- Global web innovator Opera has partnered with Safaricom to offer free data in Ethiopia as part of its strategy of fostering increased internet access across the African continent.
- The Kenya Revenue Authority will, starting September 1, impose a three per cent levy on the trade of digital assets as part of the new taxes imposed under the Finance Bill, 2023.
- Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KenGen) and Konza Technopolis Development Authority (KoTDA) have broken ground for KenGen’s Green Energy Park in Olkaria, Naivasha.
- Jubilee Holdings Limited has announced the payment of an interim dividend of Ksh.2 per share totaling to Ksh.145 million for the half-year ended June 2023.
- Kenya is the fourth largest medical technology devices exporter in Africa at 3.1 percent of exports from Africa to the rest of the world ahead of Tunisia and Mauritius according to a keynote speech at the just concluded inaugural Transforming African Medtech Conference.
- Eng. Juma left NuPEA after serving two, three-year terms at the helm of the agency tasked with promoting and implementing Kenya's nuclear energy sector, as well as research.
- The French government and the European Union will spend 200 million euros (around 30.8 billion) to help the country’s wine producers, who are struggling to cope with falling prices and waning demand.
- Farmers in Wajir, Turkana, Garissa, Marsabit and Isiolo Counties are poised to benefit from a partnership between Davis & Shirtliff (D&S)and Millennium Water Alliance (MWA) whose aim is to elevate food and water security in Arid and Semi-Arid (ASAL) regions in Kenya through the utilization…
- US tech giant Meta on Tuesday asked a Norwegian court to defer a ban on behavioural marketing based on users' personal information, which has landed it a heavy fine in the country.
- Michael Burry, the “Big Short” investor who became famous for correctly predicting the epic collapse of the housing market in 2008, has bet more than $1.6 billion (Ksh.230 billion) on a Wall Street crash.
- Kenya is set to host the 8th International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) forum bringing together aviation industry players from Africa and the Indian Ocean.
- Kenya Airways (KQ) and American firm Delta Air Lines on Monday announced an expansion of their partnership which will see customers get additional travel options within Africa and the United States of America.
- Wells Fargo is dealing with a technical issue that has resulted in customers reporting that their direct deposits had disappeared from their bank accounts.
- Salaried workers are not the only Kenyans who will face the wrath of KRA as the government moves to implement the taxation measures contained in the Finance Act, 2023.
- The government is angling to ratify the decision to import sugar outside the COMESA trading bloc to cushion Kenyans who are already dipping more in their pockets.
- The first phase of the country's largest shopping centre located in Eastleigh Business District is complete with the complex expected to be officially commissioned in the next 2 months.
- The East Africa Breweries Plc (EABL) slashed by half its payout to shareholders from Ksh.11 to Ksh.5.50 per share on drop in earnings to Ksh.12.3 billion, the listed company has said in its audited financial statement.
- Starting August 1, 2023, DSTV for Business customers will have to spend more to access the pay TV service following price adjustments by parent firm Multichoice.
- As the scarcity of job opportunities looms in Kenya, the burden of debt has trapped students who used money from the Higher Education Loans Board (HELB) to fund their college and university education.
- The Kenya Pension Funds Investment Consortium (KEPFIC) and the Fund Managers Association (FMA) have signed an agreement to share expertise in pursuing diversified investment opportunities for local pension schemes.
- The economy grew by 3.8 percent in the fourth quarter of 2022 supported by robust activities from the services sector as compared to 8.6 percent in a similar quarter of 2021.
- Billionaire Elon Musk’s decision to rebrand Twitter as X could be complicated legally: companies including Meta and Microsoft already have intellectual property rights to the same letter.
- Less than six months after ChatGPT-creator OpenAI unveiled an AI detection tool with the potential to help teachers and other professionals detect AI generated work, the company has pulled the feature.
- TotalEnergies announced Tuesday it had started drilling wells for oil in Uganda as part of a huge project condemned by environmental and rights groups.
