Wrap-Up: Our pick of main stories, Wednesday February 18, 2015

It’s already midweek, and as the weekend races to catch up with us, we stay in constant motion just like the ever moving world of technology; and here to help you stay ahead is our daily wrap-up of the best stories that deal with Kenya and technology, to keep abreast read on…

Master Power Technologies invests in Kenya

As part of its plan for growth in Africa, Master Power Technologies has opened an office in Kenya in order to serve East Africa. According to the company, the office will be Situated in Nairobi. Additionally, the company has opened offices in Kitwe and  Lusaka in Zambia with further African countries earmarked for expansion.

IBM on course to ease traffic in Nairobi

The County Government of Nairobi and IBM are still on course to utilise technology to ease the perennial traffic jams witnessed every day in Kenya’s capital.

GOtv subscribers to enjoy premier sporting action

The war on digital migration is slowly simmering to the content being provided by each service provider. Since the digital signal unlike analogue is much clear for everyone, consumers are solely interested with the nature of content they are going to receive.

MultiChoice Kenya, by virtue of being the pioneer payTV provider in Kenya, seems to have been watching this space keenly and are now ready to give their subscribers – either on GOtv or DSTV – what they love most -be it movies or sports.

Kenya Tourism Board engages Jovago.com to increase bookings to Kenya

The Kenya Tourism Board (KTB) has partnered with online hotel booking platform Jovago to help increase the number of tourists coming to the country. The partnership is also expected to benefit hotels as it will now see all the accommodation facilities get online booking by both local and international clients with the integrated booking between KTB’s destination website, Magical Kenya and Jovago.

CloudFactory gets Kshs 180 million from Rockefeller Foundation to tap skilled Kenya workforce

CloudFactory, an online work platform, recently announced it has received a US $2 million (Kshs 180 million) Program Related Investment from the Rockefeller Foundation to help it enhance employment opportunities for previously unemployed Kenyan youth.

The Foundation’s investment will help CloudFactory expand its SpeakerText service, for fast, accurate video and audio transcription within the country.

Kenya among countries allegedly compromised by NSA’s spyware

Kenya has been named as one of several countries which the United States National Security Agency (NSA) has compromised by installing spyware in devices bought by them. According to an article by the Inquisitr, the spyware is placed in deep lying areas of the devices thus making them hard to remove.

Kenya makes it to the list of compromised countries together with two other African countries, Algeria and Egypt.