Meta opened AI Academy Kenya with This Is Digital. Two startups win about KES 650,000 each. Applications close 30th September.
Kenyans used 50.6% more mobile data in a year. 5G connections, just 3.8% of the total, used 14.5% of it.
Safaricom added 11.5 million active SIM cards in a year, more than Kenya's whole market. Airtel, Telkom and Equitel shrank.
Kenya had 54 million active mobile money subscriptions in June, 101.3% of its population. Airtel Money's share has nearly doubled.
Spiro has borrowed another USD 18 million, about KES 2.3 billion, from Africa Go Green Fund for Uganda and Rwanda.
Starlink had 27,616 Kenyan subscribers in June, up 58.5% in a year, just days before pausing sign-ups in seven counties.
Absa Next lets anyone with a Kenyan ID save at up to 7% and borrow up to KES 1 million.
Old Mutual's Lengo savings plans now run up to 20 years and guarantee your premiums back. Hakika and Elimika changed.
Quickmart's owners are selling 2 billion shares, half the chain, on the NSE from about 30 September. No price yet.
Treasury and the Attorney General told the Court of Appeal the KES 204.3 billion Safaricom sale money cannot be refunded.
Airtel Money will list in London, pricing in mid-October. Existing shareholders sell, and IFC buys up to KES 11.6 billion.
OnePlus 16 specs so far: Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6, 165Hz in every app, and a leaked 9,000mAh battery.
Vilcom and Ahadi added more fixed internet subscriptions than Faiba between December and June. Poa lost 14,704 and shrank again.
Kenya is among 14 African countries where ITC and Access Bank plan to support small businesses. Ghana's pilot goes first.
Minisend is official payment partner of Africa Blockchain Festival 2026 in Nairobi, weeks before Kenya's 4 November crypto licensing deadline.
