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Kenyan firm wins Sh2.6m in Facebook contest

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks during a past TechCrunch event. His firm hosted the Battlefield contest together with the news site. file photo | nmg

By  MUTHOKI MUMO

A Nairobi-based logistics company has won Sh2.6 million ($25,000) in a tech start-up competition hosted in the capital city by American news site TechCrunch and social networking giant Facebook.

Lori Systems, which provides a payments and tracking platform for companies, was crowned winner out of a group of 15 companies that participated in Startu-p Battlefield Africa.

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