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Martin K.N Siele is the Content Lead at Business Today. He is also a Quartz contributor and a 2021 Baraza Media Lab-Fringe Graph Data Storytelling Fellow. Passionate about digital media, sports and entertainment, Siele also founded Loud.co.ke

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A beta version of Google's Task Mate app was launched in Kenya after a year-long experiment in the country. [Photo/ Task Mate]
BUSINESSSMART MONEY

A Smart Way to Earn: Google’s Task Mate App Launched in Kenya

Task Mate is a crowdsourcing app that allows users to sign up on their smartphones, undertake tasks and get paid.

Miraa consumers. A section of Nairobi MCAs want deliberate interventions to support the trade of Miraa in Nairobi. [Photo/ The Washington Post]
BUSINESSPOLITICS

Nairobi MCAs Follow Joho’s Lead, Want Miraa Taxes Scrapped

Highlighting the fact that the crop is sold by the roadsides, they argued that construction of a market would not only boost trade...

The moratorium on CRB listing will be in place until September 2022. [Photo: Dennis Onsongo/NMG]
BUSINESS

Uhuru’s CRB Directive: What it Means for Your Loans

The interventions are also meant to improve access to credit and to cushion businesses reeling from the shocks of Covid-19. Being listed on...

Eddie Ndichu (right), the co-Founder & CEO of Wapi Pay, with co-founder, Paul Ndichu. They were captured on camera in an altercation with women at Ole Sereni, with one of them even seen attempting to break off a car side-mirror. [Photo/ courtesy]
BUSINESS

Investors Pull Out of Ndichu Twins’ Fintech Over Assault Video

The video has fueled widespread public outrage against the firm and its founders.

Mombasa Governor Ali Hassan Joho. He was among leaders who accompanied Raila Odinga on his tour of Meru County on October 18, 2021.
BUSINESS

Joho Charms Meru After Stopping Taxation of Miraa Transporters in Mombasa

Raila asserted that if elected, his administration would focus on working to to open up new markets for Miraa including the Democratic Republic...

President Uhuru Kenyatta during a meeting with Kirinya ga County leaders at Sagana State Lodge, Nyeri on October 18. Mashujaa Day celebrations are set for Kirinyaga this year. [Photo/ @StateHouseKenya]
POLITICS

Uhuru to Lift Curfew “Soon”, Promises More Goodies

The President spoke at Sagana State Lodge, Nyeri County when he held a meeting with government officials and leaders from Kirinyaga County ahead...

President Uhuru Kenyatta pictured with Devki Group Founder and CEO Narendra Raval. The state has reportedly been considering raising import duties on clinker. [Photo/ NMG]
BUSINESSECONOMY

Cement Billionaires Gang Up Against Narendra Raval Over Plan to Take Over

Devki Group owns Simba Cement,  National Cement, ARM Cement and Cemtech. It has spent over Ksh6 Billion in an expansion plan over the...

Former Vision 2030 boss Mugo Kibati, a seasoned corporate executive, was appointed Telkom CEO in November 2018. [Photo/ File]
BUSINESS

Court Date for Mugo Kibati Over Ksh14B Land Deal

Senior Principal Magistrate Kennedy Cheruiyot authorized private prosecution against Kibati and others including former CEO Michael Ghossein, Secretary to the Board Lois Allela...