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OPPO Find X9 Arrives in Kenya With a Camera System Aiming for Truer Color and Real Stamina in Daily Use
OPPO has launched the Find X9 in Kenya, marking a notable advancement in mobile photography and dependable performance. This launch…
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A Single Station Cuts Charging Time and Hints at What a Functioning National EV Network Might Finally Look Like
Roam Motors has introduced a new fast-charging point to Nairobi’s EV map, and it changes the pace of daily operations…
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Rural Electrification Debt Has Landed on the Table Again and This Time Consumers Are in the Crossfire
Kenya’s electricity debate has entered a difficult phase. A parliamentary plan would shift long-standing rural electrification expenses to households, placing…
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A Policy Update Intended to Tackle Fraud Ended Up Testing Kenya’s Comfort With Expanding Identity Systems
The new Kenya SIM card registration rules landed with a technical tone, yet the reaction they drew was anything but…
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M-PESA’s Core Upgrade and the Architecture of Safaricom’s Next Phase
Safaricom has entered a period defined by engineering decisions rather than spectacle. The upgraded M-PESA platform sits at the centre…
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Nigeria’s Rising SIM Wave Tests Regulators As Illicit Cards Drift Through A Growing Market
Nigeria’s telecom regulator is widening its campaign against illicit SIM activity at a moment when the market itself is swelling.…
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How the NBA Found Its Way Back to African Screens Through a Deal That Stretches Across Platforms and Rival Habits
The NBA is back on screens across Africa through a platform that once held a central place in the league’s…
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The Red Sea’s Tensions Spill Into the Digital Realm as Cable Projects Slow Down
The Red Sea has long carried the weight of global trade, and now another burden has settled on it. Several…
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Africa’s Largest Mobile Operator Turns to Microsoft for a Fresh Push Into AI
MTN’s plan to extend AI tools across its markets starts with the weight of its own reach. The group recently…
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A Valuation Fight Pulls M-Kopa Into a Storm of Old Loyalties, New Money, and Unresolved History
The public fight between M-Kopa and its former chief financial officer Chad Larson has grown into a broader struggle over…
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As Telcos Brace for DNA and Biometric Demands, Kenya Confronts the Real Cost of Expanding Digital Identity
Kenya’s proposal to fold DNA analysis, blood type, and detailed physiological markers into routine SIM registration has unsettled a sector…
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A Country That Runs on Data but Never Agrees on Who Holds the Power to Watch
Kenya runs on the mobile phone in a way that is rare even by global standards. Each day is marked…
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The Strange Life of a Phone Battery and the Small Daily Choices That Wear It Down
Most people plug in their phones without a second thought, treating the nightly charge like a routine chore. Some let…
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Kenya Rushes to Revive Dormant Power Deals as the Grid Edges Toward Its Breaking Point
The Energy and Petroleum ministry says talks with 54 independent power producers are moving again, although each project sits at…
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Safaricom and the Rising Strain on Kenya’s Digital Nerve as Cyber Threats Grow Bolder
Kenya relies heavily on its networks. Daily transactions depend on secure channels that stretch across towns, cities, and rural markets.…
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The Soft Lie We Prefer: How Apple Turned Familiarity Into Creative Comfort
Each year, new Android flagships arrive promising technical triumphs. Vivo’s X300 Pro, Oppo’s Find X9 Pro, and Xiaomi’s Ultra series…
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ColorOS 16 Begins Its Slow Climb Across OPPO’s Lineup, and the Timing Feels Intentional
OPPO’s Android 16-based ColorOS 16 is now moving beyond its newest phones. The Find N5, Find X8, and X8 Pro…
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The Galaxy S26 Ultra Is the Product of a Company That’s Still Debating Itself
In the long prelude to any Samsung flagship launch, the leaks form their own kind of narrative rhythm. Each rumor…
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Lawmakers Blink First in Kenya’s Tug-of-War Over Power Supply
Kenya’s National Assembly has voted to lift the seven-year freeze on new power purchase agreements, ending one of the most…
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BUSINESS
In Kenya’s Bid to Split M-Pesa, Vodacom Confronts the Limits of Its Reach
Vodacom Group has ruled out separating M-Pesa from Safaricom, defying pressure from Kenya’s central bank and a growing chorus of…
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Kenya’s Electronics Import Ban Targets Toxic Dumping
Kenya is drawing a clear line on what enters its ports. Under draft rules by the National Environment Management Authority…
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Airtel Money Moves Its Core to the Cloud as Africa’s Digital Finance Race Enters a New Phase
Airtel Africa has begun deploying a new cloud-native mobile money platform built by Comviva, marking a major step in its…
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Safaricom Learns the Hard Math of Expansion in Ethiopia as Growth Outruns Profit
Safaricom’s bet on Ethiopia has always been a long play. Two years after it entered the market, the company is…
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Kenya’s Financial Watchdogs See a Fragile Backbone in the Tech That Holds It All Together
Kenya’s top financial regulators have warned that the financial system’s growing reliance on a handful of large technology providers has…
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BUSINESS
Ziidi Fund Grows Tenfold, Crossing KES 15B in Assets
Ziidi Money Market Fund’s climb to KES 15.1 billion in assets under management marks a turning point in Kenya’s financial…
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Spotify’s Most Celebrated Ritual Returns Just as Its Soul Feels Under Algorithmic Pressure
Spotify Wrapped 2025 is nearly here, but the company has already lived through a year that tested its identity. Behind…
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Fuliza, Kamilisha, and the New Logic of Credit in Kenya’s Always-On Mobile Economy
Kenya’s appetite for quick credit has turned digital overdrafts into a financial mainstay. What began as a mobile money convenience…
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Beneath the Waves, a New Race for Africa’s Internet Future
The shore outside Mombasa looks ordinary enough — tide-churned, sun-glared, restless with trade wind. But just offshore, beneath the surface,…
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Instagram and X Compete to Crown the Internet’s New Tastemakers
The new badges on Instagram and X are not really new. They carry the same energy that once powered Favstar,…
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Apple Looks Past the Megapixel Race and Starts Asking What a Camera Should Actually See
Apple’s next lineup looks set to make its boldest photographic leap in years. Reports from JP Morgan analysts point to…
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Apple Pulls the Plug on the iPhone Air 2 as Thinness Loses Its Power
Apple’s grand experiment with thinness seems to have hit a wall. The iPhone Air, once teased as a statement of…
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OPPO Find X9 Pro vs iPhone 17 Pro: When Cameras Start to See Differently
The smartphone camera wars have stopped being about who has the most megapixels. They’re about how each brand interprets the…
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Elon Musk’s $1 Trillion Pay Package Forces a Reckoning Over Leadership, Risk, and Control
Tesla shareholders have handed Elon Musk the richest pay package ever proposed in corporate history — a deal that could,…
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Spotify’s Weekly Mini Wrapped Turns Listening Into a Ritual
Spotify has taken its most viral feature and made it a habit. The new Listening Stats tool compresses the spirit…
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Apple’s Liquid Glass Design in iOS 26 Redefines App Aesthetics
When Apple released iOS 26 in September, most attention centered on Liquid Glass — the new design language that seemed…
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GTA 6 Pushed to Late 2026 as Rockstar Seeks More Time to Finish Its Most Ambitious Game Yet
For the second time this year, Grand Theft Auto VI has been delayed. Take-Two Interactive confirmed that Rockstar’s long-awaited sequel…
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Weak Password, Weaker Defense: Lessons from the Louvre Heist
Even the world’s most guarded museum fell to a password anyone could guess. The breach tells a larger story about…
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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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When Health Advice Turns Promotional: The Ozempic Dilemma on Social Media
A recent X post by fitness influencer @Gachau_Njoroge, shows how blurred the line has become between education and marketing in…
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Your iPhone Just Got Smarter About Staying Safe: No More Manual Updates, Ever
For years, iPhone owners treated software updates as chores. Every patch came with a reminder, a delay, a debate about…
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Kenya Opens The Door For Crypto Firms To Trade Shares On Its Stock Exchange
Kenya’s Capital Markets Authority (CMA) is courting several global crypto firms to offer shares on the Nairobi Securities Exchange. If…
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Samsung Teases HDR10 Plus Advanced, Its Answer to Dolby Vision 2
Samsung isn’t backing down from Dolby. At a closed-door demo last week, the company previewed HDR10 Plus Advanced, a next-gen…
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How Kenya’s Software Engineers Are Changing the Country’s Tech Future
Kenya now ranks sixth in Africa for software engineering density, with about 1,095 developers per million people. On the surface,…
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iOS 26 Splits the iPhone Line Between Old and New
Apple’s latest iOS update isn’t just another download notice blinking on your screen. iOS 26 quietly narrows who gets to…
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Samsung Galaxy Watch Antioxidant Tracking Opens a New Frontier for Everyday Health
It’s easy to forget that most health data is surface-level — a tally of steps, heartbeats, or hours of sleep.…
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French Investor Stoa Takes Minority Stake in Atlas Tower Kenya
The Competition Authority of Kenya has cleared French infrastructure investor Stoa’s $27 million acquisition of a minority stake in Atlas…
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Farm to Feed Raises $1.5 Million as Kenya Confronts the Cost of Wasted Food
Kenyan agritech startup Farm to Feed has raised $1.5 million in new capital to expand its network of smallholder farmers…
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The New Social Currency Isn’t Followers or Fame, It’s Knowing When to Stop Being Seen
For years, online life was a race toward visibility. Followers, likes, and reach shaped how people understood worth. Now, that…
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Apple and Google’s Uneasy Alliance: How Gemini Slipped Into Siri’s Bloodstream
Apple’s plan to pay roughly $1 billion a year for access to Google’s Gemini model is more than a technical…
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Canon R6 Mark III Finds the Balance Between Stills and Cinema
Canon’s unveiling of the EOS R6 Mark III alongside the RF 45 mm F1.2 STM in Dubai marked a measured…
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The Return of Load-Shedding Reveals a Power System That’s Been Running on Borrowed Time
President William Ruto’s recent admission that Kenya will ration electricity between 5 p.m. and 10 p.m. has forced a reckoning.…
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As Axian Takes Over Wananchi, the Balance of Power in East Africa’s Internet Market Begins to Tilt
Axian Telecom Fibre, known regionally as Yas, has completed the acquisition of a 99.63 percent stake in Wananchi Group, marking…
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How a Tax Tribunal Just Reshaped Kenya’s Digital Money Rail
Kenya’s payments infrastructure has always worked behind the scenes — a lattice of connections between banks, card networks, and mobile…
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ABSA Turns To Huawei For Private Cloud In African Banking Overhaul
When Absa decided to build a private cloud platform with Huawei, it wasn’t just a technology project. It was a…
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CMC Networks and Bridgepointe Forge a New Route for Enterprise Connectivity Across Africa and the Middle East
CMC Networks’ new partnership with Bridgepointe Technologies isn’t just another connectivity deal. It brings the infrastructure depth of one of…
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Medusa Cable Reaches Tunisia, Marking First African Landing in Major Europe-Africa Network
The Medusa submarine cable has reached African shores for the first time, landing in the Tunisian port city of Bizerte…
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Morocco’s Mobile Market Rebounds as Fibre Demand Accelerates
After a sluggish start, Morocco’s telecom sector is moving back into expansion. The second quarter brought a lift in mobile…
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MTN’s Data Overhaul Anchors Its Cloud Future on Microsoft Azure
MTN Group has completed one of its most ambitious internal transformations yet — the modernization of its Enterprise Value Analytics…
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iOS 26 Hidden Features Show Apple Turning Its Attention to the Smallest Details That Matter Most
Apple’s newest update, iOS 26, arrived with fanfare around its redesign and AI-powered additions. But buried under the spectacle lies…
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How Kenya’s Internet Advertising Growth Became the Fastest in the World and What Comes Next
When PwC’s Africa Entertainment and Media Outlook landed this year, one figure stood out: Kenya’s internet advertising market is on…
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As Banking Goes Fully Digital, Kenya’s Lenders Return to the Ground to Rebuild Connection and Trust
The story begins with a phone. What started as a tool for calls and social chatter became the main gateway…
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High Court Draws a Digital Line in the Sand: No iTax, No Case — The Future of Kenya’s Tax Appeals Process Explained
The High Court’s latest tax ruling is less about one taxpayer’s billion-shilling dispute and more about where Kenya’s tax administration…
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Safaricom vs Airtel 5G Routers Compared: Speed, Reliability, and Real Value
If you pay the Kenyan average for home internet, this matters. Most households spend roughly 2,500 KES a month for…
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Samsung’s Galaxy S26 More Slim Tries to Prove That Thin Still Matters in a Market Obsessed With Power
Within Samsung’s design labs, engineers are pursuing a goal that once seemed off-limits: building Samsung Galaxy S26, a true flagship…
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Why Your Phone’s IP68 Waterproof Rating Isn’t the Guarantee You Think It Is
Phones now sell on toughness as much as on camera tricks. You will see IP67, IP68 or IPX8 stamped in…
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What the M-Shwari Outage Revealed About Kenya’s Reliance on Mobile Money and the Fragility Beneath It
For hours, M-Shwari users found themselves cut off from one of Kenya’s most familiar digital banking tools. The outage didn’t…
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Kim Kardashian’s Moon Landing Comment Revives a Familiar Battle Between Fame and Fact
On October 30, Pop Base shared a clip from The Kardashians that reignited a half-century-old argument. Kim Kardashian, referencing a…
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Nigeria Finally Gets Its First MVNO, but the Real Question Is Whether the Market Will Let It Breathe
It took more than three years for Nigeria’s first MVNO to move from policy to reality. The regulator cleared the…
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How Samsung Is Reimagining Performance With The Galaxy S26 And Its New Exynos Chipset
When Samsung executives spoke during the 2025 earnings call, the most interesting detail wasn’t what they confirmed — it was…
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BUSINESS
Kenya’s Loan Rate Divide Is No Accident and the Numbers Behind It Tell a Rougher Truth About Banking
Kenya’s cost of credit portal, a public transparency tool run by the Kenya Bankers Association, has revealed just how uneven…
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Nvidia’s Investment in Cassava Hints at the Real Battle Ahead – Ownership of Africa’s Generative AI Economy
When Nvidia took a stake in Cassava Technologies this week, it wasn’t just another investment headline. It landed in a…
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Galaxy Z Fold 7 Anchors Google’s Android Security Study As Samsung Teases A Tri-Fold Future
In Google’s latest Android security report, one name surfaced alongside the Pixel 10 Pro and iPhone 17: the Galaxy Z…
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The U.S. Says the TikTok Deal Is Done, Beijing Says It Will Work on It, That Gap Is the Story.
Beijing has said it will work with Washington to resolve outstanding issues around TikTok’s U.S. operations, linking the platform’s uncertain…
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Apple and the Slow Turning of iOS Into an Advertising Machine Built From Design, Data, and Restraint
If Apple does roll out ads inside Maps next year, it will be more than just a product tweak. The…
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TikTok’s U.S. Deal Exposes a Fragile Power Balance
President Donald Trump’s announcement that the United States and China have finalized a TikTok deal might sound like closure. It…
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How Apple Turned a Fitness Tracker Into a Personal Routine Machine
There is a moment, every year, when the latest watch arrives and the conversation splits. Some people talk specs, others…
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Kenya’s Sovereign Wealth Fund Marks a Digital Era Turning Point in Economic Governance
In 2025, as Kenya prepares to launch its first sovereign wealth fund, the idea of saving resource revenues is finally…
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Co-op Bank Joins Kenya’s Digital Overdraft Race With Kamilisha
When the Co-operative Bank of Kenya rolled out its new overdraft product, Kamilisha, it wasn’t just launching another loan facility.…
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What Apple Intelligence Reveals About the Company’s Next Phase of Software Thinking
Apple Intelligence is no longer a promise. It is arriving in people’s pockets and workflows in small, useful bursts. Not…
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As Kenya’s Phone Banking Race Intensifies, Apps Begin To Redefine Everyday Money
Phones changed a habit and then a system. Over recent years the handset stopped being just a tool for calls…
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Thomas Follin’s Canal Plus Africa Diversification Brief: Bring Order to the Most Complex Market on Earth
When Canal Plus completed the deal that folds MultiChoice into its orbit, the company bought more than a pay-TV business.…
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Disney Sub-Saharan Africa Leadership: Rochelle Knock Takes the Helm as the Company Repositions Its Streaming and Network Strategy for a Fragmented Market
The Walt Disney Company’s decision to name Rochelle Knock as vice president of Disney+ and Networks and as country head…
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The Winners of the Orange Social Ventures Prize 2025: Why Africa’s Next Billion-Dollar Solutions are Built on Blood Banks and Desert Farms
Orange’s fifteenth Social Ventures Prize drew a field of seventy finalists from seventeen African countries, and the results say something…
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Airtel’s Smartcash Brings Free Banking To Nigeria’s Push For Real Digital Access
Smartcash Payment Service Bank, a subsidiary of Airtel Nigeria, has decided to erase what most digital users long treated as…
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GlideX: Driving Kenya’s Next Leap in Car Rentals
Nairobi’s rental scene has long relied on handshakes, phone calls, and faith. GlideX enters that landscape with a more grounded…
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iPhone Air’s Collapse and the Trouble With Apple’s Thin Future
The iPhone Air was supposed to be a tidy demonstration of craft: a phone you barely notice until you notice…
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OpenAI’s Atlas Tests the Limits of Agentic Browser Security and Human Trust
Atlas arrives as a browser that talks back. It elevates an assistant so it can read a page, remember a…
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Kenya’s Economy Now Runs In The Cloud, And Safaricom Is Building The Frame
Kenya’s economy has become quietly dependent on cloud computing. The process of invoice transmission and online lesson assessment by teachers…
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Safaricom Business Takes Cybersecurity To The Front Lines Of Kenya’s Digital Growth
Nobody predicted the rapid economic growth that Kenya would experience. A large number of businesses from small to large enterprises…
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High-Limit BNPL Arrives as LOOP FLEX Targets Consumers
LOOP has introduced LOOP FLEX, a Buy Now, Pay Later model built around small deposits and staggered repayment. The terms…
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Kenya’s Move To Expand The Computer Misuse Law Shows Power Shaping Digital Speech
The state has always monitored speech in one form or another, but the Computer Misuse and Cybercrimes Amendment Bill, 2024…
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With the M5 Chip Apple Is Rewiring Its AI Ambitions Around On-Device Processing and Heat Control
Apple has dropped a chip that asks us to rethink where the heavy lifting of modern computing happens. It is…
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Global Surveillance Tracking Exposed Through Telecom Exploits and Celebrity-Level Targeting
For years, public debate on surveillance focused on names like Pegasus and Intellexa. What slipped through was First Wap, also…
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Claims Delays Expose Cracks in SHA’s Digital System
The platform meant to modernize public health financing has become the main grievance in hospital corridors. A year after the…
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Netflix Podcast Partnership With Spotify Tests Video Formats and Audience Reach
Spotify and Netflix have struck a distribution partnership that will bring a curated slate of video podcasts from Spotify Studios…
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The Conversation Around AI Access Shifted at the TechTrends AI Forum and Samsung Was at the Center of It
At the recently concluded TechTrends AI Forum in Nairobi, Ryan Mule, Product Manager at Samsung Electronics East Africa, opened his…
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Apple TV Plus Rebrand Raises the Question the Company Has Avoided for Years
Apple has dropped the “Plus” from its streaming arm and now wants the world to call it simply Apple TV.…
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Vivo X300 Pro Doesn’t Chase Apple’s Script, It Goes After Photographers Who Still Think in Focal Lengths
The Vivo X300 Pro arrives at a delicate moment for mobile photography. Apple’s iPhone 17 Pro Max is narrowing the…
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California’s AI Chatbot Safety Law Is Forcing a Global Rethink
California has taken conversational AI out of the novelty category and treated it like a system with real stakes. The…
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Google AI Mode and the New Search Behavior Shift
The search box hasn’t changed shape, yet the experience around it no longer feels static. What looks like a small…
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MTN MoMo’s Expansion Tests the Limits of Africa’s Mobile Money Map
MTN’s mobile money operation has shifted from a domestic add-on to a continental engine. Its footprint now links markets where…
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