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Safaricom Moves Deeper Into Investing as Share Trading Arrives on M-Pesa and the Brokerage Model Faces Pressure
Participation in the Nairobi Securities Exchange has for years followed a familiar sequence. An investor chose a broker, opened a…
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Crypto’s Confidence Slips as Bitcoin’s Decline Forces a Harder Look at Risk
The Bitcoin price fall has revived a familiar mood in digital asset markets. Not panic exactly. Something closer to recognition.…
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Millions Are Listening on Mdundo but the Money Is Not Following at the Same Pace
Mdundo’s latest results expose a structural problem inside African music streaming. Access has expanded faster than monetisation. The company reported…
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Ethiopia Gave M-Pesa Users in the Millions but Not the Revenue Safaricom Expected
Safaricom entered Ethiopia with a familiar story in mind. A large population, low formal banking penetration, and a mobile network…
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A Clean Cooking Dream Runs Into the Hard Politics of Carbon Credits in Kenya
Koko Networks did not run out of customers. Its blue-flame stoves were still in kitchens across Nairobi when administrators took…
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Nil Returns Survive But The Old Assumptions Around Them Are Fading
The Kenya Revenue Authority has restored the Nil return filing option, which had been paused, but the system update shows…
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Kenyan Creatives Step Forward at Cannes Young Lions as the Industry Searches for Stability
As the Cannes Young Lions Kenya competition that concluded this weekend, attention naturally turned to who would go on to…
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Starlink Performance In Kenya Now Runs Through Nairobi
Satellite internet has always carried a contradiction. The promise is proximity without infrastructure. The reality, at least until recently, was…
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The Ransomware Problem Kenya Struggles to Measure
Kenya’s cybercrime losses are usually reduced to a single number. Last year, the estimate crossed Sh30 billion, a figure that…
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Eveready Walks Away From Batteries and Into Kenya’s Energy Gamble
Eveready’s place in Kenyan life was uncomplicated for decades. The brand lived in drawers and kiosks, tied to torches, radios,…
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Spotify Moves Closer to Explaining Music Instead of Just Playing It
Music streaming sold a simple idea for most of the past decade. Everything in one place, available instantly, no effort…
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YouTube Music Locks Lyrics Behind a Paywall
YouTube Music now restricts full lyrics to paying subscribers. Free users can see five songs’ lyrics before the rest blurs…
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Canal+ and DStv Keep Prices Still, but Questions Linger
When Canal+ Africa completed its acquisition of MultiChoice Group in September 2025, many pay-TV subscribers across Africa waited for one…
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MTN’s Ambition in East Africa Meets Realities Money Can’t Smooth Over
In late 2025 and early 2026, comments from Ralph Mupita, the chief executive of MTN Group, set a subtle but…
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Fibre, Towers, and the Question Nobody Solved Yet
Kenya has spent years building the physical foundations of a connected economy. Fibre routes expanded alongside highways, mobile networks reached…
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Nigeria Stops Chasing the Fintech Moment and Starts Trying to Define It
Every fast-growing technology sector reaches a point where speed alone stops being an advantage. Growth exposes weak wiring. Rules lag…
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Small Instalments, Bigger Consequences In Kenya’s Smartphone Economy
In many parts of Nairobi, a smartphone sits at the centre of the workday. Orders arrive through it. Payments move…
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Assembly Plants Come Online as the Electric Car Question Remains Unsettled
Electric car assembly in Kenya is taking shape in a way that feels slightly out of sequence. Factories are being…
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Kenya’s Banking Order Changed While Absa Stayed Profitable, and Now It Has to Catch Up
Absa is not entering Kenya. It never left. The institution now discussing acquisitions is the same lender that operated for…
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Kenya’s Technology Growth Faces A Constraint In The Race For Computing Power
Artificial intelligence often enters public conversation as software. Chatbots, automated tools, prediction engines. The visible layer. What receives less attention…
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Electric Matatus Are Forcing Order Into Nairobi’s Most Chaotic Industry
Initially seen as novelties, Kenya’s electric buses and matatus once stood out for their quiet hum amidst Nairobi’s usual diesel…
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Borrowing Became Easy, Getting Out of Debt Became Harder
Kenya’s financial inclusion story has been told so often it now risks becoming background noise. Accounts are easier to open.…
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African Founders Once Chased Equity at Any Cost, Now the Bank Is Calling First
A few years ago, African tech founders learned to talk in valuation multiples and future exits. Lately, the language has…
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Samsung Has a Launch Date in Mind for the Galaxy S26 Series
When a launch date surfaces before a company wants it public, the date does some of the talking on its…
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Before SpaceX Rings the Bell, Elon Musk Is Rearranging the Entire Board
The push to merge SpaceX with xAI reads differently once the calendar is taken seriously. Elon Musk is reportedly targeting…
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Inside Canal Plus’s First Big Call on MultiChoice, and Why Showmax Took the Hit
Canal Plus did not hedge its language. Maxime Saada told analysts that Showmax was not a commercial success and confirmed…
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Airtel Africa Profit More Than Doubles to $586M as Mobile Money IPO Looms
Airtel Africa has reported a significant surge in profitability for the period ended December 31, 2025, with profit after tax…
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iPhone 16 Dominates 2025 Smartphone Sales While Fewer Models Carry the Market
The iPhone 16 ended 2025 as the world’s top-selling smartphone, not as a surprise but as evidence of a market…
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Konza’s Digital Ambition Has Reached the Point Where Treasury Steps Back
The plan to expand the Konza Data Centre has moved forward through Treasury’s PPP process with little public attention, shaped…
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AI Is Moving Into the Core of Kenyan Firms, and That Is Where the Trouble Begins
Talk to enough executives in Nairobi boardrooms and a pattern emerges. Almost everyone wants to be counted among the companies…
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Google Is Making Stolen Android Phones Harder to Live With
Smartphone theft has never been about novelty. It follows money, resale value, and ease. For years, Android sat in an…
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Online Safety in Kenya Is Getting Harder to Ignore, Even for Regulators
Online safety in Kenya has stopped feeling like a specialist concern. It has crept into everyday conversation, the sort that…
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Kenya’s Digital Government Is Growing Fast, and Cybersecurity Funding Is Racing to Keep Up
The European Union has committed Ksh 454 million(€3 million) to Kenya’s national cybersecurity ecosystem, and it comes at a very…
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A Privacy Fight Spills Into Public and WhatsApp Answers by Narrowing the Gate
When WhatsApp began rolling out Strict Account Settings, the timing looked accidental only at first glance. The feature arrived during…
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The NSE Wants Retail Investors Back, History Is Not on Its Side
The Nairobi Securities Exchange wants more people to buy shares. Not companies or banks. Regular people. The kind who use…
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Safaricom Ownership Tightens Under Regulatory Watch
The Vodafone Safaricom merger is now formally under review by the East African Community Competition Authority, and the scrutiny reflects…
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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 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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