Apps
All articles about apps, what they do, when they’re launched, or updated or reviewed are found here.
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News
Stanbic App Update Now Lets You Invest in USD or KES, Pay T-Bills & Bonds, Open New Accounts, and More
Insights At a Glance: Stanbic Kenya’s mobile app update adds savings account opening, MMF & USD fund investing, T-bill/Bond payments,…
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News
[Update: Mobile too] X Replaces Google Translate with Grok for Web Users
Update (July 14, 2025): Grok Translate has now replaced Google Translate in the X mobile app as well. Original article…
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Opinion
MultiChoice’s “We’ve Got You” Promotion Is a Band-Aid on a Bleeding Business Model
MultiChoice's latest promotion masks deeper problems with pricing strategy and streaming execution while subscribers flee to competitors
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Opinion
X (Formerly Twitter) Has Become an Ad Jungle, With Up to 7 Consecutive Ads Cluttering My Timeline
Insights At a Glance: My X timeline has become overwhelmed with consecutive ads — up to six or even seven…
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News
TECNO Warns of Serious Security Flaw in Boomplay App, Users Urged to Update Immediately
Insights At a Glance: Boomplay version 7.4.51 (released Feb 2025) contains a high-severity security flaw. The issue, logged as CVE-2025-6172,…
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Announcements
Google Chrome to Stop Working on Older Android Phones from August 2025
Insights At a Glance: Chrome 138 is the last version for Android 8 and 9 users. Chrome 139 (coming August…
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Opinion
Kenyans Won’t Care About The New Google Messages Group Chat Features
Google Messages is on a roll lately. The app just added a bunch of long-overdue RCS features for group messaging—“Delete…
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News
Meta AI Officially Launches on WhatsApp in Kenya as Users See Blue AI Button
Meta AI officially launched in Kenya with WhatsApp users now seeing blue AI button for free AI assistance and image…
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Announcements
ChatGPT on WhatsApp Now Lets You Create Images—Right From Your Chats
Insights At a Glance: OpenAI has officially rolled out image generation for ChatGPT on WhatsApp via 1-800-ChatGPT, letting users create…
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How To/ Explained
WhatsApp Ads Will Track Your Location, Language, and Channel Activity — Here’s What That Means
Insights At a Glance: Meta is introducing ads in WhatsApp’s Updates tab using data like your city, language, and Channels…
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News
WhatsApp’s Long‑Rumoured Ads Rolling Out – And They’re Living in The Status Updates, Not Your Chats
Insights At a Glance: WhatsApp’s Updates tab now features ads on Status, promoted channels, and paid channel subscriptions, keeping personal…
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News
Spotify Silently Ditches Weekly Mini Plan in Kenya, Cuts Price of Individual Premium Plan
Insights At a Glance: Spotify quietly removed its weekly Mini Premium plan in Kenya, likely due to its poor long-term…
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News
DStv Piloting Weekly Subscription Model in Uganda to Match Customer Cash Flow Patterns
Insights At a Glance: DStv is testing a weekly subscription model in Uganda to match customer cash flow patterns. If…
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News
X (Formerly Twitter) Finally Ditches Generic “Improvements and Bug Fixes” for Detailed Changelogs
Insights At a Glance: X (formerly Twitter) has finally ditched vague update blurbs on iOS, now offering detailed changelogs that…
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News
Massive Internet Outage Cripples Google, Spotify, Discord as Millions Face Service Disruptions
Massive Google Cloud outage on June 12 disrupted Spotify, Discord, Gmail globally for hours, affecting millions of users worldwide.