- Akshay Gover is the CEO of Cellulant, arguably one of Africa’s largest and oldest fintechs that is focused on providing a myriad of integrated digital payment services in Africa and beyond. Akshay joined Celluant approximately two years ago at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic during which time…
- Pesapal, one of Kenya’s and Africa’s leading digital payments service providers today announced Supertap, a platform that enables Pesapal mobile users to simplify m-pesa payments at thousands of merchants who use Pesapal Sabi POS machines. Customers can now tap their smartphones on Pesapal Sabi POS…
- President William Ruto today officially unveiled Twiga Foods Multi-Million-dollar distribution center, a world-class 200,000 sq ft facility that will offer fulfillment by Twiga services to manufacturers, brand owners, and farmers across East Africa. Located in Tatu City, the automated facility will…
- I had the opportunity to do a quick-fire review of the KIA Sorento 2022, a 7-Seater SUV from the South Korean automotive brand that looks absolutely stunning! It has a menacing front end that for me is quite reminiscent of the ‘shark-like’ BMW design language of the seventies and eighties.
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- Vodacom Tanzania has unveiled 5G Fixed Wireless Access routers that will connect homes and businesses to the company’s 5G network that promises seamless and fast connections. In September 2022, Vodacom Tanzania launched the country’s first 5G network, marking a significant step forward in…
- This is a presentation I made on the 8th of July 2022 at the first-ever eDigital Connect Summit. The topic was ‘Unpacking Web3: Going Beyond The Hype & What It Means For All Things Digital In The Future In Kenya, East Africa & Beyond’ and we basically broke down the
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- ARC Ride is powering the future of affordable, reliable, and clean mobility. It designs, builds, sells, and charges two and three-wheelers. The ARC Ride E2+ is a high-speed and low-cost electric motorcycle that can be used for making deliveries or carrying passengers. It has a simple battery…
- Kiri EV is an electric vehicle (EV) startup based in Nairobi, Kenya with a mission to ensure it plays a big role in the future of transportation across Kenya and the African continent. During the first E-Mobility Exhibition in Kenya that was held at the Waterfront Karen on Saturday the
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- EVChaja is Kenya’s first network of electric vehicle (EV) charging stations as well as a supplier of EV charging equipment and related solutions. I met their representatives at the Waterfront Karen in Nairobi on Saturday the 29th of October 2022 during the first-ever E-Mobility Exhibition in Kenya…
- This is a short video demonstrating three of NOKIA’s 5G WIFI router models launched in Kenya recently for Safaricom 5G Customers as explained by NOKIA Kenya’s Managing Director Hashim:
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- This is a conversation I had a little while ago with Oladosu Teyibo who is the Founder and CEO of Analog Teams, a global technology services outsourcing business that’s based in the US but utilizes the best African talent to deliver high-quality services to some of the world’s largest businesses.…
- This is a conversation I had with Ted Pantone who is the founder of an innovative and potentially disruptive insurtech startup called Turaco. Ted has worked for many years in Kenya and Uganda and at one point he was the founder of the Ugandan Franchise of Pizza Hut as well
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- This is a conversation I had with Jaime Pinto who was recently promoted to the position of Chief Commercial Officer of the Software Group. Jaime is an interesting person who has worked in technology-related businesses for decades across many regions and markets both as an entrepreneur and as a…
- Safaricom, Kenya’s leading mobile network officially launched its commercial 5G services in Kenya during an event on Thursday the 27th of October 2022. As part of the launch, Safaricom had a panel of Moses Kemibaro the Founder and CEO of Digital Agency Dotsavvy, Rehema Wachira a Full Stack…
- The International Day of the Girl Child was 11th October 2022 which recognizes girls’ rights, and the unique challenges girls face around the world. This year’s theme is “Digital generation. Our generation”, which provides a platform for the global community to understand the disadvantages girls…
- BasiGo is one of Kenya’s first companies that has delved into the public transport sector by offering a novel electric bus proposition that will enable public service vehicle or PSV operators to finance the purchase of the electric buses affordably and cost-effectively from the KCB Bank Group. The…
- Mawingu Networks is an Internet Service Provider or ISP in Kenya that has been operational for approximately a decade that has carved out a niche for serving consumers and organizations in parts of Kenya that have been traditionally underserved by larger and better-known ISPs with unlimited…
- I was recently listening to a podcast about the transition from horses to cars many years ago. At the time, people looked down on cars with disdain, seeing them as being somehow below horses which had been the dominant form of transportation for the masses. People saw cars as a
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- Are you looking for the best indices broker 2022 and don’t know which one to choose from? Well, it’s the normal practice for traders at any level. Different brokers tend to offer different features and services and sometimes it can be confusing to find the one that best fits your needs.
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- Before I get started, I have a confession to make. It’s been a number of years since I last did a smartphone review so I am a little rusty in this respect. In fact, the last time I used an entirely new phone as a daily driver was well before
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- VISA is a well-known global financial services brand that we encounter on a regular basis as we use our credit cards and debit cards, online and offline. They have a formidable footprint globally and are trusted across myriad offerings for being a secure and reliable means of making digital…
- The Co-operative Bank of Kenya, also known fondly as ‘Co-op Bank’ is one of Kenya’s largest banks. Thanks to their early forays in agency and digital banking, Co-op Bank has around 8 million customers making them easily one of the big boys of banking in Kenya, right up there with
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- The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) launched the ‘Next Innovation with Japan’ (NINJA) Business Plan Competition in Kenya in response to COVID-19 in July 2020. The NINJA project aimed to support the growth of start-ups with innovative business models and technologies that respond to…