Wrap-Up: Our pick of main stories, Monday November 16th, 2015

Retailers turn to technology to rein in employee thievery

Supermarket chains have started sharing employee faces and personal data online in latest attempts to control runaway, internally co-ordinated theft by staffers estimated to cost the retail sector Sh3 billion annually. Retailers have moved from relying on surveillance cameras, initially seen as a deterrent to internal theft, to control room to hunt down the growing sophisticated web of swindlers.

Kenya’s Jenga Web emerges top marketing agency in Africa at 2015 African Property Awards in Dubai

Kenya’s Jenga Web emerged the top marketing agency in Africa, winning in six categories during the 2015 African Property Awards held Thursday night in Dubai, UAE. The agency won the Best Golf Development in Africa for the Aberdare Hills Golf Resort. The resort also bagged the 5 star award for best golf development in Kenya.

Elitebet announces Kenya, Uganda content curation partnership with Your PRSS

East African sports betting operator Elitebet has partnered with London-based content curation platform provider Your PRSS to launch Elitebet Sports News web portals for each of its Kenyan and Ugandan markets.

KoTDA seeks investors for Phase 1 development of Konza City

Konza Technopolis Development Authority (KoTDA) has invited investors to take up space in the first phase of the Konza Techno City. The initial development dubbed “phase 1” has been sub-divided into various parcels of land. The winning firms will be given a lease on those parcels of land where they will build approved structures as per the Konza city master plan. The facilities to be put up include schools, office blocks, residential housing, shopping malls, as well as recreational facilities.

Buni.tv partnerships take service global

African video-on-demand startup Buni.tv has announced a series of partnerships which will see the service become available across Africa, the US and the UK. Buni.tv said as the result of an aggressive carriage deal strategy pursued over the past few months, the service will now be available on over 10 partner platforms, to be rolled out over the coming weeks.

Digital ‘classroom in a box’ for Kenyan pupils

At the Lighthouse Grace Academy in Nairobi’s downmarket Kwangware suburb, yellow school t-shirts carry the slogan ‘To Fear God is Wisdom’, but in their hands pupils clutch a more worldly path to knowledge: tablet computers. The hand-sized tablets are part of the ‘Kio Kit’, a digital classroom in a suitcase designed by local technology company BRCK, which two years ago launched the hard-wearing, brick-sized modem that works as a wifi hotspot.

#CloudDayKE: Why cloud adoption is critical for SMEs in emerging markets

Cloud technology is a game-changing advancement we have all heard of or are even using it by now. Oracle quickly adopted this and started offering their cloud-based product variants. Cloud technology is not a passing cloud and is here to stay. Oracle Kenya, marked yet another Cloud Day in Kenya. Some of the key highlights were why many businesses were moving to the cloud and why more businesses need to join the bandwagon.