Tech Trends

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…

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…