Tech Trends

5 Mar 2026 - AXIAN Telecom has announced a strategic partnership with AST SpaceMobile to deliver space-based cellular broadband directly to standard mobile…

5 Mar 2026 - Canal+ has officially announced the upcoming discontinuation of the loss-making Showmax streaming platform. The decision comes just months after the…

5 Mar 2026 - Kenya’s AI integration into community health systems will embed algorithmic decision tools into frontline primary care under the Ministry of Health.…

5 Mar 2026 - Nyota initiative funding has risen to Sh4.8bn after the National Treasury increased allocations in a mini-budget that tripled beneficiaries to 50,000…

5 Mar 2026 - The CBK lending rate order requires commercial banks in Kenya to immediately adjust lending rates following changes to the Central Bank Rate and to…

4 Mar 2026 - As Jumia Tech Week 2026 enters its first full week, early data reveals a significant shift in Kenyan consumer behavior. Local households are moving…

4 Mar 2026 - TECNO Kenya is taking a decidedly human turn with the launch of its latest campaign, #CAMON50SEESYOU campaign. This initiative marks a shift from…

4 Mar 2026 - Across Africa’s major economic hubs, the traditional multi-monitor trading desk has been quietly replaced by a six-inch screen. As the first quarter…

3 Mar 2026 - OPPO Kenya has officially teamed up with asset financier MOGO to launch a flexible smartphone financing program. Announced today in Nairobi, the…

3 Mar 2026 - Huawei has delivered digital connectivity to 170 million people in remote and underserved communities across more than 80 countries, surpassing its…

3 Mar 2026 - For years, participating in the global forex market meant playing by the rules of the US dollar and the SWIFT banking system. Kenyan retail traders…

2 Mar 2026 - Kenya’s internet infrastructure has long been described through cables and towers. Fibre routes snake out of coastal landing stations. Mobile masts…

2 Mar 2026 - Cybercrime is no longer just an IT problem; it has evolved into a national crisis. Rapidly expanding across Kenya, it targets individuals, the…

2 Mar 2026 - Airtel Kenya is aggressively expanding its physical presence with a bold plan to double its customer service footprint across the country before the…

2 Mar 2026 - There was a time when fraud was mainly a bank’s problem. A suspicious transaction would be flagged, an account frozen, and the issue handled…

2 Mar 2026 - Smartphone makers have spent years chasing spectacle. Brighter screens, faster refresh rates, marginal gains stacked on marginal gains. That rhythm…

2 Mar 2026 - The mobile phone number has long served as the public face of Kenya’s mobile money economy. It appears on receipts. It flashes across merchant…

2 Mar 2026 - In the language of telecom regulation, the phrase sounds bureaucratic. A few cents trimmed from the cost operators charge each other to complete…

2 Mar 2026 - Motor insurance in Kenya has long moved at a rhythm drivers know too well. A crash happens. Photographs are taken. Forms circulate between garages,…

2 Mar 2026 - William Ruto announced that the government will issue a charter to the Kenya Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, the remark landed in a…

2 Mar 2026 - Global tech firm Yango Group has announced a strategic partnership between its service platform, Yango, and Africa’s leading payment provider,…

28 Feb 2026 - The Konza Technopolis Development Authority (KoTDA) has officially signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with AUI Global, a prominent leader in…

27 Feb 2026 - Samsung launched its flagship smartphone series, the Galaxy S26 series, this week during their first Unpacked event of the year. They also announced…

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,…