Visa, the global leader in digital payments, recently launched its first dedicated innovation site in Sub-Saharan Africa: the Visa Innovation Studio, in Nairobi, Kenya. The studio has been established to…

IXAfrica, a leading developer and operator of hyperscale-ready data centers in East Africa, has signed a term sheet to purchase 11 acres of prime land from Tilisi Developments, a premier…

The 10th Digital Rights and Inclusion Forum (DRIF23) has started in Nairobi. DRIF23 is a three-day event with 600 people from all over the world. The forum started with a…

Seven start-ups from Uasin Gichu County have been awarded Ksh. 1 million through the Mozilla Mashinani tech-innovation challenge launched by Mozilla Africa Mradi and the Gladys Boss Foundation (GBF), during…

 MPesa Africa has launched a Shared Service Operations Centre (SSOC) in Nairobi. The M-Pesa SSOC will oversee service operations and technical support including incident monitoring and resolution, managing platform changes…

The Sankalp Africa Summit, one of Africa’s largest convenings on impact entrepreneurship and sustainable development, is taking place tomorrow, March 1st, 2023 in Nairobi, Kenya. The event, celebrating its 10th…

One of Africa’s largest convening on impact entrepreneurship and sustainable development, the Sankalp Africa Summit, promises to positively engage over 1,500 different stakeholders from across the development sector ecosystem, to…

TECNO mobile’s premium sub-brand, PHANTOM, has announced a luxury club for the business class dubbed the ‘PHANTOM Club’ at the GTC in Nairobi. The aim of the club is to bring…

Registration is now open for the 10th Edition of Digital Rights and Inclusion Forum (DRIF23), a pan-African bilingual event that will be held in Nairobi, Kenya, from April 12th to 14th, 2023….

Africa Tech Summit has announced the final shortlist of ventures who will Pitch Live on stage to investors, corporate and media at the Africa Tech Summit in Nairobi from 15th…

Recently while trying to zigzag my way between merchandise spread on verandas, the pedestrians, and the slow-moving vehicles whose roads have been taken over by the hawkers along Mfang’ano, Ronald…

The final deadline for tech startups across Africa to apply for the fifth edition of Pitch Live at Africa Tech Summit Nairobi  is coming quickly with applications closing, Friday 20th of January. Ten…

National Transport Safety Authority (NTSA) registers around 7000 vehicles monthly and 90,000 every year in Nairobi. This is owing to the growing middle class and the easy accessibility of credit…

US-based tech giant Cisco Systems is set to open an innovation hub in Nairobi in September seeking to tap tech enthusiasts. The company is investing Sh50 million ($500,000) in setting…

Swedish caller ID firm Truecaller has set up its first Africa office and headquarters for the region in Kenya. The firm’s regional activities will now be run from Nairobi The…

NexTech Africa is Microsoft’s new flagship technology event tailored for Africa. It was created by Africans currently working at Microsoft. Nairobi, Kenya’s capital, is back again into the limelight. It…

Afrilabs, a Pan-African technology hub network is organizing to hold a number of city meetups in Africa, among which is Nairobi. These meetups commence on 16th September (tomorrow) and go…

aKoma Media in partnership with the Mastercard Foundation wants talented African writers and creators for a six-month fellowship in Nairobi along with two other African cities: Kigali (Rwanda) and Lagos (Nigeria)….

Ray Kurzweil, an engineer at Google has predicted that humans and computer will become hybrids by around 2030, the year Kenya plans to achieve all the pillars of vision 2030…

The US government has been hit by a massive data breach. The Chinese hackers are suspected of carrying out the data breach of the personal data of nearly four million…

Nairobi has been named Africa’s most intelligent city according to Intelligent Community Forum. Nairobi was among 21 cities from across continents shortlisted being the only hub in Africa. The Intelligent…

The Urban Machine and the ubiquitous Nairobi Traffic Jam: A Riot of Colors, Part 1 “A society sufficiently sophisticated to produce the internal combustion engine has not had the sophistication…

High Expectations, big disappointment. I think that is how the Kenyan tech scene should be described at the moment.  Yesterday I tweeted about the rise of tech pundits demonizing the…

The good people ate The Kenya Agricultural Society of Kenya (ASK) are singing praises of the new electronic ticketing technology they have been testing and now being used at Nairobi…

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has signed  a co-operation agreement with AITEC Africa ahead of the upcoming AITEC East Africa ICT Summit scheduled  for 24-25 October to allow…

The whole day I have been reading on how the Apple new Maps is a big crap from the iPhone users. I did not bother until I went to Safaricom…

Sematime beat five other apps to emerge the finalist at  Startup World Nairobi codefest held at 88mph Garage Nairob according to HumaIPO blog. When Boniface Githinji talked about  Sematime, a…

With Nokia about to completely shift to Windows devices, the people who have been working on the Symbian OS and Qt might have no room at Nokia.. And so is Nokia about to shut down Nairobi Research Center?

Are you one those people who have no idea what Kenyan Artists are saying on their songs?  Here comes Ghafla with KenyanLyrics. Ghafla.co.ke  is a Kenyan Startup website that provides…

The m:Lab’s training on mobile applications development and related technologies is delivered through a short course program. The training program is designed to offer individuals who already have a software…