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CEO at Symbiotic | Opportunity Scout at Gruppo Potente, in pursuit of opportunities without regard to resources currently controlled #WhatIsNext #AfricaRising

Kenya’s Safaricom to buy 51 pct stake in Onecom

August 21, 2008 by Mbugua Njihia Leave a Comment

NAIROBI, Aug 21 (Reuters) Kenya’s mobile firm Safaricom (SCOM.NR: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) said on Thursday it was buying a 51 percent stake in Kenyan IT firm Onecom for $2.6 million to boost its product range. “Safaricom intends to acquire 51 percent in Onecom,” Michael Joseph told a news conference in Nairobi. “The reason … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Misfiring neurons, Technology Tagged: mergers, onecom, safaricom

‘Reverse Twittering’ all these damed services

August 5, 2008 by Mbugua Njihia Leave a Comment

I get really sad seeing consumers charged Ksh. 10 per alert to know what a certain stock is trading at, or that the CDSC is charging a premium to tell its 1 million plus customers how their CDS account is faring. Twitter is defined on its website as – a service for friends, family, and … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Business, Misfiring neurons Tagged: premium rate services, twitter, VAS services

Google invests in Mobile Planet

August 4, 2008 by Mbugua Njihia Leave a Comment

From the Skunkworks grapevine and confirmed form the local Google office is a “partnership” between Google and Mobile Planet. While full disclosure is not available at the moment, speculation is rife as to the nature of the investment by Google into Mobile Planet. ……………………………………………………………………. Disclosure made http://google-africa.blogspot.com/2008/08/announcing-new-investment-in-kenya.html Announcing a new investment in Kenya Tuesday, August … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Business, Misfiring neurons, Technology Tagged: google, hash, mobile planet, mobileplanet.co.ke, VAS, white african

Zunguka’s first thousand subscribers

August 4, 2008 by Mbugua Njihia Leave a Comment

From our viral marketing campaign started yesterday, we hit out first thousand users at 1:32pm – 4th August 2008. Our target over the next two months is to get a healthy 250k users consuming services daily on zunguka even as we seek to refine the products based on user experience and feedback While these numbers … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Business, Misfiring neurons Tagged: first thousand, TumaSMS, zunguka.com

Musing over the Iphone

July 12, 2008 by Mbugua Njihia Leave a Comment

I have been thinking about the Orange rollout in Kenya and particularly of the introduction of the IPhone to the Kenyan market. Of the top of my head, i am thinking that the cost of acquisition will be a barrier to penetration. I foresee earlier adoption by business executive and business people, that said, is … [Read more…]

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