Machakos County cabinet secretary for Trade, Economic Planning and Planning Dr Sunil Kumar Dhall and Governor Alfred Mutua’s chief of staff discuss in an interview with NTV the investment opportunities available or coming up in the county of Machakos, as well as the incep...

The Konza technology city, which is set to be Africa's first silicon savannah, is expected to grow the country's economy tremendously, through job and investment opportunities. The city will sit on 5,000 acres of land in Malili in the county of Machakos, and is expected t...

Nairobi’s stature as a regional logistical hub for overseas investors is set to drive further growth in Kenya’s prime residential market, top Knight Frank officials have said.

The firm’s head of global residential Lord Andrew Hay and head of international resid...

UK companies with significant stakes in Kenya’s listed firms are taking home more than Sh20 billion in dividends and fees this year, underlining the former colonial master’s continued dominance in the economy.

Financial results so far released for the six compa...

Telecoms firm Safaricom has recorded a 39 per cent increase in profit after tax to Sh17.5 billion for the period ended March 2013, on the backdrop of increased revenue flows from voice, M-Pesa and data services.

Revenues increased by 16 per cent to hit Sh124.3...

When three brothers ventured into technology business, their friends and relatives laughed off the idea. But, they also shrugged off the negative voices, convinced it was time to test the waters of the technology world.

They were coming together after taking di...

An upcoming Sh500 million exclusive Malindi resort owned by Italian billionaire Flavio Briatore will open its doors in August.

Mr Briatore, who was on a one-day inspection tour of the project at the weekend, arrived at the Malindi Airport aboard a private luxur...

Foreign investors flocked back to the stock market in April doubling share purchases in a reversal of the decline recorded in March, when election jitters are thought to have slowed their participation at the bourse.

Net foreign investor inflows to the Nairobi...

US tech giant IBM has opened an innovation hub in Nairobi to match IT innovators with investors who will help develop the ideas commercially.

The hub, which is the third in Africa after Morocco and South Africa, will allow software developers to test their new...

The Flower People is a floral company based in Kenya. They have created an online platform for the Kenyan diaspora to buy bouquets and arrangements of flowers for Mother’s Day or any other day or occasion.

Jackson, who prefers to use one name, is a Kenyan living in Texas, USA. He was introduced to an investment cooperative in Kenya by a friend, who is a member.

The performance of the cooperative, based on its reports, encouraged him. He now earns annual income of...

Central Bank of Kenya employees hatched an elaborate fake bonds trading scheme in which the Treasury may have lost up to Sh2.6 billion, a Nairobi court has been told.

Blacklisted bonds dealer Fredrick Mweni claims in an affidavit filed in court that the CBK los...

Kenya was the fifth biggest foreign direct investor in other African countries over the past five years based on the number of new projects initiated, an Ernst & Young survey has established.

India took the lead position with 237 projects, South Africa was...

Kenya’s largest bank by assets, KCB, has surpassed Equity Bank to become the most valuable lender listed at the stock market.

KCB’s market capitalisation has risen to Sh125 billion compared to Equity Bank’s Sh115 billion, while a year ago Equity’s market valuat...

Even as the influence of China and India continues to reverberate across the East African region, it has emerged that Kenya has toppled the Asian powerhouses in terms of investment in the region.

According to TradeMark East Africa, the publishers — in collabo...

Little was known of Julius Yego until last year’s London Olympics where he represented Kenya in javelin. The policeman had relied on the Internet to sharpen his skills, earning himself the nickname ‘YouTube athlete.’

His relentless zeal to learn the skills onli...

A rich crop of Kenyan tycoons and millionaires from Uganda and Tanzania have been honoured with a listing in the prestigious annual Rich List produced by the British national newspaper the Sunday Times. 

The silver jubilee edition of the annual list relea...

Equity Bank beat 42 other local lenders to rank as the best bank in Kenya in a survey conducted by ThinkBusiness magazine.

The bank has grown rapidly over the years to become the second most profitable in the country, posting a Sh12 billion net profit last year...

The launch of BebaPay, a Near Field Communication (NFC) enabled prepaid card, will certainly change the mobile payments industry.

Equity Bank and Google have partnered to unveil the commuter card where passengers top-up the card and use it to pay fare. All you...

President Uhuru Kenyatta stayed on the expansionary path of his predecessor Mwai Kibaki submitting a Sh1.654 trillion Budget for the next financial year. This represents a 13.4 per cent increase over the Sh1.459 trillion Budget for current year ending June 30.

The government is reviewing the traffic law to enforce the use of cashless payment in a bid to revamp public transport.

In a press briefing on Tuesday, Transport permanent secretary Karanja Kibicho said the ministry is finalising a review of the New Traffic Act...