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Kenyan e-commerce startup Sokowatch raises $125M, rebrands to Wasoko
Kenyan based B2B e-commerce startup Sokowatch has raised a $125 million Series B equity round, the largest venture financing round ever…
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BUSINESS
Equity Bank Awarded for Leading in E-Commerce payment volumes
Equity bank has been honoured with two awards by Visa for leading in Visa generated volumes in 2021. The bank…
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Startups
Luno launches investment arm to support fintech and crypto startups
Cryptocurrency exchange platform Luno, a subsidiary of Digital Currency Group (“DCG”), today announced the launch of Luno Expeditions, an early-stage…
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Kenyan fintech 4G Capital raises $18.5M from Lightrock
Kenyan fintech credit provider 4G Capital has raised $18.5 million in Series C funding from global private equity firm Lightrock. …
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News
Xiaomi 12 and Xiaomi 12 Pro officially launched, specs, price and availability in Kenya
Smartphone maker Xiaomi has officially unveiled its flagship Xiaomi 12 series. The series comprises of the Xiaomi 12 Pro and…
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Gadgets
Comparison: Xiaomi 12 series or Iphone 13 series?
Design: The iPhone 13 definitely has an iconic design and looks very modern thanks to its flat borders. But most…
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Startups
Bank of Ghana Suspends Fintech Operator Dash
The Bank of Ghana(BoG) has ordered Dash, one of the country’s leading fintech operators to immediately cease offering a number…
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News
Four Kenyan Startups among 12 Selected for Microsoft Accelerator Programme.
Microsoft in conjunction with Flapmax have announced the qualifying startups for their first accelerator programme that begins March 21, 2022.…
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Startups
Six finalists of the Africa No Filter Competition set to receive upto $30,000 funding
Africa No Filter (ANF) and Meta have announced the six finalists of the first-ever “Future Africa: Telling Stories, Building Worlds”…
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Gadgets
OPPO A96 with Snapdragon 680 and 5000mAh battery launching in Kenya soon
OPPO has today announced plans to launch the OPPO A96 smartphone in Nairobi Kenya. The company has not mentioned the…
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News
Realme Introduces Stylish Smartphone Bags at the Parish Fashion Week
Mobile technology company Realme brought a refreshing idea to the Paris Fashion Week, which ended on March 8, 2022. The…
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Reviews
Xiaomi Redmi Note 11 Unboxing
Redmi NOTE 11 Unboxing: Xiaomi officially launched the Redmi Note 11 series in Kenya last month. The new series comprises…
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Startups
Vehicle financing startup Moove secures $105 million for expansion
African fintech mobility startup Moove has raised $105 million in new Series A2 financing. This comes just seven months after…
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Featured
No name FC wins 9th edition of KOT 5 Aside Tournament
No Name FC on Saturday March 12 won the inaugural #KOT5Aside at the Ligi Ndogo grounds in Nairobi. No Name…
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Startups
OkHi Aims to give the 4 billion people in Africa a Verifiable Digital Address
OkHi: In the developed world, it’s much easier for anyone to give you directions to their home or business location…
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INSURANCE
YC-backed Curacel unveils new platform to enable tech companies offer insurance
Curacel, a YC-backed African insurance infrastructure startup, has launched an embedded insurance product that will enable tech companies to offer…
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News
Xiaomi 12 flagship series coming to Kenya
Xiaomi has officially announced the global launch date of its flagship Xiaomi 12 series. The series is expected to be…
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BUSINESS
Jubilee Holdings acquires 10% additional stake in SEACOM
Insurance group Jubilee Holdings Limited has purchased an additional 10% stake in submarine fibre optic cable service provider SEACOM. The…
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BUSINESS
Safaricom’s Mobile Money Service M-Pesa Crosses 30 Million Monthly Active Customers in Kenya
Safaricom’s mobile money service M-Pesa has crossed 30 million customers using the service every month in Kenya. The milestone comes…
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News
Enabling an environment for internet penetration in Kenya
Kenya hosts a population of about 53M people out of which 27M have access to the internet. This represents about…
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News
Standard Chartered Bank opens applications for its 5th cohort of its Women in Tech program
Standard Chartered Bank has opened applications for the 5th cohort of its Women in Tech incubator program. The program, which…
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BUSINESS
FMCGs and everyday products key to e-commerce growth in Kenya, Jumia
Making Jumia an everyday brand is the company’s major mission this year. There is a clear shift by consumer online…
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CYBER SECURITY
Conti Gang Encrypts Karma’s Extortion Notes in Dual Ransomware Attack, Sophos Research Reveals
Sophos today released findings of a dual ransomware attack where extortion notes left by Karma ransomware operators were encrypted 24…
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Interviews
[Interview] Narek Verdian, CTO, Glovo: Understanding our users is at the heart of our development process
Narek Verdian is the Chief Technology Officer at Glovo, an on-demand delivery platform founded in Barcelona in 2015. The startup…
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Startups
BasiGo Flags off first Electric Buses in Kenya, Pilots with CitiHoppa and East Shuttle
Just a month after closing a $4.3 million seed funding round, Nairobi headquartered e-mobility startup BasiGo has today flagged off…
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News
Kenyan BNPL company Lipa Later to offer its staff six months paid maternity leave
Buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) company Lipa Later has announced it will be offering all its employees 6-month paid maternity leave effective April…
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Gadgets
Itel A58 Specs, price and availability in Kenya
Itel A58 Specs: Itel has officially launched its latest budget smartphone, the Itel A58 in Kenya last month. The phone…
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BUSINESS
Women Leading Transformation in Africa, says Zuri Foundation CEO Norah Muthoni
Women are now taking the lead in the transformation of Africa as the continent makes tremendous progress driving gender parity. Speaking…
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BUSINESS
Airtel Nigeria is offering customers on its network free calls to Ukraine
Airtel Nigeria has announced that customers on its network who have friends and relatives in Ukraine will be able to…
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Startups
Dream VC opens applications for its VC Fellowship Program in Africa
Dream VC, a Remote Venture Capital Upskilling Institute, has opened applications for its 2022 fellowship program for VCs in Africa.…
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[24Bit Podcast] International Women’s Day: A chat with women in tech at Safaricom
To celebrate International Women’s Day 2022, we sat down with 4 women working a Safaricom PLC for this episode of…
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Startups
26 startups selected to join African Tech Vision’s 2nd Mentorship Program for African Female Founders
African Tech Vision, a non-profit-organization supporting early-stage female tech founders, has announced 26 startups that will be joining its 2nd…
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News
Microsoft to host international digital camp for girls in STEM
Microsoft will on March 8 host a three-day international digital camp targeting girls in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering…
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Gadgets
Redmi Note 11 Pro Specs, Price and Availability in Kenya
Xiaomi officially launched the new Redmi Note 11 series in Kenya last month. The series comprises three models, the Redmi…
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BUSINESS
M-PESA turns 15, processes more than 61 million transactions a day
Safaricom’s mobile money platform M-Pesa turns 15 today. The service which has been ranked as Africa’s largest fintech processes more…
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News
How to opt-out of Safaricom’s Nyakua Bonus Flash SMS service
On Saturday I sent out a tweet expressing my frustration on how annoying the new Safaricom Nyakua Bonus Flash SMS…
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Gadgets
Samsung opens pre-orders for the Galaxy S22 Series in Kenya
You can now pre-order for the Galaxy S22 series in Kenya. Samsung officially unveiled these devices back in February comprising…
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BUSINESS
JOSHUA OIGARA: Micro, Small and Medium Entrepreneurs Need Innovative Support for Quicker Recovery
The COVID-19 pandemic has largely been framed as a public health crisis, over one and a half years since it…
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News
Safaricom’s Diversity and Inclusion initiatives recognized at Zero Project Awards
Kenya’s leading telco Safaricom has been named among the recipients of the 2022 Zero Project Award. The award recognizes innovative…
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News
Econet partners with Ericsson to roll out 5G in Zimbabwe
Econet Wireless Zimbabwe has partnered with Ericsson to launch 5G services in the country’s capital Harare. Ericsson will support Econet…
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CLOUD
Vodacom launches Africa’s first AWS Outposts Innovation Lab
Vodacom has launched Africa’s first Amazon Web Services (AWS) Outposts Innovation Lab in collaboration with AWS and Intel. The laboratory…
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News
Safaricom’s M-PESA Super App Scoops Global Award at MWC
Safaricom has won a prestigious Global Mobile Award (GLOMO) for the M-PESA Super App at the ongoing Mobile World Congress…
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News
2022 MotoGP season kicks off this Sunday, watch it live on Showmax Pro
Twelve teams, 24 riders, 21 weekends: the 2022 MotoGP season is finally here. This Sunday, 6 March 2022, Showmax Pro…
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COLUMNS
Keep Calm and Carry On: Five Tips to Better Protect Yourself During the Current Russia-Ukraine Crisis
The current Russia-Ukraine crisis is unprecedented. One aspect of the current crisis is the very real concern around increased cyberattacks…
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News
Zoho Takes on Current Low-Code Market Gaps with New Creator Platform
Zoho Corporation has today announced the latest version of its low-code offering, Zoho Creator. The new version addresses the need…
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News
Refugee communities in Uganda still prefer using cash despite increase mobile phone ownership, report
There is increased use of cash at home as refugees seek easy access to money in case of emergencies, despite…
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BUSINESS
PayPal will no longer register new users from Russia
Online payments company PayPal on Wednesday announced that it has stopped accepting new users in Russia. The move comes amidst…
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Startups
Glovo launches pitch competition for tech startups in Kenya
On-demand delivery platform Glovo has launched a pitch competition targeting early-stage tech startups in Kenya that are delivering value to…
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BUSINESS
Mobile payments and financial services firm Paga Group launches its payment gateway in Ethiopia
Mobile payments and financial services company Paga Group has partnered with the Bank of Abyssinia, amid regulatory approval from the…
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Gadgets
Realme expands into high-end smartphone market with the GT 2 Series
Realme yesterday unveiled its first premium GT 2 Series at Mobile World Conference (MWC) 2022. The series features two phones,…
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Gadgets
Is This the Best LG TV Of 2022?
Going by the exhibitions made at the CES 2022 early in January, this year we have the biggest TV and…
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Startups
Microsoft to support 10,000 African startups over the next five years
Microsoft has today announced new initiatives to support 10,000 African startups. The initiatives will be run under its recently established…
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BUSINESS
High-Net-Worth Kenyans rate climate change as a risk to their wealth, report
Kenya’s dollar millionaires have identified climate change as a great threat to their wealth, with 84 percent citing the global…
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Startups
Mozilla Common Voice announces $400K in grants for Kiswahili voice tech projects in East Africa
Mozilla Common Voice, an open-source initiative that aims to make voice technology more inclusive has announced $400,000 in grants for…
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Featured
Ni masaa ya Kupewa! Odibets to reward punters with ‘Happy hour’ promo
In a bid to give back to Its loyal customers, one of Kenya’s fastest-growing betting firms Odibets has launched an…
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Social Media
Instagram to stop supporting the IGTV app
If you’re an avid user of IGTV on Instagram then we have some news for you. Instagram has announced that…
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News
Jumia to offer consumers 50% discount during this year’s Food Festival Campaign
Jumia consumers will enjoy a 50% discount on diverse cuisines from across the country during Jumia Food Festival Campaign which…
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News
Your personal data is safe with government institutions, Data Commissioner assures Kenyans
Data Commissioner, Office of the Data Protection Commissioner Immaculate Kassait has assured Kenyans that their personal data held by government…
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Startups
South African fintechs Payflex and Merchant Capital launch cash advance solution for small retailers
Two South African fintechs, alternative lender Merchant Capital and buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) specialist Payflex, have launched a cash advance solution for small…
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Startups
M-KOPA raises $75M funding as it hits two million customer milestone
Connected asset financing platform M-KOPA, has raised $75M funding. The ”Growth Equity round” as the company describes it in a press…
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CLOUD
Safaricom selects VMware as its Cloud Platform partner in Ethiopia
Safaricom Ethiopia has selected multi-cloud services provider VMware as its Telco Cloud Platform partner. The announcement was made at the…
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Gadgets
Samsung is bringing its Freestyle portable LED projector to Kenya in April
Samsung Electronics has announced plans to bring its much talked about Freestyle portable LED projector to Kenya in April. The…
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BUSINESS
Bolt Food awards top restaurants on its platform
Bolt Food has awarded top restaurants on its platform for their exclusive approach to customer service. The restaurants were recognized…
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Gadgets
Vivo V23 5G Specs, Price and Availability in Kenya
Vivo V23 5G Specs: Vivo smartphone has officially launched the vivo V23 5G in Kenya, its latest smartphone in the…
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News
South African data centre firm Teraco announces access to Oracle Cloud via FastConnect
South African data centre company Teraco will now offer connectivity directly through Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) FastConnect at its Isando Campus for the Oracle Cloud…
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Gadgets
African Editions of Nokia 105 and 110 feature phones launched in Kenya
HMD Global has always gone big on feature phones and now, the company is launching two new feature phones exclusive…
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Featured
Mai Mahiu Man Wins Sh20 million Odibets Jackpot
Paul Karashia from Mai Mahiu is the latest millionaire in town after winning the Odibets midweek jackpot last week. With…
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BUSINESS
Upbeat Mitel Eyes East Africa Expansion for growth
Mitel, a leader in business communication technology, has announced plans to expand its footprint in the East African region, buoyed…
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CYBER SECURITY
Russia hits Ukrainian government websites with cyber attacks
Russian president this week launched a military operation in Ukraine. Explosions have been heard across the country with Ukraine’s foreign…
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News
South African fibre provider Vumatel acquires non-controlling stake in ISP Herotel
South African fibre provider, Vumatel has acquired a 45% non-controlling stake in Herotel, a significant fixed wireless internet service provider and…
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News
Realme 9i with Snapdragon 680 and 5,000 mAh battery launched in Kenya
Realme has officially launched the realme 9i smartphone in Kenya. Launched on Thursday, the Realme 9i is the newest model…
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Featured
New to online trading? MT4 might be the right platform for you
Every trader needs an active account to start trading in the financial markets. With the growing popularity of online trading,…
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Startups
3 Kenyan startups selected for Catalyst Fund fintech accelerator
Three Kenyan startups are among the six selected to join the tenth cohort of the Catalyst Fund fintech accelerator. The…
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Startups
Kenyan food-tech startup Kune starts commercial operations in Nairobi, unveils new mobile app
Kenyan food-tech startup, Kune has officially begun commercial operations with four meal hubs located in strategic locations in Nairobi. The…
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Startups
B2B eCommerce platform TradeDepot acquires Accra-based Green Lion to accelerate expansion across Ghana
TradeDepot, a B2B eCommerce and embedded finance platform in Africa has acquired its competitor from Ghana Green Lion for an…
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Startups
Milken Institute and Motsepe Foundation Announce Milken-Motsepe Prize in AgriTech Finalists
The Milken Institute and the Motsepe Foundation today announced the 25 teams from across Africa receiving Finalist prizes for the Milken-Motsepe Prize in…
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News
Pan Africa Gaming Group launched to grow gaming industry in Africa
The Pan Africa Gaming Group (PAGG) has been unveiled today, bringing 10 studios together under a single umbrella across Africa.…
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Featured
Is Tech Key to Further Esports Revenue Growth?
The eSports industry has experienced dramatic growth recently compared to its initial days. When it started, many sports fans regarded…
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News
Crime and Justice S2 premieres on Showmax
Crime and Justice S2: Imagine going after a mysterious powerful enemy who’s pulling strings from the shadows and silencing those…
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News
Zimbabwe becomes the 3rd country to restrict social media this year for political reasons
According to cybersecurity company Surfshark, Zimbabwe suffered its third internet disruption in the past 3 years, as internet service was…
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Startups
Kenyan startup MarketForce raises $40M to scale its merchant inventory financing program
Kenyan-based B2B platform for retail distribution of consumer goods and digital financial services in Africa Today, MarketForce has raised $40…
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BUSINESS
Mastercard opens nominations for its Women SME Leaders Awards 2022
Mastercard has announced the inaugural Women SME Leaders Awards 2022, to recognize and further empower women-owned and run SMEs in the…
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Gadgets
Huawei nova 9 launches in Kenya for Kshs 65,999
After opening pre-orders for the Huawei nova 9 two weeks ago, Huawei Mobile Kenya has today announced that the device…
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Gadgets
vivo V23 5G Smartphone Officially Launched in Kenya
vivo smartphone has officially launched the vivo V23 5G in Kenya, its latest smartphone in the V series. The Vivo…
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Startups
African fintech Flutterwave rebrands, introduces new products and services
African fintech startup Flutterwave has unveiled a significant re-brand and identity at Flutterwave 3.0, a virtual event held on Friday, 18th February…
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Featured
Best Sports Betting Apps in Kenya
Sports betting is one of the most popular and fun activities that sports fans engage in. The hobby is much…
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BUSINESS
Sendy partners with residential minimarts in credit finance and fulfillment scheme
Kenyan logistics startup Sendy has teamed with Mini Marts to enable retail commerce at the micro-level. The startup is using…
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Startups
[African Startup Review] Pie Kamau: Nigerian fintech Flutterwave is now Africa’s highest valued Unicorn
As the African fintech space continues to bloom, so does the funding. Flutterwave, the San Francisco-headquartered and Lagos-based company that…
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Gadgets
Realme 9i with Snapdragon 680 launching in Kenya later this month
Realme is gearing up to launch its first smartphone in Kenya this year, the realme 9i later this month. The…
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BUSINESS
MTN Group rebrands, adopts new logo and slogan
Africa’s biggest telecom company MTN Group is rebranding. The rebrand, the company says is to position it as a technology…
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Gadgets
All-New Redmi Note 11 Series Officially Launched in Kenya
After globally launching the Redmi Note 11 series on January 26, Xiaomi is now officially making these devices available in…
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News
FOX News International debuts in Kenya and other African countries
FOX News Media has expanded its FOX News International global video streaming services to several countries across Africa. According to…
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Startups
BitKE to host a webinar on startup funding in Africa, register to attend now
2021 was the biggest year, so far, in the history of funding for African startups which saw over $4.6 billion…
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COLUMNS
The biggest fintech trends changing the face of payments in emerging markets
Last year saw an unprecedented rate of change in the financial sector, with huge growth in the use of digital…
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News
Moringa School expands to Ghana in new partnership with Impact Hub Accra
Africa technology boot-camp, Moringa School is expanding to Ghana in partnership with Impact Hub Accra. Moringa said in a statement…
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BUSINESS
Chumz is a new investment app that lets Kenyans invest as little as Ksh.5
Chumz Investment app: The last couple of months have seen a number of investment apps being launched in the Kenyan…
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Startups
African fintech Flutterwave valuation rises to over $3B after $250M Series D funding
African fintech firm Flutterwave has tripled its valuation to over $3 billion after raising $250 million in Series D funding.…
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Startups
SA Online home services platform SweepSouth launches its Connect service in Kenya
South Africa’s online home services platform, SweepSouth has launched SweepSouth Connect in Kenya. SweepSouth Connect is the service that connects…
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Startups
Haskè Ventures announces a $150K investment in Senegalese retail-tech startup ProXalys
Senegalese retail-tech startup ProXalys has raised $150,000 in pre-seed funding from Haskè Ventures, the venture builder for Francophone Africa. The…
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BUSINESS
TECNO Opens New Flagship Store at Sarit Center
Smartphone maker TECNO Mobile has opened a new flagship store at the Sarit Center mall in Westlands. The store which…
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BUSINESS
Standard Chartered Launches a low-ticket Money Market Fund
Standard Chartered Bank Kenya has today launched a low-ticket Money Market fund targeting its clients. Known as SC Shilingi funds,…
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