Tech Trends

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…

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…