Tech Trends

26 Feb 2026 - Social media in Kenya has long carried the feel of an informal public square. Screenshots travel fast, accusations spread even faster, and the line…

26 Feb 2026 - Cross-border payments in Africa still move with the drag of another era. A trader in Nairobi wiring money to Lagos can wait days for confirmation,…

26 Feb 2026 - The conversation around Kenya’s digital credit regulation has been building for years, but the tone inside government has changed. What once sounded…

26 Feb 2026 - Kenya has a new figure overseeing the country’s financial intelligence system, and the timing is awkward. Nairobi is still under scrutiny from global…

26 Feb 2026 - For a growing number of companies, the working day begins with a familiar ritual. Systems boot up, dashboards load, emails trickle in. Then one…

26 Feb 2026 - A Nairobi man is celebrating a life-changing windfall after turning a modest Ksh 40 bet into Ksh 500,000 while playing Aviator on Chezagame. The…

26 Feb 2026 - A new ranking has placed Kenya among the most innovation-ready economies on the continent, trailing only South Africa. On paper, the picture looks…

26 Feb 2026 - Spiro, the continent’s leading electric mobility company, has successfully raised $50 million in debt financing to aggressively expand its battery-…

26 Feb 2026 - Inside the mall corridors of Sarit Centre, a new space invites visitors to handle solar panels, inspect inverters and walk through the mechanics of a…

26 Feb 2026 - When Samsung unveils a new smartphone generation, the spotlight usually stays fixed on the devices. Screens get larger. Cameras gain new tricks.…

26 Feb 2026 - Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra AI Features: The modern smartphone has sort of reached a plateau. Hardware improvements are incremental, minus the jolt they…

26 Feb 2026 - Cybercriminals are increasingly abandoning complex hacks in favor of simply logging in with stolen credentials. The 2026 Sophos Active Adversary…

26 Feb 2026 - M-PESA Ethiopia and Gebeya Inc. have announced the launch of the Dala AI Bundle. This first-of-its-kind subscription service allows Ethiopians to…

26 Feb 2026 - Africa Digital Assets (ADA) has officially entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with the Virtual Assets Association of Kenya (VAAK). This…

25 Feb 2026 - At tonight’s Galaxy Unpacked(the first Unpacked for 2026), Samsung introduced its flagship smartphone lineup, the Galaxy S26 series.  The…

25 Feb 2026 - Humanitarian organisation HumanCoop has partnered with identity technology firm Identy.io to roll out facial biometric verification tools aimed at…

25 Feb 2026 - Grey, a provider of cross-border payment solutions, has significantly expanded its business banking ecosystem by launching a unified platform that…

25 Feb 2026 - For years, the corporate treasury function in Kenya has operated on a dependency model. When a business needed to convert currencies, finance…

25 Feb 2026 - The Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2026 event is happening on Wednesday, February 25. At the event, Samsung is expected to introduce its latest smartphones…

24 Feb 2026 - Bolt has announced a major update to its security suite: a feature that allows drivers to flag and map high-risk locations. The rollout is a direct…

24 Feb 2026 - PayPal is back in play, though not in the way it once imagined. After a 46% stock slide over 12 months, the company is drawing takeover interest from…

24 Feb 2026 - The ban question is back in circulation, and debate over how Kenya should regulate TikTok is unfolding again in that uneasy space between public…

24 Feb 2026 - At Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, the first negotiation often happens before a suitcase hits the pavement. A driver leans in. A price is…

24 Feb 2026 - The Airtel Uganda dividend rise is not a marginal adjustment. The company has lifted its total payout to Sh0.41 per share, up 41.5% from Sh0.28 a…

24 Feb 2026 - Nairobi has long run on improvisation. Routes bend. Fares float. Timetables exist mostly in the driver’s head. For decades, that elasticity has been…

24 Feb 2026 - Five years into Spotify in Africa, the numbers read like a cultural census. Nigeria alone has produced 25 million user-generated playlists. Kenya…

24 Feb 2026 - When the African Union Commission signed its strategic partnership with Google to expand artificial intelligence across public administration,…

24 Feb 2026 - Nigeria’s digital loan boom was built on urgency. School fees due. Rent overdue. A trader short on stock before the weekend rush. Open the app, get a…

23 Feb 2026 - Google is reportedly working on a more advanced Android face unlock upgrade for Pixel phones and Chromebooks. The early accounts suggest a system…

23 Feb 2026 - Mobile World Congress has always been a spectacle. But at Fira Gran Via this year, spectacle feels secondary. What hangs in the air is control. The…

23 Feb 2026 - There is always a lag in official truth. In Kenya’s case, it runs at least 3 months long. Quarterly GDP has been published since 2009, placing the…

23 Feb 2026 - Nigeria’s USSD dispute is over, at least on paper. After 5 years of wrangling, commercial banks have cleared nearly ₦300bn owed to telecom operators…

23 Feb 2026 - In much of Ethiopia, television has long arrived by way of a metal dish fixed to a rooftop, angled toward distant satellites paid for in foreign…

23 Feb 2026 - Last week, the Nedbank Group received what may prove the most politically delicate approval in its proposed acquisition of approximately 66% of NCBA…

23 Feb 2026 - MTN Group has reached a definitive agreement with the board of IHS Towers to acquire 100% of the company’s shareholding in a landmark deal valued at…

23 Feb 2026 - Most Kenyans do not think about what happens behind the scenes when they pay for something online, settle a hospital bill or access a public service…

23 Feb 2026 - Absa Bank Kenya, in partnership with Visa, has launched a premium, digital-first card proposition. Announced during the 2026 Magical Kenya Open, the…

23 Feb 2026 - Glovo has announced a partnership with the National Transport and Safety Authority (NTSA) to launch an innovative rider safety program centered…

23 Feb 2026 - Kenya’s private sector credit growth is back in positive territory after a bruising stretch that saw lending contract by 2.9 percent in early 2025.…

23 Feb 2026 - When the African Centre for Technology Studies broke ground on a 2.1-acre parcel inside Konza Technopolis on Friday, the ceremony looked familiar.…

23 Feb 2026 - Huawei Kenya, through its flagship DigiTruck programme, marked the graduation of 200 youth at the ICT Hall in Wajir East, following the successful…

23 Feb 2026 - When Absa Group cut formal ties with Barclays in 2017, it inherited more than a brand problem. It inherited a question of identity. Was it a…

23 Feb 2026 - Uganda’s electric cooking conversation starts with a number that rarely makes headlines. Adoption is estimated at 2%. The government wants that…

23 Feb 2026 - The Arusha eGovernment meeting was not staged as a technology fair. It opened as a reprimand. When Chief Secretary Moses Mpogole Kusiluka addressed…

23 Feb 2026 - The CBK law review has arrived at an awkward moment for Kenya’s financial system. The Central Bank of Kenya is not short of authority on paper. It…

22 Feb 2026 - Kenyan Paralympic sprinter Samson Ojuka delivered an impressive performance on the international stage after securing a Silver medal in the 100m and…

21 Feb 2026 - The iPhone’s podcast app was the default home for audio. It anchored commutes, workouts, and idle hours, embedding itself into daily routine with…

21 Feb 2026 - At the India AI Impact Summit, Microsoft put a number on its ambitions: US$50bn by 2030 to expand access to artificial intelligence across emerging…

21 Feb 2026 - Could Uber and Bolt be banned in South Africa on 11 March 2026? The law leaves little room for ambiguity. If a ride-hailing platform is not…

21 Feb 2026 - The release of a three minute teaser for House of the Dragon on February 19, was not merely a gift to a restless audience. It arrived as a calculated…