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African Business magazine, in partnership with Brand Africa, Brand Finance Africa and TNS release the full results of their exclusive survey highlighting a full listing of Africa’s most valuable brands. As revealed in October at the African Business Awards, an awards ceremony organised by African Business magazine, Brand Africa awarded MTN and Coca Cola the prize for the best brands in Africa. In the November issue of pan-African monthly African Business, for the first time, the full findings of a survey conducted by Brand Africa in partnership with Brand Finance Africa and TNS are exclusively listed by category and country.…

Facebook updated its News Feed algorithm yet again, this time with the hope of presenting users with more “high quality content” like news articles and current events. The updated algorithm means that users can expect more news and story links to appear in News Feeds, especially on mobile, wrote Varun Kacholia, an engineering manager, and Minwen Ji, a software engineer, on the company’s blog Monday. Stories and posts that a user’s friends have commented on may be bumped back to the top of her News Feed, an effort at creating more conversation around articles in the comments, the duo wrote. This means you…

Undoubtedly, Facebook is the king of social networking space, but when it comes to social messaging on mobiles WhatsApp emerges as the clear winner. This new fact has been revealed by a new five-country survey by On device. According to the survey, WhatsApp is the new market leader in mobile social messaging. It has left behind giants like Apple’s iMessage, Google’s Hangouts, BBM Messenger, Snapchat, Skype and more. The survey was conducted on 3,759 Android and iOS device owners across five countries- US, Brazil, South Africa, Indonesia and China but no Windows Phone users were included. “The #SamsungTwitterParty is back!…

Just because you are Facebook friends with your old lab partner from high school doesn’t mean you want to see his posts each day in your News Feed. The social network will soon allow users to “unfollow” friends whose comments and updates they want to remove from their News Feed, according to a Facebook spokesperson. The new Unfollow button, which was first reported by TechCrunch, will work in the same way that users were able to “hide all” from friends in the past, simply with new phrasing. The idea is that users can block content they don’t want to see from their friends without going…

By Charles Ndushabandi The latest from the lady who sometime back declared she had left booze is that she has been sending singer The Mith love messages for now a long time. Its understood that after Jackie Klein drunk her self silly she sent a message to the huge rapper only to be blasted but according to the message we landed on her face book page we can reveal that the former lingerie fashion star is a secret admirer of the Klear Cut star. “The #SamsungTwitterParty is back! Get ready to party the night away come 19th December at Zone 7…

By Charles Ndushabandi The latest that is coming from the Ntinda based Gagamel family is that failed singer Zuena Kirema is now face book sick after realizing that the Life stories, a program she hosts on the Serena based NTV, facebook page is under Justine Nemere’s name. “The #SamsungTwitterParty is back! Get ready to party the night away come 19th December at Zone 7 with fellow tweeps. Entrance is 15,000shs. Call 0775439894 for details. Great music and drinks.” We are told that the Gagamel first lady turned furious and wanted to attack her bosses after realizing that the page was not…

The GiveUsAname campaign has so far received an overwhelming good feedback with several names being suggested. A number of good suggestions have been received so far. Below are a few examples we have received. Tina (this is new Africa and Female name) Chicku (Female name in Swahili that means Talker) Yolo (You Only Live Once) Zote (Swahili for all) Kesho Bora (Swahili for better tomorrow) “The #SamsungTwitterParty is back! Get ready to party the night away come 19th December at Zone 7 with fellow tweeps. Entrance is 15,000shs. Call 0775439894 for details. Great music and drinks.” Do you have any better suggestions?…

The eviction show on Saturday was unique from the previous eviction shows, this time around contestants had the opportunity to perform to their favorite songs. Patrick from Rwanda kicked off the show with a great rendition of Eric Wainaina’s Nchi ya Kitu Kidogo. This was followed by Kojjo, Hope and Phionah who took the stage next performing Mulembe gwa Kirya by Maurice Kirya, delivering a lovely performance despite the microphone interruption which did not throw the contestants off balance. Next on stage were the powerful diva’s Nyambura and Daisy who performed the famous Kenny Rodgers song something inside so strong,…

By Charles Ndushabandi We can exclusively reveal that NTV Koona presenter Miles Rwamiti is yet to pay the money he received on Friday when he hosted singer Bebe Cool and the battle of the champion organizer Abetex on his show. According to the winner, who we have learnt to be John who won the money has been trying to get to the celebrated TV personality but all in Vain. It all started when he hosted the duo on his show where one of the lucky fans was supposed to win some money and it was actually won by one fan only…

Although trips to the emergency room linked to energy drinks almost doubled between 2007 and 2011, little was known about how the highly caffeinated beverages affected the heart. Now, researchers say that healthy adults who downed the drinks, which are also high in the amino acid taurine, had increased heart contraction rates an hour later, according to a study presented Monday at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America. “The #SamsungTwitterParty is back! Get ready to party the night away come 19th December at Zone 7 with fellow tweeps. Entrance is 15,000shs. Call 0775439894 for details. Great…