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Nomba Expands Cross-Border Payments to Zambia From DRC

Ronald Bwire
Business

Kenya’s Mawingu Raises $20 Million to Expand Rural Internet Access

Ronald Bwire
Startups

ARC Ride Raises $10M to Scale Electric Mobility in Kenya

Ronald Bwire
Startups

Ex-MarketForce and Chpter Founders Launch Cloud9 Money, a Neobank for Africa’s...

James Musoba
Startups

Safaricom Spark Accelerator Unveils 10 Startups for its Second Cohort

Sam Wakoba
Business

Prosus’s OLX Group Acquires French Motors Classifieds Platform La Centrale ...

James Musoba
Business

Pesalink, Cellulant to Power Instant Bank-to-Bank Merchant Payments in Kenya

James Musoba
Startups

OKO Secures a Six-Digit Round to Scale Climate Resilience in Africa

James Musoba
Startups

Samuel Gikandi, Africa’s Talking Founder CEO Forced Out

James Musoba
Business

Yango Ventures Backs Kenya’s SME Lending Fintech Zanifu

Ronald Bwire
Startups

Solar Sister & Koolboks to Empower 1,000 Women Entrepreneurs

Sam Wakoba

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Tech-Savvy Teams Building Their Own Workarounds Isn’t Efficiency, It’s Shadow IT

Ronald Bwire
Tech

Safaricom Takes Hook Hip Hop Musical Auditions to Nakuru to Discover...

Ronald Bwire
Business

Nedbank Completes Acquisition of 66% of Kenya’s NCBA in $850 Million-Plus...

Sam Wakoba
Tech

Mastercard, Moovn Sign Five-Year East Africa Payments Deal

Ronald Bwire
Ronald Bwire

Tech-Savvy Teams Building Their Own Workarounds Isn’t Efficiency, It’s Shadow IT

Corporate productivity metrics often mask severe operational risks. When departmental managers face rigid central procurement, slow helpdesk response times, or clunky legacy software, they rarely wait for official approval to fix their immediate workflows. Instead, tech-savvy teams take matters into their own hands. They spin up unauthorized cloud storage...