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By Allan Juma, Lead Cyber Security Engineer at ESET Editor’s Note: This article is part of TechArena Executive Insights, a curated series featuring perspectives from industry leaders across Africa’s digital economy. The views expressed are those of the author. Kenya’s financial sector operates in one of the most dynamic digital economies in Africa. This economy, according to GSMA, will contribute KSh 662 billion to the gross domestic product by 2028, with growth driven by digitalisation in agriculture, manufacturing, transport and trade. Mobile money platforms, digital lending, online banking and real-time payments have transformed access to financial services. Kenya’s Communications Authority (CA)…

By StarHub Dr. Volkan Sevindik, Red Hat Anand Venkat, Wilson Toh Editor’s Note: This article is part of TechArena Executive Insights, a curated series featuring perspectives from industry leaders across Africa’s digital economy. The views expressed are those of the author. The clock is ticking for communications service providers (CSPs). To survive in the telecommunications (telco) industry, every CSP should consider making steps to transition to a “techco” model, where CSPs don’t just provide connectivity but also software and platform innovation. StarHub, a leading Singapore CSP, has been driving its own telco-to-techco transformation for the past three years by emphasising open…

Samsung Electronics has announced that Galaxy S26 Ultra won Best in Show at the Global Mobile Awards (GLOMO Awards) during Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2026 held in Barcelona, Spain. The Global Mobile Communications Association (GSMA) holds the GLOMO Awards annually during MWC to recognize outstanding innovations in the mobile industry. The Best in Show category celebrates consumer-focused products that set a benchmark for technology. One of the industry’s highest honors, Best in Show devices are known as the “gold standard” across the digital landscape as judged by more than 200 world-leading independent analysts, journalists and industry veterans. At the March 4 awards ceremony, Galaxy S26 Ultra won Best in…

By Zoho Country Head – Veerakumar Natarajan, (Kenya) Editor’s Note: This article is part of TechArena Executive Insights, a curated series featuring perspectives from industry leaders across Africa’s digital economy. The views expressed are those of the author. For years, security for SMEs across sub-Saharan Africa meant metal grilles and alarm systems. Today, the real risks are invisible and growing faster than most businesses realise. Artificial Intelligence has quietly moved into everyday operations. The chatbot answering questions at midnight, the system predicting stock levels—these are now standard features. This month’s observance of Safer Internet Day on 10 February, themed ‘Smart tech, safe…

NETSCOUT has released its second half of the year 2025 Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) Threat Intelligence Report, revealing sophisticated attacker collaboration, resilient botnets, and compromised IoT infrastructure that drove more than eight million DDoS attacks worldwide – some as large as 30 terabits per second (Tbps) – marking a new era of hyper-scale, coordinated threat activity that continues to outpace global takedown efforts. Meanwhile, the accelerating growth of DDoS-for-hire services is empowering a broader range of threat actors, intensifying operational risk to digitally connected organisations and enterprises. Implications for security professionals extend far beyond volumetric concerns and include reconnaissance and adaptive…

As dark clouds gather over the skyline, a familiar question echoes in many homes; will the laundry dry today? The rainy season has a way of disrupting routines, leaving clothes damp for days and laundry baskets overflowing. But what if unpredictable weather no longer dictated your schedule? What if clean, dry clothes were guaranteed in any kind of weather? The LG WashTower is designed precisely for that peace of mind. Combining a 13kg front-load washer and a 10kg dryer in one seamless unit, it delivers a complete laundry solution within the footprint of a single appliance.  Instead of placing a…

When Johnson Gituma talks about financial empowerment, his conviction is grounded not in theory, but in lived experience. As Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Flexpay, Gituma is helping reshape how Africans access goods and services, emphasising disciplined saving and intentional spending over debt. Flexpay, a Kenyan-born fintech platform pioneering the Save Now & Buy Later (SNBL) model, didn’t emerge from a boardroom brainstorm. Instead, it was inspired by a simple but powerful question repeatedly asked by ordinary people: “Can I pay in instalments?” Gituma began his journey at Kenyatta University, where he studied Energy Engineering. The discipline honed his…

By Dion Harvey, Regional General Manager at Red Hat Sub-Saharan Africa Editor’s Note: This article is part of TechArena Executive Insights, a curated series featuring perspectives from industry leaders across Africa’s digital economy. The views expressed are those of the author. If there’s one lesson about enterprise IT to take away from 2025, it’s to never take anything for granted. The last twelve months have shown us that organisations in Africa cannot be complacent when it comes to technology. Disruptions can come thick and fast. But so do new opportunities. Developments such as the local construction of infrastructure, such as data…

Global technology companies have often spoken about Africa in future tense, describing it as the “next billion users” or the “next growth frontier. But the continent has today achieved a demographic momentum and digital maturity that demand a reshaping of hierarchy for innovation decisions to be made with African contexts in mind right from the outset. LG Electronics appears to have recognised this shift early, positioning the continent as a strategic innovation partner, as reflected in its latest AI-driven home technologies showcased at LG InnoFest 2026 MEA in Abu Dhabi earlier this month. The showcase recognized the evolution of consumer…

By Judy Waruiru, Regional Managing Director, Acquiring at Network International Editor’s Note: This article is part of TechArena Executive Insights, a curated series featuring perspectives from industry leaders across Africa’s digital economy. The views expressed are those of the author. Africa has already proved the world wrong. We did not just join the digital payment race; we set the pace for mobile money and financial inclusion. But let’s be real. Having the best infrastructure and apps is not enough anymore. The “next big thing” in tech is not an algorithm, it’s people. The next wave of the digital revolution depends on…