Author: Kaluka wanjala

Liquid Intelligent Technologies has announced the upgrade of its 1,300km fibre route connecting Mombasa to Busia on the Ugandan border, bringing additional multi-terabit capacity and additional resilience to the region.   See: Liquid Intelligent Technologies Launches the first Azure Stack in Uganda This high-speed route and the upgrades to the existing routes between Kenya and Uganda enhance digital connectivity while supporting several other East African countries with greater efficiency and reliable regional connectivity. This expansion allows Liquid to offer 99.99% uptime availability of services between Mombasa and the Uganda border to its customers, further solidifying its role as a leader in…

Visa has awarded Safaricom a payment facilitator certificate, marking a significant milestone in its ongoing partnership with the Telco. This partnership will enhance Safaricom’s merchant ecosystem by diversifying payment acceptance modes through the introduction of card payments that support all card networks via Visa’s CyberSource Payment Gateway. This initiative is part of the continuing multi-year partnership, which began with the successful launch of the M-PESA GlobalPay Virtual Visa Card in June 2022. Through this partnership, Safaricom merchants will have access to and offer a broader range of payment options. Some of the key Highlights of the partnership include: “We are…

By Moses Muthui, Consumer Banking Director, Absa Bank Kenya Back in the early 2000s, paying my university fees meant dressing up and making a trip to the bank to deposit the money in person, and of course, the visit was laced with the greater respect of ‘where money lives.’ Fast forward to today, and the ways of banking have significantly changed, and the future of money is here with us. Modern consumers can effortlessly move money from their bank accounts to mobile wallets using basic or feature phones, while the more affluent transact through their wearable devices. As technology continues…

If you have used an Android smartphone over the last 10 years, you may have used one powered by a MediaTek processor. It is one of the handful smartphone processors we see on most smartphones. MediaTek is the 5th largest global fabless semiconductor company. It is a Chinese company that manufactures chips for smartphones and other home entertainment and IoT devices. Back in the day, MediaTek processors were mostly found on entry level Android smartphones. This has changed and you can now find MediaTek processors on wide range of smartphones in different price segments. In this article, I will be…

As AI workloads pivot to the network edge, the need for enhanced visibility at these remote data centre sites has become increasingly apparent. Recognising this, Vertiv has introduced Vertiv Environet Connect, a cloud-connected and web-based fleet management and monitoring solution. It features a device-agnostic interface that can handle diverse data centre infrastructure equipment across multiple locations, regardless of the manufacturer. Environet Connect is now available in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), and in North America. Environet Connect speeds the deployment of remote Vertiv equipment and improves its health and efficiency through mass provisioning and firmware updates of network management cards.…

Infinix has finally launched its Xpad tablet into the Kenyan market. The tablet is available locally starting from Ksh 24,000 and you can get it through Xpark. This is the first tablet from the company and was unveiled globally last month. 25K is quite reasonable for a tablet and may appeal to those who want a device specifically for media consumption or just light tasks. There is nothing that stands out with this tablet as it is just decent for anyone looking for a tablet within this price range and they don’t really care about the brand or features. You…

FlapKap has announced the close of a $34 million new debt and equity funding. FlapKap is an Abu Dhabi-based fintech that provides revenue-based and embedded financing solutions in the MENA region. FlapKap was launched to help e-commerce businesses and other consumer-facing industries like retail and restaurants scale their inventory and digital ads through instant funding, with the flexibility to pay later. The company focused on supporting these businesses that had limited access to traditional bank loans or venture capital by streamlining the process of underwriting and has since expanded its services to support a broader range of SMEs. Flapkap could…

TLcom Capital has announced that it will host the 6th edition of the Africa Tech Female Founder Summit in Nairobi next month. The summit will be held on Tuesday 15th October 2024 and is currently accepting applications for participants. This year’s theme is “Transformative Leadership: Redefining Success in Tech” and is designed to unite, inspire, and empower female founders across Africa, offering a platform to learn from each other and establish supportive networks. The theme will also emphasise the importance of transformative leadership and strategic partnerships in scaling businesses within the tech industry. Some of the speakers at this year’s…

Dell and Red Hat are bringing Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI), a foundation model platform built on an AI-optimized operating system that enables users to more seamlessly develop, test and deploy artificial intelligence (AI) and generative AI (gen AI) models, to Dell PowerEdge servers. This joint effort establishes RHEL AI as a preferred platform on the Dell PowerEdge R760xa server. This collaboration helps organizations more readily implement successful artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) strategies to scale their IT systems and power enterprise applications across their businesses. Dell and Red Hat are providing a more consistent AI experience…

Vertiv has announced the appointment of Coscharis Technologies as a distribution partner in Nigeria and Ghana, with the aim of further providing customers convenient access to Vertiv’s IT infrastructure portfolio and expanding reach across Central Africa within the local IT channel. With an established history of more than 30 years, Coscharis Technologies, a subsidiary of the Coscharis Group – a wholly owned Nigerian conglomerate with businesses and interests that span across sectors including automotive, medical, food and beverages, IT, engineering and agriculture – is an authorised distributor of a wide number of recognised IT brands. Through its distribution of reliable hardware…