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M-KOPA Solar Connects 200K Homes

Kenyan mobile technology company M-KOPA has powered up 200,000 homes across East Africa – having doubled the number of homes connected to its solar home systems in the past eight months. The average M-KOPA household has over five inhabitants. Accordingly, M-KOPA is now providing power to over a million people across East Africa. Jesse Moore, Managing Director and Co-Founder, M-KOPA Solar, says, “It took us two years to connect our first 100,000 homes and just eight months to connect our second 100,000 homes. We are pushing hard to grow even faster and reach our goal of one million homes by the end of 2017.” M-KOPA is now selling 500 new systems each day across Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. It has a network of over 1,000 direct sales agents and 85 customer service centers across East Africa.

Online Consultation Websites for Business Registration

With the following online business consultation websites, the hassle of registering businesses and companies in Kenya is easy and flawless. From filling in the forms to attaining KRA VAT and Pin, the services you get from these businesses will hasten and full proof the process of getting started with a business in Kenya. Dealpoa.com Deal Poa is probably one of the most forthwith online registration website supported by valuable content on various aspects of registering and running a business in Kenya. For the registration of a company, this will cost you between Ksh.20000 and Ksh. 35000 depending on your prefered package. More of their services include, Business Name, Sole Proprietorship, Partnership, Limited Company, KRA PIN & VAT, Tax Compliance Certificate and AGPO Tender Certificate. Inc.co.ke (INCORPORATOR) A brain child of Genius Executives, the company that popularized the renting of furnished and serviced office workstations, INCORPORATOR provides individu…

Apple develops tool to remove and detect flashback trojans

Apple has said it is developing a tool to detect and remove flashback trojans that is said to affect more than half a million mac computers. It is said to be working with internet service providers to disrupt the command network being used by hackers to exploit the malware.Trojans are infections that can expose computers to control of hackers. In a message posted in Apple’s website’s support section,the company said it had fixed a “Java security flaw for systems running OS X v10.7 and Mac OS X v 10.6. Two security updates were released eight weeks after java ‘s developers oracle issued a fix for another computer system. It suggested users of macs running earlier version of it system software should disable java in their web browser preferences. In addition apple said its working with Internet service providers to shut down a network of servers hosted by the malware authors,which the code known as flashback relies on to perform many of its critical functions. …

Housing finance receives funds

The Housing Finance of Kenya has received funding from the European Investment Bank to finance S.M.E (small and medium enterprises) to invest in the property Industry. The leading mortgage financier Housing Finance M.D Frank Ireri says they look forward to support the growth of S.M.E’s in the property industry in kenya. SME’s in Kenya face numerous constraints in accessing affordable finanace primarily in; issues to access of loans without collateral,access to the formal sector. According to a World Bank report o SME,s entrepreneurs,women make almost half of the owners of small and medium enterprises,and 40% small farm managers yet they have less than 10%of the available credit and less than 1% of agricultural credit.