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Inside the Nairobi factory making 7,500 smartphones daily

Nairobi, May 6 -- In a brightly lit, air-conditioned godown in Nairobi's Industrial Area, rows of workers in blue coats and hair nets sit along a moving conveyor belt. Every few seconds, another smart... Read More


Password, username attacks surge to 46m cases

Nairobi, May 6 -- The use of trial-and-error to guess login credentials such as usernames and passwords to steal sensitive data or cash surged to 46.38 million attacks in Kenya in the three months to ... Read More


Cash burn, weak business models drive Kenyan startup failures

Nairobi, May 3 -- Poor financial discipline and operational inefficiencies are fuelling the rapid collapse of startups in Kenya despite rising funding inflows, analysts say. Kenya was Africa's top de... Read More


Konza Technopolis revenue falls 20pc despite rising investment

Nairobi, May 1 -- Revenue generated by the Konza Technopolis fell sharply in 2025, largely due to reduced land leasing and delayed payments for cloud services. New data from the Kenya National Bureau... Read More


Lender to pay phone user Sh400,000 for unsolicited loan calls, texts

Nairobi, April 29 -- Microfinance lender Platinum Credit has been ordered to pay a mobile subscriber Sh400,000 for repeatedly sending unsolicited promotional messages and calls without his consent. T... Read More


E-waste hits record high, raising health red flags

Nairobi, April 29 -- Kenya's electronic waste rose to a record high in 2025, raising the alarm over mounting environmental and health risks from discarded devices such as mobile phones, kettles and pr... Read More


Bezos Kenya satellite nod bid opens fight with Musk

Nairobi, April 28 -- US tech giant Amazon has made a formal licensing bid to roll out satellite internet in Kenya, putting the world's two richest men in a head-to-head fight for a share of the countr... Read More


Craft Silicon boss on the firm's diversification, expansion and building a global tech business

Nairobi, April 23 -- Technology firm Craft Silicon is best known for the taxi hailing provider, Little, which is locked in market share fight with giants-Uber and Bolt. But behind the scene, the firm... Read More


Kenya freezes Binance accounts in money laundering purge

Nairobi, April 22 -- Kenya has frozen an undisclosed number of Binance user accounts in its first major crackdown on the booming cryptocurrency industry amid global concerns that digital currencies ar... Read More


Pay platform eyes SMEs, saccos with a unified payment wallet

Nairobi, April 22 -- Payments platform Paykit has entered Kenya's growing digital finance market with a unified payments platform that allows individuals and businesses to collect payments, manage fun... Read More