Latest technology stories from across Kenya.
Airtel Africa and SpaceX have completed technical trials of the Starlink Direct-to-Cell service in Kenya, targeting regions where terrestrial mobile towers do not reach. The pilot confirmed that standard 4G smartphones can connect to…
Mobile has changed the way players access and engage with online casinos. What was once a secondary option, one overlooked by some casino platforms, is now the primary way many users play. With smartphones always within reach, casino…
Namibia became the latest African country to shut the door on Elon Musk’s satellite internet service, Starlink. The Communications Regulatory Authority of Namibia resolved to decline Starlink’s applications for both a telecommunications…
Namibia has rejected an application by Elon Musk-owned Starlink for a licence to provide satellite internet services in the country, dealing the company a second setback in southern Africa. The Communications Regulatory Authority of…
The Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) is pushing ever harder to control what phones enter the market and how they get here, and the costs of that push are starting to land on ordinary Kenyans. In its Technical Specifications for…
Diamond Trust Bank (DTB) reported a 26% growth in profit before tax and 21% growth in profit after tax to KSh 10.7 billion for the financial year ending December 31, 2025. Total assets rose by 15% and customer deposits surpassed the…
National Bank of Kenya (NBK) has reported a profit before tax jumped 178% to KSh 2.91 billion for the financial year ending December 31, 2025. This is up from KSh 1.05 billion in 2024. Profit after tax rose 125% to KSh 2.39 billion. “The…
By Angela Ng’ang’a, Board President, American Chamber of Commerce Kenya (AmCham Kenya) Kenya’s creative economy is evolving from cultural promise into investment reality. Spanning film, music, digital content, gaming, fashion, and sports,…
Kenya has formally launched a data-sharing framework to govern how satellite and Earth observation data are shared across different agencies. The Kenya Space Agency (KSA) launched the Kenya Earth Observation Data Sharing Framework 2026 in…
Equity Bank has been named Africa’s strongest banking brand and Kenya’s most valuable brand in the latest 2026 rankings by Brand Finance. The bank achieved a Brand Strength Index (BSI) score of 93.9 out of 100, earning an AAA+ rating. This…
Orca Fraud has raised $2.35 million in seed funding to accelerate the growth of its real-time transaction monitoring and fraud intelligence platform across Africa and other emerging markets. If you have a startup you want featured on…
Sistema.bio has announced the financial close and launch of FarmCarbon. This is a new carbon finance vehicle designed to channel global climate capital directly to smallholder farmers adopting biogas technology. If you have a startup you…
Samsung has announced the comprehensive AI computing technologies it will showcase at NVIDIA GTC 2026 in San Jose, California, scheduled for March 16-19. As the industry’s only semiconductor company offering a total AI solution spanning…
Samsung arrived at NVIDIA’s GTC 2026 conference in San Jose with a clear intent that it wants to be the company that supplies nearly every critical memory component inside tomorrow’s AI systems. The headline product is HBM4, Samsung’s…
Kenya’s government digital services platform, e-Citizen, has announced plans to introduce commercial advertisements and official notices as part of a broader enhancement of the portal. e-Citizen announced the platform is currently being…
When markets get shaky, everyone pays attention. These days, more and more tech-savvy traders are turning to commodities like gold and oil, and thanks to online platforms, they can make moves faster than ever. There’s a pattern to…
TikTok has banned 20 accounts following an investigation that uncovered a disturbing network of AI-generated Black female influencer personas being used to funnel users toward paid, sexually explicit content. The BBC, working alongside…
Kenya’s Affordable Housing Programme promises hundreds of thousands of new homes. Yet for many ordinary Kenyans, the biggest fear is not whether the walls will be built, but whether they will ever truly own what they pay for. Lost files,…
In a ruling that lands squarely in the age of mobile money and digital accounts, the High Court sitting at Milimani in Nairobi has declared that a registered mobile telephone number qualifies as a digital identifier, one that links…
Kenya’s journey in digitalisation of public financial management reforms coordination is increasingly being recognized as a model for African Governments seeking to translate reform ambition into measurable results. When Kenya decided to…
New data from a report by Bolt in partnership with Ipsos shows that over 50% of gig workers in Kenya now rely on it as their primary source of income. According to the report, Kenya’s gig economy now supports approximately 1.5 million…
AVEVA, a global leader in industrial software, driving digital transformation and sustainability, today announces the appointment of Khaled Salah, 37 years old, as Vice President of Africa. In this new role, he will be responsible for…
Equity Group has reported the highest profit in Kenya’s corporate history. The bank has posted a 55% jump in profit after tax to KSh75.5 billion for the financial year ending 2025, up from KSh48.8 billion the previous year. Total income…
Standard Chartered Bank Kenya closed 2025 with a profit after tax of KES 12.4 billion, down 38% from the KES 20.1 billion it recorded in 2024, when the bank posted its strongest earnings to date. The drop was driven by a combination of…
