Dozens of studies have been conducted to try and determine the secret behind the huge success of Silicon Valley and its never-ending stream of rock star startups. One after the other, Silicon Valley or the Valley, as it is well known, churns out startups that take over the global scene in...

Seth Godin said something interesting in a recent blog post called the Forever Recession that had implications far beyond the emphasis the article afforded it. He said the world economy was in a forever recession because as he saw it, the industrial age was over while economists were still...

Technology entrepreneurship is a must for any technology sector to thrive. This is especially the case in budding countries such as Kenya where technology has a low penetration rate and there is a rising class of both workers and consumers seeking for more from the technology sector. This need...

Google have something to be proud of after the bashing they got for the Mocality issue as well as the Google+ ranking issue. They have just been named the Greenpeace Cool IT company of the year, beating off other companies such as Cisco, Ericsson and Fujitsu. The annual score card is run...

That old web cliché ”Content Is King” has taken a new perspective as more specialization makes it even truer than when it was first coined. Fuelled by search engines and the voracious appetite of searchers, organizations and individuals are turning to content to create a web...

The SOPA/PIPA storm did more to create a deep rift between tech companies and content companies than it did to bring solidarity. The content companies now feel they got beat down because the public had only one bulls-eye to target; Hollywood and now they are regrouping and this time seeking...

Making ice cream can be fun but the big challenge always comes when freezing the ice cream ingredients to make the final product. This is even more so for businesses selling ice cream and that have to invest in large coolers and ice cream making machines, which may run their startup costs into...

The Internet has A LOT of information. In fact, the billions of web pages flying around in cyber space are beyond comprehension. For many people, looking for information on the Internet is like the proverbial needle in the haystack phenomenon. I do a lot of research on the Internet and as...

Jonathan Somen, Access Kenya Group Managing Director today revealed on PMLive, a show that runs on NTV, that Access Kenya would be getting back into the voice telephony market in the near future. Access Kenya is not new to the voice service niche as they had previously rolled out a number of...

Finding jobs in Kenya today is hard. If you ask anyone job hunting they will tell you the same thing, jobs are few and in between and for those few jobs there is a whole bunch of competition. The need to find alternative jobs and creation of new jobs altogether is a huge burden that the...

Twitter in Kenya has not quite taken off like Facebook has although in some ways it has. Twitter has become the go-to social media tool for most techies and tech entrepreneurs in the country who form the bulk of Kenyans on Twitter. A spot search on WeFollow shows that the top Kenyans on...

Technology is a versatile and beautiful thing. Building a business from nothing is the mainstay of this versatile ICT field. This is even more so in a country like Kenya where technology is only just beginning to take off and the ideas that abound seem infinite in their possibilities. Out of...

Kuria had been running his business for three years now and it was going on at a swell clip. He had been able to weather the two year post mortem period that most businesses run into and never got out of. But this was only until he was involved in an accident off Waiyaki way that saw him...