Latest technology stories from across Kenya.
SeamlessHR rebrands to Seamless Technologies, a strategic pivot from human resource management to artificial intelligence, embedded financial services and enterprise software. The company said the new corporate structure reflects its…
NCBA and electric mobility company ePure Motion have signed a strategic partnership to help accelerate the adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) in Kenya. They plan to do this through tailored asset financing solutions for individuals,…
Rwanda has announced the nationwide rollout of eKash. This is the country’s national instant payment system. As of 14 July 2026, all interoperable retail payment transactions between banks and electronic money issuers are processed through…
Kenya has become one of Africa’s biggest testing grounds for digital lending apps. Millions of people who could never walk into a bank and get a loan can now get one from their phone in minutes. That access has been useful for a lot of…
Picture a Kenyan freelancer waiting days for a bank transfer from abroad, only to lose part of the payment to fees while the shilling changes in value before the money arrives. Instead, the client could send a digital dollar, a token built…
OnePlus is exiting the United States and European markets, with a formal announcement expected in mid-July 2026. The move ends more than a decade of the brand’s push into Western territory, where it built a following as a “flagship killer”…
Kenya’s digital government expertise is beginning to find markets beyond its borders, with Webmasters Kenya Ltd, the company behind the country’s eCitizen platform, signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Mozambique’s National…
Spotify opened the official Greasy Tunes Café Kitchen in Nairobi in partnership with The BAG, marking the start of a 12-day pop-up that brings together food, music and the creative communities shaping the city’s culture. The Nairobi…
QKS Group announced today that it has recognised NETSCOUT as a Leader in the SPARK Matrix: Network Observability, 2026. Akshay Singh, Analyst at QKS Group, states, “NETSCOUT has established a commanding presence in the network…
By Sally Kimeu, Territory Sales Manager for East Africa at Nutanix Imagine an enterprise IT team approving a storage refresh based on a hardware quote that made sense at the start of the budget cycle. By the time approvals, procurement,…
DeepSeek is moving toward a stock market debut, and the timeline is shorter than most people expected. The Chinese AI company, best known for shaking up the industry last year with a model that matched top American systems while using far…
Microsoft’s July 2026 Patch Tuesday update for Windows 11 is being blocked on some Dell computers, and the reason comes down to a driver conflict that started brewing weeks earlier. The update in question, KB5101650, went out on July 14…
During the WSIS 2026 Forum in Geneva, Kenya’s delegation, led by Cabinet Secretary William Kabogo, alongside the Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) Director General David Mugonyi, pitched the country as Africa’s digital front-runner.…
Bitcoin’s fear and greed index has whipsawed between “extreme fear” and “greed” six times in 2026 alone. Every swing punishes retail traders trying to nail the perfect entry, panicking when price moves against them, then buying high out of…
Safaricom’s FY26 results confirm what many Kenyan traders already know from experience. Pochi La Biashara has grown from a simple M-PESA feature into a key part of how small businesses receive payments across the country. Total merchants…
Binance today marks its ninth anniversary with more than 323 million registered users across over 100 countries. When Binance launched in July 2017, fewer than 6 million people worldwide owned cryptocurrency. Today, that number exceeds 741…
TikTok has announced a series of new initiatives with the aim to improve AI literacy, increase transparency around AI-generated content and tackle AI-generated spam as the use of artificial intelligence continues to grow on the platform.…
Stablecoin-powered travel payments startup Timon has announced its expansion to Kenya after surpassing 100,000 users across Africa. The expansion comes after the company received backing from Alliance, a global accelerator for crypto…
The National Infrastructure Fund (NIF) has begun recruiting its first Chief Executive Officer (CEO) as the government moves to operationalise the state-backed investment fund established to finance major infrastructure projects across the…
Every fast-growing fintech, health tech, or insurance company eventually hits the same wall. The product is working, customers are signing up faster than the team can hire, and the engineering org is under constant pressure to ship.…
Liquid Intelligent Technologies has appointed Bernard Beya as Chief Executive Officer of its operations in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) effective 1 April 2026. Until his appointment, Beya joined the firm as chief financial…
Liquid Intelligent Technologies has appointed Bernard Beya as Chief Executive Officer of its operations in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) He joined Liquid Intelligent Technologies in September 2022 as Chief Financial Officer and…
According to Spotify’s June 2026 listening data, listeners aged 18 to 24 accounted for 53.7% of all streams in Nairobi, the highest proportion among the three African cities analysed. In comparison, the same age group represented 44.4% of…
Apple has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, its commercial arm OpenAI Group PBC, and its hardware subsidiary io Products (IO), accusing the ChatGPT creator of orchestrating a systematic theft of confidential Apple information. The suit,…
