Music Streaming Platform Mdundo Pays Out KES 60 Million to Rights Owners
Music streaming service Mdundo has released its report for the first half of the financial year ending on 31st December 2022. The milestone is in line with the 2025 Strategy of reaching...
Scammers Breached National Registration Bureau to Fraudulently Register SIM Cards Used in Fuliza Heist
Police officers have discovered a sophisticated fraud network where con artists obtained almost KES 500 million through M-PESA overdraft service, Fuliza by Safaricom.
This is...
How Netflix Plans to Completely Kill Password Sharing
Netflix has finally disclosed information regarding its efforts to prevent individuals from sharing their family plan passwords, which is against its terms of service...
MFS Africa Names Olaseni Alabede as CTO of Global Technology Partners
Olaseni Alabede, a seasoned payments technology expert with over 18 years of experience, has taken on a new role as the CTO of Global...
WhatsApp Copies Features From Its Third-Party Clones
Knock-off WhatsApp clones are really popular and for good reason. They bring features that the Meta-owned platform doesn't have but this is changing.
WhatsApp is...
Uganda National Undergoing Clinical Trial in New Kenyan Cancer Treatment
The Aga Khan University Hospital, Nairobi has initiated a ground breaking cancer drug trial, the first of its kind in Africa, to assess the...
Budget Nokia C12 Arrives in Kenya for KES 11,000
HDM Global has revealed the NOKIA C12 is now available for purchase in Kenya.
The C-series is a budget offering from Nokia and has been...
NCBA Intros Loan Facility for Electric Vehicle Purchases in Kenya
NCBA Group launched a KES 2 billion financing for electric vehicles as some customers began to shift towards battery-powered cars due to advocacy for...
Kenya’s Agritech Firm Agrvision to Boost Precision Agriculture Following New Partnership
EOS Data Analytics (EOSDA), a provider of AI-powered satellite imagery analytics, has partnered with Agrvision, a Kenyan-based startup providing cost-effective agri-tech solutions to the agriculture...
New Digital Number Plates to Be Processed in 7 Days: How to Apply
In 2022, the Kenyan Interior CS Fred Matiang’i introduced new digital number plates for the country's drivers.
The issuance exercise started in October 2022 and...
NTSA Proposes Major Motor Vehicle Inspection Rules in New Act
As per the Constitution's Article 10(2)(a), which emphasizes national values and governance principles such as public involvement, the NTSA is inviting members of the...
Safaricom Details Why M-PESA Has Been ‘Operating’ Itself
Some people have been having issues with M-PESA, with some reporting that the mobile money product has been ‘operating’ itself without their customers.
Turns out,...
Kenya Power Reveals The Grid Network is Robust Enough for Electric Vehicles
Power producer Kenya Power has assured investors in the electric mobility value chain that the grid network is robust enough to support the transition...
OPPO Reno 8T Launching in Kenya Next Week
OPPO Reno 8T series will be launching later next week to join its other siblings in the Reno8 series that launched late last year....
LG Picks New Managing Director for East Africa Market
LG Electronics has picked Dong Won Lee as its new Regional Managing Director for East Africa (EA).
He replaces Sa Nyoung Kim who served...
TECNO Confirms Phantom V Fold Launch This Month
Chinese phone maker TECNO had previously revealed that it would show up at Mobile World Congress, MWC 2023. It is also the first time...
Meta Testing Paid Verified Blue Badges for Instagram and Facebook
Instagram is known for copying rival social media platforms when it comes to features. We've seen them clone features from Snapchat to TikTok and...
KRA Has Introduced eTIMS. What Happens to Taxpayers Using Current TIMs Platform?
Many months ago, tax collector the KRA alerted the public and all VAT-registered taxpayers of the transitioning of VAT-registered taxpayers from the old electronic...
TECNO Phantom X2 VS Samsung Galaxy S22 Comparison Review
The year has started with the battle of the flagships as Samsung’s and TECNO’s premium smartphones go head to head in our latest comparison...
Enterprise Software Firm Zoho Brings Bigin, A CRM Product for Small Businesses to Kenya
Zoho has unveiled the latest version of Bigin, the company's CRM solution for small businesses.
As the preferred CRM solution for small businesses, Bigin offers this...
Kenya Power to Develop a Roadmap for Electric Vehicles
The state of electric vehicles in Kenya is interesting. The country has hundreds of electric vehicles plying local roads (more than 1000), and adding...
Microsoft ADC to Amend JKUAT Computer Science Curriculum to Meet Market Demands
Computer skills, mainly programming have become attractive and highly lucrative in the world we are living in now. Global tech corporations and many other...
Samsung Galaxy S23 Series Officially Launched in Kenya
Samsung has announced its new slate of devices in the Galaxy S23 series - the S23, the S23 Plus and the S23 Ultra. Samsung...
Kenya’s DigiCow, Others Pick $1.5m Heifer International Agritech Prize
Kenya’s DigiCow, ThriveAgric from Nigeria, and Brastorne of Botswana have been crowned the winners of the AYuTe Africa Challenge held by Heifer International. The...
40 Percent Digitization and A Look at Kenyan Businesses During the Pandemic
A study done by e-commerce platform Glovo has shown that retailers and restaurants in Kenya are facing major difficulties due to the cost-of-living crisis,...
ICT CS Owalo: Government Hasn’t Given Up on Konza Technopolis Investors
The Cabinet Secretary for Information, Communication, and the Digital Economy in Kenya, Eliud Owalo has assured investors of Konza Technopolis that the government is...
Zizwe Awuor Vundla Appointed Safaricom Director of Brand and Marketing
Zizwe Awuor Vundla has been appointed as the Director of Brand and Marketing at Safaricom, effective February 1st, 2023.
Reporting to CEO Peter Ndegwa,...
Safaricom Picks Boniface Mungania as Director of Public Sector Digital Transformation
Boniface Mungania has been named as the Director of Public Sector Digital Transformation for Safaricom, effective April 1st, 2023.
Boniface will be reporting to CEO...
Safaricom Taps KCB Exec as New Chief Financial Services Officer
Safaricom is making some key changes to its management, and today’s development is the arrival of Esther Masese Waititu, who has been appointed as...
The State of Gaming and E-sport Space in Africa
According to a recent Gamers Industry Africa report, South Africa has the highest saturation of gamers across Africa, with 24 million people (almost half...
Mawingu Raises KES 1.12 Billion to Expand Fixed Internet Access to 25 Kenya Counties
Mawingu, the internet service provider that initially served customers in the Mt. Kenya region, has announced an expansion to 25 counties following securing Series...
Samsung Galaxy S22 Long-term Review: Still a Winner
Samsung launched the Galaxy S22 series in early February last year which included the vanilla S22, the S22 Plus and the S22 Ultra. The...
Paypal to Fire 7 Percent of its Staff Due to Slowing E-commerce Trends
Global online payments corporation PayPal announced it will be reducing its workforce by 7%. This will see approximately 2,000 people lose their jobs. The...
Google Invites African Women Tech Founders for Inaugural Training Program
Google has invited applications for the inaugural Google for Startups Accelerator: Women Founders Africa Program.
The program aims to empower women founders on the...
Realme GT Neo 3 Review: Smartphone Photography Master
We've reviewed Realme's lineup of smartphones from the budget C series like the C33, C30S, C35, and C25Y, to the midrange Realme 9 series...
