Word on the streets has it that hardly four months after Google pulled the plug on Google Plus (Google+), the search giant is again making attempts to hack social media. Social media has proved elusive ..
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 ..
For companies to partner with an individual or digital institution for influencing, the number of 'likes' and 'retweets' really matter at the negotiation stage.
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 ..
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has now agreed to a $5 billion settlement to let Facebook off the leash.
For a hour or so I have been unable to download images from WhatsApp, and I thought it is my phone that has an issue. Kachwanya even sent me a screenshot of possible problems that could be causing my inability ..
If there is one big downside of Twitter is the inability to edit tweets. Tweeps have asked Twitter to include this ability, but over and again Twitter has shown them the middle finger. Personally I am not a fan of Twitter ..
The BAKE Awards 2019 winners were announced yesterday at an event held at the Utalii Hotel. The Winners’ Gala Event was attended by some of Kenya’s top bloggers and influencers. Like in recent ..
Facebook is once again on the chopping block after the Irish Data Protection Commission opened a new investigation into the tech company over security lapses and privacy breaches. The firm could be charged ..
If I was to create Twitter again, I would not emphasize on follows, neither would I include the like button on tweets, Twitter’s Jack Dorsey has said. The co-founder of the social media platform has also ..
In recent months, social media platforms have suffered losses following violent extremist and terrorist attacks waged on citizens from across the world. Platforms like Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, Twitter, ..
The internets are going crazy with ‘Florida man’ with online challenges being thrown across the platforms under ‘Florida man’. The twitter feed that has spilt over to Google, Instagram, Reddit ..
Facebook, Twitter and YouTube platforms are under fire for failing to stop the spread of the Christchurch mosque attack videos. The platforms have been blamed for allowing the proliferation of extremist ..
British Lawmakers’ have branded Facebook ‘digital gangsters’ for failing to fight the spread of fake news and violating data privacy. In the report named ‘Disinformation and fake news’ MPs on the digital, ..
iPhone users will be the first to enjoy consent on WhatsApp as the platform introduces a new feature. Individuals will now have an option of blocking people from adding them into WhatsApp groups without ..
Close on the heels of Google’s second data leak from its social media platform Google+, Facebook reported a breach in its system due to a bug which may have exposed pictures of nearly 6.8 million users ..
In the recent weeks there have been debates on who is the king of Kenya’s news paper sector. Is it the Daily Nation (including the sister papers the Saturday Nation, the Sunday Nation and Taifa Leo), ..
Kenya has plans to make steps in the control of the internet. In a step seemingly borrowed from our bigger Chinese brothers, the country is looking to regulate Whatsapp and Skype messaging platforms, a radical ..
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 ..