Why I am leaving NTV
When I left KTN in October 2010, it was with a heavy heart. I had wanted so desperately to work there as a journalism student and I spent 30 glorious months at I&M. You’d think leaving a dream job prepares you for the next time you quit an equally fulfilling role, right? Wrong. I have...
Google’s Joe Mucheru leaves regional role for Kenyan job
Joe Mucheru, who has been looking after Google’s sub-Saharan Africa interests (apart from South Africa) is returning to Kenya to be the country manager. Though based in Nairobi, the regional job involved lots of travel, as much as 3 weeks in a month away from home. He takes over from Olga Arara-Kimani who left the...
Gina Din denies that her PR empire is in decline after parting with Safaricom
Gina Din-Kariuki‘s 15-year old eponymous firm could be diminishing in stature. It has decided not to bid for Kenya’s (East Africa’s?) largest communications account – Safaricom. In the last few years, it lost heavy hitters Kenya Airways and KCB Group as well. Technically, Gina Din Corporate Communications did not lose Safaricom, they ‘decided to explore...
On #SomeOneTellCNN and the fallacy of mass hysteria (Updated)
Considering that #SomeoneTellCNN and #CNNApologise have been trending worldwide on Twitter several times since Sunday morning, top CNN editors must have seen it. So why haven’t they apologized? Because they were right. On Saturday evening, a grenade attack occurred at the busy Machakos Bus Station on Landhies Road in Nairobi. When CNN International anchor Jonathan...
Guest post: Sheng’ is here to stay?
I am a big fan of Ghetto Radio which goes by the presumptuous tagline of ‘your official Sheng’ station.’ Naturally, the presenter combination of Mbusi and Bonoko (made famous by this song) is a winner. But the debate about the informal language that is Sheng’ – like the language – refuses to go away. I got two...
Who cares about the BlackBerry platform?
I’m attending the first BlackBerry DevCon in Europe where new Research in Motion CEO Thorsten Heins made a surprise attendance and delivered the keynote address, stressing that BlackBerry would remain competitive and profitable. I’ve just had a lengthy and informative conversation with RIM’s VP of Developer Relations Alec Saunders on a wide array of topics....
Safaricom will not open up M-Pesa to competitors
M-Pesa was never supposed to happen. Not to the scale or extent to which it has come to dominate Kenyan life, and international fascination. Today, M-Pesa has more registered users than the populations of Finland, Singapore, and Puerto Rico COMBINED. It handles more transactions in Kenya than Western Union does GLOBALLY. Now yu Mobile, wants...
Nokia ups Ken Oyolla to Global role in London
Ken Oyolla, previously Nokia’s GM for East and Southern Africa has been upped to a much larger role with the Finnish handset maker. Starting February, he’ll be Global Head of Market Activation for Mobile Phones based out of London. What that role does in English is that he’ll be ‘responsible for driving holistic execution of marketing plans...
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