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Big Techthe giants and their impact

The tech giants and their impact on the continent.

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A first-generation orange HomePod mini, launched in 2020 at $99. Its successor, unveiled on October 13, costs $149 in the United States.

Analysis

With HomeView and a new Siri, Apple takes another run at the smart home, and raises its prices

A $299 smart display, an Apple TV that costs $100 more, a $149 HomePod mini and a range of locks and cameras made by LG and Schneider Electric: on Tuesday in New York, Apple unveiled its most ambitious push into the connected home. All of it rests on a rebuilt Siri that Europe won’t get.

14 Oct8 min read

Downtown Nairobi. In 2019 Microsoft chose the city for one of its two African engineering centres; the other was in Lagos.

Analysis

Big Tech

Microsoft dismantles its Nairobi engineering centre, seven years after a $100 million promise

13 Oct6 min read

Apple Park, Apple’s headquarters in Cupertino, California. John Ternus has run the company since 1 September 2026.

Big Tech

John Ternus shakes up Apple: fewer managers, more products and a new launch calendar

1 Oct4 min read

Microsoft’s campus in Redmond, near Seattle. The company is turning Copilot into an agent platform.

Analysis

Big Tech

Microsoft turns Copilot into an agent that works for you: what changes for businesses

26 Sept5 min read

First-generation Ray-Ban Meta glasses and their charging case.

Big Tech

Meta turns its smart glasses into hearing aids

24 Sept1 min read

Big Tech · Nigeria

Uber pulls out of Nigeria and Uganda

The ride-hailing service, which arrived in Lagos in 2014, stopped operating in both countries on 2 September. It remains in South Africa, Egypt, Ghana and Kenya.

2 Sept1 min read