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Chinese smartphone manufacturer, Realme, has unveiled the latest additions to the company’s portfolio. The latest lineup includes two smartphones: the Realme 12 Pro and the midrange Realme 12 Pro Plus 5G, with both smartphones shipping…
This morning, six judiciary services commenced at six pilot Huduma Centres: Nairobi GPO, City Square, Makadara, Kibra, Eastleigh, and Kiambu. This is part of a new partnership between the Judiciary and Huduma Secretariat. The rollout of…
Standard Chartered Bank and Village Capital, an investment firm targeting early-stage entrepreneurs, have recently announced a new partnership seeking to invest in impact-driven, women-led startups. The partnership will see the launch of a…
AI is the new buzzword in town. Indeed, Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing the world. The last two decades have laid the infrastructure to give over 5 billion people access to digital services through smartphones and the Internet.…
Instagram is finally working to make “Finstas” official as part of the app’s features in its quest to entice users to post more albeit privately with the flipside feature. Many users, especially some millennials and most Gen Z users on…
An Auto insurance company in Kenya is making it mandatory for all Public Service Vehicles (PSV) seeking it’s Auto insurance policy to go cashless. Directline Assurance, released a statement yesterday saying it “will provide the technology…
Influencer and YouTube sensation MrBeast, now has the crown of the most reposted post on X. Attaining 3.8 million reposts has seen the YouTuber surpass the previous record of 3.6 million. The previous record was held by a Japanese…
Uber has today announced that you can now hail its Electric Boda when you’re in the Nairobi CBD. This new service was introduced in late August last year offering the option to use their electric bikes for rides across Nairobi. When it…
First time national Identity Card applicants and those replacing old ones are being issued with a Maisha Namba. This is the 3rd generation Kenyan ID that is finally being issued after many setbacks. Originally, the Maisha Namba was set to…
Round-up apps are automatic saving tools that allow users to round up their card transactions to the nearest dollar. Basically, round-up apps are digital equivalents of the old-school coin jars with additional perks that allow you to save…
OPPO has officially unveiled its latest midrange smartphone lineup – the Reno11 series which includes the base model and the Pro model – and they’re both 5G powered. The two succeed the Reno 10 series from last year including the Pro…
EdTech platform, AltSchool Africa has officially launched in Kenya. Founder Adewale Yusuf points out that Kenya currently ranks behind Nigeria in terms of learner enrollments hence the need to set up shop in the country. From data shared…
Xiaomi Kenya is planning to launch the Redmi Note 13 series in the country later next month. The Note series is the company’s most popular model of smartphones and the new Note 13 series will succeed the Note 12 series that launched in the…
Foldables will be the talking point in terms of consumer electronics this year thanks to the interest they had last year and Samsung wants to strengthen its foundation as an industry leader in this space. There are new rumours that the…
Technuary is here as Xiaomi has announced the official date for the launch of the Redmi Note 13 series in the country. The Xiaomi Redmi Note 13 Series succeeds the Redmi Note 12 series launched last year. Xiaomi Redmi Note lineup is the…
The African Development Bank and the United Kingdom have chosen the Transmission Network Improvement Project in Kenya as a beneficiary project under the Room to Run Sovereign transaction (R2RS). The UK government will guarantee a Ksh.9.6B…
The Quality of Service Report (QoS) for the year ended indicates that telephony service quality in Kenya is dropping. For the referenced period, the industry average score was 72.4 per cent. This is a huge drop from the 82.3 per cent…
Pesalink has announced that it will soon have a merchant payment option to rival Safaricom’s Lipa na M-pesa. The news comes after Safaricom’s customers expressed concerns due to over reliance on the Mpesa feature which has been suffering…
alGROWithm has recently received funding from Digital Africa.The cash injection will be used to boost alGROWithm’s Growth Talent Accelerator Program (GTAP) that was launched back in March, 2022. alGROWithm will focus on two things this…
Safaricom customers are puzzled by the rise of unsolicited subscription prompts. While this has been happening sporadically since the start of the year, the frequency of the prompts appear to have escalated. Its currently unknown if this…
A technical issue facing M-PESA Paybill is still affecting transactions this morning. This was confirmed by Safaricom and comes 12 hours after the company had claimed the issue had been resolved. “We are experiencing a recurring service…
Kenya Power have confirmed that customers trying to buy electricity tokens via M-Pesa are currently unable to do so. The problem which has persisted for over 5 hours is related to a technical issue experienced by Safaricom’s Mobile Money…
TECNO is gearing up to launch the Phantom V2 Fold – its second-gen bookstyle foldable to succeed the Phantom V Fold[Review] from last year. The Phantom V Fold was announced at MWC 2023 and TECNO is slated to announce its successor at this…
Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2024 happened last week and if you have been keeping up with tech events you might have noticed that it happened two weeks earlier than usual – last year’s Unpacked was held on 1st February. We had a watch party…
