For the last few days, I have been mulling over what could happen in Kenya from a digital perspective in 2023. I have done this in the past quite a few times at the start of each year and there have been lots of hits and misses but ultimately, it…
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Moses Kemibaro
Moses Kemibaro is a digital marketing professional based in Nairobi, Kenya. He has over 15 years experience in general management, business development, account management and strategic planning in the areas of digital strategy, creative design, business applications, technology integration, digital marketing, digital media and mobile (web, marketing & applications). He blogs regularly on his personal website (http://www.moseskemibaro.com)
I have been ranting and raving like a madman for the last few months on all of my social media platforms about all the shenanigans that Elon Musk has brought to Twitter. This got me thinking that rather than complaining why not actually offer constructive suggestions or ideas that could…
OPPO is a mobile device brand that I have never used before so it was something of a new experience getting the A71 smartphone a few weeks ago to review. The dual-sim OPPO A71 launched in Kenya in late September 2017 and really started selling well around October 2017. It’s…
Earlier this evening I attended the Kenyan launch of Little Cab, the on-demand taxi hailing mobile app and service developed by Craft Silicon, in conjunction with Safaricom. As expected, the Little Cab launch was well attended by the media and lots of cognoscenti from Kenya’s technology sector. At launch, Little Cab…
Sendy is a business I have hugely admired for the past couple of years or so since it pioneered on-demand package delivery services in Kenya a couple of years ago. Meshack Alloys, the CEO of Sendy and his co-founders started the business and immediately received lots of media and market…
It has been approximately two months or so(?) since Safaricom launched their MySafaricom mobile app, first on Android and more recently on iOS. I installed the MySafaricom mobile app on my iPhone to take it for a spin since this is the first mobile app that Safaricom has launched that…
I just got off the phone with a source who confirmed that although Easy Taxi is closing shop in Kenya at the end of May 2016, they have been acquired and will be rebranded to Little Cabs from the 1st June 2016. As of this writing, Easy Taxi has over 3,000 drivers…
As is normally the case at the end every year, I like to do a blog post on what I saw at the biggest trends in technology in Kenya from a somewhat personal perspective? Naturally, there are many other significant things that happened from a technology standpoint in 2015 in…
Over the last few weeks, Kenya’s digital ecosystem has been rocked by the debacle that hit Angani, the cloud services business that experienced what could only be described as a catastrophe of epic proportions. After a major falling out between the Founders and its Investors at a board meeting, Angani…
Recently I did a blog post that captured what I saw as the 10 biggest technology stories from 2014 in Kenya. I thought I would try and do the same in terms of looking into my proverbial crystal ball to predict what I expect to be the 12 most significant technology…
Happy New Year! I hope 2015 has started off on a good note for you and that you are rearing to go as much as I am. As I have done a few times in the past on my blog, I thought it would be great to capture what I…
So. It seems that Safaricom started selling the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6+ late last week which is around a week after Airtel’s launch of the highly coveted and super expensive smartphone in Kenya. What is apparent is that the mobile networks are both trying to out-do each other by…
I did a blog post back in 2009 about what was then a very nascent market for online classifieds in Kenya. That was five years ago! How time flies. Since then, everything has changed. A good number of sites from back then have disappeared. A good number of global players have…
Lets face it. Everyone seems to be on social media in Kenya these days. As in EVERYONE. Indeed, it was hardly 5 years ago that the likes of Facebook really started taking off and it seemed more like a novelty rather than a mainstream paradigm shift of how people connected…
Just last week it was announced that Microsoft intends to discontinue the production of all Nokia feature phones powered by the legacy Symbian S40 mobile OS in 18 months time. These are your basic Nokia mobile phones that proliferate Africa and have the same basic functionality that we had on…
I received the above ‘apple-esque’ invitation from Safaricom last week for an event on the 4th December 2013 sub-titled ‘A New Day In E-Commerce Is Finally Upon Us”. Its hard to tell exactly what this means or what Safaricom could be launching since they practically more or less own m-commerce…