Kenya on track for top 10 Opera Mini country ranking.

Opera Mini is the world’s most popular mobile web browser with over 30 million active users as of this writing. Every month, Opera Software, the makers of Opera Mini, conduct the definitive analysis of key trends affecting the mobile web Continue reading

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Mobile Internet Usage Surges In Kenya.

It was reported in the Business Daily Newspaper last week that Mobile Internet usage in Kenya is now surging forward compared to wireless or other more traditionally delivered forms of Internet access. According to the statistics from the Communications Commission Continue reading

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Kenya’s Nation Media Group’s digital division posts 12% growth in profits.

At a time when media companies globally are struggling to stay afloat due to high operating costs and declining revenues, Kenya’s Nation Media Group’s (NMG) digital division grew its profits (not revenues) by 12%. According to the story carried in Continue reading

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Safaricom’s data revenue grew 83% in the last year.

In a story published in this Sunday’s edition of the East African Standard, almost a decade after it heralded a virtual mobile revolution in Kenya, catapulting it into the region’s most profitable company, Safaricom is harnessing new areas to underpin Continue reading

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Kenya’s Top 10 (Mobile) Web Sites and other Interesting Statistics.

Earlier today, I posted a link to story about the rise of Kenya’s mobile web usage as report in the Business Daily. The story prompted me to take a closer look at the mobile web usage trends in Kenya. The Continue reading

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Economic survey shows Kenya’s internet and mobile usage grew in 2008.

According to a just released economic survey by Kenya’s Ministry of Finance, Kenya’s internet and mobile usage grew substantively in 2008 in spite of the negative effects post-election violence and the global economic meltdown. The figures released by the Ministry Continue reading

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As budgets dry up online looks up

According to Marklives.com, despite the global financial slowdown – as nice a way of saying ‘global recession’ as anybody and CNN has been able to come up with – at least one marketing medium will expand its share of the Continue reading

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