Kenya Orchards: Just A Wild Investment Thought
The company’s shares have been at 3 shillings per share at the NSE for more than four years which is one of the lowest prices of any share at the NSE..
Which Airtel Mobile Data Plan Suits You?
We yesterday introduced you to a couple of Safaricoms’ mobile data plans that you can choose from, if you missed it, click here to view the post. Today we will look at what Airtel Kenya has to offer. Like Safricom, Airtel also has a…
The Place: Nairobi The Year: 2024 Event: Olympics
The bid for Kenya to host the 2024 Olympics has been dismissed by many Kenyans themselves as a thing that couldn't work. But let's look at it for a second. Just how practical is our bid to host the Olympics and what will this mean for the city, and our pockets?
What it Means to Earn Peanuts
These tweets were sent by @Roomthinker, in reaction to the recent call by the National Assembly Speaker Kenneth Marende for an increase in MPs’ salaries. According to Kenneth Marende, the KES Sh851,000 monthly salary for the MPs is peanuts. @Roomthinker takes up this subject and explains exactly what it means…
KQ Introduce Low Budget Flights
Jambo Jet, KQ’s low cost carrier has received a route license through Kenya Airways. The license granted by Kenya Civil Aviation Authority approves Jambo Jet to operate air services for passengers and cargo within Kenya and across the continent under FastJet and…
Stocks We Are Watching Today
The shares we will be closely watching in today’s trading at the Nairobi Securities Exchange.
KCB Extends Banking Hours in more Branches
KCB Bank has extended banking hours in several of its branches in Nairobi and one in Kisumu. KCB has announced that it will extend banking hours for the Nairobi branches to 10 hours a day. This, the bank says, will give its customers who have busy day schedules…
Safaricom Bonga Point Redemption Offer
Redeem a portion of your Bonga Points, add KES 3,999 to them and you will get a smartphone from Safaricom that comes inclusive of 200MB internet bundle and KES 500 airtime. 8,000 Bonga points + KES 3,999 will get you a IDEOS Ascend Y100 Image sourced from: tuvuti.com 9,000…
How Affordable is Health Insurance?
Most Health Insurance companies promise a life filled with medical security and free of never-ending hospital bills. Few can actually deliver on that promise. So just what do you get out of health insurance?
8 Things You Should Know This Morning
1. Electricity bill to go up by 16pc this month Your electricity bill will go up by at least 16 per cent this month following a decision by Kenya Power to increase charges levied on the power. In a legal notice published last Friday on the Kenya Gazette, Kenya…
Closing Bell – 27 August 2012
A summary of share trading activity at the NSE today
pesaDroid: Managing Your M-Pesa Transactions
A year into the market pesaDroid is changing how we view mobile money. It is an Android app that observes your M-Pesa SMS messages, enabling you to visualize your transactions in different ways as well as generating several statements from these transactions. The question then is, how…
Which Safaricom Mobile Data Plan Suits You?
Owning a smart phone comes with one major additional expense, buying mobile internet bundles. Safaricom has a couple of data plans suitable for mobile users. The daily mobile internet bundles, with a 24 hours validity period and the 7 days prepaid data plan. Based on how you surf…
M-Pesa: Our Very Own Too Big to Fail
"These apps are being downloaded and used by the thousands, by the hundreds of thousands. They are helping M-Pesa grow their customer base year on year. They are helping create an M-Pesa that can’t fail. The impact on our society will be too great. What platform will handle those loose billions? No, M-Pesa can only grow. And that’s a scary thought."
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