Kenyan News: Tech

Check Point Research has released its 2022 Security Report. From the SolarWinds attack at the beginning of the year, which presented a whole new level of sophistication and spread, all the way through to December and...

One Payment Limited, a subsidiary of the leading Pan-African digital payments group, DPO Group has been granted a licence by the Central Bank of Nigeria to provide certain types of payments services to businesses across...

The NFT collection depicts the North African, Septimius Severus(AD145 - AD211)  during his reign as the Roman emperor from AD193 to AD211

The NFT Marketplace, ByBit promises, is set to become a one-stop shop that will bring together artists, creators and collectors.

All Telkom Kenya services are currently unavailable including calls and data. The telco has reported a major service interruption ongoing.

Samsung has gotten into a partnership with BrandCart Limited to launch an online shop offering deliveries across Kenya

I&M Bank Kenya has rolled out an unsecured lending solution, which will make it more convenient and quicker for its customers to access unsecured loans through an automated platform. The Bank has placed digitization at the...

Earlier today, Samsung officially unveiled its new online brand shop in partnership with BrandCart. Through this store, customers will be able to buy a wide range of Samsung products and have then delivered to them...

I&M Bank customers will access a minimum of 50K up to a maximum of 3 million without providing any collateral or guarantor as security.  

Equity bank has today announced that it is rolling out one till number that will allow merchants to receive digital payments efficiently. Through this till number, merchants will be able to receive payments form different...

With the new One Equity Till Number, merchants will be able to receive payments from all mobile wallets including M-Pesa, Airtel Money etc

Samsung in 2019 announced a partnership with AMD that would see the graphics company build a GPU for Exynos smartphone processors. Well, 2 years and a pandemic later, Samsung has today announced its new flagship...

OPPO has today announced the availability of two new smartphones in the Kenyan market. The two are the OPPO A16k and the OPPO A55. They come to the market lee than two weeks after the...

Konza Technopolis Development Authority has announced that 72% of the land available for investment in Konza City has been up by investors.

OPPO has officially launched the OPPO A16K and the OPPO A55 in Kenya. The OPPO A16K costs KES 20,000 while the OPPO A55 costs KES 26,000.

Netflix has announced increased subscription fees in the United States and Canada in what appears to now be annual expected change.

Bolt has announced its largest-ever funding round to fast-track the mission to have cities move in more affordable and sustainable ways. Part of the funds will be used to accelerate the expansion of Bolt’s new and...

Check Point Research has published its latest Global Threat Index for December 2021. In a month that saw the Apache Log4j vulnerability sweep the internet, researchers reported that Trickbot is still the most prevalent malware, albeit...

Even as PayPal to M-Pesa withdrawals took just a few minutes, it always surprised me how withdrawing to Equity Bank took up to 3 days. I never saw the appeal of using this option as...

Huawei is bringing in a phone, a tablet and a smartwatch to the Kenyan market in the first quarter of 2022.

Huawei has confirmed that it will be launching the nova 9 smartphone in Kenya in the coming weeks. The company did not share the exact date but said that this phone is one of the...

Canon highlighted its commitment towards empowering children and youth by providing equal education and learning opportunities at Expo 2020 Dubai by being an active contributor in the conversation led by World Majlis on exploring the...

The insurance sector in Kenya is characterised by low penetration levels, currently estimated at 2.4% attributed to a number of factors

A significant development on the continent which potentially slipped under the radar was Kenya’s ranking as the world’s leader in P2P trading

Twitter is testing a new feature called “quote tweet with reaction,” that lets users post reaction videos to tweets. Currently being tested on iOS, users can embed a copy of a tweet into a video...

ASUS announced the latest lineup of innovations at the Incredible Unfolds virtual launch event, continuing the brand’s legacy of pushing the PC industry into new territory with the breakthrough foldable design of Zenbook 17 Fold...

Samsung has started rolling out One UI 4 Update to Galaxy Z Flip3 users in Kenya. One  UI 4 is based on Android 12 and officially started seeding to users in other markets last month...

The Samsung Galaxy S21 FE comes a few days before the launch of the Galaxy S22 Series. But it features really good specifications

Samsung rolls out Android 12 Update for Galaxy Z Flip3 users in Kenya

OPPO has today announced the availability of its latest smartphone, the OPPO A95, in Kenya. The OPPO A95 is available in Kenya for Ksh 34,000. This is the successor to the A94 that has been in retail stores in Kenya since last year. As it is with other devices in OPPO’s A-serie

The International Finance Corporation (IFC) is set to become Equity Bank's second-largest shareholder after purchasing Britam’s stake

Bolt, the leading on-demand mobility platform in Africa, kicked off the vaccination drive in Kenya at the beginning of December, encouraging drivers to protect them against the spread of COVID-19 and increase vaccine uptake in the country. The initiative allocated 1,000 vaccines

Showmax is kicking off 2022 by announcing its next Original series in Kenya, Single-ish, a 13-part drama series that will premiere on the platform on 20 January 2022. Adapted from the hit South African series...

Netflix has rolled out Fast Laughs column with short TikTok-like clips of funny scenes from different movies and shows.

The Kenya Bankers Association (KBA) will be lobbying to have the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) re-introduce transactions between Banks and Mobile Money wallets in 2022.

Airtel argues that CA’s reduction takes into consideration the 7 year delay and that it is fully aligned with the interests of the consumer.

Safaricom in its filing says the CA ignored its own procedures and reached a conclusion before the end of the process it had initiated.

Realme is touting the upcoming GT 2 Pro as the world’s first smartphone with a back cover made of eco-friendly material.

Safaricom has today rewarded 72 M-PESA business owners with pick-ups and tuk-tuks as part of the ongoing Biashara Ni M-PESA Promotion. 8 business owners from the 8 regions including Coast, Western, Central, Eastern, Nairobi, Rift...