Liquid Expands High-Speed Fibre Connectivity Across Kenya-Uganda Corridor
September 11, 2024
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…
Safaricom Awarded a Payment Facilitator Certificate by Visa
September 11, 2024
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…
Banking in the Eyes of the Next Generation Consumer
September 11, 2024
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…
Understanding MediaTek Smartphone Processors
September 11, 2024
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….
Vertiv Introduces Cloud-Based and Vendor-Neutral Fleet Management and Monitoring Solution for Edge and Distributed Physical Infrastructure Environments in EMEA
September 10, 2024
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…
The Infinix Xpad Tablet is Now Available in kenya for Ksh 24,000
September 10, 2024
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…
FlapKap Closes a $34 Million Pre-Series A Funding Round
September 9, 2024
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…
The 6th Edition of Africa Tech Female Founder Summit to be Held in Nairobi Next month
September 9, 2024
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…
Dell Technologies and Red Hat Announce Collaboration to Fuel Open Source AI Workloads on Dell PowerEdge and Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI
September 6, 2024
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…