The sustained focus on training girls in ICT is beginning to bear fruit as indicated by the domination by ladies who took the top two slots in the just concluded Digitruck Innovation Challenge in Mombasa. [c]
Over 160 companies have been shortlisted for Africa CIO100 Awards, marking the completion of the first phase of the technical analysis of data from which the CIO100 top companies in Africa will be chosen. This [c]
Cold Solutions Kenya, a temperature-controlled warehouse and logistics service provider, has announced that it will invest Kshs 7.5 billion ($70 million) to construct modern, temperature-controlled cold storage warehouses in the country. The cold storage facilities [c]
Safaricom has announced the temporary closure of four additional shops in Nairobi, Mombasa and Thika as a proactive and preventative measure to safeguard the health and wellbeing of its staff and customers. The four latest [c]
UAP Old Mutual General Business has partnered with Uber to provide 3-ply masks worth Kshs 2.75 million to Uber drivers in Nairobi and Mombasa. The distribution of the face masks was done from the AutoXpress [c]
Telkom Kenya has landed the Djibouti Africa Regional Express 1 (DARE 1) submarine cable in Mombasa. The DARE 1 cable will now offer a strategic alternative in the routing of traffic as well as the [c]
Opera, the browser developer with more than 350 million monthly active users, has announced the successful installation of its new local servers in Mombasa, Kenya. These servers significantly increase browsing speed up to four times [c]
In a bid to push its top-tier products, LG Electronics has opened its first premium brand shop in Mombasa County. LG’s move to open more retail outlets in the country is aimed at improving the [c]
Spanish delivery firm Glovo, in a bid to expand its geographical reach within Kenya, has launched its service in Kenya’s second largest city, Mombasa. The move will now see residents of Mombasa experience faster on-demand [c]
Bolt, the ride-hailing platform formerly called Taxify, is set to expand its operations beyond Nairobi and Mombasa and launch in 3 major urban centers in Kenya, setting the stage for a continued push to expand [c]
Telkom is upgrading its network’s capacity in 5 towns to cater for growing demand across the country. The ongoing upgrade is part of Telkom’s Kshs 1 billion network expansion and optimisation programme and will see [c]
Telecom Kenya has made telemedicine a reality for thousands of patients at the Aga Khan Hospital, Mombasa. Using its high-speed fibre network, Liquid Telecom has connected the main hospital in Mombasa to seven of its outreach centres in the [c]
Telkom has begun setting up a fibre loop for Mombasa town to meet growing demand for faster data by its business and individual customers. The laying of the new metro loop will connect Mombasa, linking [c]
Ride-hailing firm Taxify has launched Taxify Boda in Kenya’s coastal city of Mombasa. Shivachi Muleji, Taxify General Manager East Africa said that the firm had developed the new service in response to a growing demand [c]
Local supermaket chain, Tusker Mattresses, has moved to enhance its service offering in the premium market category, with the scheduled launch of a dedicated consumer electronics’ departmental store this weekend. According to Tusker Mattresses Group [c]
Telkom has opened its revamped retail shop in Kisumu Town as part of an ongoing expansion of its sales and distribution footprint in the country. The shop is the third one to be opened this [c]
German home appliances brand, Bosch, has opened its first exclusive showroom in Nairobi, Kenya. Located at The Oval House, Westlands, the store promises to be an exceptional experiential centre, where consumers can test and purchase [c]
In partnership with industry stakeholders, Techweez, the Kenya-based technology blog, has announced the coming to life of an annual technology conference, Tech Tamasha. Tech Tamasha aims to celebrate Kenya’s technology space by highlighting the best [c]
In an effort to stimulate the innovation ecosystem in Kenya’s coastal region, Swahilipot Hub will host the Pwani Innovation Week that will provide opportunities to learn, showcase and experience innovation in action as well as [c]
The Bloggers Association of Kenya (BAKE) will hold two training workshops for lawyers on Internet and the Law to empower them with knowledge to better understand concepts like freedom of expression, digital rights and access [c]
By James Wamathai Bloggers Association of Kenya (BAKE), through its iFreedom project, is hosting 3 Digital Security workshops in Nakuru, Mombasa and Nairobi on Saturday 5th August, in preparation for the elections. Among the topics [c]
Airtel Kenya is finally rolling out its 4GE LTE service in the country. The initial pilot rollout of 20 sites in Nairobi is expected to be up and running by the end of this month, followed [c]
Uber Kenya has organised a CSR drive to benefit SOS Children’s Villages in Nairobi and Mombasa. As part of the initiative, organised through UberGIVING in Nairobi and Mombasa, well-wishers made their donations today – Saturday, [c]
Internet-driven courier-on-demand services company Sendy has now officially launched in Mombasa with a fleet of motorcycles, tuk tuks, pickups and trucks now available to make deliveries. The Mombasa launch follows successful launches in Nairobi and [c]
The Kenya News Agency is launching its online historical photos archive in Machakos during the Mashujaa Day celebrations period. The exhibition contains never-before seen images on Kenya’s history since they were taken dating back to [c]
The government is stepping up efforts to ensure all primary schools across the country are ready to start learning using Digital Literacy Programme (DLP or DigiSchools) devices as it embarks on the full rollout of [c]
Uber, the mobile app that connects riders with drivers, is this Friday July 15, set to deliver ice cream to its clients through a campaign dubbed #UberIceCream. Uber riders in Nairobi will be part of [c]
After Nairobi and Mombasa, Uber has today announced that its services will now be available in Thika town. In an email, the firm stated: “uberX has arrived in Thika…We are incredibly excited to announce that [c]
Mombasa’s technology and cultural community is set to benefit from SwahiliPOT, a new innovation hub thanks to a partnership between SEACOM, Cisco Systems and the National Museums of Kenya (NMK). The project, which is the [c]
Liquid Telecom Kenya, which is investing US $1 million in 2016 in hundreds of free Wi-Fi hotspots in Kenya, has launched an app mapping the more than 350 free Wi-Fi hotspots it has installed so [c]
Even as one of its affiliated taxis was being torched in Nairobi’s Riruta suburbs, Uber was busy strategizing its expansion in the continent, launching services in Kenya’s tourist town of Mombasa (the coastal town which [c]
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