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Kenya’s online pharmacy MYDAWA has secured US$1.2 million in funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to launch the first Kenyan telehealth solution tailored to boost Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) prevention efforts. The project will be co-financed by the...

Nairobi, Kenya, Roam has today announced the milestone launch of the first-ever electric, public mass transit bus operation in Nairobi. This one-year project aims to address the unique challenges of public transport by providing a reliable, sustainable, efficient, and modern...

Airtel Kenya has separated its mobile money from call, data and SMS business to allow the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) regulate the funds transfer platform. They released a press release to confirm the same. "We wish to inform our...

Project Starline, Google's experimental technology using holographic light field displays to video chat with distant co-workers, is moving out of Google's offices and into some real corporate locations for testing starting this year. Google's Project Starline tech, announced last year at the...

Kenya Power has announced plans to phase out petrol and diesel-powered vehicles and motorbikes from its fleet in favour of electric ones as the country’s shift to clean transport gathers momentum. The State-owned power utility has set aside Sh40 million...

The biggest smart accessories brand in the world oraimo has unveiled a new smart-charging technology dubbed AniFast™ that increases the speed of charging and maintains the battery life. The AniFast™ advanced technology also has the ability to correctly and intelligently...

Nairobi, Kenya Roam (prev. Opibus), today announced the launch of a new electric Mass Transit Bus, the Roam Rapid, which is specifically designed to address the unique challenges of public transport in Nairobi and Africa as a whole. It offers...

Copy writing through artificial intelligence is a tool all writers wish they had. Perhaps you are pressed on time, maybe short staffed or just overloaded with work, you must have reached a point where you wished you had a  ghost...

Safaricom has unveiled a zero-interest credit service that will allow millions of its customers to shop for goods up to Ksh100,000 (approximately $846) and pay later in a move that is set to disrupt the mobile loans market. Users of...

Kune, a Kenyan food start-up founded by Frenchman Robin Reecht in 2020, has closed its doors after failing to raise Sh30 million from a French investor for operations amid rising costs. Mr Robin Reecht, who is also the firm’s CEO,...