Tech Trends

17 Jan 2026 - Deal teams across Eastern and Southern Africa have learned to read the order of documents. Term sheets first, then diligence, then filings. The…

17 Jan 2026 - The public image of online creation still leans toward freedom and upside. Work from anywhere. Publish often. Let the internet do the rest. Yet the…

17 Jan 2026 - Digital credit in Kenya has crossed a threshold where it no longer feels optional. With more than 3 million active digital credit accounts and…

17 Jan 2026 - When the International Finance Corporation commits equity capital, it usually does so with an unusually long memory. The institution tends to avoid…

17 Jan 2026 - M-Pesa confirmation messages sit in a strange place in Kenya’s economic life. They are treated as proof, habitually displayed, sometimes demanded,…

17 Jan 2026 - Nigeria’s push to legislate artificial intelligence reflects less a fascination with new tools than a mounting discomfort with how deeply they have…

16 Jan 2026 - Safaricom has announced the appointment of Sylvia Anampiu as the Director of Fixed Business, signaling a major strategic shift as the…

16 Jan 2026 - Global fintech group, Capital.com, has been granted a license by the Capital Markets Authority (CMA) of Kenya to operate as a Dealing Online Foreign…

16 Jan 2026 - Wikipedia, the world’s largest online encyclopaedia and one of the most visited websites globally, marks its 25th anniversary today. They’re…

16 Jan 2026 - As AI technologies continue to reshape the business landscape globally, Kenya is reinforcing its position at the forefront of enterprise AI adoption…

15 Jan 2026 - The UK–Kenya Tech Hub, in partnership with Viktoria Ventures, Anza Village, and POV, are launching Startup 360 Connect (#S360Connect), an initiative…

15 Jan 2026 - Kenya’s first innovative food app, Msossi, is set to launch this month with the aim of connecting stores with consumers to sell surplus and near-…

15 Jan 2026 - Kenyan betting fanatics are buzzing with excitement as ChezaGame, the latest online sports betting platform has rolled out some of the hottest…

15 Jan 2026 - Starlink’s new instalment plan for its portable mini kit is not a discount. The total cost barely moves. What changes is how the cost is felt.…

15 Jan 2026 - The small wooden counter at a mobile money kiosk still looks busy. Stickers on the glass promise speed and convenience. Yet the drawer beneath the…

15 Jan 2026 - Kenyan regulatory heads have formally endorsed the government’s plan to divest a 15% stake in Safaricom PLC to the Vodacom Group, describing the KSh…

14 Jan 2026 - Paystack, the Stripe-owned fintech leader, has officially entered Nigeria’s banking sector through the acquisition of Ladder Microfinance Bank.…

14 Jan 2026 - For years, satellite internet in Kenya sat at the edges of the connectivity map. It was used where fibre never arrived and mobile coverage thinned…

14 Jan 2026 - Open the Uber app in Kenya today and something ordinary is missing. Visa is gone. For a service built on frictionless taps and invisible transactions…

14 Jan 2026 - As Kenyan households continue to navigate persistent inflationary pressures and irregular cash flows, digital credit has emerged as a critical…

14 Jan 2026 - Africa Tech Summit Nairobi has officially unveiled the 12 African ventures selected to take center stage at its highly anticipated Investment…

14 Jan 2026 - The Kenya investment slowdown has started to look less like a single bad year and more like a pattern that refuses to settle. Money coming in through…

14 Jan 2026 - When Airtel Money Kenya says it wants a slice of the digital overdraft market, it is not entering open ground. It is walking into a space already…

14 Jan 2026 - The Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) has officially released the performance reports for the 2025 Kenya Primary School Education Assessment…

13 Jan 2026 - The Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) has ordered a temporary nationwide shutdown of public internet services, effective today, January 13, 2026…

13 Jan 2026 - Ghanaian sensation MOLIY takes the limelight as the Spotify EQUAL Africa Artist of the Month for January 2026. Also gracing the cover of the EQUAL…

13 Jan 2026 - The Outliers Fellowship Program 2026 has been launched by the Outliers Venture Capital. It is their flagship talent initiative designed to identify…

13 Jan 2026 - M-PESA Africa has announced a strategic partnership with the Abu Dhabi-based ADI Foundation to integrate blockchain technology into its platform.…

13 Jan 2026 - Microsoft Kenya Country Manager Phyllis Migwi has announced her departure from the tech giant, following her three-and-a-half-year tenure leading the…

13 Jan 2026 - Microsoft Kenya Country Manager Phyllis Migwi has announced her departure from the tech giant, following her three-and-a-half-year tenure leading the…

12 Jan 2026 - OPPO A6X has officially been launched in the country. Priced at around 16K and 20K for the base model with 4GB RAM and 128GB storage and the 256GB…

12 Jan 2026 - OPPO is set to launch the Reno15 series on 23 January 2026 with little interest in surprise and no visible appetite for disruption. The lineup, which…

12 Jan 2026 - On a weekday morning along Nairobi’s Outer Ring Road, electric buses sit longer than their diesel predecessors once did. They are clean, quiet, and…

12 Jan 2026 - On a weekday morning along Nairobi’s Outer Ring Road, electric buses sit longer than their diesel predecessors once did. They are clean, quiet, and…

12 Jan 2026 - Terra Industries, a Nigerian defense technology company specializing in autonomous systems, has announced the successful close of an $11.75 million…

12 Jan 2026 - On weekday mornings in Nairobi, hospital corridors fill early and thin slowly. Patients queue with paper files folded into plastic sleeves, while…

12 Jan 2026 - The increase shows up quietly in the data, without the kind of inflection that demands immediate explanation. Between July and October last year,…

12 Jan 2026 - The Kenya School of Government (KSG) and Huawei Kenya have initiated talks to establish a strategic partnership aimed at accelerating digital…

12 Jan 2026 - As the global creator economy reaches a trillion-dollar industry, African creators continue to face structural barriers that limit their ability to…

12 Jan 2026 - The Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (ODPC) has signaled a transformative shift in Kenya’s digital landscape for 2026, moving from a period…

12 Jan 2026 - LG Electronics (LG) and Razer, the leading global lifestyle brand for gamers, have unveiled the new Razer Wolverine V3 Bluetooth® for LG Smart TVs at…

10 Jan 2026 - The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) has officially announced the resumption of the Continuous Voter Registration (CVR)…

10 Jan 2026 - For years, personal data in Kenya drifted through corporate systems with little friction. Phone numbers passed between sales desks. Photos lifted…

10 Jan 2026 - Each January, the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education ( KCSE ) results released once arrived with a brief surge on mobile networks. A short code…

9 Jan 2026 - Kenya’s e-commerce economy no longer gathers around a browser window. It unfolds inside phones, often without a homepage ever loading. New data from…

9 Jan 2026 - Kenya spent years aligning itself with a global tax rewrite that promised to bring digital multinationals into the revenue net. The premise was…

9 Jan 2026 - African football has a habit of forcing big arguments through small administrative decisions. The latest one arrived disguised as a scheduling tweak…

9 Jan 2026 - When Starlink terminals went dark across Uganda in early January, the explanation arrived quickly and carried a familiar bureaucratic weight. The…

9 Jan 2026 - The Ministry of Education is set to release the 2025 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examination results today, Friday, January 9,…

8 Jan 2026 - Kenya’s household appliance market is on a steep upward trajectory, with revenues projected to surge from $48.82 million in 2025 to $73.43 million by…