Kenyan technology publication covering consumer technology, telecoms, digital services, startups, reviews and practical guides.
Picture two people starting a company together with a handshake agreement that the work will always benefit the public. Now imagine one of them watching as that company quietly becomes one of the world’s most valuable. That, in the…
The number of Kenyans needing card-based international payments is growing. This is evidenced by 62.1% growth in M-Pesa Visa card active customers. Visa card users reached 316,477 in the year ended March 2026, up from 195,196 active users…
The audited results of Safaricom for the financial year ended March 31, 2026, show a company firing on most cylinders in Kenya and spending heavily in Ethiopia to build something that isn’t profitable yet but is clearly growing fast. 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…
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…
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…
Somewhere in Nairobi in 2022, a young graphic designer was building her life, brick by brick, thanks to a Fiverr profile, a portfolio, and a client list that formed the foundation of her creative career. She had no way of knowing that the…
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,…
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…
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…
The fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) sector in Kenya is growing with new players and new subscribers. However, this positive growth has a negative aspect, with the cables on poles and trenches becoming an eyesore across the country. Now, the…
Kenya’s government is coming for the gambling industry from two directions at once: the wallet and the TV screen. On the advertising side, new regulations proposed by the Gaming Regulatory Authority of Kenya (GRAK – formerly BCLB) would…
Kenya’s Finance Bill 2026, tabled in Parliament on April 30, has proposed two major changes to how taxes are filed and enforced in the country. One shifts deadlines, the other hands the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) considerably more…
Meta had a strange first quarter of 2026 with revenue up sharply, user numbers down, and the company somehow doubling down on spending more money. Let’s start with the money. Revenue hit $56.3 billion this quarter, up 33% from $42.3…
Your website’s Web Host Manager (WHM), WP Squared, and Control Panel (cPanel) may have a critical security flaw that lets anyone become root admin without a password. Malicious actors can take advantage of a bug officially tracked as…
