Tech

5 Jun 2026 - Early this year, Google collaborated with African partners to launch WAXAL, a large-scale, openly accessible speech dataset aimed at addressing the persistent digital divide…

5 Jun 2026 - By integrating with fintechs and payment providers that already serve businesses and consumers, networks such as Aptos gain access to real-world payment flows that can drive…

5 Jun 2026 - Africa’s esports industry is showing strong signs of rapid expansion, with the Carry1st Africa Cup 2026 returning as the continent’s largest competitive Call of Duty: Mobile…

5 Jun 2026 - Vertiv has announced progress on a production-grade digital twin capability for Vertiv SmartRun integrated in the NVIDIA Omniverse DSX Blueprint, advancing the…

5 Jun 2026 - Quick Fire interview with software engineer at Fly.io, as she walks through through what her job looks like and why she built a community.

5 Jun 2026 - The move pits Safaricom against operators like Vilcom, Ahadi Wireless and Poa! Internet that have built businesses serving price-sensitive households.

5 Jun 2026 - MoneyGram has launched MGUSD, a native US dollar stablecoin. This is designed to power its global payments infrastructure and expand access to digital dollar-based financial…

5 Jun 2026 - Google’s AI subscription lineup went through its biggest overhaul yet at Google I/O 2026 in May. What was once a single AI Premium tier has expanded into four plans: a free…

5 Jun 2026 - In today's edition: Quick Fire 🔥 with Somtochi Onyekwere || Yadea expands to Kenya || Interswitch partners Temenos || Who secured the bag? 💰

5 Jun 2026 - Grey Business enables startups and SMEs to open US Dollar (USD) corporate accounts, send and receive international payments, convert currencies, and transact using…

5 Jun 2026 - Flutterwave's move also reflects a broader shift among fintechs from consumer-focused crypto products toward enterprise payment infrastructure.

5 Jun 2026 - Africa Skills Hub (ASH), a Ghana-based organisation supporting youth, women, and small businesses, has rebranded to ASH Africa as it moves to scale operations across the…

5 Jun 2026 - Kenya has edged past Nigeria in the Financial Times’ 2026 ranking of Africa’s fastest-growing companies, placing 17 firms on the 130-company list against Nigeria’s 16, …

5 Jun 2026 - East Africa is on course to be the continent’s fastest-growing sub-region in 2026, with GDP projected to expand by 5.8%, up from 5.4% in 2025, according to the United Nations…

5 Jun 2026 - Kibo Africa is preparing a large-scale rollout of electric motorcycles in Kenya, setting a target of 10,000 units on the road over the next 12 months as competition…

5 Jun 2026 - Kenya Power is stepping up efforts to bring electric vehicle owners onto a dedicated electricity pricing programme as the utility prepares for a larger role in the country’s…

5 Jun 2026 - Kenya’s gambling regulator is preparing to connect betting companies, casinos and lottery operators to a central technology platform that would allow authorities to track…

5 Jun 2026 - Google has started bringing Gemini to Android Go devices, extending its generative AI platform to a segment of the smartphone market that has largely remained outside the…

4 Jun 2026 - Voice AI startup AethexAI has raised $3 million in pre-seed funding to develop localised customer support automation for Africa and the Middle East. The round was led by 4DX…

4 Jun 2026 - Investment firms Treadway and Invasion have committed $1.25 billion to back early and growth-stage startups across Africa through a newly launched incubation and investment…

4 Jun 2026 - Nigerian crypto infrastructure company Bitnob has introduced Bitnob Enterprise, a non-custodial infrastructure stack, alongside an updated version of Bitnob Business, its…

4 Jun 2026 - South Africa recorded the highest rate of suspected digital fraud among African countries analysed in 2025, with 3.0 percent of consumer transactions flagged as potentially…

4 Jun 2026 - Lagos Angel Network has made an undisclosed investment in Midddleman Technologies Inc., a startup using artificial intelligence to streamline trade between Africa and China.…

4 Jun 2026 - South Africa’s Gauteng High Court has ordered the final liquidation of Livestock Wealth, the agricultural crowdfunding platform founded in 2015 by Ntuthuko Shezi. The…

4 Jun 2026 - One thing people often overlook when trading is the importance of effective trade management. There are several tools that traders can use to streamline their workflow,…

4 Jun 2026 - The deal signals Interswitch's ambitions to become a broader banking technology provider and capture a larger share of banks’ technology spend.

4 Jun 2026 - The Johannesburg-headquartered lender, which operates in six other African markets, has integrated JUMO’s lending technology into its mobile banking platform.

4 Jun 2026 - By Veerakumar Natarajan, Country Head, Zoho Kenya Advanced technology does not automatically create better businesses. More often, it introduces greater complexity. Across…

4 Jun 2026 - Kenya’s mobile landscape is unlike most markets. With a population spread across dense urban centers and remote rural areas, reaching customers consistently has never been…

4 Jun 2026 - Ethiopia’s national payment switch, EthSwitch, has recorded a landmark milestone after its EthioPay-IPS platform surpassed one million transactions in a single day, with…

4 Jun 2026 - The GSMA has postponed MWC26 Kigali, its annual African technology and connectivity conference, less than two weeks before the event was due to begin in Rwanda. The gathering…

4 Jun 2026 - Kenya’s startup ecosystem has matured significantly over the past decade. Founders are building products faster, attracting regional and international capital earlier, and…

4 Jun 2026 - Bolt Food has moved into on-demand retail in Kenya, announcing a partnership with Quickmart Supermarkets that gives users access to over 12,000 products for doorstep delivery…

4 Jun 2026 - Smartphone vendors shipped fewer devices across the Middle East and Africa during the first quarter of 2026, ending a period of expansion that had carried through much of…

4 Jun 2026 - Banking jobs in Kenya and, by extension, most African markets have carried a certain social prestige thanks to stable salaries, pension plans, and confidence in a sector that…

4 Jun 2026 - Africa faces an annual development financing gap exceeding $1.3 trillion needed to meet the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, the African Development Bank (AfDB)…

4 Jun 2026 - A new global Kaspersky Security Services report ‘Anatomy of a Cyber World’* reveals a blind spot in enterprise Security Operations Centers (SOCs): while performance is…

4 Jun 2026 - By Tunde Abagun, Sales Lead for West, East and Central Africa, Nutanix The first wave of enterprise AI is maturing. Organisations across Africa and beyond rushed into AI…

4 Jun 2026 - In today's edition: Uber to expand Kenyan operations || Amazon Prime launches in South Africa || ViaTunisia subsea cable goes live || Smartphones to cost Nigerians more

4 Jun 2026 - The downturn marks a reversal from the growth momentum surrounding its April 2025 listing on the Nigerian Exchange (NGX).

4 Jun 2026 - Binance is calling for greater user awareness across Africa as adoption of digital assets continues to gain pace across the continent. Africa is fast becoming one of the most…

4 Jun 2026 - Axian Group co-founder and chief executive Hassanein Hiridjee has been elected to the Supervisory Board of Jumia Technologies, placing one of Africa’s prominent…

4 Jun 2026 - Canal+ Group has secured the rights to broadcast the Men’s Rugby World Cup 2027 and Women’s Rugby World Cup 2029 across Sub-Saharan Africa under a new agreement with World…

4 Jun 2026 - Kenyan households and businesses will continue paying current electricity rates after the government withdrew a proposed tariff review that could have altered power prices…

4 Jun 2026 - Recent distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks targeting South African internet infrastructure providers, web hosting companies and connectivity services reflect a…

4 Jun 2026 - Bitnob today announced the next evolution of its infrastructure platform with the launch of Bitnob Enterprise, a new non-custodial infrastructure stack, alongside the next…

3 Jun 2026 - The move underscores how FX infrastructure providers are using stablecoins to offer faster settlement to businesses seeking alternatives to conventional correspondent banking…

3 Jun 2026 - Computers fascinated him, and engineering felt like a natural path. But when admission season came, things did not go as planned.

3 Jun 2026 - While businesses across banking, telecommunications, retail and technology are rushing to deploy AI tools, they are competing for talent with skills that often did not exist…

3 Jun 2026 - Absa has renewed its partnership with Salesforce through a new three-year agreement aimed at advancing the bank’s adoption of artificial intelligence, automation, and real-…