 | MARKETING & MEDIA  [Carole Kimutai] Equity Bank has partnered with Safaricom's M-Pesa money transfer service to launch a mobile bank account product known as M-Kesho - a Swahili term that refers to the future of mobile banking. M-Kesho will enable customers to transfer money to and from their M-Pesa Equity bank accounts via their mobile handsets with additional benefits.
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| MARKETING & MEDIA [Carole Kimutai] As the battle for consumers rages on in Kenya, CompuLynx, an international IT and business solutions provider has unveiled iSMART Lite - a locally developed retail management software solution targeting small size supermarket outlets. |
 | Hey penman! You do know you've just validated my article with this comment. I'm talking about endorsements not advertisements. Kenyan celebs have been featured on ads for decades but endorsement deals in Kenya have been, and still are, rare. |
| Thanks Jue. This is an avenue that hasn't been fully exploited. Go for it! |
 | A great article.
The hard work now is to convince the Corporates. I am totally sold to this and we do what is possible to influence endorsement. |
| MARKETING & MEDIA [Carole Kimutai] The Kenya Commercial Bank Group (KCB) has launched a quickserve ATM in the country. The new MCR's Intelligent Deposit ATM has a touch screen and is capable of handling cash in both Kenya shillings and US dollars. The ATM costs about KSh5.4 million. |
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[Titus Kaloki] Safaricom has signed a deal with the Kenya Power and Lighting Company (KPLC) to use the latter's national distribution network to expand its data footprint across Kenya. Under the terms of the contract signed by the two firms, Safaricom operate an optical fibre pair on KPLC's Optical Ground Wire (OPGW) system as built on the national power grid. |
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[Titus Kaloki] There seems to be a calculated effort by the Kenyan government to protect mobile data services from competition by keeping the required license fee too expensive. Safaricom is currently the only service provider with one. Zain, Yu and Orange have suffered from this prohibitive move by government. |
| MARKETING & MEDIA [Carole Kimutai] The Kenya ICT Board, the state corporation charged with developing and promoting the business process outsourcing sector (BPO) has extended the deadline for bandwidth capacity support to the BPO industry. |
| MARKETING & MEDIA [Carole Kimutai] Kenya's national airline, Kenya Airways has been approved by the United Kingdom (UK) Environment Agency to participate in the European Union Environmental Management Program, through a legally binding initiative known as the European Union Environment Trading Scheme (EU-ETS). |
| MARKETING & MEDIA [Carole Kimutai] Kenya has begun migrating to digital broadcasting technology ahead of the June 2012 deadline. In December 2009, Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki launched the Digital Video Broadcasting Terrestrial (DVB-T) technology. |
| MARKETING & MEDIA [Carole Kimutai] Next month, Kenya will play host to AITEC's annual Banking & Mobile Money Conference for the COMESA region. The event will be held at the Kenyatta International Conference Centre 24 - 25 February 2010. |
| MARKETING & MEDIA [Titus Kaloki] The .ke domain names have been launched by the Kenya Network Information Centre (KENIC) with a new registry for their registration and management. Also included are three lower-priced second level Internet domains and a new registry system. |
| MARKETING & MEDIA [Titus Kaloki] Kenya mobile telephony industry now accounts for 7% of mobile phone subscribers in sub-Saharan Africa. Kenya had 17.4 million mobile phone subscribers by end of June 2009, translating to 45.7% penetration. |
| I'm glad to see that Kenyan companies finally realize the benefits accrued from investing in Corporate Communications. Moreover, publicity is not the only gain from effective PR. Goodwill and acceptance from the surrounding community, Government and the larger society, goes a long way in easing the operations of a company. |
| MARKETING & MEDIA [Titus Kaloki] The fourth entrant into the mobile services Kenyan market, YU has launched a mobile money transfer service. The service branded "yuCash by Obopay" is the latest in services the firm has unveiled. |
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[Titus Kaloki] Safaricom, a mobile service provider in Kenya has yet unveiled its ‘Managed Office in a Box' offer that saw it partner with Cisco, the global networking solutions provider. Cisco announced that it has joined forces with Kenyan mobile operator Safaricom to launch managed services based on Cisco equipment in the East African market. |
| MARKETING & MEDIA [Carole Kimutai] East African Magazines (EAM) announced early last week the suspension of Adam and Twende. Adam is slightly over two years in the market and was targeted at the male readership while Twende was a travel magazine. |
| MARKETING & MEDIA [Carole Kimutai] Kenyan journalist Steve Mbogo from the Business Daily newspaper has been nominated as one of the 15 winners of various categories of the Earth Journalism Awards that rewards excellence in climate change reporting. |
| MARKETING & MEDIA [Carole Kimutai] AccessKenya Group, Kenya's first publicly-listed ICT company has announced that it has achieved its year-end customer target numbers nearly two months ahead of schedule. It has 3000 customers now signed up to its residential broadband service, Access@Home, and over 3100 customers contracted for its corporate broadband service, Broadband Max. |
