Author: Brand Spot

The football season is back! And well, this season has us glued on our screens following exhilarating matches from our favourite teams in various leagues around the world. As the exciting matches continue, what better way to enjoy the happenings than on an affordable, secure, and reliable device? HMD Global, the home of Nokia phones, gives you a wide range of budget-friendly smartphones with great specs that you will no doubt love, trust and want to keep. The smartphones also come with functional storage space for all your memories during this season.  One such phone is the Nokia G20. Equipped…

Since the coronavirus upstaged the world of entertainment, virtual live concerts are now more popular than ever before. Music superstars have been live streaming concerts to their fans right to their living rooms. With the emergence of live streaming platforms, a whole new digital culture of creativity is unfolding. Data by music research firm MIDiA shows an explosive growth in livestreaming in 2020 on the back of plummeting revenue from live concerts, shuttered by the coronavirus pandemic. Live Streamed concerts raked in $600 million dollars in revenue last year. The advent of this paradigm shift in entertainment coincides with increased…

The vivo Y1s is one of the more affordable devices the company has in Kenya. This phone is available on Jumia for around Ksh 9,500 but can also be bought offline for a cheaper price. The phone joins the expanding list of vivo smartphones we have seen launch in Kenya in the last couple of years. We have seen a number of devices from vivo but they just don’t seem to grab our attention. Yes, the phones are good but when compared to others available on the market, they don’t stand out. The vivo Y series is the company’s affordable…

Kaspersky research highlights that malware is rife across Africa with various countries exhibiting strong growth in all malware types in the first half of 2021, when compared to the same period last year. This is a 5% increase in the region, as cybercriminals and hackers continue to focus on African countries considering digital transformation advancements and the increase in remote working resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. Overall, 4 countries account for 85 million attacks, with South Africa being the most targeted (32 million attacks), followed by Kenya (28.3 million), Nigeria (16.7 million) and Ethiopia (8 million). All countries but Kenya saw…

The Nokia X20 is the latest smartphone from HMD Global to launch in Kenya. The phone is currently available in retail stores for Ksh 40,000. This is the most expensive phone from the company to launch in Kenya this year and joins the Nokia C10 that was launched in the country about a month ago. At Ksh 40,000, the Nokia X20 is facing some serious competition from brands like OPPO, vivo, Xiaomi, Samsung and even Tecno with the Phantom X. The Nokia X20 is a little bit overpriced if you ask me. Looking at some of its key specifications, it…

Huawei, the global tech giant, has announced the 2021 Huawei HMS App Innovation Contest (Apps UP), a premier global contest for mobile application developers. The competition aims to attract established and emerging talent in the application development space, and showcase their efforts in creating seamless, smart, and innovative digital experiences that contribute to a digital, intelligent world. Developers can submit their participations until 5th September 2021. Why participate? For participants, the 2021 Huawei HMS App Innovation Contest (Apps UP) will allow them to join a rich community of 4.5 million registered developers from around the world, as well as 50…

Twitter has officially shut down the “Fleets” platform. The company announced last month that it was going to do so as it did not bring in the results it was hoping for. Fleets was first announced back in March 2020 as a response to the success of Instagram Stories. Twitter saw this as an opportunity to attract younger users and basically people who do not actively send out tweets but use its platform regularly. Fleets, just like Instagram Stories, let users post short videos and photos that disappear after 24 hours.  This was meant to appeal to those who may…

Safaricom has today announced an increase in Skiza revenue share for artists and content creators by 33%. Following the move, more than 20,000 artists and content-creators are set to benefit from increased earnings of 40% from all their tunes on the platform. “We launched Skiza in 2009 as an avenue to connect content-creators to their fans and it has since grown to become the preferred mobile entertainment service for more than 9 million Kenyans. Our decision to increase artist and content-creators revenue share by 33% will act as a further boost to the creative industry to support talent growth and sustainability,”…

An initiative that will avail digital tools and training resources to small-scale farmers and agriculture-linked small businesses in Africa has been launched. The programme is a partnership between Microsoft’s 4Afrika initiative and IFC and aims to support digital transformation in Africa’s agribusiness sector, modernize supply chains and boost farmers’ productivity and incomes. To start with, a mobile platform will be piloted among farmers in Kenya, Nigeria, Cote d’Ivoire, and Uganda. This targets to reach and support 50,000 farmers and at least 50 cooperatives. The initiative is informed by the fact that digital technology can improve the operation of key supply…

Bolt has launched an on-demand cash withdrawal feature dubbed Early Cash-Out, enabling drivers to instantly withdraw their earnings such as bonuses, passenger discounts and card payments as and when they need it.   The Early Cashout feature will improve cash liquidity for drivers’ by ensuring that they have more accessible and faster access to their earnings whenever they need it without necessarily waiting for a period of one week previously. “We aim to ensure that our drivers have flexibility in how they access their earnings realized from cards, bonuses and passenger discounts. We strongly believe the feature will offer our drivers…