Safaricom CEO Peter Ndegwa says M-PESA’s next phase is savings, investing and insurance
Safaricom CEO Peter Ndegwa says M-PESA’s next phase is savings, investing and insurance. Most of it already exists inside M-PESA.
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How Microsoft’s Africa Development Centre went from a USD 100 million promise to closing its doors in Nairobi
Microsoft’s Africa Development Centre promised USD 100m (about KES 13bn) and 500 engineers. Here’s what it built in Nairobi and Lagos, and why it’s closing.
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Three in four Kenyans say social media is good for democracy, a 37-country survey finds
In a 37-country Pew survey, 75% of Kenyans call social media good for democracy, fourth highest and steady since 2023.
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Patrick Njoroge says M-Pesa and Airtel Money should pay users interest on wallets
Former CBK governor Patrick Njoroge wants Kenya’s law to pay M-Pesa users interest on wallets. Comments close 9th October 2026.
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A 5G connection in Kenya uses about 21 GB a month. A 4G one uses about 5 GB
Kenyans used 50.6% more mobile data in a year. 5G connections, just 3.8% of the total, used 14.5% of it.
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Safaricom added 11.5 million SIM cards in a year, more than Kenya’s whole mobile market did
Safaricom added 11.5 million active SIM cards in a year, more than Kenya’s whole market. Airtel, Telkom and Equitel shrank.
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Kenya has 54 million active mobile money accounts, more than it has people
Kenya had 54 million active mobile money subscriptions in June, 101.3% of its population. Airtel Money’s share has nearly doubled.
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Claude has found a new CRISPR-like enzyme system in virus DNA, but nobody knows what it does yet
Claude found ART, a CRISPR-like enzyme system in bacteria-infecting viruses. Anthropic confirmed it’s real but doesn’t know what it does.
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Vilcom and Ahadi added more fixed internet subscriptions than Faiba in six months. Poa lost 14,704
Vilcom and Ahadi added more fixed internet subscriptions than Faiba between December and June. Poa lost 14,704 and shrank again.
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No, Kenya’s passport did not fall 52 places
Henley has Kenya 69th with 70 destinations. Another index has it 120th. Counting rows, the two rankings agree.
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Kenya is on its fifth university funding system in forty years. This one makes everything a loan
Kenya’s Tertiary Education Placement and Funding Bill would scrap university scholarships and fund every placed student entirely through repayable loans.
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Samsung is the world’s biggest phone brand again
Samsung took 24% of global phone shipments in Q2 2026, beating Apple’s record 20%. Memory costs crushed budget brands.
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The New Tricks Fraudsters Use, and How to Stay Ahead of Them
A scammer needs a few seconds of your voice, one photo, or one careless SMS. Here are the tricks running in Kenya right now, and the habits that beat them.
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Kenya’s Digital Rights Score Went Up in 2025. The Year Behind It Was Far Messier
Kenya’s Londa 2025 digital rights score rose to 37 of 60 and 7th in Africa, despite arrests, shutdowns and data breaches.
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Infinix finally ditches MediaTek-only strategy for Qualcomm Snapdragon
For years, if you picked up an Infinix phone, you could almost predict what powered it: a MediaTek chip humming quietly under the hood. It worked. It sold. It dominated emerging markets. Now? That script just flipped. Infinix has…
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