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Bharti Airtel has renewed its partnership with Google to roll out Rich Communication Services (RCS) messaging on its network in India, ending a year-long standoff between the telecom operator and the US tech giant. The move is a major…
The War Within is slowly coming to an end, ready to pass the torch to the next expansion, Midnight. While the full release is still a while away, the Midnight beta is already live, giving players a good taste of what to expect. Among all…
Airtel Money and Diamond Trust Bank (DTB) have rolled out a new mobile money integration that allows customers to make direct payments to DTB Till Moja merchants using their Airtel Money wallets. The update also enables instant deposits…
Latitude59, Estonia’s flagship startup and technology conference, officially opened in Nairobi, setting the stage for European-African tech collaboration while spotlighting startups, investment, and agentic AI at the center of Africa’s…
Vodafone is buying more control of Kenya’s biggest telco, and the government needs the money. In what is shaping up as Kenya’s largest corporate transaction in years, Vodafone Kenya will pay $1.57 billion to acquire 15% of Safaricom from…
Micron just pulled the plug on Crucial, its consumer-focused memory brand, and the timing couldn’t be worse for anyone building or upgrading a PC. The company announced yesterday it’s shutting down Crucial’s consumer operations to focus on…
It’s no secret that the AI industry has been booming and ever faster since the launch of ChatGPT. We have seen a meteoric rise in AI-related stocks and companies. Organizations like Google, Microsoft, ByteDance (the company that owns…
Walk into any IT department on a Tuesday afternoon and you’ll witness the same scene: project managers juggling spreadsheets, team leads playing resource Tetris with calendars, and someone inevitably double-booked across three critical…
Marques Brownlee, better known as MKBHD, is officially shutting down Panels, the iOS and Android wallpaper app he launched just over a year ago. The announcement was shared through a notice on the Panel’s website along with a detailed…
Kenya has taken a major step toward introducing nuclear energy into its electrical grid after the government confirmed that the Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KenGen) will operate the country’s first nuclear power plant. The…
Netflix has quietly gutted the ability to cast shows from your phone to your TV, and users are furious. The change rolled out in recent weeks with no announcement. People just started noticing the cast button had vanished from their…
There’s a quiet shift happening behind the charts and candlesticks of every serious forex trading screen. It’s not about a new strategy or indicator. It’s about how the most agile traders are wiring themselves directly into the…
SmartTube, a widely used third-party YouTube client for Fire TV and Android/Google TV devices, is facing a major security incident. The app’s digital signature was exposed, prompting both Google and Amazon to automatically uninstall it…
OpenAI appears to be preparing an advertising system for ChatGPT, based on new details discovered in the latest ChatGPT Android beta. As spotted by Tibor Blaho on X, the beta version 1.2025.329 includes references to an “ads feature,” with…
Safaricom has cut the data allocation in several of its popular mobile bundles by more than 50%, effectively doubling what customers pay per MB. The changes rolled out over the weekend without any warning or official announcement from…
For the first time in around fourteen years, Apple is on track to overtake Samsung in global smartphone shipments. This finding comes from new estimates shared by Counterpoint Research. According to the report, Apple is expected to ship…
The Kenyan government just lost a major legal battle over press freedom. The High Court has thrown out a directive that banned live television and radio coverage of protests, ruling it was both illegal and unconstitutional. Justice John…
For more than a decade, ChromeOS has been Google’s main ticket into the laptop market. It was lightweight, fast, and widely adopted in schools, but it never truly broke into the mainstream PC ecosystem dominated by Windows and macOS. Now,…
Last week, X (Twitter) rolled out a new transparency tool under “About This Account” that surfaces the location or geographical origin (country or region) of the device used to create or operate a given profile. But as soon as it rolled…
The hospitality industry stands at a transformative crossroads where technology has evolved from being a convenience to becoming an essential component of operations. Hotels worldwide are investing heavily in digital innovation, with…
Which Is Better AI or Manual Editing for Long Video to Short Video Nowadays, social media scrolling is similar to changing TV channels—if a video does not catch the viewer’s attention within the first few seconds, it will be skipped.…
Infinix has launched its Green Holidays campaign in Kenya, running from November 24 through December 31. The promotion covers 5 smartphone models with price cuts ranging from modest to massive, plus weekly giveaways and a grand prize draw…
Uber has rolled out fully driverless robotaxis in Abu Dhabi, marking its fourth autonomous vehicle market globally and the first in the Middle East. The move comes through a strategic partnership with WeRide, a leading Chinese autonomous…
Kenya is preparing to overhaul how it regulates online shopping and digital trade, following new regional guidelines that recommend creating a specialized e-commerce unit to handle the country’s booming digital economy. The Model…
