Latest tech stories from across Kenya.
Jubilee Group and FSD Africa’s BimaLab accelerator have partnered with 7 insurtech companies to develop affordable insurance products for small businesses, informal workers, farmers and low-income households in Kenya, with pilot programmes…
Airtel Africa Plc plans to spend about $1.1 billion on capital expenditure in the financial year ending March 2027, extending its investment programme after spending $884 million in the previous year as demand for mobile data grows across…
Safaricom has launched a managed SD-WAN service that helps businesses connect multiple branches through one centrally managed network, with packages starting at KES 9,500 a month per branch. The service is designed for businesses such as…
PawaPay has secured a Payment Service Provider (PSP) licence in Mozambique, giving the pan-African payments company a direct route to more than 12 million active mobile money accounts in the country. The licence, issued by the Bank of…
Spotify is expanding its audiobook service from 22 markets to more than 180 by the end of 2026, bringing the offering to Kenya, South Africa, Nigeria and Ghana as the streaming company pushes deeper into digital books. The expansion will…
Lagos Life, a Nigerian-made browser game that turns the hustle, economics and everyday life of Lagos into a virtual simulation, has attracted more than 2 million players in less than a week, rapidly turning a local gaming experiment into…
The Africa Financial Summit will hold its 2026 annual meeting in Luanda on Nov. 3 and 4, bringing more than 1,250 financial-sector executives, regulators, investors and policymakers to Angola as the country seeks to modernize its banking…
Kenya is seeking to build a clearer path for university research and locally developed technologies to reach the market, as government, academia and industry push to extract more commercial value from the country’s research base.…
Google is targeting Kenya’s growing community of digital creators, media professionals and university students with hands-on training on how to use its Gemini artificial intelligence tools for research, storytelling, content production and…
Kenya’s active mobile subscriptions climbed to almost 88 million by the end of June, exceeding the country’s population as individuals and businesses maintain multiple SIM cards across different networks and for different services. The…
TikTok has begun asking Kenyan content creators to submit tax-residency and personal information as the platform prepares to comply with Kenya’s withholding-tax requirements on digital content income. Creators are being directed through…
Mastercard and Trip.com are teaming up to demonstrate how artificial intelligence agents could change the way travelers search, book and pay for travel services. The companies, working with payments provider Network International, are…
Saviynt, an identity security solutions firm has appointed Kamel Heus as Vice President of Sales for the Middle East and Africa (MEA), as the company advances its growth and strengthens its presence in key markets. Based in Dubai, Heus…
Digital Realty is investing $80 million in a new data center in Nairobi, expanding its infrastructure footprint in Kenya as demand for cloud computing, artificial intelligence and digital services accelerates across East Africa. The…
Zoho Corporation is expanding Catalyst, its cloud platform for building and deploying applications, with tools designed to let AI coding assistants perform more of the work involved in taking software from generated code to production. The…
Buying Airtel airtime from your M-Pesa account is one of the fastest ways to top up your line without visiting a shop or purchasing a scratch card. Using Pesapal Paybill 220220, Airtel customers can buy airtime directly from the M-Pesa…
Uganda and Kenya are seeking to unlock investment and business opportunities in tourism, technology and innovation while addressing barriers to seamless movement across East Africa. The agenda will feature at the fifth Uganda–Kenya Coast…
Google will begin withholding 5% from eligible YouTube earnings paid to Kenyan creators from September, with the company set to remit the deducted amount to the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) in line with the country’s tax requirements. The…
Google is expanding access to its AI-powered learning tools across Africa, offering eligible higher education students in 27 countries one year of Google AI Plus at no cost. The offer gives university and college students 12 months of…
Google Cloud is expanding its enterprise artificial intelligence offering with two new industry-specific products designed to automate complex workflows in financial services and legal work. The company announced Gemini Enterprise for…
MTN Group is planning to develop about 150 megawatts of AI-ready data-center capacity in South Africa and Nigeria, expanding its push into digital infrastructure as demand for computing power grows across Africa. The telecommunications…
NTT DATA and Palo Alto Networks have formed a multi-year global strategic alliance to help businesses secure the adoption of artificial intelligence, with the companies targeting $1 billion in joint business by the end of 2029. The…
Samsung Electronics is taking its connected-home strategy directly to Kenyan consumers, using three Nairobi shopping malls to demonstrate how smartphones, televisions, wearables and AI-enabled appliances can operate as a single technology…
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is investing $1 billion to place thousands of artificial intelligence specialists inside customer organisations, in a move that will help businesses use AI in everyday operations rather than experimenting with it.…
