When registering or verifying your Samsung Care+ coverage, you will often need to confirm your specific serial number (IMEI), and your personal details. Samsung makes it easy to find this information directly from your device’s settings. Follow these four simple steps to locate and verify your device’s identity. Step 1: Open Your Device Settings First, unlock your phone and swipe down from the top of your screen to open the notification panel, then tap the gear icon. Alternatively, find the Settings app in your app drawer and tap to open it. Step 2: Navigate to “About Phone” Scroll all the…
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Absa Bank Kenya has welcomed a new industry-wide initiative to promote digital payments through PesaLink. As part of the initiative, PesaLink transaction charges have been reduced to as low as KSh20 for transfers ranging between KSh1,001 and KSh999,999, while transactions below KSh1,000 will be free of charge. The initiative aims to accelerate the adoption of real-time, bank-to-bank digital payments while offering consumers and businesses a cost-effective alternative for everyday transactions. This Kenya Bankers Association-led initiative comes at a time when Kenya continues to lead globally in digital financial services adoption. However, a significant share of low-value transactions still take place…
By Zachary Ochieng The recently concluded AI Everything Kenya x GITEX Kenya convened over 15,000 delegates in Nairobi, affirming that what Kenya and Africa are building in Artificial Intelligence and digital innovation is no longer a future ambition, but a present reality. With sustained investments in digital infrastructure, policy innovation, and technology ecosystems, Nairobi continues to solidify its position as one of Africa’s leading technology and innovation hubs. The summit reinforced the message that the future of artificial intelligence and the global digital economy will increasingly be shaped by collaborative, inclusive & Africa-driven innovation. It underscored a clear imperative: the…
KCB disbursed KShs. 48.8 billion in green financing loans to support environmentally sustainable projects in renewable energy, sustainable agriculture, green buildings, clean transportation, water management, and climate-smart investments. Out of this, KShs. 9.9 billion was independently verified as climate-eligible using the Climate Assessment for Financial Institutions (CAFI) tool. At the same time, the lender screened KShs. 587.9 billion worth of transactions under its Environmental and Social Due Diligence framework covering operations across Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Rwanda as part of its commitment to accelerating the transition toward a low-carbon economy. The milestone enabled the Group to surpass its strategic target…
Check Point Research, the threat intelligence arm of Check Point Software Technologies, has released its Global Threat Intelligence insights for May 2026, revealing a global average of 2,055 cyber-attacks per organisation per week, representing a 2% increase year on year. Latin America remained the most targeted region, recording an average of 3,149 weekly attacks per organisation and a 13% year-on-year increase. Africa followed at just under 3000 attacks per organisation per week. Notably, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Angola, and Mozambique are the most attacked countries on the continent. Angola and Nigeria attack levels are double the global average at 4 046 and 3 941 per organisation per week, respectively. These figures…
For many people using home Wi-Fi, internet access can fluctuate depending on their location in the house. The signal seems to weaken the further away you move from the router. This shift is what Safaricom, in partnership with Huawei, is trying to achieve with a new connectivity solution called Fibre to the Room (FTTR). FTTR is an innovative technology that uses optical fibre communication. It brings fibre into each room, delivering gigabit-level speeds, high bandwidth, and strong signal transmission. Unlike traditional setups where the router covers the entire home from a single point, FTTR connects the entire home or premises via Wi-Fi extenders, eliminating dead zones and supporting multiple concurrent…
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…
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…