NTT DATA has announced an expanded collaboration with Google Cloud to help enterprises move from AI experimentation to scaled deployment of agentic AI solutions built with Gemini Enterprise. The collaboration is focused on enabling AI-powered reinvention, helping enterprises redesign processes, operating models and customer experiences using agentic AI. The collaboration combines Google Cloud’s AI, data and cloud platform capabilities with NTT DATA’s global delivery scale and deep industry expertise across strategy, implementation, adoption, managed services and value realization. Together, the companies will help clients embed AI into core workflows, improve productivity, accelerate time-to-value and support governance, security, compliance and responsible…
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oraimo has officially hosted the highly anticipated oraimo Innovation Gala 2026 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Nairobi. The landmark event brought together the country’s top tech and gadget distributors, wholesalers, Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs), and media stakeholders to experience the brand’s rapidly growing footprint as a leading lifestyle technology giant in East Africa. For years, consumers have celebrated oraimo as Africa’s No. 1 Personal Audio (TWS) and Wearable (Smart Watch) brand. However, the Innovation Gala 2026 marks a strategic shift designed to shatter the niche thinking that oraimo only offers power accessories for mobile phones. The brand is rolling…
Binance has introduced U.S. equities trading, giving eligible users access to more than 7,000 U.S.-listed stocks and ETFs. The launch reflects Binance’s belief that financial inclusion grows meaningfully when access to opportunities becomes simpler and more integrated. Binance will also soon introduce tokenized U.S. stocks, marking another step in its vision of a multi-asset financial super app. “We have set out to reach the next 3 billion users, and to do that, we need to make it simpler for users to access opportunities across asset classes, diversify their portfolios, and move more easily between traditional investing and on-chain finance,” said Yi…
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. Finance operates on one system, sales on another, customer support on a third, while critical business information is manually transferred between teams, spreadsheets, and platforms. The issue is no longer digital adoption, it is digital coherence. This is what can be described as the “fragmentation tax” which is the hidden operational cost businesses pay…
A new global Kaspersky Security Services report ‘Anatomy of a Cyber World’* reveals a blind spot in enterprise Security Operations Centers (SOCs): while performance is typically measured by detection and response speed, organisations rarely assess whether they’re detecting the right threats. Large portions of collected telemetry don’t enter real-time detection pipelines, creating hidden gaps that internal assessments tend to miss – and fuelling demand for independent SOC Consulting to uncover them. As organisations continue to invest in SOCs, measuring the real performance of these departments remains a challenge. Operational effectiveness depends not only on the volume of collected data, but…
By Tunde Abagun, Sales Lead for West, East and Central Africa, Nutanix The first wave of enterprise AI is maturing. Organisations across Africa and beyond rushed into AI projects over the last two years, and most of them did what was easiest: they did it in the cloud. An AWS subscription here, an Azure instance there, a model running in someone else’s data centre, billed by the hour. Fast to start, simple to justify, and, for many organisations, the right call at the time. But something is shifting. The same organisations that sprinted to public cloud for their first AI…
Binance is calling for greater user awareness across Africa as adoption of digital assets continues to gain pace across the continent. Africa is fast becoming one of the most active regions globally for cryptocurrency use, with individuals and businesses increasingly turning to digital assets for more efficient payments, improved access to financial services, and greater participation in the global economy. This momentum reflects a broader shift towards more inclusive and accessible financial systems. As adoption accelerates, awareness is becoming an increasingly important part of the conversation. Like many areas of digital finance, the growing visibility of crypto has also drawn…
Recent distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks targeting South African internet infrastructure providers, web hosting companies and connectivity services reflect a broader escalation in both the scale and sophistication of cyberthreats facing the country’s digital economy, according to NETSCOUT. The warning follows a wave of high-profile local incidents that reportedly disrupted hosting providers, ISPs and internet infrastructure services across the country, raising concerns around increasingly coordinated and potentially extortion-linked DDoS activity. “The recent incidents impacting South African infrastructure providers demonstrate how DDoS campaigns are evolving beyond isolated disruptions into broader attacks against critical digital ecosystems, states Bryan Hamman, area vice president for…
Buying Airtel airtime is now easier because you can top up directly from M-Pesa using Pesapal Paybill number 220220. This is one of the most-used Paybill numbers for Airtel airtime purchases and is ideal when you need a fast, reliable way to stay connected. You do not need to visit a shop, buy a scratch card, or look for an agent. You can complete the full process from your phone in a few simple steps. Steps to Buy Airtel Airtime from M-Pesa Follow these steps: Once the payment is successful, you will receive an M-Pesa confirmation message, and the airtime should…
By Shakeel Jhazbhay, General Manager: Digital Business Solutions at Datacentrix With artificial intelligence moving rapidly from experimentation to strategic priority, today’s businesses are collecting more information than ever before. However, many are overlooking a fundamental question during this process: is the information feeding these AI initiatives actually ready? For years, businesses have focused on collecting and storing data. Information now exists across emails, contracts, collaboration platforms, shared drives, cloud repositories, enterprise applications and archives. However, volume alone does not create value. The reality is that much of this data remains unmanaged, inaccessible or underutilised. Often referred to as ‘dark data’, this…