do not boot your boyfriend just yet if you sent him a message on WhatsApp past midnight and he never bothered to reply promptly. It is isn’t his fault, the reason he couldn’t reply is because ..
Kenyan bloggers take note: the views in this article are strictly mine. Kennedy Kachwanya who is the chairman of Bloggers Association of Kenya (BAKE) has not contributed to nor endorsed these views. Bloggers ..
Nominations have opened for the OLX 2017 SoMA (Social Media Awards). Following the launch of this year’s Awards, Kenyans can now nominate individuals and organisations who have made significant positive ..
10th March 2017. This is the set deadline for submissions to The BAKE(Bloggers Association of Kenya) awards. The association of Bloggers which has been supporting and celebrating Kenyan bloggers ..
This week Twitter announced three changes related to taming rampant abuse that has been on the rise on the platform. These changes are namely: Stopping the creation of new abusive accounts Bringing forward ..
Ford Motor Company has stepped in as this year’s Lifestyle category sponsor for the Bloggers Association of Kenya awards. The motor company is a first-time sponsor of the awards now in its 6th year. ..
A phishing scam is doing rounds on Microsoft’s professional platform, LinkedIn. Users of the site which is not among the best known for tight security have been receiving an email advising them of a change ..
Not so long after Donald J Trump launched the outrageous executive immigration order, that bars entrance of people of certain origin to the United States of America, the Trump administration is in discussions ..
Twitter is one of the popular social media platforms and microblogging tool which supports messages also called as tweets that are limited to maximum of 140 characters. Twitter was reportedly having 317 million ..
There is a joke about people switching between 3-4 apps all day. This much borders on the truth and the reality of our online lives. Well, why don’t we make the best of the three or four applications ..
The African media landscape is growing ever more diversified. Brands and broadcasters no longer need to make decisions based on outdated information, risking valuable advertising dollars. GeoPoll has released ..
Media lay-offs have lately become the norm in the Kenyan mainstream media, all in the name of shifting to digital. This is a good step in the right direction for business and also to align the hierarchy ..