Tech Trends

12 Feb 2026 - The conversation around intra-African trade often begins with scale. A continent of more than 50 countries, a combined market measured in billions of…

12 Feb 2026 - An email from Starlink landed in Kenyan inboxes with a firm instruction: complete identity verification in person by April 30, 2026, or risk service…

12 Feb 2026 - Japanese involvement in African business followed familiar routes. Trading houses moved commodities, financed logistics, and built long commercial…

12 Feb 2026 - The conversation around climate tech in Africa has grown more grounded. Not less ambitious, but more honest about friction. At the Climate Tech and…

12 Feb 2026 - By late afternoon at the Moniepoint Stage, the mood felt less celebratory than reflective. That alone said something. For years, conversations around…

12 Feb 2026 - Last evening, the Moniepoint Stage at Africa Tech Summit moved from polite introductions to something closer to a stress test. Nonnie Wanjihia…

12 Feb 2026 - Venture capital conversations around African startups has for years leaned on expansion stories. Larger rounds, faster growth, new capital entering…

12 Feb 2026 - Circle Gas is funding a clean cooking ambition with bank debt priced above 20 percent and a carbon strategy that has yet to clear its final…

12 Feb 2026 - When Sitoyo Lopokoiyit takes charge of Absa’s private and personal banking unit on April 1, 2026, he will be stepping into a business that sits at…

11 Feb 2026 - The Simple Truth: If you can learn 10 poker hands, you can start playing with confidence. Poker isn’t as complicated as it looks—the basics take 15…

11 Feb 2026 - Agridex International has announced its partnership with Tradeflow Capital Management to focus on improving how Capital moves into agricultural and…

11 Feb 2026 - Agriculture still carries the weight of Africa’s climate conversation, even when attention drifts elsewhere. At the Climate Tech & Investment…

11 Feb 2026 - The room at the AI & Digital Summit did not sound like a gathering convinced it was witnessing the future unfold in real time. The tone was more…

11 Feb 2026 - By mid-afternoon at the Moniepoint Stage in Nairobi, the room had settled into a familiar rhythm. Founders talking infrastructure, investors…

11 Feb 2026 - At a certain stage of growth, payments stop being about access. The conversation changes. Adoption is no longer the headline. The harder question…

11 Feb 2026 - In a conference hall buzzing with the predictable energy of Nairobi’s tech scene, Moniepoint took the stage not to flaunt products, but to unpack…

11 Feb 2026 - Conversations about African tech talent have for years began with scarcity. That frame is wearing thin. At Africa Tech Summit in Nairobi, the…

11 Feb 2026 - The conversation around African fintech often begins with access and scale. Fincra CEO Wole Ayodele approached it from a different angle at Africa…

11 Feb 2026 - The conversation around African fintech has matured, or at least it sounds different now. At Africa Tech Summit Nairobi, the first panel on payments…

11 Feb 2026 - Spotify entered the year with 751 million monthly active users, 290 million paying subscribers, and operating income rising sharply in Q4 2025. User…

11 Feb 2026 - Kenya’s stock market has entered the M-Pesa ecosystem. Ziidi Trader places share trading inside the mobile money application, allowing investors to…

11 Feb 2026 - Sitoyo Lopokoiyit’s decision to leave Safaricom at the end of next month closes a chapter that coincides with an unsettled phase for M-PESA Africa…

11 Feb 2026 - What if your home could fight back? Against rising costs, unpredictable power and the daily drain on your time and budget. In Kenya, the next wave of…

10 Feb 2026 - Safaricom has partnered with the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) to launch Ziidi Trader. The new platform, embedded directly within the M-PESA…

10 Feb 2026 - Andela, the global marketplace for technical talent, has announced a significant expansion of its Andela AI Academy. The initiative has transitioned…

10 Feb 2026 - When a foreign bank moves to take control of a local lender, the first anxiety rarely concerns strategy. It concerns people. Jobs, reporting lines,…

10 Feb 2026 - Tax compliance in Kenya is moving from periodic filing toward continuous verification. The Kenya Revenue Authority’s proposed Merchant Tax Compliance…

10 Feb 2026 - Kenya’s carbon market is entering a more guarded phase, and the conversation now runs through cooking fuel. The latest example sits with M-Gas, the…

10 Feb 2026 - Google rejected 61.9 percent of content takedown requests from Kenya in the six months to June, declining 26 of 42 items submitted by government…

10 Feb 2026 - A Sh46.9 million insolvency demand rarely threatens to topple a telecommunications operator on its own. The amount is modest by industry standards.…

10 Feb 2026 - Kenya’s cooperative financial sector is entering a period of adjustment as SACCOs move closer to fintech firms in response to rising demand for…

10 Feb 2026 - Participation in the Nairobi Securities Exchange has for years followed a familiar sequence. An investor chose a broker, opened a Central Depository…

10 Feb 2026 - The Bitcoin price fall has revived a familiar mood in digital asset markets. Not panic exactly. Something closer to recognition. After months of…

10 Feb 2026 - On Safer Internet Day (February 10), a day dedicated to raising awareness about digital usage, Sophos, a global leader of innovative security…

10 Feb 2026 - For more than a decade, connectivity has powered Kenya’s economic transformation. Mobile money, cloud platforms, e-commerce, and remote work have…

9 Feb 2026 - Kenya’s betting landscape is set for a major shake-up following the launch of Chezagame, a new betting platform that is already attracting attention…

9 Feb 2026 - Pan-African telecommunications company Paratus Group has officially switched on a new 2,000 km terrestrial fiber route, establishing a direct high-…

9 Feb 2026 - Mdundo’s latest results expose a structural problem inside African music streaming. Access has expanded faster than monetisation. The company…

9 Feb 2026 - Safaricom entered Ethiopia with a familiar story in mind. A large population, low formal banking penetration, and a mobile network expanding at speed…

9 Feb 2026 - Koko Networks did not run out of customers. Its blue-flame stoves were still in kitchens across Nairobi when administrators took over on February 1.…

9 Feb 2026 - The Kenya Revenue Authority has restored the Nil return filing option, which had been paused, but the system update shows how taxation in Kenya is…

9 Feb 2026 - As the Cannes Young Lions Kenya competition that concluded this weekend, attention naturally turned to who would go on to represent the country in…

9 Feb 2026 - Satellite internet has always carried a contradiction. The promise is proximity without infrastructure. The reality, at least until recently, was…

9 Feb 2026 - Kenya’s cybercrime losses are usually reduced to a single number. Last year, the estimate crossed Sh30 billion, a figure that tends to settle the…

9 Feb 2026 - Eveready’s place in Kenyan life was uncomplicated for decades. The brand lived in drawers and kiosks, tied to torches, radios, and the familiar red-…

9 Feb 2026 - Music streaming sold a simple idea for most of the past decade. Everything in one place, available instantly, no effort required beyond pressing play…

9 Feb 2026 - YouTube Music now restricts full lyrics to paying subscribers. Free users can see five songs’ lyrics before the rest blurs and becomes inaccessible.…

6 Feb 2026 - Kenya is rapidly evolving from a primarily agrarian and services economy into one of Africa’s most dynamic digital and financial hubs. Over the last…

6 Feb 2026 - When Canal+ Africa completed its acquisition of MultiChoice Group in September 2025, many pay-TV subscribers across Africa waited for one thing: the…

6 Feb 2026 - In late 2025 and early 2026, comments from Ralph Mupita, the chief executive of MTN Group, set a subtle but important narrative shift across African…