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[BREAKING] Kenyan-Based Healthtech Ilara Health Announces Significant Layoffs Amid Restructuring Drive
Ilara Health, the Kenya-based healthtech company, has confirmed that it will be cutting a substantial portion of its workforce as…
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Inside the Google Layoffs in 2025: Restructuring, AI Priorities, and What Comes Next
The Google layoffs in 2025 are shaking the entire tech industry. The tech giant’s restructuring saw hundreds of jobs cut…
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Are tech layoffs warranted?
The recent tech layoffs have taken the world by a surprise. Over 150,000 employees have been terminated from their jobs…
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2022 Layoffs: Cisco sends home 4,100 employees
Networking giant Cisco is the latest firm to implement mass layoffs. Earlier this week, the company announced that it will…
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Nigerian fintech Chipper Cash is the latest company to conduct massive layoffs
Nigerian cross-border payments startup Chipper Cash has laid off nearly 13% of its workforce, reports indicate. Many employees from various…
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Over 1,000 Jobs at Risk as Sama Announces Nairobi Office Redundancies Following Meta Contract Loss
Global data annotation firm Samasource Impact Sourcing Inc (Sama) has announced a major redundancy exercise at its Nairobi office, affecting…
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Chipper Cash Hits First Cash-Flow Positive Quarter
Chipper Cash, one of Africa’s leading cross-border payment platforms, has officially reached a historic financial turning point. CEO and Co-Founder…
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Inside Meta’s all-in AI gamble as Zuckerberg rebuilds the company at full speed
Mark Zuckerberg has always had a habit of deciding, abruptly and absolutely, that a single idea will carry his company…
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Meta’s Scam Problem Is Bigger Than Anyone Knew
For years, Meta has sold itself as a company determined to connect people, not exploit them. Yet inside its own…
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The Rise of E-Bikes in Kenya 2025: Competition, Infrastructure, and Rider Adoption
Kenya’s electric bike market has moved beyond pilot projects and token launches. By 2025, the sector has grown into a…
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Kenya’s eBee Mobility Faces Workforce Shakeup Amid Market Challenges and Tax Hurdles
Kenya’s eBee Mobility, once a rising player in the electric bicycle market, has recently laid off the majority of its…
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Twiga Foods Temporarily Pauses Nairobi Operations
Twiga Foods, the Kenyan agri-tech and food distribution company, has announced a temporary operational pause in its Nairobi operations. The…
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A Void in the Feed? Reassessing the Impact of TechCrunch’s European Exit on Startups and Storytellers
Once the beating heart of the European tech story, TechCrunch was the stage for all manner of bold ideas, scrappy…
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AI in Code Generation: Why Microsoft and Google Are Leading the Charge in 2025
Artificial intelligence is quietly altering the future of software construction. On the other hand, it is apparent that Microsoft and…
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Lipa Later and Odyssey Capital Insolvency: A Turning Point for Kenya’s Fintech Industry?
Kenya’s fintech industry is headed for a seismic change after the announcement of Lipa Later and Odyssey Capital’s insolvency. Together,…
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WPP CEO Reveals Why Advertisers Are Returning to Elon Musk’s X
In an announcement, WPP’s chief, Mark Read, made it clear that ad volumes on Elon Musk’s X, previously Twitter, had…
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Kenya’s DCI X Account Hacked By Crypto Scammers
On Sunday evening, the X account of Kenya’s Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) sent out posts inviting users to share…
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Why Now Is a Good Time to Invest in Venture Capital in Africa
The African venture capital ecosystem has encountered significant headwinds in recent times. According to research firm Africa: The Big Deal,…
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Will Tech VC Funding in Africa Rebound on Interest Rate Cuts?
VC firms and startups can look to imminent interest rate cuts to revive dealmaking but cuts alone may not bring…
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Ololade Odunsi: Global tech job cuts – What African techies can do to thrive
After years of growth, the global technology sector entered a downturn in the second half of 2022, thanks to a…
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Copia confirms it’s laying off 350 employees
Kenyan Last-mile delivery and eCommerce platform Copia has confirmed that it’s indeed laying off 25% (around 350 members) of the…
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Vice Media Files for Bankruptcy After 29 Years
After 29 years, VICE Media LLC, a trendsetting media company, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, a process that is…
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Twitter fires Revue founder two months after shutting down the newsletter platform
Revue founder Martijn de Kuijper is among the about 200 employees laid off by Twitter over the weekend. Martijn took…
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Chipper Cash reportedly lays off more than 100 employees
After laying off 13% of its workforce in December last year, cross-border payments startup Chipper Cash is reportedly sending more…
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Google to lay off 12,000 employees, CEO Sundar Pichai announces
Google has announced it will lay off 12,000 employees from its workforce. In a message sent by CEO Sundar Pichai…
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Microsoft to lay off 10,000 employees in cost-cutting measures
Layoffs in the tech sector have spread across small, medium and large enterprises and the trend continues in 2023. Microsoft…
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Vodafone announces plans to lay off hundreds of employees
European telecommunications giant Vodafone is reportedly considering laying off hundreds of employees as the industry struggles to cope with tough…
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Leading Nigerian crypto platforms are on downsizing spree as markets plunge
The crypto market has been hard hit by an unprecedented fall in prices. The collapse of FTX, seen as one…
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Twitter has fired its employees in Africa with no severance pay
Twitter Africa: Since Twitter’s takeover by billionaire investor Elon Musk, the most consistent news we’ve heard is quirky lays offs,…
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African startups raised $5 billion last year, just a tip of the global average
Across the African continent, 2021 was a good year for startups as funding hit a record high at about $5…
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Twitter has laid off 30% of its talent acquisition team
Twitter has hit the headlines, particularly over the now contested acquisition by billionaire investor Elon Musk. The deal has supposedly…
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Netflix lays off another 300 employees
Netflix is effecting another round of layoffs, several weeks after firing 150 employees, citing continued loss of revenue. The streaming…
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Swvl to lay off a third of its workforce
Swvl, the mass transit and shared mobility provider is cutting off its workforce by a third. According to Chief Financial Officer…
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Netflix to lay off over 100 employees as subscriptions fall
We recently reported on the falling numbers of Netflix subscribers. It’s now emerging that the streaming company is laying off…
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AAR Insurance Goes Digital with New Mobile App
AAR Insurance Kenya has launched a new mobile app available on Google Play Store and the App Store. The new…
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Adrian Kenya launches webinar series engaging business leaders on the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Kenyan Technology and EPC solutions and service provider Adrian Kenya yesterday launched a webinar series aimed at exploring current technology trends…
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After going fully remote, Andela is now accepting engineer applications from across Africa
After announcing that it is going fully remote, Andela, the startup that helps tech companies build remote engineering says it…
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Microsoft Lays Off Dozens of Journalists Replacing Them With Robots
Microsoft is laying off dozens of journalists and editors working on its Microsoft News website, MSN.com and the front page…
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Andela lays off 135 staff across five markets
Andela, the Africa-focused software developer training and outsourcing company has laid off 135 staff across five markets. According to reports,…
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Huawei Might Lose $30 Billion in Revenue due to the US ban
Since the Washington trade ban on the Chinese tech giant Huawei, there hasn’t been a word that quantifies the extent…
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