Category: Digital Technology
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Cabinet Secretary, Ministry of ICT & the Digital Economy, Hon. William Kabogo speaks at the launch of Airtel Kenya’s AI-powered Spam Alert Service. Airtel Africa has revealed that its AI-powered Spam Alert service has detected and flagged more than 205 million spam messages across 13 of its 14 markets in just six months. Airtel Africa…
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Safaricom Home Fibre Not long ago, the Kenyan living room revolved around a single TV set, tuned to a handful of channels, often controlled by whoever paid for the monthly decoder. Today, the scene looks very different. Netflix plays in the sitting room, Spotify hums in the kitchen, and a teenager upstairs is livestreaming on…
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Safaricom PLC has announced a planned upgrade of its M-Pesa platform set for Monday, September 22, 2025, between 12:30 am and 3:30 am. The telecommunications giant said the three-hour exercise is aimed at boosting the reliability, security, and overall performance of the mobile money service. “For 18 years, M-Pesa has continued to transform lives across…
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In Kenya, content has never been just entertainment. It has always been a mirror, a megaphone, and a movement. From the communal laughter around Vioja Mahakamani to the viral skits on TikTok, storytelling has remained central to our cultural identity—evolving with technology but never losing its soul. For decades, Kenyan television was a shared experience.…
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The KRA enforcement teams have intercepted an undeclared consignment of 21,600 units of high-end smartphones worth Ksh 16,102,137 in tax at the Eldoret International Airport. The consignment was part of consolidated items that included 5,000 declared units of smartphones worth Ksh 6.4 million, shoes, clothes, auto spare parts, household items, and other electronic accessories. The…
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Talk about forex in Kenya pops up almost everywhere now. In a campus hallway, inside a matatu, or during a late evening chat over chai, someone will bring it up. Some brag about profits, others admit losses, and many just want to know what the fuss is about. The point is: it’s no longer a…
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Airtel Africa’s Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered Spam Alert service has detected more than 205 million spam SMS messages across Africa in the last six months, with Kenya recording the highest spam volume at 68 million flagged messages. The Spam Alert Service, available to all subscribers at no cost, identifies and prefixes the SMS with “SPAM Alert”…
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Safaricom announces M-Pesa scheduled system maintenance Safaricom PLC has announced a scheduled system upgrade that will temporarily interrupt M-Pesa services for three hours on Monday, September 22, 2025. In a notice on Friday, September 19, Safaricom said the maintenance will take place between 12:30 AM and 3:30 AM. “For 18 years, M-PESA has continued to…
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Kenya has recorded the highest spam volume with 68 million messages flagged. This is according to Airtel Africa, which puts Tanzania and Zambia in second and third place with 47 million and 33 million messages, respectively. According to the latest review period, more than 205 million spam SMS messages were detected by Airtel Africa’s pioneering…
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Nairobi, Kenya – Monday, September 22, 2025: Safaricom has completed the largest upgrade of its M-Pesa platform since 2015, raising its processing power from 4,500 to 6,000 transactions per second. The new system can scale up to 12,000 transactions per second to meet future demand. The upgrade, branded Fintech 2.0, introduces a cloud-native core system that…