Startups
CEO Weekends: Erick Mkingule on Building Atlas Digital Systems into Africa’s SME Technology Powerhouse
Erick Mathew Mkingule started Atlas Digital Systems after watching family members and friends struggle to manage small businesses in Tanzania. Sales were recorded in notebooks, customer debts went untracked,...
Brand Voice
Yellow Card Wins Top Money20/20 Award for Second Consecutive Year
Yellow Card has won Gold in the Diamond category at the 2026 Money Awards, extending its winning streak at one of the global fintech industry's major events as the...
Tech
NCBA’s LOOP Launches LOOP BIZ+, a Square-Like Platform for Payments, Inventory & SME Loans
NCBA Group’s digital financial services subsidiary, LOOP Digital Financial Services, has launched LOOP BIZ+, a business platform that combines payment processing, inventory management, customer discovery and lending as it...
How To Guides
Reasons Why Your Website Has Traffic But No Leads
A website can attract many visitors without generating leads when its content, design, or calls to action fail to meet their needs. People may browse several pages without finding...
Startups
CEO Weekends: Erick Mkingule on Building Atlas Digital Systems into Africa’s SME Technology Powerhouse
Erick Mathew Mkingule started Atlas Digital Systems after watching family members and friends struggle to manage small businesses in Tanzania. Sales were recorded in notebooks, customer debts went untracked, and payments...
Business
Airtel Money Revenue Climbs 34% to $830 Million as Digital Finance Growth Accelerates
Airtel Money reported a sharp rise in revenue and transaction volumes in the six months to September, as the mobile financial services business expanded...
Business
Safaricom CEO Says M-PESA to Expand Into Savings, Investment and Insurance
Safaricom Plc is expanding M-PESA from a payments service into savings, investment and insurance, Chief Executive Officer Peter Ndegwa said, while a court dispute...
Tech
Airtel Africa First-Half Profit Rises 20% to $452 Million as Margins Hit Record
Airtel Africa Plc said profit after tax rose 20% to $452 million in the six months through September, from $376 million a year earlier,...
Tech
Binance Faces $6.3 Billion Crypto Theft as North Korean Hackers Suspected
Binance is investigating a security breach estimated to have cost $6.3 billion, in what could become one of the largest cryptocurrency thefts on record,...
How
Factors to Compare Before Applying for a Credit Card in South Africa
A credit card is a crucial financial tool. Apart from providing instant revolving cash, it can help you improve your credit score if you...
Business
AvadaPay’s All-in-One Payment and SMS Solution for Growing Businesses
Ask a growing business how it manages its payments and customer communication, and you'll often hear a familiar story.One provider handles collections.Another handles payouts.Bulk...
Samsung Care+ Offers Affordable Damage Cover in East Africa
Samsung has expanded access to Care+, a service plan built to help owners of eligible Galaxy smartphones in East Africa manage the cost of...
TECNO Wins Two IFA Global Product Technology Innovation Awards for Modular Phone and Tonino Lamborghini TECNO TAURUS
Earlier this month TECNO, a global AI-driven innovative technology brand, achieved two IFA Global Product Technology Innovation Awards at IFA 2026 for its products:...
iGaming AFRIKA Summit Opens in Nairobi with Focus on Regulation, Taxation & Growth
The inaugural iGaming AFRIKA Summit opened in Nairobi on Monday, bringing together regulators, operators, investors and technology firms to discuss the future of Africa’s...
The Trust Economy: Why the Data Protection Act is the New SME Gold Standard
By Veerakumar Natarajan, Country Head, Zoho KenyaSix years ago, Kenya enacted the Data Protection Act (DPA), becoming the first East African country to establish...
Safaricom’s Daraja 3.0 Platform Speeds Up API Integration for Kenyan Businesses
Faster integration of payment systems is emerging as a competitive advantage for businesses operating in Kenya’s digital economy.Developers say improvements introduced under Safaricom’s Daraja...
CEO Weekends: Erick Mkingule on Building Atlas Digital Systems into Africa’s SME Technology Powerhouse
Erick Mathew Mkingule started Atlas Digital Systems after watching family members and friends struggle to manage small businesses in Tanzania. Sales were recorded in notebooks, customer debts went untracked, and payments through mobile money and cash often left business owners unsure of how much...
CEO Weekends: Erick Mkingule on Building Atlas Digital Systems into Africa’s SME Technology Powerhouse
Erick Mathew Mkingule started Atlas Digital Systems after watching family members and friends struggle to manage small businesses in Tanzania. Sales were recorded in...
Yellow Card Wins Top Money20/20 Award for Second Consecutive Year
Yellow Card has won Gold in the Diamond category at the 2026 Money Awards, extending its winning streak at one of the global fintech...
Samsung Bets on AI to Make Laundry Easier
Laundry is one of the household chores that rarely goes away, but Samsung is looking to make it less demanding by bringing washing and...
The Unseen Bottleneck: Why Plastic Extrusion Decides Whether African Hardware Startups Can Scale
A team in Nairobi or Lagos can now get a PCB fabricated, a housing machined and a carton printed inside a month. What still...
5 Ways Entrepreneurs Abroad Keep Their U.S. Business Paperwork on Track
Entrepreneurs who live abroad but run a U.S. company still have to keep up with the same state, federal and mailing requirements as owners...
CEO Weekends: Pakstoor Wants to Make Online Marketplaces Safer by Putting Payments at the Centre
A failed purchase of a SMEG kettle has prompted Cape Town entrepreneur Tertius Wait to build Pakstoor, a new kind of online marketplace, one designed around the transaction itself rather than simply connecting buyers and sellers.Wait, a cybersecurity engineer with about 25 years of...
Women
Yvonne Okwara joins Shuga Global as Head of Investments and Partnerships
Yvonne Okwara has joined Shuga Global as Head of Investments and Partnerships, moving into a leadership role focused on fundraising, strategic partnerships and expanding the organisation’s reach following her...
Startups
Standard Chartered Backs Seven Kenyan Women-Led Startups With $70,000 in Grants
Standard Chartered Plc's charitable arm awarded 9 million Kenyan shillings (about $70,000) in grants to seven women-led technology startups, part of a program aimed at closing the funding gap...
