Veera Kumar 🇮🇳 🇰🇪

“Forever a student at the intersection of tech and humanity, continuously marveling at the wonders of our world.”

[Moe @moneyacademyKE]

Kenya has opened applications for its ICT regulatory sandbox, giving startups and tech firms a chance to test AI, 5G/6G, IoT and other digital technologies in a regulated environment before launching them

[Zoho Africa @ZohoAfrica]

Zoho is built for Kenyan businesses with local pricing that makes sense.
No dollar stress. No conversion chaos. Just tools for 𝐒𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐬, 𝐇𝐑, 𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞, 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭—all in one place.

[Zoho Africa @ZohoAfrica]

Sustainability and giving back are at the heart of who we are. Whether it is giving discarded billboards a second life as school bags or planting fruit trees that will serve communities for years to come, this initiative reflects our commitment to creating meaningful, lasting change.

#ZohoKenyaCSRweek

[Zoho @Zoho]

@QoreBanking is building the backbone of Africa's next generation of digital banks, across 9 countries and 520+ financial institutions.

But behind that vision was a team buried in manual processes and a support team running at below 50% productivity.

Watch how we helped them turn things around 👉 https://t.co/ONgAwcAZ9F

[India in Kenya @IndiainKenya]

High Commission @IndiainKenya arranged the repatriation of four Indian fishermen from Tamil Nadu, who had been stranded in Lassqoray, Somalia. The fishermen are flying back to India today. The Mission remained in constant touch with the fishermen and their families from the time the matter was brought to its notice, facilitating their safe return.

@DrSJaishankar @KVSinghMPGonda @MEAIndia @SecretaryCPVOIA @meaMADAD @PoEChennai
@ProtectorGenGOI @RamnadCollector
@SivaguruIAS @socratesmahali1

[Zoho Africa @ZohoAfrica]

Thirty billboards across four cities in Kenya. One meaningful transformation.

What once promoted our brand now carries dreams to school.

We've recycled thirty retired billboard fabrics into 5,000 waterproof school bags for pupils across ten rural primary schools in Narok County, Kenya.

@svembu

[George Njoroge @georgenjoroge_]

⚠️ SCAM ALERT:

They are cloning SGR ticketing systems to steal your money.

Search “SGR tickets” on Google right now a sponsored ad for https://t.co/RRHgkeYAkg appears ABOVE the real Kenya Railways site.

It’s a perfect clone. Same colors. Same “Madaraka Express” branding. Same booking form.

Then it does something the real SGR site never does, it redirects you to WhatsApp and asks you to send M-Pesa payment to a random phone number.

No KRC verification. No official paybill.

Just a stranger’s number waiting for your 12,000 bob.

I tested it. It generated a “booking” under my name and pushed me straight to WhatsApp for payment.

Google is literally selling ad space to criminals to sit above the real Kenya Railways website.

If you’re booking SGR, go DIRECTLY to https://t.co/9iAfCMyPtR. @KenyaRailways_

Don’t trust the first link.

Don’t trust the sponsored one.

Verify before you pay.

Screenshot this.

Share it. Someone’s mother is about to lose her Mombasa trip money.

[Zoho Africa @ZohoAfrica]

As Tanzania marks this historic day, we celebrate the resilience and ambition that continue to shape the nation.

Saba Saba is a reminder that lasting progress is built by the collective efforts of its people.

Happy Saba Saba Day, Tanzania 🇹🇿

#Sabasabaday

[Zoho Africa @ZohoAfrica]

Four Fridays that changed how 25 businesses think about growth. 🚀✨

In collaboration with @JustIvyAfrica, we brought together founders and business leaders for a hands-on business transformation experience #Zohoinnercircle, - designed to help them build stronger systems, embrace digital tools, and scale with confidence.

[Zoho Africa @ZohoAfrica]

A nation’s strength is reflected in its people, its ideas, and the businesses that shape it.

Today, we celebrate Rwanda’s journey and its resilience.

Happy Independence Day, Rwanda. 🇷🇼

#Rwandaindependenceday

[Zoho Africa @ZohoAfrica]

As we say at Zoho, building anything great takes time.

Today, on MSME Day, we celebrate every dream that became a business, every idea that became a solution, every team building with purpose, and every entrepreneur contributing to Africa's growth.

Here's to the businesses creating jobs, solving real problems, and shaping the future of our continent.

Happy MSME Day. 💙

[ADG PI - INDIAN ARMY @adgpi]

#IndianArmy has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Zoho Corporation, furthering indigenous digital transformation in alignment with India’s #JAI (Jointness, Atmanirbharta & Innovation) mission.

The MoU was signed by Lieutenant General Harsh Chhibber, DGIS and Shri Rajendran Dandapani, Director of Engineering, Zoho Corporation, in the presence of #GeneralUpendraDwivedi, #COAS and Shri Sridhar Vembu, Founder, Zoho Corporation.

The partnership aims to foster application-oriented research & development, develop secure and sustainable digital solutions and enhance technology-driven skill sets within the Indian Army, accelerating its transformation into a future-ready, digitally empowered force.

#YearofNetworkingAndDataCentricity
#DecadeofTransformation
@SpokespersonMoD

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

Everyone should read this...

The High Shoulders Theory

(a visual thread)

[India in Kenya @IndiainKenya]

PARKING INFORMATION FOR INTERNATIONAL DAY OF YOGA 2026

The International Day of Yoga (IDY) 2026 celebrations will be held on 21 June 2026 from 0700 AM - 0800 AM at the Visa Oshwal Centre (VOC), Nairobi.

Parking is available at the following locations:

Parking 1

Visa Oshwal Centre (VOC)

Vehicle Entry:
Via Ring Road Parklands (next to the Oval Building)

Vehicle Exit:
Via the Ring Road Parklands Exit Gate and Mpaka Road Exit Gate

Parking 2

Visa Oshwal Primary School

Vehicle Entry & Exit:
Via the School Gate on Mpaka Road

-Parking spaces at both venues are limited and will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. Priority for parking within the venue will be accorded to self-driven vehicles. Guests are encouraged to arrive early to avoid inconvenience.

-Security guards and parking marshals will be positioned at designated locations to guide vehicle movement and direct parking. All drivers are requested to strictly adhere to the instructions issued by the vehicle coordination and parking coordination staff to ensure smooth traffic flow and efficient utilization of the available parking space.

[India in Kenya @IndiainKenya]

Celebrating Yoga in the Heart of Kenya🧘🧘‍♀️

As the sun rose over Mount Kenya, High Commission rolled out mats for a special Yoga event at @OlPejeta conservancy, bringing together members of the local community amidst the serene savanna landscape, right on the Equator.

Practicing together in nature’s embrace reaffirmed Yoga’s role as India’s ancient gift to the world for holistic health.

#IDY2026 #YogaForHealthyAgeing

@MEAIndia @moayush @IndianDiplomacy

[How To Prompt @HowToPrompt__]

A toothpaste company has quietly killed the entire market research industry and nobody is talking about it.

Colgate published a paper showing you can predict real purchase intent at 90% accuracy by simply asking LLMs to roleplay customers.

And this is beyond insane.

If you ask an AI, "Rate this product from 1 to 5," it gives safe, middle-of-the-road garbage.

So researchers invented a method called Semantic Similarity Rating (SSR).

Instead of asking the AI for a number, they asked it to roleplay.

They gave the LLM a demographic profile. They showed it a product concept. And they asked it to write down its raw, unfiltered thoughts.

Then, they used a semantic model to translate those written thoughts into a numerical score.

The results are staggering.

Tested against 57 real corporate surveys and 9,300 actual human responses, the synthetic AI consumers matched real human buying behavior with 90% reliability.

They perfectly mirrored how different age brackets and income levels react to price changes.

And they provided detailed, qualitative feedback that was deeper and more critical than what actual humans wrote.

This destroys the economics of traditional market research.

You don't need to wait a month to see if a product will sell.

You can simulate 1,000 hyper-targeted customer interviews overnight.

You can A/B test pricing across every demographic instantly.

[Malay Krishna @Malay4Product]

Zoho keeps doing things the rest of Indian tech has decided are impossible.

They just built its own computer server, but the way they did it is so fascinating.

First, let's understand what a server is. It is the big computer sitting in a data centre that runs your apps. Every time you use Gmail or WhatsApp, a server somewhere does the work.

Almost every server running in India is designed by foreign companies. Indian firms just buy them.

Zoho decided to design its own. And I cannot stop thinking about how they went about it.

They set up the project in Nagpur.

Now, Nagpur had no experienced hardware engineers at all. So Zoho did not hire experts from Dell or HPE. They started a training programme called SETU, hired freshers straight out of engineering colleges, and gave them one hard problem to work on for five years.

Think about that. Every big IT company in India complains that freshers are unemployable.

Zoho took those same freshers, in a smaller city, and got a working server out of them. They have filed more than five patents on the designs, and the key parts were designed fully in-house and put together by Indian manufacturing partners.

So the talent has always been there. A company patient enough to train people was the missing piece.

But why build your own server at all?

Zoho runs all its apps on its own machines. Until now, every server they bought from a foreign company included that company's profit and licence fees.

By designing their own, they get the same performance while using 12 to 18% less electricity, and the total cost of owning each machine drops by 20 to 30%.

With a few hundred servers, that saving is small. But Zoho plans to move all its apps worldwide onto these machines.

Also there is an AI angle. Running AI is expensive because AI needs huge computing power. Zoho's plan is to run smaller, focused AI models on its own servers in its own data centres, to manage costs.

Most companies rent computing power from Amazon or Google but Zoho is attacking the bill at the machine level.

The timing is important too.

In 2023, the Indian government put restrictions on importing hardware like servers. Zoho had already started its server team in Nagpur back in 2020.

Three years before the government rule arrived, Zoho was preparing for a world where India cannot simply import its computers.

So, they moved on their own belief.

The best part is that the design is fully owned in India, Zoho does not depend on any foreign company for security checks, software updates, or licences.

If some country imposes sanctions or a licensing fight breaks out tomorrow, nobody abroad can switch off Zoho's machines.

Zoho has been honest about the fact that the chip inside the server is still an Intel processor, and Intel helped in the development.

That is fine. Every country that builds hardware starts this way. China's server companies started by assembling other people's parts and slowly went deeper. The chip is the next decade's problem.

What I love most is how Zoho-like this whole thing is.

> This company took no investor money in 25 years.

> It opened offices in villages and small towns.

> It hires school students and trains them.

> It built its own browser and its own AI model.

> Now its own server.

Now compare this with the big Indian IT companies. TCS, Infosys, Wipro, HCL.

Together they earn over $250 billion. They have managed the world's computers for decades. But not one of them designed a server of their own.

Even the name is a nice touch. Nathu La is the mountain pass in Sikkim through which India traded with the world on the old Silk Route.

Naming your first server after a trade gateway, while building it so India depends less on imported tech, shows someone thought about this for years.

They have a few hundred servers running today and want 2,000 by the end of the year. Small numbers. But the team is trained, the design works, and the path is proven.

Indian software companies spent 30 years building on other people's machines.

One of them finally built the machine. :)

[BlueBriefing🎬🍿 @Uzonna7]

No Way Home embarrassed every other Spider-Man movie.

Raimi’s trilogy looks mid now. Garfield’s felt like a warm-up. Tom’s finally had the villain AND emotional weight it deserved.

🎬🎥 Spider-Man: No Way Home ♥️🔥😱

[Zoho Africa @ZohoAfrica]

That’s a wrap on Contract Management Day Nigeria! 🇳🇬

It was a fantastic day of networking and exploring the Zoho Contracts and Zoho Sign ecosystem.

Our key takeaway?
Agreements shouldn't be a source of operational friction, they should provide your organization with the agility to move faster.

Thank you to everyone who joined us!

[Zoho Africa @ZohoAfrica]

📍 South Africa | We're hiring

We're looking for talented professionals to fill two open positions within our MEA marketing team.

Whether your strengths lie in strategic marketing and content creation or in planning and executing world-class events, there's an opportunity for you to make an impact.

Apply now!

Events Executive - MEA: https://t.co/la6dNDH3tv
Regional Marketer - MEA: https://t.co/e78LgokN6r

#Hiring #SouthAfrica #RegionalMarketer #EventsExecutive