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Inside Kenya's "Startup Graveyard": Twiga Joins a KES 93 Billion Wreckage, and One Number Complicates the Story
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iPhone Duo vs Samsung Galaxy Z Fold8: What Apple Actually Got Right, and What It Didn't
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Bolt has spent a decade and KSh 19 billion building Kenya's ride-hailing habit
Bolt marks 10 years in Kenya after investing over KSh19 billion, connecting more than 8 million riders and supporting 170,000 drivers and couriers.
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China's car exports jumped 88% in July, and the next export battle is software, regulation and local production
Chinese car exports reached 923,000 units in July as domestic sales fell. Geely and XPENG show how the next export phase is moving into smart driving and local production.
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Bolt Send is adding motorbikes in Mombasa, turning ride-hailing infrastructure into a small-business delivery network
Bolt has expanded Bolt Send in Mombasa from cars to motorbikes, targeting smaller, time-sensitive parcel deliveries for businesses and individuals.
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Anker is using Kenya as its East Africa launchpad, and the bigger play is the ecosystem around the charger
Anker has expanded its Kenya presence with a reported $1 million push, wider retail coverage, service centres and a broader ecosystem spanning power, audio and smart-home products.
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Apple's camera-equipped AirPods just leaked, and the privacy question is bigger than the hardware
A leaked Apple video inside macOS Tahoe 26.7 shows camera-equipped AirPods using Visual Intelligence. Here is what appears real and what remains unconfirmed.
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TikTok is quietly turning Live music and DMs into creator business infrastructure
TikTok's latest creator tools are less about viral effects and more about operations, from organising business leads in DMs to turning original music into a LIVE experience.
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Microsoft booked $24.1 billion from its OpenAI commercial relationship. That is growth and concentration at once
Microsoft's filing puts a huge number on the OpenAI partnership, but $24.1 billion in revenue is not the same as profit and does not reveal the full economics of AI infrastructure.
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Disney is putting TikTok fan videos inside Disney+, turning fandom into streaming inventory
Disney is bringing curated, opt-in TikTok fan videos into its vertical Verts feed, turning fan culture into part of the Disney+ product rather than leaving it outside the streaming app.
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M-Pesa Ethiopia users can now turn wallet balance into cash at Bank of Abyssinia ATMs
A new Bank of Abyssinia integration gives M-Pesa Ethiopia customers another way to cash out, turning existing ATM infrastructure into part of the mobile-money network.
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Jumia raised $50 million from IFC, Axian and others. Now it has to prove the profitability story
Fresh IFC and Axian backing gives Jumia more room to strengthen logistics and supply, but the next milestone investors care about is sustainable profitability.
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Spotify wants fans to remix copyrighted songs legally, and Kobalt just joined the experiment
Spotify is trying to turn a behaviour already happening across the internet into a licensed creation product where songwriters remain credited and compensated.
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Instagram changed its wordmark after 10 years, and legibility may be the price of personality
Instagram kept the script, cleaned up the letterforms and left the app icon alone. The result is more modern, but not necessarily easier to read.
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Airtel's Bizna Wallet has turned Kenya's small-business payments into a price war
Airtel Money's Bizna Wallet challenges Safaricom's Pochi La Biashara with free merchant payments and cashback as M-Pesa cuts selected fees.
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Apple owns 65 percent of the premium phone market, but the number hides a changing battlefield
Counterpoint says Apple captured 65 percent of premium smartphone sales in H1 2026 as the premium segment reached a record 29 percent of the market.
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BYD, Geely and Chery are now global top-10 automakers. China is no longer the challenger
BYD ranked sixth, Geely seventh and Chery tied for ninth in H1 2026 global automaker market share, showing China's rapid international expansion.
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India wants to lock in electronics manufacturing until 2041, and Apple is a major reason why
India proposes extending tax exemptions for foreign electronics suppliers to 2041 as it scales smartphone, laptop, tablet and wearable manufacturing.
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Insta360 just turned the GO Ultra into a wearable Gemini assistant
Insta360 firmware 1.8.91 adds Kira, a Gemini-powered AI assistant with Ask with Photo, translation and voice recognition to the GO Ultra.
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Europe is turning interoperability from a principle into an engineering requirement
EU regulators are using the Digital Markets Act to turn interoperability into specific technical obligations across Android, iOS and Windows ecosystems.
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China's BYD battery blogger dispute is becoming a test of who gets to challenge product claims
China's CAC named tech blogger Cai Shen Dao in an enforcement case over allegedly false product evaluations tied to BYD Blade Battery 2.0 testing.
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East Africa's electric-mobility race is moving from vehicles to infrastructure
Electric motorcycles and fleet vehicles are scaling across East Africa, shifting the competition toward battery swapping, charging access and interoperability.
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Apple's next health device may sit on your face, not your wrist
Apple appears to be spreading sensing across glasses and earbuds, but privacy, battery life and clinical credibility will determine whether it works.
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Vodacom's new Safaricom powers go far beyond owning more shares
Vodacom's reported 55 percent stake now comes with stronger board and executive influence over a company that carries Kenya's communications and money.