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Shuttlers Marks 10 Years in Operation, Surpasses 10 Million Journeys

Nigerian shared mobility platform Shuttlers has surpassed 10 million completed journeys, marking a major milestone in its decade-long effort to improve urban commuting across the country. Founded in 2016, the...

Spiro Appoints Former Indofast Energy CEO Anant Badjatya as Group CEO to Drive Pan-African Expansion

Spiro, one of Africa’s leading electric mobility companies, has appointed Anant Badjatya as its new Group Chief Executive Officer, as the company accelerates its next phase of growth following...

Uber Buys $100 Million Stake in Careem From e&, Tightening Grip on Super App

Uber Technologies Inc. has agreed to acquire a 12.5% stake in Careem Technologies from UAE telecoms group e& for $100 million in cash, deepening its ownership in the Middle...

Digital Africa Unveils €30 Million Seed Fund to Bridge Startup Financing Gap

Digital Africa has launched a €30 million seed-stage fund targeting early-growth startups across the continent, seeking to address a critical funding gap that continues to stall promising ventures before...

Shuttlers Marks 10 Years in Operation, Surpasses 10 Million Journeys

Nigerian shared mobility platform Shuttlers has surpassed 10 million completed journeys, marking a major milestone in its decade-long effort to improve urban commuting across the country. Founded in 2016, the company has...

Bitnob Unveils Enterprise Stack as Demand for Stablecoin Infrastructure Accelerates

Bitnob has launched a new non-custodial infrastructure stack, Bitnob Enterprise, alongside an upgraded version of Bitnob Business, expanding its platform to serve both managed...

Binance Names Former M-Pesa Africa, Visa Executive Sammy Mutua as Africa Head

Binance, the popular cryptocurrency exchange, has appointed former M-Pesa Africa and Visa executive Sammy Mutua as General Manager for Africa, as it steps up...

Apple Unveils ‘Siri AI’ in Major Leap Toward Personalized, Context-Aware Assistants

Apple Inc. has introduced a fully reengineered version of Siri, marking one of its most significant pushes into artificial intelligence with a system designed...

NTT DATA Deepens Google Cloud Alliance to Push Enterprise AI Into Production

NTT DATA Inc. is expanding its partnership with Alphabet Inc.’s Google Cloud, betting that tighter integration and a larger talent pool will help corporations...

How the 2026 World Cup’s Expanded Format Changes Live Betting

The transition to a 48-team roster is shaking up how fans watch international football, but the biggest disruption is happening behind the scenes on...

Casino Agent System: How Hybrid Infrastructure Reshapes Slot Operations in 2026

Modern gambling operations are difficult to manage through isolated tools, manual controls, and disconnected business channels. A casino agent system has become one of...

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 Kenya Six 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...

Safaricom Shangwe @25 Promotion Concludes | Creates 25 Millionaires

 Safaricom has unveiled the final five winners of KES 1 million in its Shangwe @25 nationwide consumer promotion, bringing the total number of new...

How Buying Data on M-PESA Opened New Doors for Sheila

Sheila Cheptoo, a 25-year-old poultry farmer in the quiet village of Masare, in Bomet County, rises early before sunrise. The soft rustling of her 132...

Shuttlers Marks 10 Years in Operation, Surpasses 10 Million Journeys

Nigerian shared mobility platform Shuttlers has surpassed 10 million completed journeys, marking a major milestone in its decade-long effort to improve urban commuting across the country. Founded in 2016, the company has built a structured transportation network serving professionals across Lagos, Abuja, and Port Harcourt....

Binance Marks Africa Month With Push for Digital Inclusion Across Continent

Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, used Africa Month to deepen its engagement on the continent, positioning digital assets and blockchain...

Hamilton Labs Secures AXIAN Backing to Expand Digital Dollar Access in Africa

Hamilton Labs has secured an undisclosed strategic investment from AXIAN Investment to accelerate the rollout of its dollar-pegged stablecoin across Africa, the companies said. The...

Nedbank Partners with Crypto.com to Explore Blockchain Payments Across Africa

Nedbank Group said on Thursday it had entered a strategic partnership with Crypto.com to explore blockchain-based payment, settlement and liquidity solutions across Africa, in...

Kenya Confirms Deletion of Worldcoin Biometric Data

Worldcoin’s parent company, Tools for Humanity, has deleted all biometric data collected from Kenyan citizens, Kenya’s Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (ODPC) has...

From Muddy Roots to Digital Boots: How MangroveCoin is Tokenizing Kenya’s Coastline Restoration Efforts

Forget "mining" for Bitcoin in a dark room; the next big thing in the Kenyan coastal tech scene involves getting your feet wet in...

CEO Weekends: Zoho Kenya’s Veerakumar Natarajan on Why Unification is the Final frontier of Kenya’s Digital Masterplan

By Veerakumar Natarajan, Country Head, Zoho Kenya Advanced technology does not automatically create better businesses. More often, it introduces greater complexity. Across Kenya’s private sector, organisations are managing growing layers of disconnected applications, duplicated workflows, and siloed data environments that quietly erode productivity and slow innovation....

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