Month: June 2026

Starting July 1, 2026, John Musunga takes over as Managing Director for Africa at Diageo, moving from London to Nairobi ...

The Kenya Employment and Labor Relations Court has raised the bar for companies trying to lay off staff, ruling that ...

The Capital Markets Authority has exempted Vodafone Kenya Limited from making a mandatory takeover offer for Safaricom PLC. On paper, ...

Ford has spent the past several years pushing AI deep into its manufacturing and quality control operations, installing AI-powered cameras ...

Kenya's appetite for imported tech gadgets is growing far faster than its ability to sell its own tech abroad, and ...

Kenya’s second-biggest telco, Airtel Kenya, has a new man at the helm. Senegalese Djibril Tobe has been appointed as the ...

WhatsApp is soon to roll out a feature that has been a mainstay on Telegram: usernames. For those unfamiliar, this ...

I&M Group has appointed Abdi Mohamed as the new chief executive officer of I&M Bank Kenya. The bank said the ...

Absa Bank Kenya has confirmed the resignation of Abdi Mohamed as Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, effective 30 June ...

3 of the largest RAM chip makers in the world are facing a lawsuit in the United States of America ...

Recently, the National Transport and Safety Authority (NTSA) launched a mandatory vehicle inspection program set to begin July 1, 2026, ...

The NTSA vehicle inspection rules are headed for another fight in court. Lawyer Charles Mugane has filed a High Court ...

KRA wants every taxpayer who has not filed their 2025 income tax return to stop procrastinating. The deadline is midnight ...

Locket is a photo and video sharing app that works through a home screen widget. It lets you send photos ...

Microsoft has extended its Windows 10 Extended Security Updates (ESU) program by another year, pushing the new end date to ...

WhatsApp is adding a warning screen that shows up before you even open a conversation with an unknown number. The ...

Kenya's e-Citizen platform is impressive by regional standards. Over 22,000 government services, 14 million registered users, and somewhere between KES ...

The AI bubble is driving up chip prices, and the consumer electronics market is now feeling the impact. Apple just ...

Kenyans can now get a visa on arrival in the UAE, but there's a catch: you need to already be ...

Tala is cutting part of its Kenya workforce as the digital lender reorganizes its global operations. The company has now ...

Kenya has made it easier for international investors to buy Kenyan government securities. Today, the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) ...

President William Ruto has signed the Finance Bill 2026 into law, locking in a major overhaul of Kenya's tax filing ...

Kenya's Social Health Authority (SHA) has temporarily suspended M.P. Shah Hospital from its panel of contracted healthcare providers, effective immediately. ...

The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) launched two planning documents this week that lay out, in unusual detail, how ...

Little Cab has integrated its corporate invoicing platform with the KRA's eTIMS in a move that will see eTIMS-compliant invoices ...

Rockstar Games has confirmed that Grand Theft Auto 6 (GTA 6) will launch at $79.99, a $10 increase over the ...

Anthropic has updated its privacy policy, effective July 8, 2026, and the change that will matter most to Claude users ...

East Africa finance ministers spent the second week of June talking about digital superhighways and the fourth industrial revolution. However, ...

Will Cathcart is out as head of WhatsApp after seven years, and Meta is bringing in Kunal Shah, the founder ...

Safaricom has pushed out a new update to My OneApp, and the headline feature is zero-rated access. Starting with Android ...

The Communications Authority of Kenya released its sector statistics for Q3 of the 2025/2026 financial year (January to March 2026), ...

A week ago, the role of technology at the FIFA World Cup 2026 was still uncertain. The big question was ...

Long-distance relationships run on a strange kind of math, where presence gets traded for proof, a photo instead of a ...

KRA has announced extended working hours for its service centers and contact points to assist taxpayers in filing their annual ...

MultiChoice-owned DStv continues to hemorrhage subscribers in the Kenyan market. Its decoder-reliant segment closed 2025 with 270,503 subscribers, with this ...