How to Optimize Images for Your Website
Images play a major role in how a website looks and feels. They make content attractive, help tell stories, and improve user engagement. However, if images are not optimized properly, they can slow down a website, increase data usage, and hurt search…
Sophos: Manufacturing Blocks More Ransomware as Attackers Pivot to Data Theft
Sophos, a global leader of innovative security solutions for defeating cyberattacks, today announced new findings from the Sophos State of Ransomware in Manufacturing and Production 2025 report. The study reveals that manufacturers are stopping more…
Zoho Expands Young Creators Program Across East Africa, Empowering Students with Future-Ready Digital Skills
Zoho, a global technology company, has expanded its Young Creators Program (YCP) across East Africa, empowering students and professionals with hands-on digital skills in low-code application development. Through workshops conducted across Kenya, Uganda,…
AI chip startup Ricursive hits $4B valuation two months after launch
Ricursive Intelligence, a startup building an AI system to design and automatically improve AI chips, has raised $300 million at a $4 billion valuation. The company said Monday the round was led by Lightspeed. Ricursive says the system will be able to…
Spiro Lands Historic $100M Funding, Setting a New Benchmark for Africa’s E-Mobility
Africa’s electric mobility story has often been one of promise over progress. Infrastructure is scarce, power grids are unreliable, and most markets still run on cheap imported motorcycles. But Dubai-headquartered Spiro has spent the past two years…
A Proof that google Voice assistant spies on users as it is taken to court
Google agreed to pay $68 million to settle claims its voice assistant illegally spied on users to, among other things, serve them advertisements, Reuters reports. Google did not admit wrongdoing in the settlement of the class-action case, which accused…
Safaricom has appointed Sylvia Anampiu as director of fixed business as Kenya’s biggest telco moves closer to rolling out pay-as-you-go fibre broadband for Kenyan homes and offices.
The appointment comes as Safaricom prepares to upend how fixed internet is sold, shifting from rigid monthly plans to daily, weekly and monthly options that mirror mobile data pricing. The model is central to the company’s plan to triple the size…
Safaricom named Kenya’s No. 1 Employer and a Top Employer in Kenya and Africa for 2026
Fifth consecutive certification by the Top Employers Institute reflects Safaricom’s consistent performance in people practices that underpin its TechCo ambition Nairobi, 15th January, 2026… Safaricom (NSE: SCOM) has been named…
