Latest technology stories from across Kenya.
Kenya’s cyber threat monitoring body detected over 3.3 billion threat events between January and March 2026, a 26% drop from the previous quarter but still an enormous volume driven almost entirely by attacks on system infrastructure. The…
The Kenyan government wants to charge you more to access its own services, and it’s trying to use new regulations to make that stick after courts twice told it the fee was illegal. Treasury Cabinet Secretary John Mbadi has published draft…
Ted Turner, the media mogul behind the CNN network, has passed away at 87, leaving behind a career so improbable that even the people who watched it unfold struggled to believe it. He had Lewy body dementia, disclosed in 2018, and spent…
Cloud9 has announced the acquisition of Mtickets. With this acquisition, Cloud9 and Mtickets are positioning themselves to build a more integrated ecosystem that combines ticketing, payments and access to financing for both consumers and…
Kenyans woke up this week to queues and empty pumps at many fuel stations across parts of the country. The Ministry of Energy and Petroleum moved quickly to explain what happened, saying a technical and administrative problem had prevented…
In 2 days, anything you send in Instagram DMs will be, in principle, readable by Meta. The company is pulling the plug on end-to-end encryption (E2EE) support for Instagram direct messages from May 8, 2026, and its explanation for doing so…
Bolt has invested R3 billion (€150 million) into South Africa over the past decade, underscoring the country’s importance as one of its largest and fastest-growing shared mobility markets globally and signalling further expansion through…
Old Mutual has launched a countywide financial wellness drive to support small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and retail customers with practical tools to better manage their finances amid rising economic pressure. The initiative,…
dLocal and inDrive have announced a new partnership to roll out card payments and local driver payouts in South Africa. The integration allows inDrive to support local card payments, real-time payment splitting and domestic disbursements…
Vertiv has announced Frieda He has joined the company as Chief Procurement Officer (CPO). She will lead Vertiv’s global procurement organisation, with a focus on further strengthening supply chain resilience, enabling growth, optimising…
Posting a lot but not seeing new followers? You are not alone in 2026. Instagram is very busy now. The app looks at how long people watch and if they share your stuff. This means even good pages can get stuck. But you can fix it. Small…
The Pharmacy and Poisons Board (PPB) is drafting new rules to govern how AI tools are used in healthcare, a response to the growing number of people turning to chatbots and health apps for medical advice with little to no oversight. As…
Apple Watch bands are no longer just accessories. They directly affect how your watch feels, how it performs during daily activities, and how well it fits into your personal style. From office wear to workouts and travel, the right band…
The Hashgraph Association (THA), the Swiss-based non-profit advancing digital enablement, innovation, and education across the Hedera ecosystem, together with Exponential Science (ES), a global non-profit dedicated to accelerating emerging…
vivo has launched the V70 FE in Kenya, and the headline number is a 200-megapixel rear camera with optical image stabilization. That’s a lot of pixels, and the practical upside is that you can zoom in or crop aggressively after the fact…
Africa’s most populous nation, Nigeria, has found itself yet again facing fraud allegations. Kled, a 4-month-old startup that buys data from individuals and sells to companies, has removed its app from the Nigerian app store. “After…
Anonymous tip-offs to the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) netted KES 6.8 billion in recovered taxes in the financial year ended June 2025, a 61% jump from the KES 4.22 billion recovered the year before. The source of this intelligence was…
The Ministry of Interior and National Administration has issued what amounts to an ultimatum that non-governmental organizations (NGOs) yet to transition to the new Public Benefit Organizations (PBO) regulatory framework have 9 days to…
Media Council of Kenya (MCK) has released its State of Media 2025 survey, and the picture it paints is one of an industry mid-transformation. The survey reached 3,774 people aged 15 and above across all 47 counties between April 15 and 23,…
Digital platforms have overtaken traditional broadcasting as the primary source of news for Kenyans. According to the latest 2025 State of Media Report by the Media Council of Kenya, the gap between digital and legacy media continues to…
Botswana has launched the Botswana Tech Fund (BTF), a £50 million venture fund aimed at supporting startups across Southern Africa. Launch Africa Ventures has been appointed as the investment advisor for Phase One of the fund, marking an…
Kenya is pushing forward the Statistics Bill 2026, with one of the objectives of the bill, promoted by the Cabinet Secretary for the National Treasury and Economic Planning, being to align Kenya’s statistical system with the Constitution…
Novastar Ventures has announced the final close of its third fund, the Africa People and Planet Fund III (NVIII), at $147 million, positioning it among the largest venture capital funds focused on Africa. The fund brings together a mix of…
Gen Z, you may want to sit this one out or, better yet, listen closely. Before Google was a verb, before every campus student had an AI helping them with their CATs, and before a WhatsApp chatbot became a family group member, there was Ask…
