Tag: Kenya

A gang of Kenyan students who have been hacking foreigners’ email credit cards through email phishing, stealing money and laundering it through bitcoin, have been...

Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta has launched a $34.1 million (Ksh 4 billion) forensic laboratory at the Directorate of Crime Investigation (DCI) headquarters, Nairobi.The laboratory will support...

The Kenyan Parliament has passed a controversial law that seeks to regulate “anyone who employs technologies to collect, process, store or transfer information for...

A new report by the Mozilla Foundation shows that certain TikTok accounts are twisting Kenya's fraught political history ahead of the country's general elections which...

The Kenyan government has announced plans to introduce a 20% excise tax on fees charged by digital lenders.Earlier this week, Kenyan legislators proposed an amendment to...

The partnership between Safaricom and Visa has given birth to a new card virtual that allows payments across borders.The collaboration had earlier developed...

Remember the Uber drivers' lawsuit in Kenya? Well, now Uber is seeking to activate the arbitration clause within the drivers' contracts. In 2016, a...

NEAR Foundation, the Swiss non-profit that oversees the governance and development of the NEAR protocol, has partnered with the local Kenyan blockchain community, Sankore,...

A new study by US-based research firm, Boston Consulting Group (BCG) indicates the value of mobile wallet and other digital finance transactions accounted for...

Kenyan retail-tech startup MarketForce is the only Sub-Saharan African company selected for the Y Combinator Summer 2020 batch, securing US$150,000 in funding and the...