Kenyan technology publication covering consumer technology, telecoms, digital services, startups, reviews and practical guides.
For months, Kenya’s health system delivered a consistent and reassuring message on Ebola. There were 22 alerts across nine counties, and all were ruled out. The surveillance system was working, but it had not yet faced its biggest test.…
Earlier today, the Ministry of Health confirmed Kenya’s first imported case of Ebola Bundibugyo virus disease. The patient had lived in the Democratic Republic of Congo for seven years, fell ill about a month earlier, and traveled home…
Eric Muriuki has left NCBA Group, where he ran the LOOP digital banking business, to join Absa Group as Managing Executive for Pan-African Growth Strategy, Platforms and Digital Ventures. According to his LinkedIn profile, he will start…
Picture yourself stuck on Langata Road, running late for a family function in Rongai, with your phone at 9% and your mother waiting to hear whether you are still coming. A ten-minute call about arrival time is the last thing you want, so…
When you pay at a Till, Safaricom sends you an M-PESA confirmation SMS. That message carries your M-PESA balance. So when a cashier, seller or delivery rider asks to see proof that you paid, you hand over your phone and they get to read…
Googlebooks, Google’s new laptop platform built around Android, launched on October 4. Within days, two things came out: Intel models may struggle with some Android apps, and Google officially lets you unlock the bootloader. Here is what…
Mark Zuckerberg has a vision for the future of computing that sounds increasingly familiar. Within the next few years, he expects billions of people to have personal AI agents that know their preferences, understand their goals, and can…
In the coming days, you may receive a message from short code 1590 even if you have muted promotional messages. The El Niño rains it warns about are expected within weeks. The Communications Authority of Kenya instructed Safaricom, Airtel,…
WSO2 has been named a Leader in Gartner’s 2026 Magic Quadrant for API Management, published on September 28, 2026. The company described how it rebuilt its API platform over the past year, but the short version is that APIs now have a…
Kenya offers a useful example of how platform procurement is changing. Operators are no longer selecting technology only for games, payments, or front-end flexibility. With NuxGame Software, the more important discussion is increasingly…
If you have ever texted STOP to a promotional sender or switched on Do-Not-Disturb with your mobile network, you may still get a text from the government in the coming weeks. That is deliberate. The Communications Authority of Kenya (CA)…
Most productivity apps work by making focused work more appealing. AppBlock takes a different position entirely by making distraction impossible, and for some users, it makes getting out of that position impossible too. That is not a flaw,…
Paying through M-PESA at a busy counter usually means squinting at a Till/PayBill number on a crumpled receipt and tapping it in digit by digit, hoping one wrong key doesn’t send your money somewhere else. Safaricom is expanding its use of…
Airtel Money has set the price for its London stock market debut. Airtel Mobile Commerce N.V., the company behind the mobile money business, will sell shares at £1.96 each. That puts its market value at about £5.3 billion (roughly $7…
Safaricom and Pesapal are expanding digital payments in Kenya, with Scan to Pay already available at more than 60,000 merchant outlets and a target of reaching 500,000 within the next year. The partnership is also introducing an improved…
Buying a new TV can feel confusing with so many sizes, brands and prices to choose from. Should you go small or big? Spend more or save? The most common comparison today is between the 32-inch LED TV and the 43-inch LED TV options. If you…
WhatsApp long ago stopped being just a messenger — for millions of people it is the main channel for work, sales, and family chats, and one account tied to one SIM card is often simply not enough. The easiest way around this is to buy a…
Copia Kenya is being wound up after the High Court ordered the e-commerce company into liquidation, ending a more than two-year attempt to rescue the business. The court’s order moves Copia from administration, where the focus was on…
The Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) has licensed a new batch of Digital Credit Providers (DCPs), bringing the number of regulated digital lenders to 281. The approvals include 29 new digital lenders and come two months after CBK licensed 25…
M-Pesa and Airtel Money could soon have a clearer legal framework for earning returns from the money backing customer wallets under Kenya’s proposed National Payment System Bill, 2026. The proposal does not allow Safaricom or Airtel Kenya…
Shop around for a proxy and you hit the same wall on every provider’s website. There are three or four products with similar names, the prices are miles apart, and nobody stops to tell you why one gigabyte costs several times more than…
Google has flagged a growing cybercrime trend it calls LLM-jacking, in which attackers steal cloud credentials or API keys and use the victim’s paid computing power to run AI models and automated agents, leaving the account owner to settle…
Meta’s latest WhatsApp Business pricing change is less about charging for WhatsApp itself and more about changing the economics of customer support on the platform. From October 1, 2026, businesses using the WhatsApp Business Platform, the…
WSO2Con Africa 2026 wrapped up in Nairobi as the company’s biggest edition of the conference to date, capping a three-day run at the JW Marriott Hotel that brought together enterprise technology leaders, developers, architects, and…
