Kenyan technology publication covering smartphones, consumer electronics, apps, telecoms, reviews and technology news.
By Robert Benvenuti, Chief Information Officer for Data & Applied AI at Absa When mobile networks first started rolling out at scale, the African market was considered unviable by many of the companies assessing the continent through the…
Kenya’s October belongs to the league, but the season is shaped by three calendars that rarely line up: the FKF Premier League round, the CAF qualifying windows and a sevens series that has yet to publish its second-division dates. The…
Atlético Madrid beat Manchester United 2-0 at the Riyadh Air Metropolitano on 13 October, in round two of the Champions League league phase. Substitute Ademola Lookman’s late goal sparked plenty of discussion among Super Eagles supporters,…
Octagon Africa Financial Services has opened a new office in Mombasa as it expands its presence in Kenya’s coastal region and seeks to bring its financial services closer to customers. The office is located on the 9th Floor of Epic…
The Principal Secretary for ICT and the Digital Economy, Eng. John Kipchumba Tanui, CBS, has called for stronger partnerships between industry and academia to equip Kenya’s youth with practical, market-relevant skills that respond to the…
Africa’s digital economy is growing at remarkable speed, opening new opportunities for people, businesses and governments across the continent. Building strong cyber resilience will be key to sustaining that momentum, according to the new…
Westcon-Comstor has appointed Donald Monne as Sales Manager for SADC. Monne will lead the company’s SADC sales team, working across a diverse group of markets to strengthen partner relationships, support business development and expand…
African Banking Corporation (ABC Bank) has reduced its PesaLink transfer charges. The bank will now offer free transfers of up to KSh999 and a flat fee of KSh20 for transactions ranging from KSh1,000 to KSh999,999. The revised pricing is…
Safaricom has launched a managed software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) service for businesses. It will offer branch packages starting at KES 9,500 per month on a 36-month contract. The service allows businesses that operate across…
PawaPay has been granted a Payment Service Provider (PSP) licence by the Bank of Mozambique through its local subsidiary, Quidexplus Mozambique. The authorisation makes PawaPay one of the first companies to be licensed to operate as a PSP…
M-KOPA has marked its 15th anniversary after reaching 10 million customers since its founding in 2011, with the company reporting record revenue of $600 million for its 2025 financial year. The revenue figure represents a 45% increase from…
IBM and Red Hat today announced that Lightwell has identified and remediated more than 400 previously unknown vulnerabilities in widely used Java libraries. The companies also announced the general availability of Lightwell Clearinghouse,…
MNT-Halan, Egypt and MENA’s first fintech unicorn, announced the successful first closing of an investment round led by Al Ahly Capital, the investment subsidiary of the National Bank of Egypt (NBE), following the completion of all…
Jubilee Group and FSD Africa have partnered with seven insurtech companies to develop and test affordable insurance products targeting underserved Kenyans. These include SMEs, informal workers, farmers and low-income households. Jubilee…
Four young Kenyan women have emerged as the overall winners of the third edition of the GirlCode Kenya Hackathon, held at Konza Technopolis. Mary Wangui, Linet Mugwanja, Aisha Barasa and Cynthia Chepkorir won the two-day competition with…
Eric Muriuki has joined Absa Group as Managing Executive for Pan-African Growth Strategy, Platforms & Digital Ventures. This comes after his departure from NCBA Group. At NCBA, he led the LOOP digital financial services business. Muriuki…
Safaricom has taken its Home Internet customer engagement efforts to Avenue Park Phase 1 in Embakasi, Nairobi, where residents had an opportunity to interact directly with the company’s technical and customer support teams. The engagement…
By Alison Kadangwe, Project Manager at Change Logic Every business reaches a point where informal coordination is no longer enough. When a company is small, people can make decisions quickly, everybody tends to know what everybody else is…
Dan Kwach has returned to Cassava Technologies. He will be taking up a new role as Executive for AI Data Centres under Africa Data Centres. Kwach announced the move on LinkedIn. This announcement comes less than a year after he announced…
Companies need protection from internal AI agents and autonomous systems, says Allan Juma, Lead Cybersecurity Engineer at ESET AI adoption is outpacing internal security governance, leaving Kenyan organisations exposed to both old and…
Vertiv has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Cybastion, focused on accelerating digital transformation across Africa. The agreement establishes a framework for collaboration within Northwest Africa, with a focus on markets…
The Fishermen Experience in Kisumu brought together three days of creativity, learning and entertainment, with engagements for young creatives on Wednesday and Thursday leading into the main concert at Mamboleo Stadium on Saturday. On…
By Bryan Hamman, Area Vice President, Africa at NETSCOUT Enterprises are moving quickly from using AI to analyse operations, to applying it to make operational decisions. What began as advisory analytics has rapidly evolved into…
Inspire the world and create the future, For Samsung, this vision has shaped the company for decades. The Samsung story began in 1938, with Samsung Electronics being established in 1967. From its early days in electronics, the company has…
