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Huawei Mobile Kenya has entered into a partnership with Mitsumi Kenya who will be the distributor of its Business to Business Product Portfolio in the East African Market. Huawei has launched a full set of business products, solutions, and service platforms, including MateBook B3,B5,and B7 series for laptops, MateStation B520 series for desktops, Display B3 series for monitors, MatePad C3, and C5e for tablets, and business printers which make this vision access to a wide range of customers. Huawei Consumer BG hopes to endow office and business products with newly smart and innovative capabilities, using its success in the consumer…

LG Electronics (LG) has unveiled a new brand shop in Nairobi’s northern suburbs as it steps up a campaign to take its products and services closer to consumers. The new shop at Thika Road Mall (TRM) is the latest outlet in LG’s strategy to increase its market footprint in the East African region with new stores in strategic locations that have high sales potential, backed by technical expertise before and after sales to attract and retain customers. This brings to four the number of Brandshops the company has so far opened in partnership with its distributor Opalnet, the others being…

Showmax mobile subscribers in Kenya will pay Ksh 300 a month for access to the full Showmax catalogue on a single mobile device. This is a 20% reduction on the previous price point of Ksh 380. Speaking about the price change, Yolisa Phahle, MultiChoice Group CEO for Connected Video, says, “We know that consumers are under pressure at the moment and we believe this change will be appreciated by our mobile customers as will the decision not to increase any of our other prices. We have our most exciting slate of Showmax Originals this year and look forward to more Kenyans enjoying our proudly African stories.” So far this year, the company has already released four Showmax…

Safaricom has unveiled the second edition of the ‘Browse Bila Waas’ campaign that will see customers enjoy free 500MB daily bonus data with every purchase of a personalized no-expiry data bundle. The campaign will see Safaricom customers enjoy more internet for less on Kenya’s best network. Both Prepay and PostPay customers can access their personalised data bundles on *544# under the option “0” – Special Data Deals. Upon purchase of the bundle, which is available every day until 23rd May 2021, customers will instantly receive a bonus of 500MB data valid until midnight of the same day. “Safaricom exists to…

The Infinix Hot 10 has finally been launched in Kenya. This is the successor to the Hot 9 series from earlier this year. The Hot series is the company’s entry level series with the other ones being the Note, Zero and S  line-ups. All these target different customers but the Hot series is perfect for those looking at an affordable smartphone that can get things done without breaking the bank. The Infinix Hot 10 series is available in two variants, the standard Hot 10 and the Infinix Hot 10 Lite. In kenya, these are available for Ksh 14,000 and Ksh…

Buying a new smartphone is exciting but keeping the phone in crisp conditions is a major issue. Luckily, there are various things you can do to take good care of your phone. But another challenge is usually taking care of the battery. Let’s face it, folks, keeping your battery in good condition can be hard sometimes. But that shouldn’t be that hard, at least with these tips. Here are 7 tips you can implement right now to boost your Nokia 5.3’s battery life. But first, what’s eating your battery? The first thing you should be doing is to check what’s eating most…

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world, quoted South African activist and former president Nelson Mandela. Investment in education is one of the biggest investments any country can make for its current and future generation. Currently, around 420 million people across the world would be lifted out of poverty with secondary education consequently improving the quality of life globally by more than half. Today, as more and more people across the African continent are required to stay home due to government lockdown interventions, we are seeing a massive shift towards remote learning. This has meant…

Open banking is revolutionising the financial services landscape across the world, and presents opportunities for transformation and financial inclusion throughout East Africa. However, the region should learn from the experiences of other markets and leapfrog directly to the next era of open banking, says International mobile technology specialist at Myriad Connect. Open banking, in which banks share certain data via secure application programming interfaces (APIs), allows for the development of a range of digital financial services that can be used by customers to more easily transact, manage their finances and have full access to all their data. It paves the…

I come from Nyanza, the only region in Kenya that produces ‘bragging sons and daughters’, people of class if you like. From where I come from, there is a TV and then there is a Television. I know I might be confusing you but just sit back, relax, follow the vibes and you might be able to grasp the gist of my drift. Anyway, from where I come from, a TV is any device that can show both motion pictures that are accompanied with sound. This is something everyone can afford. A Television, we call it ‘Televison’, is a rare…

Yesterday, Instagram announced that its updating its platform to allow users to post their Live broadcasts to their Instagram Stories. Before this, Instagram Live broadcasts would disappear the moment the live broadcast ended. This means that those who were not online when the live broadcast was happening had no way or watching it later even if they wanted to. Well, things have now changed and now users will be able to add their Instagram Live Replays to their Stories. Since Instagram Stories disappear within 24 hours, the Live broadcast will also stick around as part of your story for 24…