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AI Innovations in Budget Smartphones and Education

itel CITY 100 introduces DeepSeek AI to budget smartphones in Kenya. Africa AI Week 2025 trains 700 educators in AI skills across multiple African countries.

itel CITY 100 Brings DeepSeek AI to Budget Smartphones: A New Contender in Kenya’s Competitive Market

itel CITY 100 Brings DeepSeek AI to Budget Smartphones: A New Contender in Kenya’s Competitive Market

itel CITY 100 launches at KES 11,200, bringing DeepSeek AI technology to Kenya's budget smartphone market with premium design features.

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Africa AI Week 2025 Empowers 700 Educators with AI Skills Across Kenya, Zambia, Togo, and Senegal

Africa AI Week 2025 Empowers 700 Educators with AI Skills Across Kenya, Zambia, Togo, and Senegal

Historic Africa AI Week 2025 to train 700 teachers in AI education across Kenya, Zambia, Senegal, and Togo.

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itel CITY 100 Brings DeepSeek AI to Budget Smartphones: A New Contender in Kenya’s Competitive Market

itel CITY 100 Brings DeepSeek AI to Budget Smartphones: A New Contender in Kenya’s Competitive Market

itel CITY 100 launches at KES 11,200, bringing DeepSeek AI technology to Kenya's budget smartphone market with premium design features.

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Africa AI Week 2025 Empowers 700 Educators with AI Skills Across Kenya, Zambia, Togo, and Senegal

Africa AI Week 2025 Empowers 700 Educators with AI Skills Across Kenya, Zambia, Togo, and Senegal

Historic Africa AI Week 2025 to train 700 teachers in AI education across Kenya, Zambia, Senegal, and Togo.

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Mastercard and enza Partner to Accelerate Fintech Growth in Africa

Mastercard and enza Partner to Accelerate Fintech Growth in Africa

Mastercard and enza – a payment solutions company – have collaborated to connect fintech companies across Africa to the Mastercard network

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Yellow Card and Visa Partner to Push Stablecoin Payments in Emerging Markets

Yellow Card and Visa Partner to Push Stablecoin Payments in Emerging Markets

Yellow Card announced a partnership with Visa to help drive the next phase of innovation in cross-border payments and financial i

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itel CITY 100 with DeepSeek AI Debuts in Kenya Offering a Durable Build and Smart Features for Young Trendsetters

itel CITY 100 with DeepSeek AI Debuts in Kenya Offering a Durable Build and Smart Features for Young Trendsetters

itel has announced the launch of the CITY 100, the inaugural smartphone in its brand-new CITY Series. With an RRP price tag of Ksh 11,200

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Visa Appoints Tareq Muhmood as New CEMEA Regional President

Visa Appoints Tareq Muhmood as New CEMEA Regional President

Visa has appointed Tareq Muhmood to be its Regional President for Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa (CEMEA).

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ICT Authority to Install Wi-Fi in 55 Kenyan Universities and TVETs—Rift Gets Most (18), Nyanza & Western Least (9)

ICT Authority to Install Wi-Fi in 55 Kenyan Universities and TVETs—Rift Gets Most (18), Nyanza & Western Least (9)

The Government of Kenya has launched a new push to digitally uplift higher learning institutions across the country—this time with something every student

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Airtel Africa Powers Digital Revolution: 73.4M Data Users Transform Sub-Saharan Connectivity

Airtel Africa Powers Digital Revolution: 73.4M Data Users Transform Sub-Saharan Connectivity

Airtel Africa's 2025 sustainability report reveals 73.4M data customers, 44.6M mobile money users, and 1.6M students connected.

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Zoho Launches Zia Hubs to Unlock Business Intelligence from Unstructured Content

Zoho Launches Zia Hubs to Unlock Business Intelligence from Unstructured Content

Zoho has announced the launch of Zia Hubs, a solution within Zoho WorkDrive that brings new forms of unstructured business data into the company’s broad portfolio of applications and AI services. Using Zia Hubs, organisations can now...

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Kenya’s VASP Bill Hailed as Most Progressive in Africa in New Yellow Card Report

Kenya’s VASP Bill Hailed as Most Progressive in Africa in New Yellow Card Report

Yellow Card has launched a comprehensive report that looks at the state of digital asset regulation in Africa.

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SEACOM Appoints Kevin Kaburu as MD for Digital Infrastructure in East Africa and Middle East

SEACOM Appoints Kevin Kaburu as MD for Digital Infrastructure in East Africa and Middle East

SEACOM has announced the appointment of Kevin Kaburu as the new SEACOM Digital Infrastructure East Africa and Middle East Managing Director

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Gen Z Powers 54% of Binance Users in Africa

Gen Z Powers 54% of Binance Users in Africa

Step aside, old-school money moves, Gen Z ( born between 1997 and 2012) is officially rewriting the rules of finance, one crypto wallet at a time. With hustle in their DNA, a side gig (or...

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Genetec Showcases Smart Surveillance and Unified Security Strategy in Nairobi Partner Summit

Genetec Showcases Smart Surveillance and Unified Security Strategy in Nairobi Partner Summit

Genetec, the global leader in enterprise physical security software, hosted its inaugural security symposium as part of its regional strategy

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Kenya Buys Tools to Watch Your Every Click on The Internet, Sparks Fears of Mass Surveillance

Kenya Buys Tools to Watch Your Every Click on The Internet, Sparks Fears of Mass Surveillance

On June 17, 2025, the Government of Kenya quietly floated a tender for some rather high-tech shopping: a fleet of powerful internet firewalls—and no, not the

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Genetec Champions Unified Security as Catalyst for East Africa’s Development

Genetec Champions Unified Security as Catalyst for East Africa’s Development

Genetec launches unified security solutions in East Africa, hosting inaugural symposium to support regional development through integrated technology platforms.

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Kenya’s Women Entrepreneurs Chart Bold Growth Agenda Despite 7% Funding Access

Kenya’s Women Entrepreneurs Chart Bold Growth Agenda Despite 7% Funding Access

Kenya's women entrepreneurs address funding barriers, cybersecurity challenges, and growth strategies through strategic networking, digital innovation, and collaborative forums.

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Meta AI Officially Launches on WhatsApp in Kenya as Users See Blue AI Button

Meta AI Officially Launches on WhatsApp in Kenya as Users See Blue AI Button

Meta AI officially launched in Kenya with WhatsApp users now seeing blue AI button for free AI assistance and image generation capabilities.

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CFAO Mobility Kenya and Almasi Financial Services Launch Sharia-Compliant Vehicle Financing Deal

CFAO Mobility Kenya and Almasi Financial Services Launch Sharia-Compliant Vehicle Financing Deal

CFAO Mobility Kenya partners with Almasi Financial Services to offer 90% Sharia-compliant financing for commercial vehicles over 60 months.

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Liquid C2 Achieves Sophos Platinum Partner Status Across Africa

Liquid C2 Achieves Sophos Platinum Partner Status Across Africa

Liquid C2 has attained Platinum Partner status with global cyber security leader Sophos, the highest level in Sophos’ partner programme

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What’s the Infinix Smart 10 Price and Release Date in Kenya?

What’s the Infinix Smart 10 Price and Release Date in Kenya?

Infinix has quietly lifted the veil on its latest budget-friendly smarphones, the Smart 10 series, starting with Malaysia as the launchpad. And while the

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Infobip Launches CXOP, Powered by Microsoft Azure OpenAI, for Smart Customer Experiences

Infobip Launches CXOP, Powered by Microsoft Azure OpenAI, for Smart Customer Experiences

Infobip has announced its Conversational Experience Orchestration Platform (CXOP) — a game-changing solution that places agentic AI at the heart of every customer interaction. CXOP enables brands to move beyond static, rules-based workflows to deliver dynamic, goal-oriente

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DisrupTech Ventures Backs Nigeria’s Winich Farms in First Pan-African Investment

DisrupTech Ventures Backs Nigeria’s Winich Farms in First Pan-African Investment

DisrupTech Ventures, one of Egypt’s top early-stage fintech investors, has announced its first pan-African investment, backing Nigerian

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Kenya’s New TV Rules Go Into Effect on 1st July, 2025: Here Are 5 Major Improvements You’ll Notice Immediately

Kenya’s New TV Rules Go Into Effect on 1st July, 2025: Here Are 5 Major Improvements You’ll Notice Immediately

It’s been almost a decade since Kenya switched from analogue to digital TV. Since then, your set-top box or integrated digital TV has probably done a decent

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Africa Data Centres and Blue Turtle Partner to Expand Colocation Services in South Africa

Africa Data Centres and Blue Turtle Partner to Expand Colocation Services in South Africa

Africa Data Centres has formed a commercial partnership with Blue Turtle Technologies, one of South Africa’s leading enterprise

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Kenya’s New TV Standards Will Change How You Find, Organize, and Explore Channels

Kenya’s New TV Standards Will Change How You Find, Organize, and Explore Channels

Let’s be honest — scanning for channels on your current digital decoder is a bit of a gamble. Sometimes your favourite news station pops up at channel 801 for

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Embed Financial Appoints Eric Mboma as CEO for Africa

Embed Financial Appoints Eric Mboma as CEO for Africa

Embed Financial Group Holdings (EFGH) has announced the appointment of Eric Mboma as Chief Executive Officer for Africa.

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Is Your TV Ready? Here Are The Must-Have Set Top Box Hardware Features for Kenya’s New DVB-T2 Upgrades

Is Your TV Ready? Here Are The Must-Have Set Top Box Hardware Features for Kenya’s New DVB-T2 Upgrades

By now, you’ve probably seen how the new DVB-T2 changes will spice up your viewing experience — sharper images, better sound, a proper channel guide (catch up

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NTT DATA Report Reveals C-Suite Divide Over GenAI and Cybersecurity Readiness

NTT DATA Report Reveals C-Suite Divide Over GenAI and Cybersecurity Readiness

NTT DATA has launched its new report, “The AI Security Balancing Act: From Risk to Innovation,” highlighting the opportunities and risks AI presents in cybersecurity. The findings show a misalignment among C-Suite leaders when it comes...

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Xiaomi Mi Box S 2nd-Gen Picks Up a Huge April 2025 Security Update

Xiaomi Mi Box S 2nd-Gen Picks Up a Huge April 2025 Security Update

If you own the Mi Box S 2nd-Gen, it’s time to check for updates — because Xiaomi just did something… rare. In a welcome twist, the company is rolling out a

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Kenya’s Afya Gemma Selected for 2025 Google.org Generative AI Accelerator

Kenya’s Afya Gemma Selected for 2025 Google.org Generative AI Accelerator

Afya Gemma, an AI-powered clinical decision support platform developed by Aga Khan University Data Innovation Office has been selected from

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