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Google to pay more than 40,000 app developers $90 million in a lawsuit settlement
Global tech behemoth Google has opted to pay $90 million to small app developers as a settlement to a class-action…
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Software Developer Zoho has launched a discounted app package for Kenyan SMEs
Global software and systems developer Zoho has today launched a heavily discounted business management system for Kenyan SMEs. The Zoho…
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Mdundo has reported over 200% user growth since going public in 2020
Kenyan music steaming platform Mdundo has recorded a 290% user growth since its 2020 IPO, according to online publication Disrupt…
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US authorities want Apple and Google to remove TikTok from app stores
A commissioner with the U.S Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has written to Apple and Google asking them to remove TikTok…
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Mozilla unveils Pocket, its read-it-later bookmarking service in Kenya
Mozilla in partnership with Aga Khan University is making its brand new Pocket app available in Kenya. Built on the Android…
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Instagram Has Introduced Video Selfies to Verify User’s Age
Popular social media platform Instagram, which Meta owns, has introduced new ways of verifying users’ age in a bid to…
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Startups
New App To Automatically Supervise Spending For Dependents Launched
Kenyan startup Empower Smart Limited has launched an automated Digital Escrow Supervised Payments app for Dependents. Dubbed “Super Pay” the…
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Telegram reports 700 Million monthly users, launches premium subscription
Cloud-based messaging service Telegram is one of the fastest-growing social media and messaging platforms in the world. As it hits…
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Samsung introduces Samsung Wallet to help users store their digital keys and more
Samsung has stepped into the growing development of e-wallet services with the launch of Samsung Wallet which was announced by…
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Kenyan Innovator Unveils App for the Deaf
Kenya has made significant strides in ensuring that people living with disabilities run a normal and easier life in every…
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[24Bit Podcast] The State of Banking Apps in Kenya
We all have a bank account, don’t we? And many of us use an app to operate our accounts, yes?…
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Google to Scrap 900k Apps From Play Store
Google has announced plans to scrap more than 800k apps from Play Store by November 1st,2022. The affected apps are…
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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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Trace and the Mastercard Foundation launch Free Learning App targeting young Africans
Trace and the Mastercard Foundation have launched a new mobile app that aims to enable 26 million young Africans to…
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Apple CEO Says He’s Not Ready to Allow Third Party Apps
Apple CEO Tim Cook has raised his voice against an ongoing attempt to have his company allow third-party apps onto…
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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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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
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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BUSINESS
More than 5 million customers are now using the M-PESA Super App
Safaricom’s M-PESA super app now has over 5 million customers. Launched in June last year, the app brings front-end insights…
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Kenyan startup Wowzi raises $3.2 million seed funding to expand across Africa
Kenyan startup Wowzi has raised $2 million in seed funding to expand its digital marketplace across Africa. The round was…
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NRG, x-Mobility launch BeMobile calling app targeting African youths
NRG Media Group has launched BeMobile, a new mobile app targeting the African youth market. The app has been launched…
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NICK DURRANT: Could progressive web apps be the apps of the future?
Progressive web apps (PWAs) are the perfect cross between native mobile apps and websites. Here’s why. What makes you delete an app? Perhaps…
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CYBER SECURITY
Kaspersky uncovers a malicious code spreading through a mod in WhatsApp
Kaspersky has discovered a malicious version of a popular WhatsApp messenger mod (unofficial modification of the app) called FMWhatsapp. This…
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Applications for the Huawei Apps UP 2021 competition for African developers closes on Sep 5th
The HUAWEI Apps UP 2021 contest is now live. Mobile App developers across the African continent are invited to showcase…
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Sophos Uncovers 167 Fake Android and iOS Trading and Cryptocurrency Apps
Sophos has identified a stash of 167 fake Android and iOS apps that attackers are using to steal money from…
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BUSINESS
New Carrefour Kenya Mobile App Lets Shoppers Place Orders Online
Carrefour Kenya has launched a new mobile app that will now let users shop online and have their goods delivered…
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BUSINESS
Safaricom’s Lipa Na M-PESA Business App Is Now Official
Safaricom has today launched a Lipa Na M-PESA Business app for its more than 170,000 merchants on the service. Named…
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Startups
Zuru, the ‘’AirBnB for cars’’ has launched in Nairobi
Zuru, a new car-sharing platform that lets you rent your car to strangers has launched in Nairobi. Through its vehicle-sharing…
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CLOUD
Zoho’s software applications now available at a fixed Kenyan Shilling price
Zoho Corporation, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) firm has announced that all its 45+ business software applications are now available at a…
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Opinions & Guest Posts
[Column] Productivity tools can reduce productivity
Ironically, apps that are supposed to help productivity usually result in huge inefficiencies because valuable time is wasted organising work…
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From Zoom to Houseparty: The World’s Most Popular Apps During Isolation Revealed
The coronavirus pandemic has seen an unprecedented change in the way we live our lives. With the governments imposing lockdowns…
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Startups
This Ghanaian Startup Has Launched A Check-in App And Symptom Tracker To Counter The Spread of Coronavirus
Ghanaian health startup Redbird (formerly Redbird Health Tech) has launched a Coronavirus Daily Check-in App and Symptom Tracker to counter the…
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Bolt Now Has A Multiple Destinations Feature
Ride-hailing app Bolt has updated its mobile application with a new feature that will allow users to add extra stops…
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Remove These 17 Apps From Your Android Phone ASAP!
You might be used to this kind of news already if you frequent our space. Last year no tangible progress…
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New Mobile App Trends That Will Help Businesses Succeed In 2020
Mobile apps are reshaping all industries and business leaders need to quickly adopt the latest mobile app trends in order…
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BUSINESS
We’re not exiting the Kenyan market, SWVL says
Ride-hailing company, SWVL has denied claims that it plans to exit the Kenyan market. The company has also refuted allegations…
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Avoid These 100 Malicious Apps Listed On Google Play
New Android malware has been spotted online and has infected over 100 apps available on the Google Play Store. This…
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CYBER SECURITY
Pre-installed Android Apps in Phones Can Ship With Security Loopholes – Report
Nobody likes most apps that come pre-installed in Android devices. These apps are not only as good as nothing but…
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24Bit Podcast Episode 17: Bus Hailing Apps – SWVL and Little Shuttle
This episode was shot before the National Transport and Safety Authority (NTSA) announced that it was suspending bus hailing app…
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Startups
Glovo expands to Mombasa in continued market expansion push
Spanish delivery firm Glovo has launched its service in Kenya’s second city, Mombasa. The move will now see residents of Mombasa…
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Startups
After Kenya, online ride-hailing service inDriver has now launched in Uganda
inDriver, an international online ride-hailing service has launched in Uganda. Uganda becomes its fourth African market after launching in Kenya, Tanzania…
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News
DeepNudes – An app that turned women’s photos to nudes discontinued
DeepNudes app uses deepfakes technology to transform women’s images with clothes into ‘realistic-looking’ nudes. The deepfakes technology has been a…
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Facebook to start ranking comments based on feedback
Facebook, in a push to make the community more meaningful to its users, has introduced a comment ranking feature. The…
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WhatsApp beta for iOS hints the inability to save profile pictures in the future
WhatsApp, Facebook-owned instant messaging app has been reported working on a few improvements in the iOS app. One of the…
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Startups
Delivery app Glovo secures $169M funding
International delivery app Glovo has secured a $169M Series D funding round. The round was led by technology entrepreneur VC…
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Warner Music licenses Boomplay to distribute its music in ten African countries
Africa’s music streaming and download service Boomplay has signed a direct licensing agreement with Warner Music to bring the record…
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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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MultiChoice launches self-service app for its Kenyan customers
MultiChoice has unveiled a new mobile app for its Kenyan consumers to help them manage their customer service queries. The…
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Social Media
Instagram Update That Lasted 10 Minutes!
An hour ago Instagram tried an update that was very different from what we know it and the backlash made…
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BUSINESS
Vodacom customers in Tanzania can now buy apps on Google Play Store using their airtime
Vodacom Tanzania customers can now pay for content on Google Play Store using their airtime balance. This after the operator…
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Nopia Ride, the first ever full-electric cab hailing service now in Kenya
Nopia Ride, the first ever full electric mobility service in East Africa has launched its cab services in Kenya by Finnish…
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The Best Apps To Have When You’re Travelling In A Car
By Benjamin Washington You love to travel around the world – who wouldn’t, right? You think that travelling is a great…
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Opinions & Guest Posts
4 Key Essentials of E-learning in Africa
The rate of technological advancement in Africa is growing rapidly. Introduction of computer and internet in the 20th century has…
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Monitor what your children are doing on Skype through TheOneSpy spying app
An Overview The last two decades have surely been all about the internet, new applications, new software and a whole…
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Gadgets
Samsung wearables to support Under Armour’s suite of fitness apps
Samsung has announced a new partnership with Under Armour that will see the mobile technology company’s wearable devices and smartwatches…
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Rambo Launches Real Money Casino Mobile App in Kenya
Gambling company Rambo Resource Ltd has released the first ever casino mobile application in the country. The application which is…
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Social Media
Facebook is testing a Data Saver Mode feature for Messenger to help you save on data.
Facebook is reportedly testing out a new feature that will let users cut down its mobile Messenger app’s data…
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News
10 must-have travel apps, which one are you using?
Technology has changed travel in more ways than we can think of: the railway made covering long distances not only…
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63% of consumers globally don’t license agreement when installing new apps on their devices
63% of consumers globally do not read the license agreement carefully before installing a new app on their smartphone. Kaspersky…
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Google Now lets users edit files from within the Google Drive App
If you have the Google Drive app on your Android smartphone you will realize when using it you are only…
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Here is how Kenyan companies should use tech tools to add value to their recruitment process
The job market in Kenya is a paradox. On the one hand, an estimated 2.5 million youth are unemployed; on…
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Truecaller reaches 200 million user milestone, launches new tagging feature
Trucaller user base has now reached 200 million globally in less than 10 months, the company has announced. This announcement…
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SimbaPay wins DEMO Africa 2015. Next stop: Silicon Valley
SimbaPay was on Friday, 25 Sep 2015 announced as the winner of the prestigious DEMO Africa 2015 event which was…
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Easy Taxi app now available for Outlook
Easy Taxi users will now be able to request a taxi within their Microsoft Outlook email. This is after the…
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Video: Just what is VirtualPessa?
VirtualPessa is an online app that allows its members access airtime for Safaricom, Orange, YU and Airtel and automatically generates…
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Share carefully: Windows 10 will only let you install paid apps on 10 devices
One of the big features of Windows 10 is its unification of different platforms and ecosystems. Microsoft wants everyone to…
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Truecaller unveils its new redesigned dial pad app Truedialer
Truecaller has today unveiled the new look of its popular dial pad app Truedialer. Truedialer has been designed to replace the…
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Easy Taxi is now in Nakuru
Easy Taxi is now in Nakuru, the company has announced. All of this month until the 30th of June, Easy Taxi…
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10 nominees for the Innovation Prize for Africa Awards unveiled
The Innovation Prize for Africa has announced the 10 nominees for the 2015 annual Innovation Prize for Africa Awards. The…
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Microsoft’s new Windows 10 Phone build brings Spartan browser, new apps and more
Software giant Microsoft’s new Windows 10 Build 10051 brings new features to phones, but it can be an extremely slow…
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Social Media
Twitter is testing the ability to pin apps to brand profiles
Twitter is testing yet another interesting new feature; some brands are now able to pin their apps directly to their…
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Google rolls out content rating system for apps on Google Play
Google has today announced that it is introducing a new age-based rating system for apps and games on Google Play.…
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Your online food delivery just got easier, thanks to Hellofood
By TechTrendsKE, Nixon Kanali/Lilian Mutegi Having a busy day? Ordering food just got easier and faster Picture this, you are…
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Uber is finally in Kenya, promises users a seamless, efficient and safe ride
After much speculation Uber, the international smartphone app that seamlessly connects riders to drivers, has launched in Nairobi, Kenya this…
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Ebola Survivors Across West Africa Share Life-Saving Tips Via Mobile App
#ISurvivedEbola the groundbreaking West African multimedia campaign, has launched a new, interactive mobile app that allows Ebola survivors to connect…
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Social Media
Facebook rolls out new Search tool to help you seatch for old posts
Facebook has rolled out a new Search tool in what it says is to make it easier for users to…
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WHATSAPP NOW TELLS YOU ‘WHEN’ YOUR MESSAGE WAS READ!
Popular messaging service, WhatsApp has now rolled out a new update that allows users to know when a message they…
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PhotoMath App uses your phone’s camera to solve math problems
Remember those times back in high school when you always had problems solving those maths problems? well those times might just be…
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Microsoft’s Android Wear keyboard lets you draw letters on your smartwatch
Microsoft has a new keyboard app for Google’s Android Wear-powered smartwatches called Analog Keyboard for Android Wear. The “analog keyboard”…
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News
Equity Bank issues smart SIM powered by Taisys Technologies to provide mBanking and mobile communication services
By Nixon Kanali Equity Bank customers can now enjoy funds transfer, micro-payments and other mobile financial services that are agnostic…
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EU approves Facebooks’ acquisition of WhatsApp
By Nixon Kanali The EU has finally given a green light to Facebook’s acquisition of mobile messenger service WhatsApp. According to…
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Sanofi pediatrics ’Mommy’s Book’ App in Kenya
Sanofi pediatrics is now offering more than solutions from prevention to treatment adapted to children. In conjunction with Kenya Pediatrics Association, the…
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The HelloFood app; get food easier in a delicious way
By Nixon Kanali, TechTrendsKE Staying at the office for lunch? Want your food to be delivered at home or your…
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