Year: 2021

2133 Articles
Nathan Stanton, a story artist on Oscar-winning features like Brave, Finding Nemo and Monsters Inc, will lead the training program. [Photo/ TV [R] EV]
BUSINESSMEDIA

Triggerfish Launches Netflix-sponsored Pan-African Story Artist Lab

Triggerfish today announced their call for entries for a pan-African Story Artist Lab sponsored by Netflix. Shortlisted applicants will have three months of...

View of a section of Nairobi.
BUSINESS

Repainting Nairobi: Businesses Face Ksh1,500 Daily Fine for Missing Deadline

Property owners who miss the Nairobi Metropolitan Services (NMS) deadline to repaint their buildings face a daily fine of Ksh1,500 for each day...

Offices in Westlands, Nairobi. Knight Frank's Africa Office Market Dashboard details the performance of prime office markets in major cities across Africa. [Photo/ Office Freedom]
REAL ESTATE

Tenants in Control as Nairobi Offices Drop Rents Under Pressure

Factors including the rise of work from home, Covid-19 lockdown restrictions and an oversupply of prime office space in commercial districts has left...

Also catch Lebo M, South African Grammy winner and the first voice you hear in The Lion King, in the reality show Lebo M: Coming Home, another Showmax Original that gives fans a front-row seat to his career as he creates new music, and turns the spotlight onto his biggest dream: bringing his family together.
MEDIA

Showmax: 5 African Stars Whose Lives You Can Dive Into

In today’s world of hashtags, trending topics and ‘celebrity tea’, we get to know almost everything that happens in the lives of our...

The V21 smartphone will be available in two variant colors in Kenya, Sunset Dazzle, and Dusk Blue.
TECHNOLOGY

Vivo’s V21 Smartphone Launched in Kenya

Global smartphone brand vivo has launched its new device, the vivo V21 in Kenya today. The device is the latest in vivo’s longstanding...

e NYSE is considered one of the most extensive in the world by market capitalization where shares and bonds of the titanic North American corporations are traded while the Nasdaq Stock Exchange houses some of the world’s most recognised brands.
BUSINESSMARKETS

Adaptis: Kenyan Firm to Link Investors to US Financial Markets

Adaptis Capital, a Kenyan Investment Management Company, on Tuesday, June 22 announced its intention to expand its footprint to the US to provide a...

Chris Kirubi
BT FACTCHECK

DEBUNKED: Chris Kirubi Did Not Launch Capital FM

A Daily Nation report that businessman Chris Kirubi, who died on 14th June, launched Capital FM is false. Industrialist Chris Kirubi’s death has...

From left to right: Rajiv Jandu, Head of Procurement, Zucchini GreenGrocers, Wangui Mbugua, Head of Growth and Partnerships, Uber Eats Kenya, and Nadeem Anjarwalla, General Manager, Uber Eats Kenya
BUSINESSTECHNOLOGY

Grocery Deliveries: Uber Eats Promises Freshness With New Partnership

Uber Eats has partnered with popular greengrocery chain Zucchini in Nairobi, to have their grocery offerings delivered via the app. Uber Eats launched...

Kenyan bank notes. If Parliament approves the report by the Finance and Planning Committee, the cost of credit will likely go up from July 2021. [Photo/ johan10]
BUSINESS

Why Loans Will be More Expensive From July

A decision by Parliamentarians to retain a proposal to remove fees and commissions earned by financial institutions on loans from exemption from excise...

To mark the launch of the new features, Safaricom will award all customers who book SGR tickets on the Madaraka Express Mini-App with 10% of the value back into their M-PESA accounts.
TECHNOLOGY

Safaricom Launches M-Pesa Super App With Offline Mode, Mini Apps

Safaricom (NSE: SCOM) has today launched “its M-PESA Super App for customers and its M-PESA for Business App with an “Offline Mode” and “Mini...