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The Most Data-Hungry Apps in 2025: YouTube Tops the List
The average smartphone user now consumes over 11 gigabytes of mobile data per month, a 40% increase from just two…
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YouTube Begins Testing Native Collaboration Tags to Help Creators Grow Together
YouTube is experimenting with a new collaboration feature designed to give creators shared exposure, echoing similar tools already common on…
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YouTube vs Netflix in Streaming TV: How the Battle Is Shaping Global Viewing Habits
For years, Netflix treated the idea of competition as an abstraction. Its co-founder Reed Hastings once said sleep was the…
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YouTube’s 2025 Monetization Rule Change Will Demonetize AI-Generated and Reused Content
Starting July 15, 2025, YouTube will stop monetizing content that lacks real human input—especially videos with AI-generated voices, low-effort compilations,…
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As YouTube Dominates the Big Screen, TikTok and Instagram TV Apps Make Their Move into Streaming
Move over Netflix — TikTok and Instagram TV apps are coming for your couch time too. For years, social video…
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Why the Future of Creativity on YouTube Will Be Creator-Led, AI-Powered, and Fandom-Driven
When Neal Mohan took the stage at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity this week, he wasn’t just there…
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The YouTube Podcast Takeover: A Growth Opportunity or a Risky Evolution?
Podcasting is undergoing a dramatic change from an audio-based platform to one where video is the focus. The recent switch…
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Cracking Down on Clickbait: YouTube Targets Misleading Content
YouTube is taking action against deceptive clickbait titles and thumbnails, especially for videos related to breaking news or current events,…
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The Pivot to Video: How YouTube, TikTok Are Redefining Podcasts
In this year’s YouTube Music Recap, my number one podcast was Waveform—it didn’t appear on my top five from Spotify’s…
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YouTube Brings New Changes to Its Video Player Interface
YouTube is changing the interface of its video player. Google, its parent company is testing new features on the video…
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YouTube Premium and YouTube Music now available in Kenya
YouTube today announced that YouTube Music and YouTube Premium are now available in Kenya. YouTube Music (Individual) is priced at…
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YouTube reinstates Donald Trump’s account two years after suspension
YouTube has reinstated former US President Donald Trump’s channel after suspending it two years ago. The account was suspended one…
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NTV’s YouTube channel with over 2 million subscribers terminated for violating terms
NTV Kenya, a leading broadcaster in the country and the East African region had its YouTube channel brought down on…
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YouTube Shorts creators to start monetizing on February 1
YouTube has made changes to its Partner Program which outlines the terms and conditions under which creators engage with the…
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Safaricom’s YouTube Shorts Challenge Kicks-Off, KES 60 Million Worth of Prizes up for Grabs
Safaricom in partnership with YouTube has kicked-off a new YouTube Shorts Challenge which will see up to 3 million customers…
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YouTube Music and Premium services hits 80 million subscribers
YouTube Music and Premium launched their subscription-based service in 2018, after several false starts. The platform has risen to rank…
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YouTube is introducing user handles to make it easier for search and mentions
Nearly all social media platforms these days utilize user handles for easy identification and mention of user accounts. It started…
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Twitter is launching short videos to compete with TikTok, Instagram and YouTube
Social media companies have plunged into short videos hook, line and sinker. TikTok started the craze and all major platforms…
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YouTube rolls out new ways for creators to make money from Shorts
Big Tech media companies today are using every tool at their disposal to ensure that there is mutual benefits for…
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Teenagers Are Spending More Time On YouTube Than any other platform, Survey
There was a time when Facebook was the cool app that every teenager wanted to be. In fact, a survey…
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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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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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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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YouTube Go is Shutting Down in August
YouTube Go, the lite version of YouTube that the company introduced in 2016 will be discontinued in August, the company…
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PesaCheck and other fact-checking organisations urge YouTube to combat spread of misinformation on the platform
PesaCheck, and its parent organisation, Code for Africa (CfA), have joined with over 80 other International Fact-Checking Network members from…
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YouTube Suspends Trump’s Channel
Last week’s storm at the US Capitol has given US President Donald Trump an uneasy time in his country, as…
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CYBER SECURITY
Database with Millions of Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube Profiles Exposed
A database containing data of nearly 235 million users across Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube has been breached. The database stored…
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Gumzo Now Features YouTube Live and Recording Capabilities
Gumzo has added new features to its platform that will enable users to record and broadcast their calls live through…
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Safaricom is Now Offering Affordable YouTube Data Bundle
Safaricom in partnership with Google has announced a new YouTube Data bundle. The data bundle can be used for YouTube…
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YouTube News Views Jump By 75% On Thirst For Coronavirus Updates
The Coronavirus crisis has changed how we live and despite many switching to working from home, some are just staying…
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Coronavirus: YouTube Is Now Defaulting Streaming Quality To 480p Globally For A Month
YouTube will be reducing the streaming quality of videos to SD format to help ease internet traffic. Starting yesterday, the…
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Netflix Lowers Streaming Quality In Europe To Reduce Bandwidth Strain(Update: YouTube, too)
Working from home delivers a uniquely flexible opportunity, especially if you’ve been locked in the 9 to 5 cycle until…
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Sony Pulls Out Of the MWC 2020, To Announce Its Products Remotely On YouTube
The Mobile World Congress (MWC) is scheduled to happen this month from 24th to 27th, but this year the event…
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Here Is How Much Revenue Google Makes From YouTube
For the first time since Google acquired YouTube in 2006, we have the real figures that the company makes from…
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More than 3 Million Safaricom Customers Subscribed To The Free YouTube Bundles To Watch #Eliud159
Today was the D-day when Kenya’s renowned Marathon runner Eliud Kipchoge was partaking his INEOS 159 Challenge. As promised before,…
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Safaricom Revamps Storo Bonus with Free YouTube Bundles
Safaricom Kenya has unveiled a new plan adding free 200MB YouTube Bundles on top of the 200% Airtime bonus. This…
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Safaricom All In One monthly bundles now comes with free 5GB YouTube access
The Kenyan industry has seen a steep rise in both video and music streaming needs. Thus there has been an…
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YouTube Ads are killing my user experience on the platform
YouTube has been a great deal to me since the time I started using the platform. The platform offers almost…
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Youtube’s Music Streaming Service, YouTube Premium launches in South Africa
In May 2018, Google announced that it was launching a new music streaming service known as YouTube Premium. The company…
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How YouTube is helping reclaim the lost art of apprenticeship
We live in a fast-paced century. Half the time at work is spent keeping up with and adapting to new…
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YouTube is launching a music streaming service next week
YouTube is launching a new music streaming known as YouTube Music next week on May 22nd. The company says the…
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Tired YouTube’s 30-second ads? Google is killing them off
Are you one of those people who hate those 30-second ads that appear before you can watch a YouTube video?…
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Meet YouTube Community, YouTube’s new Social Networking feature
We all love Youtube, but who thought Google would one day think of having a social networking feature on it.…
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Have You subscribed to TechTrendsKE ‘s New YouTube Channel?
We have a New YouTube channel up and running. Have you subscribed? This channel will be featuring weekly roundups of…
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YouTube drops Adobe Flash for HTML5 video as default web player
YouTube has dropped Adobe Flash platform as the standard way to play its videos for HTML5. This now means HTML5…
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Could Facebook be planning to be the next new YouTube?
Could Facebook Video be the next big video sharing platform after YouTube? Well, maybe yes. According to new statistics released…
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Youtube annouces its new music subscription service
Google has officially announced a new music subscription service that takes advantage of YouTube’s vast collection of music and existing…
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YouTube considering getting rid of ads, to introduce subscription-based billing
Ever opened youtube and the first thing you see are those increasingly annoying pre-roll ads that appear before you watch…
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Google to make YouTube videos available offline In India
Google is planning to make YouTube videos available offline in India, allowing people to save on download charges for watching…
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Google’s new music subscription service to be known ‘YouTube Music key’: Report
By Nixon Kanali, Nairobi Kenya You might have heard about Google’s long-expected YouTube music subscription service. Earlier on, Android Police…
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How Spotify Wrapped 2025 Stacks Up Against Its Rivals
The calendar turns, and the annual music recap season arrives with its usual blend of theatre and self-study. What once…
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The Story of How DeepMind Moved From Experimental Projects to the Machinery That Keeps Google Running
DeepMind began with the idea that intelligence is a learnable process rooted in broad principles rather than human exclusivity. That…
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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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Leonard Agufa | Protecting Kenyan Youth Culture: Join the War on Content Piracy
In Kenya today, media isn’t just entertainment—it’s the heartbeat of youth culture. It’s the Gengetone beat pulsing through TikTok dances,…
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Spotify’s Weekly Mini Wrapped Turns Listening Into a Ritual
Spotify has taken its most viral feature and made it a habit. The new Listening Stats tool compresses the spirit…
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The TechTrends Podcast | The State of Startup Funding in Africa in 2025 ft Andrew Fassnidge
Is Africa’s startup funding winter finally over? That’s the question we explored in a recent conversation with Andrew Fassnidge, Founder…
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Ben Jacob: Deepfakes – The Next Human Vulnerability For Businesses?
Synthetic audio and video generation technologies, known as deepfakes, have reached a critical threshold. Once mostly limited to social media…
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Millions in Africa Turn to Online Trading Amid Economic Uncertainty
A quiet revolution is reshaping personal finance across Africa. From the markets of Lagos to the tech hubs of Nairobi,…
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Global Surveillance Tracking Exposed Through Telecom Exploits and Celebrity-Level Targeting
For years, public debate on surveillance focused on names like Pegasus and Intellexa. What slipped through was First Wap, also…
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Netflix Podcast Partnership With Spotify Tests Video Formats and Audience Reach
Spotify and Netflix have struck a distribution partnership that will bring a curated slate of video podcasts from Spotify Studios…
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OPPO A6 Pro Series with 7,000mAh Battery, 120Hz AMOLED Display Set to Launch in Kenya
OPPO Kenya is gearing up to launch the highly anticipated OPPO A6 Pro Series in Kenya on October 23rd, 2025.…
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Smartphones on Safaricom Network Rise to 27.37 Million
Safaricom has announced a significant increase in the number of smartphones connected to its network, rising from 22.93 million to…
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Spotify’s Future Strategy Points to a Bigger Battle Than Apple Music — It Wants to Own Every Sound That Touches Your Day
Spotify doesn’t need to beat Apple Music or YouTube anymore. It already has. The streaming wars are over, and Spotify…
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Samsung Brings Galaxy S25 FE to Kenya, Pushing AI Features Into the Mainstream
Samsung has officially launched the Galaxy S25 FE in Kenya, and the company is framing the device as its most…
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Instagram Hits 3 Billion Users, but Its Biggest Decisions Still Lie Ahead
Three billion monthly users. Few platforms in history have reached that kind of global saturation. Instagram is no longer just…
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The TikTok Algorithm Control Deal Explained: What Leasing the Code Means for U.S. Law, Security, and Digital Power
For millions of Americans scrolling through TikTok’s “For You” page, the app’s algorithm is the unseen force shaping what they…
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Kenya’s Streaming Boom: How Safaricom Home Fibre Is Changing Everyday Entertainment
Not long ago, the Kenyan living room revolved around a single TV set, tuned to a handful of channels, often…
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iPhone 17 Pro & Pro Max Overview — and the Bigger Picture Behind Apple’s 2025 Playbook
Apple’s iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max are more than incremental upgrades. They arrive as part of a carefully orchestrated…
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Spotify’s Video Podcasts Give Creators More Reach While Unlocking Fresh Advertising Opportunities
Spotify, long known as an audio-first platform, is layering in video content. Playlists, podcasts, and audiobooks remain central, but video…
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Huawei Cloud DataArts: Unleashing New Business Value with Data–AI Convergence
Huawei Cloud DataArts: Unlocking the value of enterprise data has always been at the heart of digital transformation strategies. With…
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How Safaricom Home Fibre Is Powering Kenya’s Freelancers and Creators
Kenya’s digital economy is evolving, with homes in most urban areas now serving as dual-purpose spaces, functioning as offices, studios,…
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iPhone 16 Pro Max vs Pixel 10 Pro XL Video Showdown Highlights Apple’s Edge
Each September brings the same ritual: new phones, new promises, and the same question — has Google finally caught up…
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HDR10 vs Dolby Vision Explained: How Streaming Platforms and TVs Shape Your Viewing Experience
HDR (High Dynamic Range) is designed to make streaming visuals richer and more lifelike. Two standards dominate: HDR10 and Dolby…
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TikTok for Artists in Kenya Aims to Position Local Acts for Regional and Global Breakthroughs
TikTok has launched its TikTok for Artists platform in Kenya, making the country one of the first in Africa to…
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Jumia Taps Chinese Vendors to Guard Its E-commerce Lead in Africa
Jumia is reinforcing its marketplace with a fresh influx of Chinese sellers, part of a wider strategy to stay ahead…
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Samsung Unpacked 2025 and Apple iPhone 17 Event Set to Ignite Techtember
September is shaping up to be a landmark month in consumer tech. Samsung Unpacked 2025 is scheduled for September 4,…
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Jumia Welcomes Axian CEO to Supervisory Board as Telecom Expansion Fuels E-Commerce Ambitions
Axian Group CEO Hassanein Hiridjee has officially joined Jumia’s supervisory board, stepping in for Angela K. Mwanza, who resigned on…
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Apple, Google, and Samsung Smartphones Are No Longer Competing on the Same Track—Here’s What That Means for Users
For years, the smartphone industry moved in lockstep. Every new launch was measured by the same yardsticks: raw power, camera…
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Africa Bitcoin Institute Leads the Charge in Bringing African Voices to Cryptocurrency Policy
Anaïse Kanimba grew up in the shadow of global attention. Her father, Paul Rusesabagina, became an international symbol of courage…
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Twitch Monetization in Kenya Halted as New Regulations Force Platform to Suspend Payouts
Twitch has quietly pulled the plug on monetization for Kenyan creators, and the fallout is immediate. No more Bits. No…
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Elon Musk Backs Watermarked Video Downloads on X, Tapping Into the Internet’s Long Tradition of Viral Content Reposts
Elon Musk has endorsed a suggestion that could alter how videos circulate on X: make all clips from unlocked accounts…
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Google TV’s Rapid Growth Masks Deep Monetization Challenges Facing the Platform
Google’s decade-long push into the living room may be entering a new chapter — or a quiet retreat. Despite the…
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Block BEARD: The U.S. Piracy Law That Might Change How You Stream Globally
It’s framed as a move to protect creators. But a bill moving through the U.S. Senate—called the Block BEARD Act—could…
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Rage Bait Fueled Internet Culture for Years — But Users Are Finally Catching On
There was a time when going viral meant something unexpected happened. A kid post-dentist said something weird. A dress confused…
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The TechTrends Podcast | Unpacking the 2025 Samsung Galaxy A Series
In this episode of The TechTrends Podcast, host Nixon Kanali sits down with Ryan Mule, B2B Key Account Manager –…
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Video Podcast Audience Trends in 2025 Are Redefining Long-Form Content for Gen Z and Millennial Viewers
Once a medium defined by earbuds and audio feeds, podcasting in 2025 looks—and sounds—very different. What used to be an…
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From Slow Apps to Fake QLEDs — What to Watch Out for in Your Next Smart TV Upgrade in Kenya
Your TV might still switch on, but that doesn’t mean it’s doing its job. Today’s smart TVs aren’t just screens…
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The TechTrends Podcast | Empowering Kenyan Youths Through AI: Inside the OI Lead Initiative
How can AI literacy unlock a brighter future for Kenyan youth? In this virtual episode of The TechTrends Podcast, host…
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Apple at a Crossroads: AI Growing Pains, Leadership Exodus, and the End of Predictable Innovation
Apple is no stranger to transitions. But this time feels different. Behind the strong stock performance and polished product releases,…
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The TechTrends Podcast | Stablecoins, Regulation & Africa’s Crypto Growth ft Yellow Card
In this episode of the TechTrends Podcast, we sit down with Edline E. Murungi, Senior Legal Counsel for East Africa…
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Gadgets
Samsung Galaxy A56 Premium Features Deliver Real Value Without the Flagship Cost
Mid-range phones are no longer the compromise they used to be. The Samsung Galaxy A56 premium features proves that you…
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Smarter Without the Price Tag: The Best Samsung Galaxy A56 AI Features Explained
Samsung Galaxy A56 AI Features: Samsung’s A-Series has always delivered value, but the Galaxy A56 takes things further. With powerful…
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Samsung Unpacked July 2025: Will Sleeker, Smarter Foldables Usher in a New Era?
Samsung is heading back to Brooklyn this July for its next Unpacked event and if the invite is anything to…
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Android Material 3 vs iOS 26: Why Google’s New Design Feels Better Than Apple’s
The classy interface and visual attention of Apple were, for years, a paradigm of UI beauty and harmony. The whole…
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Samsung’s Foldable Evolution: Flip 7 FE vs Flip 6 vs Flip 5
Samsung’s journey with its clamshell foldables has been an exercise in slow but steady refinement. The Galaxy Z Flip 5…
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How Virtual Reality Is Transforming Education in Kenya
The integration of technological innovation in education continues to play a significant role in empowering students on their educational journey…
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The Africa Deep Tech Foundation Launches 2025 Challenge: Fueling Innovation in Constraint
The Africa Deep Tech Foundation has announced the launch of the Africa Deep Tech Challenge 2025. Announced today, the challenge…
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TechTrends Podcast | Real Vs Fake QLED: The Truth You Should Know ft Samsung’s Sam Odhiambo
In this episode of the TechTrends Podcast, we’re joined by Sam Odhiambo, Head of Consumer Electronics Business at Samsung Electronics…
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AI Kenya Breakfast Summit 2.0 Ignites Africa’s Conversational AI Revolution
On the 15th of May will be the meeting of industry leaders, AI innovators, and visionary enterprises at the AI…
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