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Somewhere Between the Pitch Deck and the Balance Sheet, African Fintech Grew Up
African fintech no longer moves on promise alone. It moves on permission, arithmetic, and tolerance for risk. The shift is…
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TikTok Survived the Ban Era by Changing Who Answers the Phone
The TikTok US business sale formalises a compromise that neither Washington nor Beijing ever described publicly but both have been…
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How NCBA Ended the Takeover Rumours Without Erasing Its Own Name
When NCBA’s board finally settled on Nedbank, it was not ending a bidding war so much as closing off a…
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LG Signature Smart Appliances Build Intelligence Into Habit
At CES 2026, LG Signature smart appliances arrived with a confidence that comes from subtraction. There is no attempt to…
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LG Signature Series 2026 Brings the Washer Dryer Combo Out of the Patience Economy
The all in one washer dryer has for years lived in a strange corner of the appliance world. It promised…
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The AI Race Is Running Into Walls It Cannot Code Around
The modern AI industry has lived on a simple assumption: progress would arrive faster if you fed models more data,…
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Gates and OpenAI Announce an AI Push for African Clinics at a Fragile Moment
The Gates Foundation and OpenAI have committed $50 million to deploy artificial intelligence tools across health care systems in Africa,…
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What Happens When Kenya’s Safest Money Meets Its Riskiest Borrowers
Kenyan SMEs operate in a narrow financial corridor. They generate revenue, hire staff, and survive shocks, yet credit repeatedly fails…
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Safaricom Is Repricing Broadband Around Real Life, Not the Billing Cycle
Safaricom plans to introduce tokenised Wi-Fi with hourly, daily, and weekly access. The move rests on a simple reading of…
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The Tax System is Getting Stricter About Where Invoices Come From
Tax invoices in Kenya are being forced to settle down. Under a new georeferencing policy, the Kenya Revenue Authority is…
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Google Can Afford to Say No to Ads in Gemini, for Now
Davos does strange things to conversations. People arrive sleep deprived, guarded, and oddly candid at the same time. In one…
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OnePlus Is Being Taken Apart
The OnePlus brand dismantling is not a rumor circulating at the edges of the industry. It is an observable process…
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A Safaricom Sale, A Nervous Shilling, And A Central Bank Choosing Arithmetic Over Symbolism
Central banks rarely volunteer opinions on how governments should raise money. They police inflation, manage liquidity, and safeguard market confidence.…
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LG Came to CES With Brighter OLEDs and a Hard Look at Where TVs Are Used
LG came to this year’s CES with something more deliberate and revealing. The tech giant showcased a product line that…
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Grok Didn’t Stop Making Undressing Images. X Just Decided Who Gets to Pay for Them
Early this month, X restricted Grok’s image generation to paying subscribers, steering users toward a $395 annual plan. The move…
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Inside the Plan to Let Government Offices Talk Without the Telcos Listening In
JamboTel exists, for now, as an intention more than a system. Treasury has put the idea on paper, tied it…
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In a Country Where Protest Lives Online, the Government Looks for a Way Back In
The National Communication Strategy leaves little doubt about how the State sees the digital space today. Officials believe the government…
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The Day the Cloud Hiccups is Never the Same Everywhere
Cloud outages now arrive as routine events in a system built at planetary scale. A misconfigured database, an automated rollback…
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The Chrome Bid That Wasn’t About Buying a Browser
When Perplexity submitted a $34.5 billion unsolicited offer for Google Chrome in August 2025, the timing mattered more than the…
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In the Race for Warner Bros. Discovery, the Real Fight Is With Regulators, Not Rivals
The bids circling Warner Bros. Discovery remain proposals, not outcomes. No merger has closed. No assets have moved. What exists…
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Telecoms Head Into The New Year Carrying Bigger Ambitions, Thinner Margins, And No Easy Place To Hide
The telecom industry enters the new year under strain that feels familiar but heavier. Economic expansion remains weak by historical…
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Cross-Border Deals are Slowing Down and no One is Pretending it is Temporary
Deal teams across Eastern and Southern Africa have learned to read the order of documents. Term sheets first, then diligence,…
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Everyone Sees The Views But Few See How Fragile Youtube Income Has Become In Kenya
The public image of online creation still leans toward freedom and upside. Work from anywhere. Publish often. Let the internet…
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Digital Loans Promised Access, Then Became The System Itself
Digital credit in Kenya has crossed a threshold where it no longer feels optional. With more than 3 million active…
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As Big Money Hesitates, the IFC Steps Back Into the Messy Middle of African Capital
When the International Finance Corporation commits equity capital, it usually does so with an unusually long memory. The institution tends…
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M-Pesa made paying faster, but it also made privacy easier to ignore
M-Pesa confirmation messages sit in a strange place in Kenya’s economic life. They are treated as proof, habitually displayed, sometimes…
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Nigeria is no longer debating artificial intelligence, it is trying to govern it
Nigeria’s push to legislate artificial intelligence reflects less a fascination with new tools than a mounting discomfort with how deeply…
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Starlink Breaks Up the Bill as Satellite Internet Runs Into Resistance in Kenya
Starlink’s new instalment plan for its portable mini kit is not a discount. The total cost barely moves. What changes…
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Mobile Money Still Runs the Country, Just Not Through the Counter Anymore
The small wooden counter at a mobile money kiosk still looks busy. Stickers on the glass promise speed and convenience.…
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Kenya’s Satellite Internet Market Is No Longer a One-Name Story
For years, satellite internet in Kenya sat at the edges of the connectivity map. It was used where fibre never…
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Uber Drops Visa Cards in Kenya Amid Payment Cost Squeeze
Open the Uber app in Kenya today and something ordinary is missing. Visa is gone. For a service built on…
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[Kenya] The Investment Numbers are Sliding, Employment is Not, and Nobody Agrees on What that Really Means
The Kenya investment slowdown has started to look less like a single bad year and more like a pattern that…
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Airtel Kenya Tries to Crack a Digital Credit Market Long Shaped by Fuliza
When Airtel Money Kenya says it wants a slice of the digital overdraft market, it is not entering open ground.…
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OPPO A6x Launches in Kenya With Battery at the Center
OPPO A6X has officially been launched in the country. Priced at around 16K and 20K for the base model with…
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The OPPO Reno15 Series Launch Puts the Brand Back in Focus Through Deliberate Design Choices
OPPO is set to launch the Reno15 series on 23 January 2026 with little interest in surprise and no visible…
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The Quiet Slowdown Inside Kenya’s Electric Vehicle Rollout
On a weekday morning along Nairobi’s Outer Ring Road, electric buses sit longer than their diesel predecessors once did. They…
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HealthTech Is Scaling in Kenya. The Healthcare System Is Not
On weekday mornings in Nairobi, hospital corridors fill early and thin slowly. Patients queue with paper files folded into plastic…
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Kenya’s Electricity Generation Rises Slightly as Peak Demand and Imports Keep the Grid Tight
The increase shows up quietly in the data, without the kind of inflection that demands immediate explanation. Between July and…
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Kenya Data Protection Compensation Climbs as Enforcement Tightens
For years, personal data in Kenya drifted through corporate systems with little friction. Phone numbers passed between sales desks. Photos…
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KCSE Results Season Without the SMS Traffic Mobile Networks Once Counted On
Each January, the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education ( KCSE ) results released once arrived with a brief surge on…
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How Everyday Phone Use Became the Centre of Kenya’s Online Buying Culture
Kenya’s e-commerce economy no longer gathers around a browser window. It unfolds inside phones, often without a homepage ever loading.…
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Kenya Built a Global Tax Trap for Big Tech. Washington Just Cut a Hole Through It
Kenya spent years aligning itself with a global tax rewrite that promised to bring digital multinationals into the revenue net.…
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Fewer AFCONs, Higher Stakes, and a Broadcast Market Bracing for Impact
African football has a habit of forcing big arguments through small administrative decisions. The latest one arrived disguised as a…
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Starlink Goes Dark in Uganda as Regulators Reassert Control Days Before the Vote
When Starlink terminals went dark across Uganda in early January, the explanation arrived quickly and carried a familiar bureaucratic weight.…
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The Warner Bros. Discovery Talks Are Forcing Hollywood to Revisit a Choice Netflix Made Years Ago
Netflix’s move into original content is often remembered as ambition. A distributor deciding it could compete with Hollywood. A technology…
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Why Africa’s Next Phase of Connectivity Depends on More Than Coverage Maps
For more than a century, Africa’s communications networks have been built in uneven bursts. Lines arrived in ports before hinterlands.…
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Banks, Small Businesses, and the State Are Headed Back Into the Same Credit Experiment, Only at a Larger Scale
Kenya’s credit guarantee scheme is about to get much larger on paper. The National Treasury plans to raise seed capital…
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KRA finally turns on the offshore data tap and some familiar hiding places are missing
Kenya’s tax authority has moved from preparation to execution on foreign account surveillance. The exchange of financial data with 77…
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Mobile Money Made Kenya Bankable. It Also Left Millions Outside the Safety Net
Mobile money in Kenya has always projected certainty. Balances appear instantly. Transfers clear in seconds. Withdrawals feel final in the…
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Uganda Tightens Its Grip on Satellite Internet Just as the Campaign Clock Runs Down
Uganda has seen administrative directives come and go, but some land differently because of timing and memory. The Uganda Revenue…
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Why Ruto Is Personally Backing Safaricom and Ethio Telecom’s Regional Expansion Push
When William Ruto and Abiy Ahmed stood together in Addis Ababa, the moment carried more weight than the polite language…
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Instagram Wants a Place on Your TV and That Raises Hard Questions About What the App Has Become
Instagram’s move onto television screens did not arrive with grand certainty. It arrived with doubt. That uncertainty is telling. Platforms…
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Transsion’s IPO is a bet that the world is ready to price an Africa-first tech powerhouse
Transsion’s move toward a secondary listing in Hong Kong is not about survival capital. It is about reframing how the…
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Kenya’s US health deal hits a court wall, and Africa is paying attention
When Kenya signed a $2.5 billion health cooperation agreement with Washington this month, officials framed it as a vote of…
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Mobile money built Africa’s digital promise, now the networks behind it are under real pressure
Across much of Africa, telecom networks have stopped being background utilities. They sit in the foreground of daily economic life,…
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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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Before Las Vegas opens its doors, CES 2026 is already showing its priorities
CES does not officially open until early January, yet the contours of the 2026 edition are already visible. Schedules are…
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The long courtship between big tech and trump’s second White House
Lobbying has never been polite, but it used to carry some embarrassment. Meetings stayed off calendars. Donations were explained away…
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Kenya’s spaceport ambition runs through Kipini where geography helps but markets decide
The idea of rockets leaving Kenyan soil is not new. It has circulated for decades, sometimes as ambition, sometimes as…
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Safaricom grew into a tech power as its foreign owners learned to step back
Safaricom is often discussed as a stock, a dividend story, or a political proxy. That framing misses what the company…
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Samsung’s Trifold is not trying to replace your phone and that is the point
For years, foldable phones have promised more space without quite earning it. Bigger screens unfolded, but habits stayed small. Video…
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Kenya sets Sh50m capital bar for cryptocurrency exchanges and wallets
Kenya is moving to formalise the cryptocurrency market by setting minimum capital thresholds for firms dealing in virtual assets, with…
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X Built a New Identity, Then Found It Still Needed the Old One in Court
For more than two years, Elon Musk treated the Twitter name as finished business. The platform became X. The bird…
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Netflix has discovered the power of content you do not have to watch
For most of its life, Netflix behaved as if every minute on its platform had to earn focus. Sit down.…
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Samsung Is Doubling Down on Micro RGB TVs and Betting That Precision Can Still Command a Premium
When Samsung rolled out a 115 inch Micro RGB television at CES last year, the size drew the headlines. The…
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Galaxy Z Fold 7 Faces a Bigger Question After Samsung’s Tri-Fold
The Galaxy Z Fold 7 was designed to feel settled. That quality mattered more before Samsung showed its hand with…
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PayPal’s next act is about building financial infrastructure, not just moving money
For most of its life, PayPal has operated as a layer that sat on top of other people’s financial systems.…
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Microsoft says Windows 11 AI agents will ask before accessing files, but doubts about control remain
Microsoft has moved to calm one of the loudest fears around its upcoming AI agents in Windows 11. After concerns…
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Dongfeng steps into Kenya’s electric car market with local assembly plans
Dongfeng electric cars arrive in Kenya at an awkward but revealing moment. The country’s EV conversation has grown louder, yet…
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Starlink Direct to Cell Africa tests the limits of coverage
Airtel Africa’s agreement to carry Starlink’s Direct to Cell service across its footprint reads, at first glance, like a simple…
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The invitation from X sounds polite. The terms beneath it are not
X says it wants journalists back. Not in the nostalgic sense of restoring old power dynamics, but in a narrower,…
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As Airtel Money pushes into double digits, the comfort that surrounded M-PESA starts to thin
The latest sector statistics from the Communication Authority of Kenya now show that Airtel Money has climbed to 10.3% marking…
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Kenya’s cyber threat decline hides a new security reality
Kenya’s cyber threat volumes collapsed by a staggering margin in the last quarter, dropping from 4.6 billion detections to 842…
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Kenya’s fixed internet battle finds new fault lines
Kenya’s fixed internet competition has taken on new intensity, and it is no longer a simple question of who offers…
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Kenya’s heavy 5G use reveals a new data reality
Kenya’s 5G data usage has reached an average of 40GB per subscriber each month. That number stands out. It is…
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Kenya’s 149% mobile penetration and the competitive frontier behind it
Kenya’s mobile penetration has reached a striking 149 per cent, with SIM registrations climbing past 78 million by the end…
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Starlink Kenya’s steady advance in a broadband market under strain
Starlink Kenya subscribers rose to 19,460 in September 2025, the highest figure the company has posted since entering the country…
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Safaricom’s slow, determined march toward a technology-first identity
Safaricom spent years defined by mobile connectivity and a financial product that transformed how money moves in Kenya. That foundation…
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How a flicker in the JKUAT portal drew students into a wave of speculation
For a few minutes in early December, the JKUAT fee portal turned into a kind of Rorschach test for a…
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Showmax’s Future Tested by the Netflix Warner Bros Deal
Showmax begins this period with an advantage that sets the stage for understanding how the Netflix and Warner Bros. Discovery…
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Netflix’s Bid for Warner Bros Reshapes Hollywood Power
The Netflix Warner Bros acquisition entered public view after a sequence of internal calculations, private approaches, and political reading. Studios…
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Kenya’s Tap to Phone Moment as KCB and Visa Push Payments Into Everyday Life
Last evening, KCB and Visa gathered merchants, partners, and a crowd of regular customers to unveil something that looked simple…
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How Spotify Wrapped 2025 Stacks Up Against Its Rivals
The calendar turns, and the annual music recap season arrives with its usual blend of theatre and self-study. What once…
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A Retreat From Thin: Why Smartphone Makers Are Stepping Back
Apple entered this year with a bold bet. The iPhone Air would be its thinnest modern phone, a design flourish…
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Tad Motors Takes a Bold Swing at Kenya’s EV Future in Naivasha
Tad Motors’ first locally assembled units carry a sense of tentative confidence. The company has pulled together more than 30…
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The Story of How DeepMind Moved From Experimental Projects to the Machinery That Keeps Google Running
DeepMind began with the idea that intelligence is a learnable process rooted in broad principles rather than human exclusivity. That…
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Meta Confronts Its Line on Altered Content After Board Review
Meta’s Oversight Board has thrown a fresh spotlight on the company’s appetite for contested material, ruling that manipulated content can…
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M-Pesa Steps Beyond Its Borders and Pulls Tanzanian Traders Into a Wider Commercial Loop
Vodacom Tanzania has moved M-Pesa into a wider commercial role with the introduction of M-Pesa Global Payment, a suite of…
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Apple Bets on Craft in Its Shot on iPhone 17 Pro Holiday Ad
Apple’s shot on iPhone 17 Pro holiday ad arrives at a moment when brand films often feel interchangeable. Smooth surfaces…
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The S25 Ultra’s Second Year and the Strange Comfort of Stability
A phone this far into its cycle is usually living on markdowns and nostalgia. The Galaxy S25 Ultra has taken…
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Sony Takes on Midrange Mirrorless Head-On with the A7 V and a Fresh Sensor Strategy
Sony’s next Alpha camera, the long-rumored A7 V, is poised to land at the intersection of ambition and pragmatism. Teased…
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Chrome’s Vertical Tabs and the Slow Rebuild of the Desktop Browser
Google’s experiment with vertical tabs in Chrome’s Canary channel looks small at first glance, almost like a UI detour meant…
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The Smartphone Year When Every Major Brand Decides to Rethink What a Flagship Should Even Be
The next wave of smartphones arrives in 2026, but the mood across the industry feels different from the usual cycle…
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Africa’s Taskforce on Child Online Protection Builds a New Framework for Digital Safety
Across Africa, young people log on with increasing ease. New towers rise near trading centres and schools, and devices circulate…
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Pocket Casts Tries to Bring Order to a Medium That Never Stops Growing
Pocket Casts is trying to solve a problem that has been building for years. Podcast archives grow every minute. Episodes…
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Two Satellite Giants Look Past Cities and Into the Dust Roads Where Connectivity Has Always Stopped Short
Amazon’s satellite network effort has moved into a more revealing phase. The company introduced Leo Ultra, a large antenna built…
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How Ethiopia’s Duopoly Turns Everyday Connectivity Into Something Closer to a Power Struggle
The latest round of rural towers from Ethio Telecom looked at first like a standard infrastructure update. One hundred fifty-two…
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Absa’s April Test Point and the New Shape of Money in Kenya
Absa’s digital asset work has reached a point where the next steps depend less on technology and more on Kenya’s…
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A Broken Tag on X Became the Latest Fuel for People Hunting for Political Enemies
When X introduced its new About This Account panel, the idea was simple. Users would see where an account was…
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NCBA Sets New Marker in Offshore Investing With Launch of Global Equity and Fixed Income Funds
NCBA used its platform at the Abojani Economic Empowerment Conference to introduce two offshore products designed to change how Kenyan…
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TechTrends, Econews And The GreenShift Podcast Among BAKE 2025 Nominees – How To Vote For Us
BAKE Awards 2025: The BAKE Awards enter another cycle with a long history behind them. The competition has been part…
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