From left: Mr Pierre Dandjinou, Vice President stakeholder engagement at Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), Dawit Bekele of the Internet Society African Bureau, Paulos Nyirenda President of the Africa Top Level Domain Organisation, Kris Senanu chairman of Kenya Network Information Centre (Kenic) chairman and Mr Abdalla Omar, the general manager Kenic. FILE Nation Media Group.

Safaricom, Airtel fail to agree on a deal over trademark dispute, Twitter verifies Kenya government’s official newsroom account, Orange rolls out 3G network in Kajiado County…. For these and more, read on…

Safaricom, Airtel fail to agree on a deal over trademark dispute

Safaricom and Airtel Kenya on Wednesday told Justice Francis Gikonyo that the out-of-court settlement that they were pursuing had failed and that they were willing to have the dispute resolved by the court. In the dispute, Safaricom claims Airtel Kenya is using a trademark identical to its M-Pesa logo.

WezaTele’s Hilda Moraa to be keynote speaker at Pivot East 2015

Pivot East 2015 has announced that Hilda Moraa will be the Keynote speaker at this year’s startup pitching conference which Chase Bank Kenya will be sponsoring. Hilda Moraa is one of the founders of Weza Tele Ltd, a leading mobile technology value add provider that recently got acquired by AFB. She also doubled up as Weza Tele’s CEO & Business Development manager. The event will be held on July 22, 2015 at the Panari Hotel.

Safaricom launches internet-ready commercial, residential addresses initiative

Safaricom has announced that it will be partnering with real estate developers in an initiative that will see the launch of new smart and internet ready addresses in different parts of the country. Under the initiative that will be spearheaded by its enterprise arm; Safaricom Business, the integrated communications solutions provider will invest in fiber and all other infrastructure to smart addresses, with the facility owners only required to pay for internet bandwidth.

Top US cloud computing firm enters Kenya

Salesforce, has entered Kenya through a partnership with a local company Blue Consulting to offer financial solutions using cloud computing platform for transactions. It is targeting banks, insurance companies and even the government in sale of the software as institutions seek more advanced systems for transacting business.

Twitter verifies Kenya government’s official newsroom account

Nexus’ official twitter account has been Verified, Nexus is the Kenyan Government’s official news room. The announcement was made via a tweet posted on the Nexus twitter account. This means that the account will now have a blue verified badge on their Twitter profile right of the profile name.

Orange rolls out 3G network in Kajiado County

Orange has unveiled its 3G network in Kajiado County today. The company has so far rolled out 41 new 3G sites across the country as it looks to expand its data coverage in the country. According to Vincent Lobry, Orange Telkom CEO, the rollout has seen the company’s subscriber base and revenue grow significantly.