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Why Airtel and Safaricom Are Quietly Shrinking Kenya's Cheap Data Bundles
Airtel Kenya cut the data allocations on all four of its Smarta bundles on August 18, 2026, without ...
Read Article →Jumia Kenya Posts Record Sh6.4 Billion Quarter as Fashion Sales Offset a Smartphone Slump
Jumia's Kenyan business recorded Sh6.4 billion ($49.7 million) in sales in the three months to June ...
Read Article →Is University Still Worth It? Why Kenya's Youth Are Rethinking the Degree Bet
For decades, the formula was simple: finish secondary school, get into university, graduate, get a j...
Read Article →Why A Gigabyte In Kenya Still Costs What It Cost A Decade Ago, Even As Apps Grew Heavier
Kenyan mobile subscribers have spent the better part of 2026 complaining that their data bundles are...
Read Article →How Savo Store Is Rewiring the Way Kenyans Shop on Amazon
Savo Store, a Kenya-focused freight forwarding and procurement service, has built a business around ...
Read Article →Jumia's Long Road to Profit: Inside 13 Years of Losses and the Promise of a 2026 Breakeven
Jumia was founded in 2012 by Jeremy Hodara and Sacha Poignonnec, two former McKinsey consultants, al...
Read Article →Kenya's New Courier-Hailing Licence: Who Really Pays When Uber, Bolt, and Glovo Get a Bigger Bill?
The Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) has revised the country's Postal and Courier Market Struc...
Read Article →The NSE Wants to Be a Tech Exchange. It Has Tried This Before.
Why the Nairobi Securities Exchange is struggling to court the Silicon Savannah. We analyze the prop...
Read Article →The Fire Horse Effect: Why Kenya's 60-Day Supply Chain Disruption Could Be Worse in 2026
Tomorrow marks the beginning of Chinese New Year 2026, but this is not just any ordinary celebration...
Read Article →Local Assembly or Global Surplus Offloading? The Uncomfortable Truth Behind Kenya's KSh 320M EV Plant
Rideence plans to assemble 152 electric vehicles by the end of February 2026, 132 Henrey electric ta...
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The Global Smartphone Inequality: Why Kenya Pays More for Less (And the Math That Proves It)
Over six hours, the TechInKenya.com team investigated manufacturing costs, tax structures, shipping ...
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