Its no coincidence that I am doing a post on Facebook in Kenya today. No. Not at all. In fact, unless you have been off the news this week, and under a fairly large rock, the biggest news of the Continue reading
NOTE: The statistics and review results for this blog post have been taken from publicly available information currently being circulated by the Tandaa initiative of the Kenya ICT Board. As reported on this blog over 2 months ago, The Kenya Continue reading
The big news of the past week was the announcement from Google that it had acquired the mobile web ad network Admob for US$ 750 million. Now, for those who have been using or tracking the mobile web ad market Continue reading
Some interesting Internet usage research findings for East African cities we’re announced this past week by TNS Research International. The research found that Kampala in Uganda has the highest level of internet usage with 53% of the population there being Continue reading
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
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
In the first part of this post, I was basically trying to describe what I see as the current status quo that the typical Kenyan Ad Agency is in the context of Internet Marketing. Basically, its not a pretty picture, Continue reading
I have been professionally engaged in building, managing and marketing web solutions for over a decade so I can say with some authority that Kenya’s Ad Agencies are about to get a serious reality check as a result of the Continue reading
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
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