Archive for December, 2006
I saw an annoyed post on Rants, Raves and Reviews (coldtusker.blogspot.com) about the Nairobi Stock Exchange Web site. I got to seak to Chris mwebesa about it and he says that they have had problems with the current web site but that they commissioned a new web site that would deal wiith all those issues [...]
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The King is Dead: long live soul
At 73, James Brown, the undisputed King of Soul passed on today in an Atlanta hospital of congestive heart failure, the result of pneumonia.
From Mambo 101, A moment’s silence.
Watch the indisutable James Brown perform
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In an interesting twist of events, Celtel yesterday made a huge marketing tactical coup over Safaricom. Whether that onslaught is only a battle won instead of a war, remains to be seen.
In what was widely seen to be Safaricom’s answer to Celtel’s new Umoja and Uhuru tariffs, Safaricom announced that Safaricom customers can call [...]
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The Celtel – Safaricom rivalry is well known and accepted in Kenya. Indications are however that we are yet to see anything of this rivalry as it begins to really heat up. Clearly Celtel has started an aggressive effort to gain market share over Safaricom, which has maintained a strong lead in the past.
The first [...]
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Why Kibaki is likely to win 2007
Make no mistake: Emilio Mwai Kibaki is well inside the race for the presidency in 2007 and much as many would rather he went home, he is right now best placed to win. Okumu Bulawa examines why.
When Mwai Kibaki came into the Kenyan presidency, he was immensely popular. But then he has been extremely popular [...]
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