Tech Trends

4 Dec 2025 - Visa has announced a major expansion of its digital currency capabilities across Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (CEMEA),…

3 Dec 2025 - The Million Lives Collective (MLC) and the Judith Neilson Foundation have announced the launch of the African Cities Innovation Fund (ACIF), a new…

3 Dec 2025 - The calendar turns, and the annual music recap season arrives with its usual blend of theatre and self-study. What once lived as a novelty has become…

3 Dec 2025 - Eventbrite, the global marketplace for live experiences, has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by technology firm Bending Spoons in…

3 Dec 2025 - The Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (ODPC) has ordered Platinum Credit Limited to pay Ksh. 400,000 in compensation to a Kenyan citizen,…

3 Dec 2025 - Ride-hailing platform Bolt has announced a strategic partnership with Pan-African talent tech company Gebeya. The collaboration aims to reduce…

3 Dec 2025 - Black Swan, a Mauritius-based FinTech startup, has emerged as the winner of the MEST Africa Challenge (MAC) 2025. The announcement was made following…

3 Dec 2025 - Safaricom has moved swiftly to quell a public backlash following a sudden reduction in the value of its popular ‘No-Expiry’ data bundles, which the…

3 Dec 2025 - The Kenya School of TVET (KSTVET) and Huawei Technologies Kenya have announced the completion of the second phase of their national “Train the…

2 Dec 2025 - Viktoria Ventures, a Nairobi-based angel investment and startup support organization, has been crowned “Angel Network of the Year 2025” at the…

1 Dec 2025 - The Christmas festivities have arrived early for sports betting enthusiasts in Kenya, as Odibets launches its high-octane holiday campaign, Sherekea…

1 Dec 2025 - The Employment and Labour Relations Court has ruled against gaming company Usiku Games Entertainment Ltd, ordering it to compensate its former…

1 Dec 2025 - Liquid C2 has unveiled Liquid G, an AI-powered distribution program designed to simplify and accelerate the adoption of Google Cloud technologies for…

1 Dec 2025 - Bolt has officially become the largest operator of electric motorbikes in Kenya’s ride-hailing sector, announcing today that over 40% of its boda…

1 Dec 2025 - Standard Chartered Kenya, in partnership with Strathmore University’s @iBizAfrica, has awarded KES 9.1 million in seed funding to seven women-led…

1 Dec 2025 - Specs used to win. Faster chips, bigger batteries, and camera megapixels were the language of product launches. Today, those numbers are table stakes…

29 Nov 2025 - Kenya has been positioned as the primary gateway to a market of 350 million consumers across East and Central Africa, following a high-level Trade…

28 Nov 2025 - Airtel Kenya rolled out two new time-based data bundles earlier this month taking on Safaricom’s recently launched B-Live product. The “Unlimited Fun…

28 Nov 2025 - Streaming platforms didn’t set out to influence tech investing, but over time their growth has created a ripple that’s hard for the market to ignore…

28 Nov 2025 - Apple entered this year with a bold bet. The iPhone Air would be its thinnest modern phone, a design flourish that looked like a return to the…

28 Nov 2025 - Tad Motors’ first locally assembled units carry a sense of tentative confidence. The company has pulled together more than 30 Chinese component…

28 Nov 2025 - DeepMind began with the idea that intelligence is a learnable process rooted in broad principles rather than human exclusivity. That position shaped…

28 Nov 2025 - Meta’s Oversight Board has thrown a fresh spotlight on the company’s appetite for contested material, ruling that manipulated content can stay online…

28 Nov 2025 - Vodacom Tanzania has moved M-Pesa into a wider commercial role with the introduction of M-Pesa Global Payment, a suite of tools designed to connect…

28 Nov 2025 - As Kenyan enterprises navigate a complex economic landscape, technology has emerged as the critical differentiator between stagnation and expansion.…

28 Nov 2025 - In a major shake-up of East Africa’s proptech landscape, BuyRentKenya, the country’s leading online real estate marketplace, has been acquired by…

27 Nov 2025 - Samsung Electronics East Africa and Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) have officially launched the Samsung Innovation…

27 Nov 2025 - Apple’s shot on iPhone 17 Pro holiday ad arrives at a moment when brand films often feel interchangeable. Smooth surfaces and synthetic polish have…

27 Nov 2025 - A phone this far into its cycle is usually living on markdowns and nostalgia. The Galaxy S25 Ultra has taken a different path. It has moved through…

27 Nov 2025 - Sony’s next Alpha camera, the long-rumored A7 V, is poised to land at the intersection of ambition and pragmatism. Teased through a minimalist…

27 Nov 2025 - The organizers of Latitude59 Kenya have officially unveiled the Top 10 startups selected to compete in the final stage of this year’s Pitch…

27 Nov 2025 - On-demand mobility platform Bolt has announced a strategic partnership with digital ticketing platform MOOKH to provide safer and more affordable…

27 Nov 2025 - Google’s experiment with vertical tabs in Chrome’s Canary channel looks small at first glance, almost like a UI detour meant for power users. It…

27 Nov 2025 - DigiFarm, Safaricom’s flagship Agritech platform, has officially launched “Jipange Cash Advance,” a new financial product designed to bridge critical…

27 Nov 2025 - The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) has officially approved the transaction between Vodacom and MAZIV, clearing the…

27 Nov 2025 - IBM has announced the successful completion of two significant SAP S/4HANA system upgrades for Toyota South Africa Motors (TSAM), marking a pivotal…

27 Nov 2025 - Kenya’s ambitious plans to harness advanced technology to reduce Nairobi’s chaotic transport system have suffered a major blow following the United…

26 Nov 2025 - itel Kenya has announced a groundbreaking partnership with We Run Club, one of Nairobi’s most vibrant running communities. This first-ever…

26 Nov 2025 - Safaricom has set a bold new target to process 10,000 M-PESA transactions every single second by January 2026 to future-proof its dominance in the…

26 Nov 2025 - itel has rolled out an exciting new consumer rewards campaign dubbed “Shinda Mimili na itel”, giving customers across the country a chance to…

26 Nov 2025 - iHUB Kenya has successfully concluded the acceleration of Cohort 3 of the Mastercard Foundation EdTech Fellowship, marking a major milestone in…

25 Nov 2025 - Safaricom PLC has officially launched Daraja 3.0, a comprehensive overhaul of its M-PESA API platform. The launch marks a pivotal shift in the…

25 Nov 2025 - Kenya has officially begun a nationwide roll-out of a new power meter reading technology, Optical Character Recognition (OCR). The technology, which…

25 Nov 2025 - The next wave of smartphones arrives in 2026, but the mood across the industry feels different from the usual cycle of incremental refreshes. The…

25 Nov 2025 - Across Africa, young people log on with increasing ease. New towers rise near trading centres and schools, and devices circulate through homes that…

25 Nov 2025 - Pocket Casts is trying to solve a problem that has been building for years. Podcast archives grow every minute. Episodes pile up. People improvise…

25 Nov 2025 - Amazon’s satellite network effort has moved into a more revealing phase. The company introduced Leo Ultra, a large antenna built for heavy bandwidth…

25 Nov 2025 - The latest round of rural towers from Ethio Telecom looked at first like a standard infrastructure update. One hundred fifty-two sites placed across…

25 Nov 2025 - Fintech firm M-KOPA has revealed the substantial scale of its credit operations in Kenya, with its loan book unlocking over KES 207 billion in credit…

24 Nov 2025 - Absa’s digital asset work has reached a point where the next steps depend less on technology and more on Kenya’s regulatory calendar. The bank has…