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Microsoft-Powered AI App Auni Surpasses 3,500 Business Sign-ups in Three Months
Auni, an artificial intelligence-powered mini app developed by Nairobi-based startup Fastagger and integrated into Safaricom’s M-Pesa Business Super App, has…
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CYBER SECURITY
Smartcomply Enters Kenyan Market with High-Level Cybersecurity Forum in Nairobi
Smartcomply, an African-built digital trust and cybersecurity technology company, will host The Secure Horizon Executive Breakfast on 26 February 2026…
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The Future of Kenyan Radio May Depend on Who Controls the Multiplex
Nairobi’s airwaves are crowded in a way most listeners never see. The FM dial, fixed between 87.5 and 108.0 MHz,…
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Without Sport, DStv Has to Sell Something Else Entirely
Sport anchored pay television in southern Africa because rights ownership secured audiences. That arrangement is weakening as control over SuperSport…
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BUSINESS
Why Nedbank Was Willing to Pay More for NCBA Group
When Nedbank moved to acquire a 66 percent stake in NCBA Group, the headline number drew attention first. Sh110.4 billion…
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The Money Keeps Coming, Just Not for Everyone, as Clean Energy Firms Pull Ahead in Kenya’s Startup Race
Venture capital tends to carry a story about expansion. More deals, more founders, more ideas entering the market. Yet the…
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Arc Ride, IFC and the Economics of E-Mobility
Investment announcements tend to arrive wrapped in optimism, but timing usually tells the real story. When institutional capital enters at…
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TikTok Removes Over 500,000 Videos in Kenya
TikTok has significantly ramped up its content moderation efforts in Kenya, announcing the removal of more than 580,000 videos during…
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ICT Authority Appoints Jessy Kiveu Maruti as New CEO
The ICT Authority BoarD has announced the appointment of Jessy Kiveu Maruti as its Chief Executive Officer (CEO). The appointment,…
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Kenya Moves to Reform Spectrum Laws to Close Rural Digital Gap
Modernizing spectrum management could inject a massive Ksh 662 billion ($4.2 billion) into Kenya’s GDP by 2028. This is according…
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Bolt Data Maps Nairobi’s Busiest Valentine’s Routes
Nairobi recorded a sharp surge in ride-hailing activity over the Valentine’s Day weekend, with new data from Bolt placing Nyayo…
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Kenya’s Data Gold Rush: How Social Media And AI Labor Are Exposing Citizens’ Privacy
Kenya’s progressive advancement in the mobile money ecosystem, extensive fibre optic connectivity, and a growing tech startup culture has solidified…
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Startups
HAVAÍC’s US$50 Million African Innovation Fund 3 Achieves Third Close
Cape Town-headquartered venture capital (VC) firm HAVAÍC has announced the third close of its US$50 million African Innovation Fund 3…
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Visa and I&M Bank Partner to Accelerate Digital Payments in Kenya
I&M Bank Limited and Visa have announced the signing of an agreement aimed at strengthening digital payment infrastructure and expanding…
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Gadgets
Apple Keeps Prices Steady While Spotify Users Decide Convenience Matters More
The latest price increase from Spotify settled into place with little disruption. New billing rates appeared, complaints surfaced briefly, and…
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The Yaytseslav Scandal Exposes How Intimacy Became Monetized Content in Plain Sight
The story spread first through clips, then through argument. By the time officials reacted, the narrative had already hardened online.…
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Identy.io Scales African Operations to Bridge the Digital Identity Gap
Digital identity infrastructure provider Identy.io has announced an expansion of its African operations, positioning itself to address one of the…
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Carbon Projects Enter A Stricter Approval Era As Kenya Formalizes Market Oversight
The upcoming launch of the Kenya National Carbon Registry lands at a moment when Kenya’s carbon market is no longer…
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Kenya’s Faster Mobile Internet Raises Expectations Across the Market
Mobile internet speeds in Kenya rose sharply in 2025, with average performance increasing from 21 Mbps in 2024 to 45…
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African Tech Founders Face Investor Pressure to Prove Adoption Beyond the Pitch Stage
The investment showcase at the Africa Tech Summit did not feel like a parade of polished optimism. It felt closer…
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Peace Technology Enters Africa’s Political and Economic Reality
On a midweek afternoon at the Moniepoint Stage, the conversation drifted toward an uncomfortable comparison. War technology attracts capital at…
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Settlement Risk and Fragmented Liquidity Define the Next Challenge Facing African Fintech Markets
At the DeFi Summit during the just-concluded Africa Tech Summit, the VALR Stage was primed for another crypto pitch. Instead,…
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Featured
Valentine’s Season Exposes Growing Fatigue With Swipe Based Dating
Every February brings the same ritual. Dating apps see a surge of activity, hopeful conversations begin, and many users return…
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BUSINESS
Retail Rewards in the Age of Digital Attention
Retail has always followed attention. The difference now is where attention settles and how long it stays there. Smartphones hold…
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Konza Listed in the Global 7 Wonders of Future Cities Initiative
Konza Technopolis has been confirmed as an official participant in the 7 Wonders of Future Cities initiative, a global programme…
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Gadgets
LG InnoFest 2026: LG Showcases Effortless AI Home Tailored for Africa
Africa’s smart home market is entering a period of accelerated growth, driven by expanding connectivity, urbanization and rising demand for…
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KCB Bank and Visa Launch New Business Credit Card to Empower Kenyan SMEs
KCB Bank has joined forces with Visa to introduce a new Business Credit Card tailored for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)…
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LG Debuts LG ThinQ Pro for B2B Customers at KBIS 2026
LG Electronics (LG) will unveil LG ThinQ Pro, a smart home management platform designed for B2B customers, at the 2026 Kitchen and Bath Industry Show (KBIS) taking place…
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Africa Built Digital Payments. Crossing Borders Still Feels Hard
The conversation around African payments often begins with ambition. Integration, digital finance, continental trade. Yet the practical experience remains stubbornly…
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Fragmented Regulation Keeps African Money Moving Slowly
The conversation around intra-African trade often begins with scale. A continent of more than 50 countries, a combined market measured…
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Kenya Sets April 30 Starlink ID Verification Deadline
An email from Starlink landed in Kenyan inboxes with a firm instruction: complete identity verification in person by April 30,…
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African Startups Adjust to the Discipline That Comes With Japanese Investment
Japanese involvement in African business followed familiar routes. Trading houses moved commodities, financed logistics, and built long commercial relationships that…
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Africa’s Climate Builders Confront the Limits of Pilot Funding
The conversation around climate tech in Africa has grown more grounded. Not less ambitious, but more honest about friction. At…
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The End of Easy Narratives in Africa Tech Investing
By late afternoon at the Moniepoint Stage, the mood felt less celebratory than reflective. That alone said something. For years,…
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Africa Tech Summit Investment Showcase and the End of Easy Capital
Last evening, the Moniepoint Stage at Africa Tech Summit moved from polite introductions to something closer to a stress test.…
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Delta40 Raises $20 Million and Bets That Hands-On Capital Wins This Time
Venture capital conversations around African startups has for years leaned on expansion stories. Larger rounds, faster growth, new capital entering…
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Circle Gas Stakes Growth on Carbon Approval and Costly Bank Financing
Circle Gas is funding a clean cooking ambition with bank debt priced above 20 percent and a carbon strategy that…
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Sitoyo Lopokoiyit Steps Into Absa at a Decisive Moment for Retail Banking
When Sitoyo Lopokoiyit takes charge of Absa’s private and personal banking unit on April 1, 2026, he will be stepping…
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Agridex Partnership Signals Shift in How Trade Finance Reaches African SMEs
Agridex International has announced its partnership with Tradeflow Capital Management to focus on improving how Capital moves into agricultural and…
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Infrastructure Defines the Limits of Agritech in Africa
Agriculture still carries the weight of Africa’s climate conversation, even when attention drifts elsewhere. At the Climate Tech & Investment…
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Africa’s AI Future Tests Ambition, Infrastructure, and Control of Value
The room at the AI & Digital Summit did not sound like a gathering convinced it was witnessing the future…
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Cross Border Income Grows Across Africa as Banking Struggles to Keep PaceBanking Reality
By mid-afternoon at the Moniepoint Stage in Nairobi, the room had settled into a familiar rhythm. Founders talking infrastructure, investors…
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Gadgets
LG Introduces Locally Adaptive AI Smart Home Solutions for Africa at InnoFest 2026 MEA
LG Electronics (LG) is reinforcing its commitment to transforming everyday living across Africa and other emerging markets through AI-powered home solutions…
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The Point Where African Fintech Has to Prove It Can Hold Together
At a certain stage of growth, payments stop being about access. The conversation changes. Adoption is no longer the headline.…
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Inside Moniepoint: How One Fintech is Wrestling with Growth, Chaos, and African Payments
In a conference hall buzzing with the predictable energy of Nairobi’s tech scene, Moniepoint took the stage not to flaunt…
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Talent Is No Longer the Problem but the Systems Around It Still Are
Conversations about African tech talent have for years began with scarcity. That frame is wearing thin. At Africa Tech Summit…
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Cross Border Payments Remain Africa’s Most Persistent Infrastructure Problem
The conversation around African fintech often begins with access and scale. Fincra CEO Wole Ayodele approached it from a different…
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African Fintech Growth Runs Into the Hard Limits of Trust, Regulation, and Sustainable Scale
The conversation around African fintech has matured, or at least it sounds different now. At Africa Tech Summit Nairobi, the…
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Spotify’s Growth Story Now Runs Into the Limits of Streaming Economics
Spotify entered the year with 751 million monthly active users, 290 million paying subscribers, and operating income rising sharply in…
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How to Trade Shares Through M-Pesa as the Market Opens to Everyday Investors
Kenya’s stock market has entered the M-Pesa ecosystem. Ziidi Trader places share trading inside the mobile money application, allowing investors…
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The Exit of Sitoyo Lopokoiyit Comes as M-PESA Faces Bigger Questions Than Growth
Sitoyo Lopokoiyit’s decision to leave Safaricom at the end of next month closes a chapter that coincides with an unsettled…
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Gadgets
Why Home Appliances with AI are a Strategic Investment for Kenyan Homes
What if your home could fight back? Against rising costs, unpredictable power and the daily drain on your time and…
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Safaricom and NSE Launch Ziidi Trader to Democratize Stock Market Access via M-PESA
Safaricom has partnered with the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) to launch Ziidi Trader. The new platform, embedded directly within the…
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Andela Targets 15,000 Technologists with Expanded AI Academy to Bridge Global Skills Gap
Andela, the global marketplace for technical talent, has announced a significant expansion of its Andela AI Academy. The initiative has…
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KRA Wants Tax Compliance to Start at the Invoice, Not the Return
Tax compliance in Kenya is moving from periodic filing toward continuous verification. The Kenya Revenue Authority’s proposed Merchant Tax Compliance…
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Nedbank Takes Control Of NCBA With Workforce Intact
When a foreign bank moves to take control of a local lender, the first anxiety rarely concerns strategy. It concerns…
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After Koko’s Fall, M-Gas Finds a Carbon Market That No Longer Feels Open
Kenya’s carbon market is entering a more guarded phase, and the conversation now runs through cooking fuel. The latest example…
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Political Speech Sits at the Center of Kenya’s Dispute With Google
Google rejected 61.9 percent of content takedown requests from Kenya in the six months to June, declining 26 of 42…
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Zuku’s Court Trouble Opens a View Into the Strain Beneath Kenya’s Race to Wire Its Cities
A Sh46.9 million insolvency demand rarely threatens to topple a telecommunications operator on its own. The amount is modest by…
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As Fintech Moves Closer, SACCOs Rethink Control, Trust, and Relevance
Kenya’s cooperative financial sector is entering a period of adjustment as SACCOs move closer to fintech firms in response to…
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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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CYBER SECURITY
Safer Internet Day: Sophos’ Advice to Internet Users on How to Proactively Protect Their Login Details
On Safer Internet Day (February 10), a day dedicated to raising awareness about digital usage, Sophos, a global leader of…
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Why Safety Is Now as Important as Connectivity for Kenyan Enterprises
For more than a decade, connectivity has powered Kenya’s economic transformation. Mobile money, cloud platforms, e-commerce, and remote work have…
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Featured
From Bet Builder to Early Payouts: Why Chezagame Is the New Talk in the Kenyan betting industry
Kenya’s betting landscape is set for a major shake-up following the launch of Chezagame, a new betting platform that is…
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Paratus Activates Major Fiber Highway Linking Kenya and the DRC
Pan-African telecommunications company Paratus Group has officially switched on a new 2,000 km terrestrial fiber route, establishing a direct high-capacity…
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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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BUSINESS
How Global Trading Platforms are Expanding their Presence in Kenya
Kenya is rapidly evolving from a primarily agrarian and services economy into one of Africa’s most dynamic digital and financial…
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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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News
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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TRENDING
Bolt Now Represents 24% of Kenya’s Electric Vehicle Fleet
Following the launch of Kenya’s E-Mobility Policy, new data from Bolt highlights the growing role of shared mobility platforms in…
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Cellulant Appoints Michael Muriuki as CPTO to Drive Product-Led Scale
Cellulant, the payments company, has announced the appointment of Michael Muriuki as its Chief Product & Technology Officer (CPTO). The…
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News
LG Positions Africa as Key Growth Frontier for AI-Powered Smart Home Expansion
LG Electronics (LG) has identified Africa as a key growth frontier for its AI-enabled innovations as it accelerates expansion across…
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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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WomenInTech
Absa Expands ElevateHer AI Programme Across Africa
Following a successful pilot in South Africa, Absa, in partnership with Microsoft Elevate and Women in Tech (WiT), has announced…
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ESET Report: AI-Generated Malware and Deep fakes Surges in Kenya
The ESET Second Half Threat Report reveals that Kenya remains highly vulnerable to AI-enhanced threats, notably deepfake-driven fraud and AI-coded…
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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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Rwanda Scales Zipline Partnership to Achieve Total National Coverage
The Government of Rwanda has signed a historic expansion agreement with Zipline to achieve full nationwide autonomous logistics coverage. The…
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Google Opens Applications for 10th Cohort of Startups Accelerator Africa
Google today announced the opening of applications for the 10th cohort of the Google for Startups Accelerator Africa. This milestone…
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CLOUD
Data Sovereignty is Africa’s Next Great Infrastructure Frontier
For years, a digital paradox has quietly slowed Africa’s economic engines. An email sent between two offices in Nairobi or…
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Interviews
Interview: Samsung’s Product Lead Ryan Mule on The Smartphone as an AI Platform
As the digital landscape across East Africa shifts from simple connectivity to proactive intelligence, the smartphone is undergoing its most…
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News
LG CEO Outlines Bold Strategy for AI and B2B Growth Amid Rapid Industry Shifting
LG Electronics Chief Executive Officer Lyu Jae-cheol has issued a sharp call to action for the global technology leader, declaring…
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TRENDING
The TechTrends Podcast | When a Nation Talks: The Safaricom Sale Question
From M-Pesa to mobile data, Safaricom powers how millions of Kenyans live, work, and connect. So when news emerges about…
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Kenya Unveils National E-mobility Policy to Accelerate EVs Shift
Kenya has officially launched the National Electric Mobility (E-Mobility) Policy, a comprehensive roadmap designed to transition the country’s transport sector…
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Rideence Africa and AVA Partner to Launch KES 320 Million EV Assembly Line in Mombasa
Rideence Africa Limited, in collaboration with Associated Vehicle Assemblers (AVA), has announced a KES 320 million investment to launch a…
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Social Media
Kenyan Creators Earn Over KSh 47 Million as TikTok for Business Turns One
One year after TikTok for Business officially launched in Kenya, the platform has revealed that over 200 Kenyan creators have…
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New Appointments
Bboxx Appoints New Managing Director for Nigeria
Bboxx, a data-driven platform providing essential services across Africa, has entered a new growth phase in Nigeria with the appointment…
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