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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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Odibets Raises the Bar With Enhanced Aviator Missions and Competitive Challenges
Odibets is redefining the Aviator gaming experience with the rollout of structured missions, race challenges and leaderboard tournaments — a…
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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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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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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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Poker in Kenya: Formats, Rules, and Beginner Guide
The Simple Truth: If you can learn 10 poker hands, you can start playing with confidence. Poker isn’t as complicated…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Google and African Partners Launch WAXAL to Map 21 Languages Into the AI Future
Google, in collaboration with a coalition of leading African research institutions, has announced the launch of WAXAL, a large-scale, openly…
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Airtel Africa Profit More Than Doubles to $586M as Mobile Money IPO Looms
Airtel Africa has reported a significant surge in profitability for the period ended December 31, 2025, with profit after tax…
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Starlink Rivals Partner to Help Prevent Internet Blackouts In Africa
Spacecoin, the world’s first decentralized satellite internet network, has announced a partnership with the Midnight Foundation to explore the development…
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Tala Doubles Down on Trust and Technology to Reach 3 Billion Unbanked Adults
A new report backed by digital lender Tala has highlighted both a massive opportunity and a significant challenge in global…
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Google Is Making Stolen Android Phones Harder to Live With
Smartphone theft has never been about novelty. It follows money, resale value, and ease. For years, Android sat in an…
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Huawei ICT Competition 2025-2026 Regional Final Bootcamp Training Kicks Off in Kenya
Huawei has officially kicked off the Huawei ICT Competition 2025/2026 Regional Final Bootcamp Training, bringing together 21 exceptional students selected…
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Mastercard Report Shows Digital Growth and New Trade Shifts Powers Kenya’s Economy
In its Economic Outlook 2026 Report, the Mastercard Economics Institute (MEI) has revealed how global policy changes that occurred in…
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Demos Kyriacou | Why Tier III Data Centres Are the Real Play for East Africa
East Africa’s digital economy is expanding at a rapid pace, driven by rising internet penetration, widespread mobile connectivity, and growing…
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The AI Race Is Running Into Walls It Cannot Code Around
The modern AI industry has lived on a simple assumption: progress would arrive faster if you fed models more data,…
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OnePlus Is Being Taken Apart
The OnePlus brand dismantling is not a rumor circulating at the edges of the industry. It is an observable process…
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Paystack Marks 10th Anniversary with Shift to Holding Company and Group Profitability
Paystack, the fintech giant that has become the backbone of digital commerce in Africa, has announced a major structural evolution…
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How to Place Quick Sports Betting and Win
In today’s fast-paced world, decision-making speed is often the deciding factor for success. This rule applies one hundred percent to…
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Safaricom Appoints Sylvia Anampiu to Lead Fixed Business
Safaricom has announced the appointment of Sylvia Anampiu as the Director of Fixed Business, signaling a major strategic shift as…
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UK–Kenya Tech Hub Launches Startup 360 Connect to Boost Angel Investing
The UK–Kenya Tech Hub, in partnership with Viktoria Ventures, Anza Village, and POV, are launching Startup 360 Connect (#S360Connect), an…
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Msossi App Targets Food Waste With Discounted Near-Expiry Food in Kenya
Kenya’s first innovative food app, Msossi, is set to launch this month with the aim of connecting stores with consumers…
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Mobile Money Still Runs the Country, Just Not Through the Counter Anymore
The small wooden counter at a mobile money kiosk still looks busy. Stickers on the glass promise speed and convenience.…
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Africa Tech Summit Nairobi: 12 Startups Selected for 2026 Investment Showcase
Africa Tech Summit Nairobi has officially unveiled the 12 African ventures selected to take center stage at its highly anticipated…
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[Kenya] The Investment Numbers are Sliding, Employment is Not, and Nobody Agrees on What that Really Means
The Kenya investment slowdown has started to look less like a single bad year and more like a pattern that…
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Uganda Imposes Nationwide Internet Shutdown Ahead of Thursday Elections
The Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) has ordered a temporary nationwide shutdown of public internet services, effective today, January 13, 2026,…
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MOLIY Named Spotify EQUAL Artist of the Month as African Women Reshape Global Pop Pathways
Ghanaian sensation MOLIY takes the limelight as the Spotify EQUAL Africa Artist of the Month for January 2026. Also gracing…
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Outliers and SVC Launch 2026 Fellowship to Build Saudi and MENA’s Next Generation of Tech Leaders
The Outliers Fellowship Program 2026 has been launched by the Outliers Venture Capital. It is their flagship talent initiative designed…
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Microsoft Kenya Country Manager Phyllis Migwi Exits After Three Years
Microsoft Kenya Country Manager Phyllis Migwi has announced her departure from the tech giant, following her three-and-a-half-year tenure leading the…
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Youfanly Hits Ksh 40M Payout Milestone for African Creators
As the global creator economy reaches a trillion-dollar industry, African creators continue to face structural barriers that limit their ability…
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IEBC to Resume Nationwide Voter Registration Monday: What You Need to Know
The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) has officially announced the resumption of the Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) exercise across…
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Starlink Goes Dark in Uganda as Regulators Reassert Control Days Before the Vote
When Starlink terminals went dark across Uganda in early January, the explanation arrived quickly and carried a familiar bureaucratic weight.…
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Masakhane Hub Issues Call for Proposals to Integrate 50 African Languages into AI
The Masakhane African Languages Hub (the Hub) has launched a major Request for Proposals (RFP) aimed at dismantling the “linguistic…
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Manuva Njaanuary na Odibets: How to Win Ksh 1,000 Every Day this January
Kenyan betting firm Odibets has rolled out an exciting January promotion dubbed “Manuva Njaanuary na Odibets”, offering customers a daily…
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Crash Games, Aviator and the Evolution of Casino Jackpots in Kenya
What happens when you combine Kenya’s world-leading fintech infrastructure with cutting-edge gaming technology? You get an explosion of crash games,…
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TechTrends Media’s GreenShift Sustainability Forum set for March 2026
TechTrends Media, in strategic partnership with Africa Business Communities, is proud to announce the GreenShift Sustainability Forum, a premier full-day…
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Kenya set to review Mobile Termination Rates for 2026
Kenya’s telecommunications sector is heading toward a high-stakes regulatory showdown in 2026, as the current Mobile Termination Rates (MTRs) are…
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The Warner Bros. Discovery Talks Are Forcing Hollywood to Revisit a Choice Netflix Made Years Ago
Netflix’s move into original content is often remembered as ambition. A distributor deciding it could compete with Hollywood. A technology…
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Why Africa’s Next Phase of Connectivity Depends on More Than Coverage Maps
For more than a century, Africa’s communications networks have been built in uneven bursts. Lines arrived in ports before hinterlands.…
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Kenya licenses Safaricon and Airtel Money to expand digital trading sector
Kenya’s Capital Markets Authority (CMA) has officially licensed Safaricom PLC and Airtel Money Kenya Limited to operate as Intermediary Service…
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Bolt sees 8% surge in December rides
As the festive season reaches its peak, Kenyans are increasingly choosing digital convenience over the steering wheel. Bolt, the leading…
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Serigne Dioum | Digital-First: Unlocking the next generation of African fintech
More than 15 years ago, mobile financial services emerged as a transformative force across Africa. From the earliest days of…
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Kenya’s US health deal hits a court wall, and Africa is paying attention
When Kenya signed a $2.5 billion health cooperation agreement with Washington this month, officials framed it as a vote of…
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Mobile money built Africa’s digital promise, now the networks behind it are under real pressure
Across much of Africa, telecom networks have stopped being background utilities. They sit in the foreground of daily economic life,…
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The long courtship between big tech and trump’s second White House
Lobbying has never been polite, but it used to carry some embarrassment. Meetings stayed off calendars. Donations were explained away…
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Samsung’s Trifold is not trying to replace your phone and that is the point
For years, foldable phones have promised more space without quite earning it. Bigger screens unfolded, but habits stayed small. Video…
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Airtel Africa and SpaceX partner to launch Starlink Direct to Cell connectivity across Africa
Airtel Africa and SpaceX have announced a strategic partnership to introduce Starlink Direct to Cell satellite services across 14 African…
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Safaricom green bond officially listed on NSE
Safaricom PLC has today officially listed its Green Bond at the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE), marking a historic moment for…
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BasiGo opens EV charging station at Shell Athi River
BasiGo, Kenya’s leading provider of electric bus solutions, has announced the official opening of a new electric vehicle (EV) fast-charging…
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Erkan Satik | Accelerated entry: How East Africa leapfrogged into the cloud age
East Africa has quickly become one of the most dynamic regions for cloud computing. By 2025, around 70–77% of enterprises…
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Kenya’s tech leap 2025: AI, diplomacy and infrastructure transforming the industry
There is a good reason Kenya is recognised as the Silicon Savannah of Africa. It’s a befitting nickname for a…
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Visa spotlights 22 African fintech startups as alumni valuation hits $1.3 billion
Visa has unveiled the latest group of high-growth startups graduating from its Africa Fintech Accelerator program, showcasing 22 companies that…
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Standard Bank injects $138 million into Safaricom Ethiopia to fuel network expansion
Standard Bank, trading as Stanbic Bank in Kenya, has announced a USD 138 million (approximately KES 17.94 billion) financing deal…
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Kenya’s cyber threat decline hides a new security reality
Kenya’s cyber threat volumes collapsed by a staggering margin in the last quarter, dropping from 4.6 billion detections to 842…
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Kenya’s fixed internet battle finds new fault lines
Kenya’s fixed internet competition has taken on new intensity, and it is no longer a simple question of who offers…
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Alliance for inclusive AI launches with $100M goal
BFA Global, Caribou, and MSC, three organizations with a footprint spanning more than 150 countries, have announced the launch of…
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I&M Bank accelerates digital transformation agenda with new FX trading platform
I&M Bank recently launched I&M FX DIRECT, a state-of-the-art digital platform designed to offer real-time foreign exchange trading. While on…
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LOOP Partners with bolttech for Device Financing, Launches Shopping Festival with 20% Cashback
LOOP, the Fintech subsidiary of NCBA Group, has launched a new device financing solution in partnership with global insurtech leader…
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From rural Kenya to Africa’s Business Heroes: The story of BuuPass through the lens of co-founder Wyclife Omondi
Wyclife Omondi’s journey to the Top 10 finalists at the 2025 Africa’s Business Heroes Edition is rooted in a deeply…
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Government Sells 15% Stake in Safaricom to Vodafone for Ksh 245 Billion
The Government of Kenya has offloaded majority control of Safaricom Plc to Vodafone Kenya Limited in a deal valued at…
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New Fund to Award $75,000 Grants to Innovators Transforming African Cities
The Million Lives Collective (MLC) and the Judith Neilson Foundation have announced the launch of the African Cities Innovation Fund…
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Bending Spoons to Acquire Eventbrite in $500 Million All-Cash Deal
Eventbrite, the global marketplace for live experiences, has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by technology firm Bending…
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Bolt and Gebeya Partner to Cut Transport Costs for Service Professionals in Kenya and Ghana
Ride-hailing platform Bolt has announced a strategic partnership with Pan-African talent tech company Gebeya. The collaboration aims to reduce mobility…
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Mauritian Startup Black Swan Wins the MEST Africa Challenge 2025
Black Swan, a Mauritius-based FinTech startup, has emerged as the winner of the MEST Africa Challenge (MAC) 2025. The announcement…
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Kenya School of TVET and Huawei Graduate 65 Lecturers in National ICT Capacity Drive
The Kenya School of TVET (KSTVET) and Huawei Technologies Kenya have announced the completion of the second phase of their…
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Standard Chartered Awards KES 9.1M to 7 Women-Led Tech Startups
Standard Chartered Kenya, in partnership with Strathmore University’s @iBizAfrica, has awarded KES 9.1 million in seed funding to seven women-led…
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Trade, Investment Roadshow Positions Kenya as Gateway to 350M Consumers
Kenya has been positioned as the primary gateway to a market of 350 million consumers across East and Central Africa,…
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Meta Confronts Its Line on Altered Content After Board Review
Meta’s Oversight Board has thrown a fresh spotlight on the company’s appetite for contested material, ruling that manipulated content can…
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Proptech Firm Rushbox Acquires BuyRentKenya
In a major shake-up of East Africa’s proptech landscape, BuyRentKenya, the country’s leading online real estate marketplace, has been acquired…
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Samsung Launches Innovation Campus at JKUAT
Samsung Electronics East Africa and Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) have officially launched the Samsung Innovation Campus…
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Apple Bets on Craft in Its Shot on iPhone 17 Pro Holiday Ad
Apple’s shot on iPhone 17 Pro holiday ad arrives at a moment when brand films often feel interchangeable. Smooth surfaces…
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The S25 Ultra’s Second Year and the Strange Comfort of Stability
A phone this far into its cycle is usually living on markdowns and nostalgia. The Galaxy S25 Ultra has taken…
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itel Kenya and We Run Club Partner to Champion a Tech-Infused Active Lifestyle
itel Kenya has announced a groundbreaking partnership with We Run Club, one of Nairobi’s most vibrant running communities. This first-ever…
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12 Startups Graduate from iHUB and Mastercard Foundation EdTech Fellowship
iHUB Kenya has successfully concluded the acceleration of Cohort 3 of the Mastercard Foundation EdTech Fellowship, marking a major milestone…
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The Smartphone Year When Every Major Brand Decides to Rethink What a Flagship Should Even Be
The next wave of smartphones arrives in 2026, but the mood across the industry feels different from the usual cycle…
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A Broken Tag on X Became the Latest Fuel for People Hunting for Political Enemies
When X introduced its new About This Account panel, the idea was simple. Users would see where an account was…
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Paystack Terminates Co-Founder Ezra Olubi Amid Sexual Misconduct Allegations
Ezra Olubi, the Co-Founder and former Chief Technology Officer of Nigerian fintech giant Paystack, has confirmed his termination from the…
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TechTrends, Econews And The GreenShift Podcast Among BAKE 2025 Nominees – How To Vote For Us
BAKE Awards 2025: The BAKE Awards enter another cycle with a long history behind them. The competition has been part…
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Mobile Money Agents Face a Record Cash Slowdown as Households Tighten Spending
Cash flowing through Kenya’s mobile money agents has fallen to levels not seen since the platform’s early days. This drop…
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Meta-Led 2Africa Subsea Cable System Goes Live
Meta, in collaboration with a consortium of leading global and regional telecommunications partners, have announced the successful completion and activation…
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