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6 Aug 2026 - Moment, a payments infrastructure company serving enterprise merchants across Africa, has closed a $22 million Series A round to scale its collections and billing platform.…

6 Aug 2026 - African startups closed 44 disclosed rounds worth $100,000 or more in July 2026, raising a combined $102 million. While the number of funded companies stayed near the 12-…

6 Aug 2026 - Businesses in Nigeria are gaining faster access to high-speed internet as Taara, a graduate of X, Google’s Moonshot Factory, expands its wireless optical communication…

6 Aug 2026 - Absa Asset Management Limited (AAML) has secured regulatory approval from the Capital Market Authority (CMA) to launch two new global multi asset investment funds, expanding…

6 Aug 2026 - Cybercriminals are increasingly targeting travelers by impersonating popular airlines, ride-hailing services and accommodation platforms, as more people rely on digital…

6 Aug 2026 - East African Breweries PLC (EABL) has reported a 49 percent jump in profit after tax for the year ended June 30, 2026, as the regional brewer posted double-digit revenue…

6 Aug 2026 - Canal+ has secured the exclusive rights, in all languages, to all UEFA Men’s Club competitions across Sub-Saharan Africa for four seasons, running from mid-2027 until 2031.…

6 Aug 2026 - Airtel Kenya has finally put a timeline on one of its most anticipated financial products. The operator says its mobile money overdraft will launch before the end of the…

6 Aug 2026 - Kenya undersea fibre optic cables are set to expand again before 2027, strengthening the country’s position as one of Africa’s leading connectivity hubs at a time when demand…

6 Aug 2026 - SpaceX’s mobile network ambitions are becoming much clearer after the company publicly confirmed that it intends to build ground-based telecommunications infrastructure…

6 Aug 2026 - Tower Sacco has won temporary relief after the High Court barred the government from enforcing a directive that would have required large savings and credit cooperatives to…

6 Aug 2026 - The Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) has crossed the KSh4 trillion market capitalisation mark for the first time in its history, marking another milestone in the recovery of…

6 Aug 2026 - Kenyan companies using offshore artificial intelligence platforms could soon face stricter obligations before sending personal data outside the country under new draft…

6 Aug 2026 - Samsung’s latest Galaxy A lineup looks straightforward at first glance. The Galaxy A17, A27, A37 and A57 all share Samsung’s familiar design language, large AMOLED displays…

6 Aug 2026 - Bharti Airtel revenue climbed 18.4% in the first quarter of FY27 as the telecom group continued to draw momentum from both India and Africa, where higher customer spending,…

6 Aug 2026 - Cloud9’s acquisition of Chpter gives a clearer view of how the Kenyan fintech wants to compete: by placing banking and financial services inside the commercial workflows…

5 Aug 2026 - Shortly after attending Airtel Money Kenya’s Bizna Wallet and Si Ni Mi Nakushow cashback launch on Monday, I had the opportunity to sit down with Djibril Tobe, the recently…

5 Aug 2026 - Samsung Electronics East Africa has launched a direct-to-consumer digital store in partnership with local retailer Housewives Paradise, expanding its retail footprint in the…

5 Aug 2026 - Yellow Card, the Africa-born stablecoin infrastructure provider, has raised $40 million in strategic equity funding to expand its push into bank-grade stablecoin payments.…

5 Aug 2026 - Lagos-born mobility company Moove has crossed into unicorn territory, closing a $250 million Series C round that values the company at $2.1 billion. It is the largest single…

5 Aug 2026 - Yellow Card has raised $40 million in a strategic funding round to broaden its stablecoin payment infrastructure and scale its Global USD Accounts platform, as demand for…

5 Aug 2026 - Basketball has moved from the sidelines to the center of conversation across West Africa. Football still commands the largest audience, yet basketball continues to attract…

5 Aug 2026 - Absa Bank has significantly reduced the time it takes to process debt review documents after deploying an artificial intelligence (AI) and optical character recognition (OCR…

4 Aug 2026 - Africa’s space race is no longer defined by a handful of satellite launches. It has become a broader effort to build national capability across communications, Earth…

4 Aug 2026 - Kenya’s fixed broadband market has for years been defined by expansion. Internet service providers competed to reach more estates, apartment blocks and towns as demand for…

4 Aug 2026 - A new eSIM platform, Kwetu eSIM, is targeting travellers frustrated by roaming charges and airport SIM card queues, offering instant mobile data activation in more than 190…

4 Aug 2026 - For decades, expanding mobile coverage has largely meant building more towers, laying more fibre and extending networks into areas where demand could justify the investment.…

4 Aug 2026 - Artificial intelligence now plays a role in 55 percent of reported cybercrime across Africa, according to the INTERPOL African Cyberthreat Assessment Report 2026, which…

4 Aug 2026 - Fintech company Mintoak has acquired Dubai-based ICC Loyalty in a move to expand its banking technology offerings beyond payments into customer engagement, loyalty and…

4 Aug 2026 - New findings from Kaspersky have revealed that Africa is experiencing a sharp rise in cyberespionage activity, with spyware and credential theft emerging as some of the…

4 Aug 2026 - African Marketplace (AMP), the pan-continental trade and cultural platform spotlighting export-ready brands from Africa and the Caribbean, is returning to Dubai for a second…

4 Aug 2026 - TurnStay, a South African fintech that helps African travel businesses collect payments from international guests, has processed more than R1 billion (approx. $60.5 million)…

4 Aug 2026 - Airtel has set a new completion target of July 2027 for its Nxtra data centre in Tatu City, pushing back the timeline from the first-quarter 2027 date given when construction…

3 Aug 2026 - Africa’s digital economy is accelerating at remarkable pace, drawing millions of first-time users into mobile money, e-commerce, digital lending and AI-enabled public…

3 Aug 2026 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, working with the Smart Africa Secretariat, has opened the third edition of the Innovate Africa Challenge, a…

3 Aug 2026 - For years, when people talked about stablecoins, they were really talking about crypto markets. Regulators in Washington debated whether dollar-backed tokens threatened…

3 Aug 2026 - Coursera has announced a $100 million strategic equity investment in LearnVector, a newly launched AI-native learning company founded and led by Andrew Ng, the AI researcher…

3 Aug 2026 - This morning, I attended an Airtel Kenya and Airtel Money business update in Nairobi that marked the first media engagement for two of the company’s new leaders. Djibril Tobe…

3 Aug 2026 - Nedbank has named Nikos Angelopoulos as its new Group Chief Information Officer (CIO), with the appointment set to take an effect on 1st September 2026. The leadership change…

3 Aug 2026 - Airtel Money Kenya has unveiled Bizna Wallet, a dedicated business wallet designed to help small businesses manage their finances through a digital solution, the company said…

3 Aug 2026 - Global cybersecurity accreditation body CREST has introduced new artificial intelligence (AI) accreditation standards for cybersecurity service providers, becoming one of the…

3 Aug 2026 - Hashed Emergent, the venture capital firm accelerating web3 adoption in Africa and other emerging markets, has released the inaugural edition of the “Kenya Web3 Landscape…

3 Aug 2026 - Carrefour Kenya has collaborated with KCB Bank Kenya and Mastercard to launch a new prepaid payment card designed at helping customers better plan and manage their grocery…

3 Aug 2026 - Safaricom shareholders approved a final dividend of KSh1.15 per share at the company’s 18th Annual General Meeting on 31 July, taking its total payout for the 2026 financial…

3 Aug 2026 - Turkish ground handling firm Çelebi Aviation has signed an agreement to provide ground handling services for Turkish Airlines’ Istanbul-Nairobi-Istanbul route at Jomo…

1 Aug 2026 - I came across an interesting Zuku promotional flyer while visiting a shopping mall in Nairobi. At first, what caught my attention were the home internet packages being…

1 Aug 2026 - Sometimes the real value of a mobile network only becomes clear when the Wi-Fi fails and the network you normally use for data suddenly cannot keep up. That happened to me…

1 Aug 2026 - TechTrends Media, in partnership with Ardena Consulting and Africa Business Communities, will host the GreenShift Forum 2026 in Nairobi on October 22, bringing together…

1 Aug 2026 - Safaricom plans to build 300 additional network masts and enhance several of its data bundles as demand for mobile connectivity continues to rise across Kenya. The expansion…

1 Aug 2026 - Creators and publishers who have spent years placing article links in the replies to their posts may finally be able to leave that habit behind. In a public exchange on X,…