LG Electronics (LG) is bringing voice recognition to customers via its ThinQ™ (formerly SmartThinQ™) mobile app, giving users maximum convenience to connect to their LG ThinQ™ appliances from anywhere at any time. The first mobile application for smart home appliance management to support English leverages the Google Assistant’s voice recognition technology to manage all Wi-Fi…
Kenindia Assurance projects higher pensions uptake as industry records robust growth
Statistics in the insurance sector indicates that more Kenyan’s are now willing to save for the future than before. Industry figures indicate that there has been enormous appetite for a pension which has seen the industry total pension funds under guaranteed arrangement grow from Ksh. 163 billion to 183.7 billion a growth rate of 12.7%…
Visa expands support for paralympic athletes ahead of Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games
Visa (NYSE: V) today announced an expanded commitment to Paralympic athletes training for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games amid rising momentum and interest in para-sport competitions. With one year to go, the Official Payment Services Partner of the Paralympic Games and a Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Gold Partner, has signed five Paralympic athletes to its Team…
New LG K series designed for enhanced multimedia experience
LG Electronics (LG) will unveil its new K50S and K40S smartphones at IFA 2019 in Berlin, Germany to complement its competitive line of attractively-priced smartphones. These upgraded K series models are equipped with improved cameras, better displays and larger batteries among other improvements for a more premium multimedia experience without the premium price. Like LG’s…
Kenindia Assurance appoints new general manager, life insurance
Kenindia Assurance Limited, Kenya’s oldest insurance company has today announced the appointment of Uthup Joseph as Life Insurance General Manager effective August 2nd 2019 Prior to taking up his new role at Kenindia Assurance, Uthup Joseph spent 28 years at Life Insurance Corporation of India, serving most recently as Senior Divisional Manager looking after Individual…
HMD’s enables artificial intelligence on your smartphone
Artificial intelligence (AI) is now an everyday reality in our lives. To put it simply artificial intelligence (AI), is intelligence demonstrated by machines, in contrast to the natural intelligence displayed by humans and animals. In our case our Nokia Android smartphones intuitively learns how our consumers are using their phones and then adapts accordingly to…
LG SIGNATURE to collaborate with Studio Fuskas for IFA 2019
To give due credit to the importance of design in the creation and evolution of LG SIGNATURE, LG and international architectural firm Studio Fuksas have teamed up to present Infinity at next month’s IFA 2019 in Berlin. The Infinity installation in LG’s stand will highlight the LG SIGNATURE brand’s design DNA as the Fuksas-curated exhibition space reflects the infinite…
Emirates anticipates peak arrivals period in upcoming weeks
Travel is expected to reach an all-time high in the upcoming weeks for Emirates, as the airline expects yet another busy period with travellers flocking into Dubai after the summer holidays and Eid breaks. Excluding transit passengers, over 500,000 people are expected to arrive into Dubai from 20 August until the beginning of September. Mohammed…
Safaricom boosts the East African Safari Classic Rally with Ksh 13 million
Safaricom has announced a KES 13 million sponsorship of the ninth edition of the East African Safari Classic Rally under its M-PESA Global brand. The amount will support operations, logistics and communication during the rally which will take place between November 27th and December 6th 2019. The rally is set to cover more than 4,500…
LG’s latest AI-enabled TV and audio innovations win big at the 2019 EISA awards
LG Electronics (LG) has again been recognized for its superb home entertainment products by the Expert Imaging and Sound Association (EISA), the world’s largest consumer electronics editorial organization represented by 55 publications across 29 countries. At this year’s EISA Awards, four LG products – LG OLED TV (model OLED65E9), LG NanoCell TV (model 65SM9000), LG…
Happy 70th birthday Addidas
This development has really been quite something: Adi Dassler started his company with 47 employees in the town of Herzogenaurach in Franconia, Germany, on August 18, 1949, when it was officially entered into the commercial register; 70 years later, the company now has 57,000 employees and is active on every continent. With sales of almost…
Godrej Youth Program on course as two more hairdressing TVET centres set to open in Kitui County
With over 20,000 youth expected to be trained in hairdressing and beauty therapy under the Godrej Wezesha Youth program, the program is on course with two more centres expected to open in Kitui Country by the end of 2019. The Wezesha Youth program – a partnership between the Council of Governors and Godrej Kenya –…
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