Month: October 2021

The other day, we learned that telco Safaricom has revised its overdraft facility’s terms and conditions that will be effective ...

2021 has been a whirlwind year for cryptocurrency. From the largest Series A funding by an African cryptocurrency exchange to ...

Vivo is gearing up to launch a new mid-range phone in Kenya slated for early next week - the Vivo ...

Tala is one of the leading fintech firms in Kenya. Launched in the state in 2014, the company, along with ...

Jeremy Kioko’s image of a leopard perched on the branch of a tree at the Tsavo East National Park emerged ...

Digital lenders will have to operate under the same laws that bind the business of commercial banks, once all the ...

Collaboration with social media influencers is a proven method to increase brand awareness and sales or site traffic. But have ...

It has taken a while but WhatsApp is finally rolling a highly requested privacy feature - encrypted backups. This feature ...

LinkedIn is calling it quits on its China operations citing challenging operating environment thanks to strict government compliance requirements. Microsoft ...

Podcasts have not only gone mainstream in international markets but also in Kenya. The latest one with a focus on ...

Some of us have probably heard about Gearbox, the Nairobi-based firm that provides tools, space, and training for Kenyan engineers ...

Fuliza has been around for nearly three years now. The overdraft facility helps Safaricom M-PESA customers complete payments or send ...

Electronic Arts Sports will have to rename one of its most popular football game franchises - the FIFA series after ...

Despite consumer wallet-sized shrinking during a rough economic period in the past year, Safaricom has gained more M-PESA users and ...

Every October, itel usually holds a shopping festival. This month's promotion will run till the 31st and has been dubbed ...

Mobile transacting is fast becoming the golden egg of financial services – and nowhere more so than in Africa. According ...

Computer security firm Kaspersky has announced that out of more than 206K mobile malware attacks it blocked for the Middle ...

Kenyan students can now apply and participate in this year’s global innovation program which is taking place in 44 countries ...

Back in January 2021, payment firm Cellulant’s CEO Ken Njoroge announced his plans of leaving the company. Njoroge cited the ...

New market sets out to be Africa’s Nasdaq For the longest time the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) has been South ...

Android 12 went live early this month and smartphone manufacturers are ramping up their efforts by launching their respective Android ...

Twitter has started rolling out the ability to remove followers without soft blocking them as part of its social privacy ...

Last week, Facebooks apps went down - not only once but twice. The first one was a 6-hour global outage ...

Nokia has since revealed the T20 tablet. It was not entirely a secret because the device was leaked widely. For ...

Search and ad corporation Google has announced a plan to invest $1billion over 5 years to support Africa’s digital transformation. ...

The CA says it is conducting a market study in the postal/courier subsector in order to establish the service access ...

The last time we learned something about the National Addressing System (NAS) was about two years ago. At that period, ...

Kenya Airways is expanding its route for flights to the United States to go past New York, two years after ...

Over time, most IT companies that have been on the market for a long time start to use different types ...

Kenya logistics company Sendy has finalized a strategic equity investment in a Francophone logistics firm and platform. Kamtar. The development ...

MTN Uganda has announced its intention to float 20% of its shares on the Ugandan Securities Exchange (USE), joining Safaricom ...