| |  | JOHANNEBSURG: Google has appointed africapractice, a pan-African strategic communications consultancy, to manage its PR campaigns in the sub-Saharan countries of Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria, Ghana, Senegal and South Africa. |
 | The Lebanese Prime Minister, Saad Hariri, will open the World Newspaper Congress, World Editors Forum and Info Services Expo 2010, to be held in Beirut, Lebanon, from 7 - 10 June. The congress is themed "In search of the new business model," while the theme of the forum is, "The new information ecosystem: Link, share, cooperate or die." |
 | According to a newly released report, Emerging Markets Take Centre Stage: A Dramatic Shift in Purchasing Power, from country risk specialists Business Monitor International (BMI), the next decade will see a dramatic rise in the spending power of the emerging markets (EM) consumer. |
| JOHANNESBURG: South African-based brand and reputation intelligence company, Ornico has entered the Nigerian market through a joint venture partnership with Lagos-based investment group, AData. Established in 1984 by Oresti and Spero Patricios, Ornico has offices in Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town and Nigeria. |
 | LUSAKA: eLearning Africa has launched an online photography competition inviting people from Africa to submit images that show how they live, learn and work with information and communication technologies (ICTs). |
Recent rainfall in Kenya boosted by the El Niño phenomenon is expected to result in a bumper maize crop from mid-February. The latest report from the Kenya Food Security Steering Group anticipates a strong harvest in the country's coastal and south-eastern regions. 5 Feb 2010 07:53
[Titus Kaloki] Safaricom has signed a deal with the Kenya Power and Lighting Company (KPLC) to use the latter's national distribution network to expand its data footprint across Kenya. Under the terms of the contract signed by the two firms, Safaricom operate an optical fibre pair on KPLC's Optical Ground Wire (OPGW) system as built on the national power grid. 4 Feb 2010 11:31
[Titus Kaloki] There seems to be a calculated effort by the Kenyan government to protect mobile data services from competition by keeping the required license fee too expensive. Safaricom is currently the only service provider with one. Zain, Yu and Orange have suffered from this prohibitive move by government. 29 Jan 2010 07:53
[Carole Kimutai] The Kenya ICT Board, the state corporation charged with developing and promoting the business process outsourcing sector (BPO) has extended the deadline for bandwidth capacity support to the BPO industry. 28 Jan 2010 09:54
[Carole Kimutai] Kenya's national airline, Kenya Airways has been approved by the United Kingdom (UK) Environment Agency to participate in the European Union Environmental Management Program, through a legally binding initiative known as the European Union Environment Trading Scheme (EU-ETS). 26 Jan 2010 09:39
Dawn Rowlands, who has been with Aegis Media South Africa for many years, will become CEO of South Africa and sub-Saharan Africa from February 2010 onwards. This appointment will be to oversee the business growth in the whole region. 19 Jan 2010 07:28
[Carole Kimutai] Kenya has begun migrating to digital broadcasting technology ahead of the June 2012 deadline. In December 2009, Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki launched the Digital Video Broadcasting Terrestrial (DVB-T) technology. 18 Jan 2010 09:09
[Wanyaka Gituku] As I was surfing the internet, I stumbled on an article in the Daily Nation. The article reported that a survey revealed that top opinion shapers in the United States view Kenya as a corrupt nation with a culture entrenched in impunity. 15 Jan 2010 11:29
[Carole Kimutai] Next month, Kenya will play host to AITEC's annual Banking & Mobile Money Conference for the COMESA region. The event will be held at the Kenyatta International Conference Centre 24 - 25 February 2010. 15 Jan 2010 11:12
[Esther Karuku] With the current economic recovery taking root in Kenya, business owners have reason to smile. Rising from the effects of the global economic meltdown, company profits are slowly but surely increasing. To confirm this, are the impressive 2009 third quarter financial results posted by local banks. 13 Jan 2010 07:48
[Titus Kaloki] The .ke domain names have been launched by the Kenya Network Information Centre (KENIC) with a new registry for their registration and management. Also included are three lower-priced second level Internet domains and a new registry system. 7 Jan 2010 08:19
[Titus Kaloki] Kenya mobile telephony industry now accounts for 7% of mobile phone subscribers in sub-Saharan Africa. Kenya had 17.4 million mobile phone subscribers by end of June 2009, translating to 45.7% penetration. 6 Jan 2010 08:33
NAIROBI/TRANSMARA: Two years ago, fed up with a husband who drank too much and provided too little, Julie Amunga, who lives in the sprawling Mathare slum in the capital, Nairobi, decided to start a business that would enable her to support her family. 23 Dec 2009 17:49
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