Kenyan technology publication covering consumer technology, telecoms, digital services, startups, reviews and practical guides.
Among the seven exchanges compared here, MEXC ranks first for standard spot trading cost. Regular spot markets start at 0% maker and 0.05% taker, below the entry-level rates used by most rivals here. That does not automatically make it the…
At WSO2Con Africa 2026, ICT Secretary Mary N. Kerema gave the government’s digitization record a mixed review that doubled as a warning. Kenya now runs more than 22,000 online government services, a figure she used to establish that the…
For Kenyan banks, telcos, and large enterprises, the next phase of AI may not be about adding another chatbot to their websites. The bigger challenge could be connecting AI agents to the systems that already run their businesses. That was…
The Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) has released its 2025 Bank Supervision Annual Report, and buried in nearly 180 pages of regulatory detail is a clear story of how the country’s banks are no longer just banks. They’re becoming data…
The Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) and the National Treasury have published a draft law that could change how banks, M-PESA and other payment providers operate in the country. The draft National Payment System Bill, 2026, would replace the…
Google is pushing Gemini deeper into the daily workflows of Kenyan creators, media professionals, and university students, showcasing the tools at a Nairobi workshop as the company expands access to its AI services across Africa. During a…
KCB Group is buying a 22.23% stake in Pesapal, the East African digital payments company, according to details released by Tanzania’s Fair Competition Commission (FCC). This is the first time the exact size of the stake has been made…
Kenya’s energy regulator has scrapped the monthly usage cap that limited how much power electric vehicle (EV) charging stations could draw under the special e-mobility electricity tariff. The change comes from the Energy and Petroleum…
Kenya Digital Token (KDT) has drawn scrutiny over claims of concentrated wallet ownership, thin liquidity, and a marketing narrative built heavily around Kenya’s digital economy ambitions. This is attached to a token running on Solana, a…
There’s a particular kind of photo problem that can ruin your day. You know the image is there. You can see the filename, the thumbnail may even show up normally, but when you try to open the actual photo, something is wrong. Maybe the…
Traditional fixed-line phones are nearly extinct in Kenya. Domestic fixed voice traffic collapsed 89.4% over the year, from 42.9 million minutes to just 4.5 million. Fixed-to-mobile calling specifically, once a large chunk of that traffic,…
Total broadcasting subscriptions fell 1.8% in a single quarter, from 1.58 million to 1.55 million. According to the report, the reasons behind this are subscribers switching to internet-based IPTV services, and rising costs of set-top…
The Postal Corporation of Kenya, the country’s designated public postal operator, saw domestic letter volumes crash 70.2% over the year, from 1.94 million to just 577,694. International incoming letters fell even harder, down 90.5% to…
Active mobile subscriptions hit 88 million by the end of June 2026, up 4.6% from the previous quarter. That works out to a mobile penetration rate of 165%, meaning the average Kenyan effectively carries more than one and a half SIM cards.…
Mobile money subscriptions grew 13.2% over the year to reach 54 million by June 2026, a penetration rate of 101.3%, meaning there are now technically more mobile money accounts registered than there are people in Kenya. Safaricom, through…
Kenya’s Computer Incident Response Team detected 2.36 billion cyber threats in the fourth quarter alone, though that’s actually a 30% drop from the previous quarter’s 3.37 billion. Zoom out to the full financial year, though, and the…
Scroll through social media in Nairobi for five minutes and you’ll see it: a young man in a nice car, a phone full of green numbers and a caption promising that trading changed his life. Download this app. Join this group. Start today. The…
Anthropic is folding Claude Cowork into regular Claude chat and rolling out two new tools: Claude Docs and Claude Slides. The changes start immediately for Pro and Max users, with Team and Free plans getting access later. Until now, Claude…
Apple TV is now officially listed as available in Kenya as part of a wider rollout that bundles Apple TV and Apple Arcade with eligible iCloud+ plans in more than 100 countries and regions. The rollout runs until the end of September 2026,…
WSO2 has announced that its Agent Manager platform is now generally available. The tool is built to help large companies keep track of and control the AI agents they’re deploying, no matter what model or framework those agents run on. The…
Kernel-level anti-cheat sounds like a solved problem until you actually run one on a Kenyan cybercafé rig or a shared family laptop. Vanguard, BattlEye, and EasyAntiCheat all live in Ring 0, watching your machine at the deepest level…
YouTube terminations sit at the harsh end of the account termination spectrum, since a channel that’s been pulled down loses its videos, comments, playlists, and subscriber count all at once, and the owning Google account gets locked out…
The government’s sale of a 15% stake in Safaricom to Vodacom has been thrown back into uncertainty after the High Court declared the transaction unlawful, invalid, and without legal effect. The case was brought by four petitioners, veteran…
Kenya’s digital publishing and content-marketing scene has grown fast alongside the same fiber and mobile-data expansion driving the rest of the region’s internet economy. More independent publishers, more brand-run blogs, more SEO-driven…
