Apple launches smart watch, new iPhones and mobile payment system
Apple has finally released a watch, along with new larger iPhone designs and a payments system. In an eagerly anticipated keynote, Apple has moved into wearables, its first new product category since 2010.
The new...
Teachers’ strike enters day 5 with no party ceding ground
In a non-precedented move, Teachers' Service Commission (TSC) moved to court to petition it to declare the ongoing teachers' strike illegal. at the same time, the union leaders sort the arrest of the TSC...
Guilty or Not Guilty – Waiguru denies ever meeting NYS Scandal suspect
While most of Kenyans thought the ghost after former CS Waiguru has been exorcised, it has glared its head again and the fire may not die out soon. This may seem like a bad...
U.N. Security Council Votes for tougher Sanctions on North Korea
The United Nations Security Council on Wednesday voted unanimously for toughest sanctions against North Korea after its recent nuclear and missile tests on 6th January 2016.
The sanctions seeks to block all imports of materials...
Why boosting legume production will lift the gloom for African farmers
Written by Frederick Baijukya & Fred Kanampiu
Africa has the lowest use of nitrogen on its farmland compared to other regions of the world. This is because smallholder farmers have limited financial resources to buy fertilizers.
Nitrogen is...
China’s stock market is in for a turbulent 2016
By Michele Geraci
The Shanghai stock market has had a rough start to the New Year. Bourses are down and trading was halted on its opening day after the market plunged, triggering the new circuit-breaker...
Suspension of Ms Kaindi as Deputy Inspector General of Police elicits uproar from opposition
Since the first appointments of current government, there has been several abortive actions that have left various groups divided. Some appointments have had to be De-gazetted after uproar. Tuesday's changes by the president were...
CMA Issues New Corporate Governance Code and Guidelines on AML
On 9th March, 2016 Kenyan Capital markets Authority published the newly gazetted guidelines that seek to stem poor corporate governance on bourse listed companies as means of protecting investors.
The authority also issued a related...
Can 10,000-character tweets boost Twitter’s flatlining user growth?
By Felicity Duncan,
On January 5, Twitter founder and recently reappointed CEO Jack Dorsey appeared to confirm a story on Re/Code claiming that the micro-blogging site is planning to change its signature feature: the 140-character...
How closer is Kenya to achieving vision 2030?
Rebasing of the GDP indices moved some countries in Africa into the middle income economies. Kenya and Nigeria reviewed their measures placing both countries in the light weigh economies.