Three years after the cab-hailing company Uber acquired Drizly (an alcohol delivery service), Uber is shutting it down. Drizly ran independently all this time, and Uber eventually decided to close it, as first reported. At the time of the acquisition Uber planned to integrate Drizly into Uber Eats, but never […]
The app economy has recovered in 2023 with an increase in consumer spending on apps. This comes after the App economy saw a snag in a post-Covid slump in 2022 as consumer spending normalized and a down economy that saw more people tighten their wallets. However, in 2023 […]
Kenyan content creators have all the reasons to smile as the President – William Ruto – announced that Facebook and Instagram parent company, Meta, has agreed to start monetization of content in Kenya following successful talks led by the government. In 2018, Facebook rolled out – Ad Breaks – […]
Safaricom is continually increasing its plans of having the whole country connected not only to other services like calls, SMS, M-Pesa but also internet connectivity. To achieve this, the telco giants time to time have been launching a variety of fixed or new campaigns to create awareness of their […]
In recent years, discussions about what the future of social media might look like have increasingly become common. The rebranding of Twitter to X after Elon Musk’s acquisition, the introduction of new social media startups, and Meta’s launch of Threads have made it clear that the next five years from […]
Kenya is amongst the African countries that are leading with content creation across all content consumption platforms ( YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and other Digital Streaming Platforms). For example, the number of YouTube channels earning over Ksh1 million ($8,783.49) monthly has improved by 60 percent, reflecting how Kenya’s content creation […]
