Tech Trends

28 Jan 2026 - Huawei has officially kicked off the Huawei ICT Competition 2025/2026 Regional Final Bootcamp Training, bringing together 21 exceptional students…

28 Jan 2026 - Our phones are our most personal space, but we use them in the least private places. On the bus, in the elevator, and wherever we’re waiting in line…

28 Jan 2026 - iXAfrica Data Centre Limited has partnered with Oracle to host the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) region in Nairobi, Kenya iXAfrica Data Centre is…

28 Jan 2026 - When WhatsApp began rolling out Strict Account Settings, the timing looked accidental only at first glance. The feature arrived during a week when…

27 Jan 2026 - For years, corporate treasury in Kenya operated on a dependency model. If a Finance Manager wanted to convert currencies, they were tethered to the…

27 Jan 2026 - In its Economic Outlook 2026 Report, the Mastercard Economics Institute (MEI) has revealed how global policy changes that occurred in 2025 will…

26 Jan 2026 - The Nairobi Securities Exchange wants more people to buy shares. Not companies or banks. Regular people. The kind who use their phones to pay for…

26 Jan 2026 - The Nairobi Securities Exchange wants more people to buy shares. Not companies or banks. Regular people. The kind who use their phones to pay for…

26 Jan 2026 - The Competition Authority of Kenya (CAK) has formally approved KCB Group PLC’s acquisition of a 75% stake in the fintech firm Riverbank Solutions…

26 Jan 2026 - Visa and Oromia Bank have announced a strategic partnership aimed at expanding access to Visa- branded prepaid solutions for the bank’s customers…

26 Jan 2026 - East Africa’s digital economy is expanding at a rapid pace, driven by rising internet penetration, widespread mobile connectivity, and growing…

26 Jan 2026 - South Africa has been selected to host the World Economic Forum (WEF) in April 2027, a move poised to catalyze continental economic transformation…

26 Jan 2026 - Africa’s fintech story is often told through flashy consumer apps, billion-dollar valuations, and rapid user growth. But beneath all of that lies a…

26 Jan 2026 - Following its high-profile debut at Investopia 2023, the MENA FinTech Association (MFTA) has officially announced the formal constitution of its…

25 Jan 2026 - The Vodafone Safaricom merger is now formally under review by the East African Community Competition Authority, and the scrutiny reflects more than…

23 Jan 2026 - African fintech no longer moves on promise alone. It moves on permission, arithmetic, and tolerance for risk. The shift is visible in paperwork, in…

23 Jan 2026 - Andela has announced its acquisition of Woven, a leading technical assessment company dedicated to delivering AI-native talent and forward-deployed…

22 Jan 2026 - The TikTok US business sale formalises a compromise that neither Washington nor Beijing ever described publicly but both have been working toward for…

22 Jan 2026 - When NCBA’s board finally settled on Nedbank, it was not ending a bidding war so much as closing off a line of risk. The bank had drawn interest from…

22 Jan 2026 - Flutterwave has announced the launch of stablecoin balances for its merchants and users. This strategic move, achieved through a collaboration with…

22 Jan 2026 - Paymentology, the world’s leading global issuer-processor, has announced the appointment of Kesheni Moodley as its new Regional Director for Africa.…

22 Jan 2026 - For more than a decade, East Africa has been viewed as a region of unrealised potential, a future hub for digital trade, innovation and intra-…

22 Jan 2026 - Cybersecurity firm Sophos has announced the launch of Sophos Workspace Protection. This new solution is designed to provide organizations with an…

21 Jan 2026 - Africa’s agrifood sector is entering a pivotal era of growth as scalable technologies and digital innovations begin to redefine productivity across…

21 Jan 2026 - South African financial giant Nedbank Group Limited has issued a formal Notice of Intention to acquire a controlling 66% stake in NCBA Group PLC for…

21 Jan 2026 - At CES 2026, LG Signature smart appliances arrived with a confidence that comes from subtraction. There is no attempt to dress intelligence up as…

21 Jan 2026 - The all in one washer dryer has for years lived in a strange corner of the appliance world. It promised less clutter and less handling, then asked…

21 Jan 2026 - The modern AI industry has lived on a simple assumption: progress would arrive faster if you fed models more data, more compute, and more money.…

21 Jan 2026 - The Gates Foundation and OpenAI have committed $50 million to deploy artificial intelligence tools across health care systems in Africa, beginning in…

21 Jan 2026 - Chipper Cash, one of Africa’s leading cross-border payment platforms, has officially reached a historic financial turning point. CEO and Co-Founder…

21 Jan 2026 - Kenyan SMEs operate in a narrow financial corridor. They generate revenue, hire staff, and survive shocks, yet credit repeatedly fails to keep pace.…

21 Jan 2026 - Safaricom plans to introduce tokenised Wi-Fi with hourly, daily, and weekly access. The move rests on a simple reading of how many households manage…

21 Jan 2026 - Tax invoices in Kenya are being forced to settle down. Under a new georeferencing policy, the Kenya Revenue Authority is binding electronic tax…

21 Jan 2026 - Davos does strange things to conversations. People arrive sleep deprived, guarded, and oddly candid at the same time. In one of those half-lit rooms…

21 Jan 2026 - Microsoft has partnered with Kenyan health-tech startup Zendawa to deploy a cutting-edge AI-powered platform. Built on Microsoft 365 Copilot, Power…

20 Jan 2026 - The OnePlus brand dismantling is not a rumor circulating at the edges of the industry. It is an observable process already underway. Offices have…

20 Jan 2026 - Central banks rarely volunteer opinions on how governments should raise money. They police inflation, manage liquidity, and safeguard market…

20 Jan 2026 - LG came to this year’s CES with something more deliberate and revealing. The tech giant showcased a product line that looked inward at OLED’s limits…

20 Jan 2026 - Local asset fintech firm Watu has confirmed a significant recovery in motorcycle sales in 2025, reinforcing findings from the Kenya National Bureau…

20 Jan 2026 - The Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (ODPC) has confirmed that Tools for Humanity, the organization behind the controversial Worldcoin…

20 Jan 2026 - Paystack, the fintech giant that has become the backbone of digital commerce in Africa, has announced a major structural evolution to celebrate its…

20 Jan 2026 - Network International, a leading fintech company operating across the Middle East and Africa, has signed a strategic processing agreement with Saudi…

19 Jan 2026 - In today’s fast-paced world, decision-making speed is often the deciding factor for success. This rule applies one hundred percent to sports…

19 Jan 2026 - Early this month, X restricted Grok’s image generation to paying subscribers, steering users toward a $395 annual plan. The move landed after weeks…

19 Jan 2026 - JamboTel exists, for now, as an intention more than a system. Treasury has put the idea on paper, tied it to fibre rollout targets, and framed it as…

19 Jan 2026 - The National Communication Strategy leaves little doubt about how the State sees the digital space today. Officials believe the government is losing…

19 Jan 2026 - Cloud outages now arrive as routine events in a system built at planetary scale. A misconfigured database, an automated rollback that misfires, a…

19 Jan 2026 - When Perplexity submitted a $34.5 billion unsolicited offer for Google Chrome in August 2025, the timing mattered more than the price. Google had…

19 Jan 2026 - The bids circling Warner Bros. Discovery remain proposals, not outcomes. No merger has closed. No assets have moved. What exists is a contest of…

19 Jan 2026 - The telecom industry enters the new year under strain that feels familiar but heavier. Economic expansion remains weak by historical standards, with…