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Jiji Kenya bags two awards on Safety and Classifieds Categories
Ecommerce marketplace Jiji has, for the second time in a row, bagged the best classifieds website award at the Digital…
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Uhuru presides over countrywide roll-out of coding curriculum in schools
President Uhuru Kenyatta is in his last days in office and has used whatever time he has left to launch…
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CBK grants Virtual Pay International a PSP License to operate in Kenya
The Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) has granted Virtual Pay International Limited a license to operate as a Payment Service…
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Kenyans to pay cheaper for calls across mobile networks starting this month
Mobile operators in Kenya have agreed to cut the cost of calls between them from Sh0.99 per minute to Sh0.58…
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Over 60 Kenyan women to join Tech4Dev’s 2023 Women Techsters Fellowship
Technology for Social Change and Development Initiative (Tech4Dev) has unveiled 1,466 successful candidates for the 2023 Women Techsters Fellowship digital…
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Kenya power to start construction of charging hubs for electric vehicles
Kenya Power has announced plans to is to start the construction of electric charging centres for electric vehicles in the…
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UK Parliament shuts down its TikTok account
The UK parliament has brought down its TikTok account earlier this week, citing concerns of a possible data breach and…
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Uber drivers have increased by 31% as people seek extra cash
The number of people driving for Uber has shot by 31% from last year as people seek ways of making…
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Filmmakers Launch Campaign to Promote Local Film and Content
An initiative aimed at reawakening interest in the Kenyan film and content industry has been launched in Nairobi. The campaign…
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Nigeria fines Multichoice for airing a documentary on insecurity in the country
Multichoice Nigeria has been fined five million naira (about 11,780 euros) by the Nigerian Broadcasting Commission (NBC) after airing a…
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American fintech UMBA acquires majority stake in Kenya’s Daraja Microfinance
UMBA, a U.S-based fintech whose investments spread to emerging markets has acquired a majority stake in Daraja, a Kenyan deposit-taking…
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This website lets you check who to vote for within your locality
The clock is ticking and Kenyans are counting less than a week before they line up to vote for a…
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Dstv announces it will raise subscription rates from next month
Kenya’s provider of premium pay-tv DStv has announced a hike in its subscription fees from 1st September 2022. This, according…
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Safaricom’s Tuinuane Campaign To Foster Optimism Among Kenyans
Kenyan’s leading telco Safaricom has unveiled a Tuinuane, a campaign that aims to foster optimism, brotherhood and confidence in the…
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Kenyan digital media houses win Google News Initiative Innovation Challenge
The news business has changed dynamically since the arrival of social media platforms. Media houses have been forced to become…
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SeamlessHR introduces attendance management module to enhance workplace productivity
The modern workplace is substantially different from what it was one or two decades ago. With lower concentration levels and…
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Vodafone is selling its business in Ghana to Telecel
Vodafone plc, a company known for its extensive telecommunications business across Africa and Europe is reportedly selling its operations in…
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More than 100 cyber security experts graduate from the USIU Cyber Shujaa Program
The first cohort of 170 trainees has graduated from the Cyber Shujaa program run by the United States International University-Africa (USIU-Africa) in partnership…
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Flutterwave responds to accusations of operating without a license in Kenya
After reports emerged that Nigerian fintech startup Flutterwave was operating without a license in Kenya, the company has sent out…
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Absa Bank Kenya introduces online account opening platform
Absa Bank Kenya will spend nearly Ksh. 2 billion on upgrading its digital systems to improve customers’ banking experience. Among…
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CBK Governor Says Flutterwave is Not Licensed To Operate In Kenya
The Governor of the Central Bank Of Kenya (CBK), Dr Patrick Njoroge has said that fintech companies Flutterwave and Chipper…
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Kenyan Women Parliamentarians Launch Campaign Against Online Harassment
As the race to the August 9th general elections in Kenya enters the home stretch, women parliamentarians have launched a…
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Netflix says customers who will use its ad-supported plan will have a “great experience“
After recording a devastating decline in the number of subscribers over the last year, movie streaming company Netflix had to…
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Nigeria’s Kwik has launched a free eCommerce storefront for African merchants
Nigeria’s digital commerce enabler Kwik has introduced KwikStore, a storefront that enables merchants across Africa to build and run a…
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Egyptian fashion e-commerce startup The Fashion Kingdom has raised $2.6 Million in seed funding
Egyptian Fashion and accessories startup The Fashion Kingdom (TFK) has raised $2.6 in seed funding round. The company was founded…
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Nigeria’s mobility startup Moove has expanded to India
Nigeria is home to some of the most innovative startups and many of them are disrupting their respective industries in…
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A company called META is suing Facebook for stealing its name
The world is just about to witness a David v Goliath court battle between one of the largest companies that…
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Africa Tech Challenge by AVIC International is back after a long break
Chinese construction company AVIC International has announced the return of the Africa Tech Challenge after a two-year hiatus prompted by…
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Airtel Kenya buys additional spectrum to boost its 4G network
Kenya’s second largest mobile services provider Airtel has purchased additional spectrum from the Communication Authority to boost its 4G network.…
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Amazon Expands Its Health Business, Buys One-Medical Inc For $3.9 Billion
Amazon is widening its interests in the health sector after purchasing One-Medical, a company that aggregates data to connect patients…
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Google fires engineer who said its AI robots have feelings
In June this year, a senior engineer at Google claimed that the company’s AI robot exhibited signs of self-consciousness, meaning…
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Technology and innovation at the core of Equity Bank’s success
Africa is undergoing a season of rapid growth, characterized by innovative ideas that are crafting solutions to local problems. This…
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Technology company Mara Group is seeking Kenyan blockchain developers
Pan-African technology company Mara group has announced plans to recruit Kenyan developers who will spearhead efforts to build a blockchain…
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Activists want Meta to stop attempts to silence whistleblower Daniel Motaung
The case against Meta brought to the limelight by a former employee of the company has attracted the attention of…
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Netflix lost 1 million subscribers in the last three months
Streaming giant Netflix has had quite a rough ride for the better part of the year. After announcing the loss…
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Airtel Kenya splits its mobile money business into a separate entity
The financial sector is undergoing a season of massive disruption occasioned by aggressive innovation. Offering financial services is no longer…
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Kenyan Startup Flare Among Winners Of The Inaugural Kofi Anan Innovation Prize
Three startups from Kenya, Nigeria and Zimbabwe have been named winners of the inaugural Kofi Annan Award for Innovation in…
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Amazon to sue 10,000 Facebook groups over fake reviews on its platform
Ecommerce giant Amazon announced Monday that it has sued administrators of more than 10,000 Facebook groups for orchestrating fake reviews…
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Safaricom Has The Fastest Internet speeds In Kenya Followed By Airtel, Report
According to a report ranking internet speeds across the country, Safaricom’s internet has the fastest download speeds among the top…
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SA Competition Commission questions Facebook and Google’s dominance
All big tech companies such as Facebook, Google, Uber and Airbnb have taken a dominant spot in nearly all the…
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Kenya’s AfyaRekod Launches Blockchain Platform To Track Patients History
Kenya-based health tech startup AfyaRekod has built a blockchain-based platform that makes it easy for medical professionals to retrieve the…
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Nigerian fintech startup founders jailed in the United States for money laundering
Nigerian-born, US-based founders of a money-remittance fintech Ping Express have been handed a 27-month sentence in the United States after…
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Bill Gates is planning to drop from the list of the world’s richest people
Bill Gates has expressed his desire to drop from the list of the world’s richest people. In a Twitter thread…
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Netflix has partnered with Microsoft to offer a cheaper streaming plan
After a period characterized by stagnant growth and a huge drop in customer subscriptions, Netflix is exploring advertisements as a…
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Instagram and TikTok overtake Google as preferred search tools
New ideas often disrupt the marketplace, particularly when they resonate well with the younger generation. This is proving to be…
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Tiktok announces initiatives to curb platform misuse this election season in Kenya
Tiktok is taking a keen interest in the forthcoming general elections in Kenya and has put in place a number…
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Nigeria’s bicycle delivery startup Errand360 partners with Jumia for deliveries
Across Africa, a multitude of ideas are mushrooming every day, aiming to address the continent’s most pressing needs. Under the…
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Kenya’s digital insurer mTek hits 65k registered users since launching in 2020
The level of insurance penetration in Kenya is way below the global average. According to a 2020 report by the…
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YouTube says Kenyan Creators Are Yet to Fully Exploit the Platform for Profit
Kenyan creators are making less money from YouTube than they should, the company has revealed. According to Addy Awofisayo, the…
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Multimedia University Students Benefit from Polygon and Impact+ Blockchain Training
Everyone with some interest in emerging technologies has by now heard of or interacted with blockchain, the technology used to…
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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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Spotify is testing in-app podcast recording, editing and publishing tool
Streaming platform Spotify is testing a feature that allows creators to record, edit and publish podcasts directly from the app.…
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Mdundo signs music distribution partnership with Universal Music Group
Kenyan-based music streaming platform Mdundo has been making incredible moves that have contributed to its rapid growth. As we reported…
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EU Adopts New Law To Control Big Tech Companies
The European Union earlier this week adopted two sets of laws that are aimed to tilt the power of big…
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Kenyan Team Bags 1st Position at the Huawei 6th Global ICT competition
A team of students from Kenyatta University has emerged top at the Huawei Sixth Global ICT competition, beating 132 teams…
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Kenya Power to officially start offering home internet from 2023
Kenya Power will officially start offering internet services from next year, in a move expected to sparkle fresh price wars…
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Kenyan logistics startup Duhqa has raised $2m seed funding for regional expansion
Kenyan B2B logistics startup Duhqa has raised $2 million in seed funding to accelerate its expansion plan. Duhqa was founded…
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Kenyan Court Freezes Flutterwave’s Bank Accounts Over Money Laundering Allegations
Nigerian unicorn fintech Flutterwave has lately been in the news for both good and bad reasons, but the unflattering reasons…
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Here Comes Miriam, The first AI-Driven Content Writing Tool Made in Kenya
Advancements in technology have opened so many channels that demand constant streams of content, updated daily, if not by the…
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Kenya Plans to Upgrade its Current Internet Protocol by 2023, Says CA
The Communications Authorities (CA) has announced that Kenya is preparing to upgrade from Internet Protocol Version 4 (iPv4) to Internet…
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Meta to slow down hiring by 30% in 2022
The raging economic downturn isn’t sparing anyone; not even giant-sized enterprises such as Meta, Facebook’s parent company. The company said…
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Three Kenyan Companies among 10 finalists of the Afri-Plastic Challenge
Three Kenyan companies developing varying solutions to address the plastic menace are among 10 finalists of the Afri–Plastics Challenge. Chemolex Limited,…
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China is developing homegrown OS to replace American-made Windows and macOS
China renewed efforts to develop a homegrown operating system (OS) that could be an alternative to Microsoft’s Windows and Apple’s…
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Nigeria’s Bluechip Technologies has launched a free training for data professionals
Bluechip Technologies, a Nigerian company that develops business applications for data management has launched Primo Academy, a six-month training program…
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Crypto scammers hack British Army’s YouTube and Twitter accounts
Scammers briefly took control of the British Army’s YouTube and Twitter accounts, to promote a fake crypto scheme, the UK…
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Google Analytics banned in Italy
The use of the popular data collection and analysis tool Google Analytics has been declared illegal in Italy. The Italian…
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Kenyan edutainment startup Kakua has raised $6M in Series A funding
Kakua, an edutainment startup based in Kenya has raised $6M Series A funding. The funding was led by China’s Tencent…
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Google to pay more than 40,000 app developers $90 million in a lawsuit settlement
Global tech behemoth Google has opted to pay $90 million to small app developers as a settlement to a class-action…
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Nigeria’s Moove has raised $20m debt funding from British International Investment
The British International Investment (BII) has extended $20 million in debt funding to Nigerian mobility startup Moove. The 4-year structured…
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Software Developer Zoho has launched a discounted app package for Kenyan SMEs
Global software and systems developer Zoho has today launched a heavily discounted business management system for Kenyan SMEs. The Zoho…
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Snapchat has introduced Snapchat+ that will cost $3.99/month
Social media platform Snapchat has launched a subscription service that gives customers access to exclusive features to give them more…
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Pinterest CEO Ben Silbermann is stepping down after 12 years at the helm
Pinterest co-founder and longtime CEO Ben Silbermann has stepped down and his position taken over by Bill Ready who was…
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Mdundo has reported over 200% user growth since going public in 2020
Kenyan music steaming platform Mdundo has recorded a 290% user growth since its 2020 IPO, according to online publication Disrupt…
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Kenyan fintech Kyanda takes its one-stop financial solutions to South Africa
Kyanda, a Kenyan fintech that facilitates payment of utilities and money transfers via an easy-to-use app has branched its operations…
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US authorities want Apple and Google to remove TikTok from app stores
A commissioner with the U.S Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has written to Apple and Google asking them to remove TikTok…
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Kenyan Online Accounting firm Odibooks Launches Management platform for SMEs.
Kenyan fintech startup Odibooks has launched a management and accounting platform that SMEs can use to automate their processes. Odibook…
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National Bank of Kenya to Facilitate Financing for Kodris Africa Coding Program
The National Bank of Kenya (NBK) has partnered with Kodris Africa to provide a financing product for individuals and corporates…
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Absa Bank Kenya and Visa Launch a Money Remittance Service
Absa Bank and global payments company Visa have today launched a payment solution aimed at easing local and cross-border transactions.…
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Africa is Working to Abolish Roaming Charges, CS Mucheru
Mobile users in Africa could benefit from cheaper cross-border call rates if Kenya succeeds in its push to have telecoms…
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Telkom Kenya Joins the Mobile Lending Frenzy With T-Kash Loan
Mobile service operator Telkom Kenya is gearing to launch a mobile loan service to take a slice of the fast-growing…
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YouTube is Inviting Content Creators to Apply for $100 million Black Voices Fund
YouTubers from around the world have yet another chance to apply for the Black Voices Fund, an initiative spearheaded by…
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Instagram Has Introduced Video Selfies to Verify User’s Age
Popular social media platform Instagram, which Meta owns, has introduced new ways of verifying users’ age in a bid to…
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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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Google and Apple raise concerns over an Italian spyware sold to governments
Google and Apple have voiced their concerns over the increased use of spyware for their Android and Apple smartphones. A…
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Nigeria’s Healthtracka Raises $1.5 million, Plans Entry to Kenya and Ghana
The convenience of getting health solutions from the comfort of your home is possibly one of the greatest achievements of…
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China Enacts Strict Laws That Internet Influencers Must Follow
The Chinese government has said that going forward, influencers must have the qualification to talk about certain topics such as…
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Uber expanding to five more towns in Kenya
Uber has announced plans to extend its presence to five more towns across the country. The cab-hailing company is taking…
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Fintech Company WorldRemit Ranks Kenya Among its Top 3 Markets In Africa
WorldRemit, a global money transfer company with a presence in over 130 countries has placed Kenya among its top 3…
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Paramount Plus to Commission Over 100 Films as Demand on Streaming Rises
Paramount Plus, the movie-streaming subsidiary owned by global media company Paramount Global has announced plans to commission 150 original shows…
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Amazon Announces New CEO of Consumer Business
Delivery and e-commerce conglomerate Amazon has announced the appointment Doug Herrington, one of its longest-serving business leaders, as the new…
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President Uhuru Kenyatta Declines to Sign ICT Bill, Sends It Back to Parliament
President Uhuru Kenyatta on Tuesday, June 21, declined to sign into law the Information Communication Technology Practitioners Bill of 2020,…
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Pezesha Africa partners with Autochek to provide Asset Financing to local SMEs
Automotive technology company Autochek has partnered with Pezesha Africa to enable SMEs in Kenya to access asset financing. Pezesha offers…
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E-commerce giant Amazon is eyeing expansion to Africa by 2023
Global e-commerce giant Amazon is rumoured to have plans for extending its business to Africa by 2023, Business Insider reports.…
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Kenyan construction logistics startup Jumba raises $1m pre-seed round
Jumba, a Kenyan construction supply chain startup that was launched in April this year has raised $1m in pre-seed funding.…
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Telegram reports 700 Million monthly users, launches premium subscription
Cloud-based messaging service Telegram is one of the fastest-growing social media and messaging platforms in the world. As it hits…
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Uber is introducing a new expressway feature for users in Nairobi
Uber is set to introduce two features for drivers and customers in Kenya, one that is meant to make it…
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Samsung new Bespoke range of products unveiled
Samsung Electronics unveiled a new line of consumer electronic innovations at the Bespoke Home 2022 event live-streamed from Milan, Italy…
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Samsung introduces Samsung Wallet to help users store their digital keys and more
Samsung has stepped into the growing development of e-wallet services with the launch of Samsung Wallet which was announced by…
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Uber set to increase fares in Kenya after fuel price hike
Popular taxi-hailing company Uber is set to hike its fares in the next two weeks as a result of the…
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Nigeria is working on a law that could hinder use of social media
The Federal Government of Nigeria is working on a law that could overwhelmingly affect the consumption of social media in…
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Spotify is slowing down on hiring amid market uncertainty
Audio streaming platform Spotify announced on Wednesday that it slowing hiring by 25%, as markets continue to experience uncertainties. In…
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