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The Samsung Galaxy J2 Core Wants to Be Your Budget-Friendly Smartphone
Samsung's first ever Android Go-powered smartphone has landed in Kenya. While the brand is known for its flagship series, budget Samsung devices have in...
Safaricom Home Fiber Users Get Optional Internet Plus Package Bundled With Mobile Data and More
Safaricom has been on a roll recently, releasing new products every other day in what the company terms as responding to their customers' needs....
Apple Has Some Not-So-New iPhones, Google Discontinues the Email App No One Used and EU Wants to Kill the...
On Wednesday last week, Apple introduced new iPhones - there was no huge announcements as this is the S year from Apple products -...
Telkom Named Title Sponsor for 2018 Connected Kenya Awards Ceremony
The 2018 Connected Kenya Summit was officially launched today by Mr. Joe Mucheru, the CS for ICT. During the early morning event at Nairobi’s...
Connected Kenya 2018 Announces Summit Sponsors For the October Fair
The 2018 staging of Connected ICT Innovation Awards will mark a decade since the fair was first celebrated. The program, which will be held...
Kenya Court Sets Unsettling Precedence on Use of Unauthorised Photos Online
Kenya Orient Insurance Limited has found itself on the wrong side of the law after the Milimani Commercial Court ruled that they used a...
Uber Goes for Tuktuk Market with UberPoa in Mombasa
Uber Kenya today has quietly launched a new service for its Mombasa residents that is quite idiosyncratic with the life in the Coastal town:...
itel Releases Their Second Budget Android Go Smartphone, itel S13
itel is a smartphone brand that focuses on producing budget smartphones that deliver value for money. Over the years, the company has released smartphones that...
Kenya President Proposes Tax Increase on Internet, Mobile Money and Telephone Calls
Kenya's parliament proposed the postponement of the controversial 16% VAT on petroleum products for two years after a public outcry that the standards of...
mySafaricom’s Latest Update Adds Mobile Money Inter-operability Menu and Home Fiber Manager
Safaricom’s utility app mySafaricom has received a minor update today. The tool, which has been around for some time now, continues to receive iterative...
Operators Have Failed to Control Agents on SIM Card Registration – CA Kenya
The purchase, registration, and use of SIM cards has been a menace for regulators and telcos alike. This issue has since been fueled by...
Twitter is Bringing Back The Chronological Feed That We Dearly Missed
Social networks have feeds where you get to see posts from friends, family or strangers and for reasons, algorithmically powered timelines are now all...
Safaricom Revives Daily Giga Bundle After a Short Hiatus
Truly Safaricom is listening or maybe they just didn't expect the backlash that would come with the company pulling a disappearing act on the...
Multichoice Stock Exchange Listing Heralds Naspers’ Pay TV Exit
Most consumers might not be familiar with the name Naspers but this is the company that owns MultiChoice which then owns DStv, GOtv and...
The OPPO F9 Has a Different Kind of Notch and a Back to Die For
OPPO has unveiled their best F-series smartphone yet, the F9. The smartphone which is set to go on sale in Kenya as from September...
An 8 Year Old Social Network You Probably Forgot is Being Shut Down Soon
We are now in a weird plateau where we have probably signed with the most popular social networks since 2005 and over time, we...
Kenya Police Rolls Out Service Standing Orders App, Plans to Digitize Occurrence Books
As Kenyans expressed their opinions about the new attire of the Kenya police, the Ministry of Interior has made official some critical changes in...
Safaricom Rebundles Mobile Data Offering with Unlimited WhatsApp
Safaricom has announced a new bundle offering meant to be an answer to their customers. Following the now popular Bob Collymore line, "you spoke,...
Kenyans React To New Police New Uniforms on Twitter
Today, President Uhuru Kenyatta commissioned new uniforms for the Kenya Police and since this is 2018, we got to see them on social networks...
16,000 Kenyan Homes to Benefit from StarTimes’s Digital TV Connectivity Project
TV operator StarTimes has been instrumental in popularizing the services of digital TV in Kenya and Africa at large. Its growth in this market...
Telkom-Loon Partnership Makes Notable Milestone As Loon Sends a Single 1000km Connection Across 7 Balloons
We have covered a lot about Project Loon, Alphabet’s arm that has already set foot in Kenya in partnership with Telkom Kenya, with the...
Tanzania Government Orders Airbnb Hosts To Register Or Be Arrested
Airbnb is one of the rising service companies that have come to disrupt specific markets and they have indeed disrupted the real estate market....
Kenyan Fintech Entrepreneurs Miss Out on Ecobank’s 2018 Fintech Challenge Winners List
Pan-African banking group Ecobank Transnational Incorporated (ETI), the parent company of Ecobank has made official the winners of the 2018 fintech challenge. The finalists...
Phones a Typical Kenyan Might Have Owned in the Past
Mobile phones have been used in Kenya for a relatively short time in comparison to the country’s age. Safaricom and the now called Airtel...
Safaricom Carries the Dominant Flag Proudly but Faults Abuse Claims
A quick search of "Safaricom Dominance" reveals that this has been an issue in the Kenya telco space for a while now, as early...
StarTimes and UNAIDS Target More HIV/AIDS Awareness with New Video App
Digital TV company StarTimes and UNAIDS, a global advocate for accelerated, comprehensive and coordinated global action on the HIV/AIDS pandemic are set to bolster the...
Camara Education, Dell and Computer Aid Take E-Learning Project to Kajiado County
In over a decade, Camara Education has been involved in the provision of ICT skills and products to teachers and schools in more than...
Three Kenyan Firms Make a Cut in The 2018 MIT Inclusive Innovation Challenge Africa
The MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy has made official the winners of its 2018 instalment of the MIT Innovation Challenge, IIC for continental...
Twitter Pulls the Plug on Alex Jones as Instagram Turns into an E-Commerce Platform
Conspiracy theorist, Alex Jones and Infowars get permanently banned from Twitter
Alex Jones got axed from Twitter after confronting Oliver Darcy, a CNN journalist who had...
Kenyans Join in The Fun Creating Memes From Nike’s Viral Ad Campaign
Nike recently made quite the headline with their online campaign, which was led by the controversial American athlete, Colin Kaepernick. He was further thrusted...
