Year: 2021

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KWS land grabbed
BT FACTCHECK

DEBUNKED: Our Land Has Not Been Grabbed, Says KWS

Activist Boniface Mwangi on July 9th 2021 kicked off a storm with a tweet on alleged land-grabbing on the Southern Bypass.  He wrote,...

Cyber Security and Digital Data Protection Concept. Icon graphic interface showing secure firewall technology for online data access defense against hacker, virus and insecure information for privacy. [Photo/ Sectigo Store]
TECHNOLOGY

Companies Continue Increasing Cybersecurity Budgets, Entire Market to Hit $158.8B Value by 2023

Over the years, cyber attacks and data breaches became one of the biggest risks in the business sector, compromising sensitive data and causing...

KCB Bank Chief Operating Officer Samuel Makome. He highlighted shifts in consumer preferences to digital transactions during the pandemic.
BUSINESS

KCB App Now Offers International Money Transfers in Partnership With Western Union

KCB Bank Kenya in partnership with Western Union, a leader in cross-border, cross-currency money movement and payments have yet again enhanced money transfer...

Glovo intends to open more micro fulfillment centers in the future, across different towns to ensure the quickest possible delivery times.
BUSINESS

Glovo Begins Operations in Thika, Kiambu

Glovo, one of the world’s leading multi-category delivery players, on Wednesday, July 14 announced that it has expanded its operations to Thika and...

Securities trader Joram Ongura at Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) trading floor at the Exchange building in Nairobi on August 26, 2020. The NSE 20 Share Index - a price weighted index calculated as a mean of the top 20 best performing counters - fell by 29.6 per cent in 2020. [Photo: SALATON NJAU (NAIROBI)]
MARKETS

Why Foreign Investors Stopped Fleeing NSE

Market data from the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) shows that net foreign outflows fell from Ksh21.4 billion in the six months to June...

Among other things, digital lenders have been accused of exploitative lending, debt shaming, money laundering and illegal mining of private customer data. [Photo/ Cathryn Virginia | NBC News]
ECONOMY

Digital Loans to Flow Once Again as CBK Backs Apps’ Return to CRBs

Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) Governor Patrick Njoroge has called for digital lenders to be allowed to resume reporting loan defaults to Credit...

A Whatsapp user. According to the statistics, Kaspersky Internet Security for Android detected the biggest number of malicious links in WhatsApp, partly due to the fact that it is the most popular messenger globally. [Photo/ Tech Spot]
TECHNOLOGY

How to Avoid Falling for Whatsapp, Telegram Scams

Anonymised data, voluntarily provided by Kaspersky Internet Security for Android users, has shown which messenger apps are the most popular among phishing scammers....

KBC new anchors
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KBC Legends Not Hired As Permanent Employees

KBC relaunched its operations recently, which involved a rebrand and brought on what it called legends as it seeks to boost viewership for...

Due to its recent surge in price, the original meme coin climbed among the world's top ten cryptocurrencies, following Bitcoin, Ethereum, Tether, Binance Coin, and Cardano in market cap. [Photo/ Shutterstock]
CRYPTOCURRENCY

Top 10 Most Traded Cryptos in June

After a staggering growth in the four months of 2021, May and June have been pretty dynamic for the global crypto market bringing...

Mark Otieno sprints with Safaricom CEO Peter Ndegwa after the telco unveiled a sponsorship for the Tokyo Olympics-bound athlete in Nairobi, Kenya on July 13, 2021.
SPORTS

Mark Otieno Lands Ksh1M Deal After Borrowing Spikes to Qualify for Olympics

Safaricom has announced a KES 1 million sponsorship for sprinter Mark Otieno’s campaign during this year’s Tokyo Olympic Games that will take place from 23rd July. The 28-year-old athlete...