East Africa Community’s Standard Gauge Rail network remains a mirage, with Kenya already shoulders-deep into Chinese debt Milicent Atieno June 20, 2019 Business Plans In 2013, East Africa states Kenya, Rwanda, and Uganda convened at the first Northern Corridor infrastructure summit in Uganda. The three countries came up with a resolution to build a high-speed standard gauge...
How to make a Safaricom Reverse Call Milicent Atieno June 19, 2019 Business Plans Hey, reverse calls are back. You know, that thing you used to do with the booth phone calls provided by Telkom back in the 80s and 90s. Where you could call an operator, to call the person you want to talk to...
WhatsApp Beta has an improved Picture in Picture video support for Android Milicent Atieno June 19, 2019 Social Media WhatsApp users (all 1.5 billion plus of us) should be looking forward to the new picture in picture video feature the instant messaging service is working on. The feature is already available on WhatsApp Beta...
British Council and Young Readers Library have launched the 2019 30 Books Challenge Milicent Atieno June 14, 2019 Event Articles I am sure you have heard about that bad joke, “if you want to hide something from a black man, put it inside a book.” That is absolutely not true, well, most of the time. Speaking of books, the British...
France’s richest family the Mulliez funds Kenya’s agri-tech startup Twiga Foods with $5 million Milicent Atieno June 13, 2019 Business Plans The Kenya-based agri-tech startup Twiga Foods has bagged $5 million secondary investment from what is said to be the richest family in France, the Mulliez family. The fund will go towards growing the...
16 African Universities to benefit from IBM Quantum Computer program Milicent Atieno June 13, 2019 STEM IBM has launched a new Quantum computer program in Africa that will engage 16 universities across the continent. The big tech company made the announcement at the Wits University in South Africa when it...
Today Google doodles Kenya’s writer Margaret Atieno Ogola author of The River and the Source Milicent Atieno June 12, 2019 Cool Tech Jobs, Fem Geek Today, the world woke up to an interesting doodle on Google of Dr Margaret Atieno Ogola, the author of the award-winning novel The River and the Source. The doodle of the late novelist, pediatrician, and...
Kenyans to be treated by free Internet Wi-Fi across select spots around Nairobi CBD Milicent Atieno June 7, 2019 Business Plans Telkom Kenya, in partnership with Meelin Media Limited and the Nairobi County Government, has set up three internet Wi-Fi hotspots across Nairobi. Dubbed Link Kenya Project, the initiative is meant to...
Rude awakening; Kenyan court stuns Woman saying she’s not automatically entitled to half the property after divorce Milicent Atieno June 7, 2019 Women In Tech They say love is blind. But what they don’t tell you, is that blindness is not permanent. At one point, one partner in the relationship will become ‘woke’. When that time comes, dreams are going to...
Million of Women risk losing their Jobs to Automation Milicent Atieno June 7, 2019 Cool Tech Jobs, Women In Tech According to a recent study by the McKinsey Global Institute, about 25% of women in the U.S. will lose their livelihood to technology within the next decade. The same applies for men who dominate the...
