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Uber's 14.8 billion dollar acquisition of Glovo parent Delivery Hero faces antitrust scrutiny across Kenya, Nigeria, and North Africa, where it would merge the top delivery rivals.
Nesa Power secured about 150 million rand, roughly 9 million dollars, in mezzanine debt from Maia Capital to expand commercial and industrial solar under long-term PPAs.
African ICT ministers gathered in Abuja for the ATU's 7th Conference of Plenipotentiaries, aiming for a unified continental strategy on spectrum, AI, and digital infrastructure.
Six Nigerian fintechs made CNBC and Statista's 2026 World's Top Fintech Companies list, over half of Africa's 11 entries, cementing Lagos as the continent's fintech capital.
Kenya now requires a KSh250,000 Communications Equipment Distributor Licence to import phones, routers, and modems, part of a crackdown on counterfeit and non-compliant devices.
Samsung's London Unpacked delivered the first Ultra foldable at 4.1mm, a wider Fold8, the Flip8, two new watches, and Gemini-powered smart glasses. Every announcement, explained.
Apple has not announced the iPhone 18 Pro, but this camera rumor now has analyst notes, supply-chain reports, and factory-equipment claims behind it.
Nearly every "free" app you use pays for itself with your attention or your data. VLC is the great exception, and understanding why it stayed clean explains what happened to everything else on your phone.
Apple's lawsuit against OpenAI turns a friendly AI partnership into a fight over hardware, trade secrets, talent, and who gets to define the next computing device.
Uber's agreement to buy Delivery Hero would bring Glovo into the same group as Uber Eats, a major shift for Kenya's food and grocery delivery market.
The M5 MacBook Air is not exciting on the outside, but its mix of speed, silence, battery life, and support makes it difficult to ignore.
Lenovo's latest ThinkPad X1 Carbon is being praised not just for performance, but because its redesigned internals make common repairs easier.
NVIDIA's RTX Spark platform is a direct challenge to Intel and AMD in Windows PCs, built around local AI, Arm, Blackwell graphics, and huge shared memory.
Intel's 2026 CPU price increases are narrow but revealing: desktop bumps are modest, server hikes are steep, and AMD gets a value opening.
Microsoft is testing PC Insights for Copilot, a plain-English way to ask why your laptop feels slow, whether your storage is full, or why your battery is fading.
Microsoft's July 2026 Patch Tuesday fixed a record 570 flaws, including two already being used in attacks. The boring advice is now urgent: update quickly.
PrimeVale says its new Kenyan property marketplace will pair listings with plain-language guides for first-time buyers. The education-first idea is strong, but trust will depend on verification and independence.
Samsung is pushing AI picture and sound features into its 2026 TV range. That is useful, but buyers should still compare brightness, local dimming, ports and room conditions.
Smartphone AI is moving from photo tricks to agents that act across apps. TECNO's EllaClaw shows why budget phones may become the real test ground.
KOKO built one of Africa's most visible clean cooking platforms. Its asset sale shows how hardware, households and carbon finance can become dangerously tangled.
The Bill would require yearly emissions certificates and digital NEMA-linked testing. Cleaner air matters, but fees and repairs could hit ride-hailing and logistics workers hard.
The old line says America innovates, China replicates, and Europe regulates. China's rocket catch shows why that line is useful, and why it is no longer enough.
The metal card targets high-value Kenyan customers with lounge access, concierge services and high credit limits. The real story is the race to own premium digital banking relationships.
Meta's Muse Image rollout turned public Instagram content into AI prompt material by default. Here is what users, creators and brands should know before leaving settings untouched.
