AI Boom Fuels $120 Billion Tech Debt Surge in 2025: Alphabet, Meta, and Amazon Lead the Charge By Ndefo Onyekachukwu | November 25, 2025 The artificial intelligence revolution is rewriting not just code, but corporate balance sheets. In 2025, Big Tech has issued nearly $120 billion in debt to fund the explosive growth of AI infrastructure – a 300%+ jump from typical annual loads, with hyperscale’s like Alphabet, Meta, Amazon, and Oracle alone borrowing over $90 billion in the last two months. This borrowing frenzy – dubbed the “AI debt wave” – is powering data centers and chip fabs, but…
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Next Wave: Safaricom’s $310 Million Debt Raise – Kenya’s Telecom Giant Bets Big on 5G and Ethiopia Expansion By Ndefo Onyekachukwu | November 24, 2025 Kenya’s telecom powerhouse Safaricom has secured a landmark approval from the Capital Markets Authority (CMA) to raise up to KES 40 billion (~$310 million) through a Medium-Term Note (MTN) program – marking the largest corporate debt issuance in Kenyan history. Announced on November 20, 2025, the program allows flexible issuance of notes, including green, social, and sustainability bonds, to fund critical infrastructure upgrades in Kenya and its Ethiopian operations. Coming off a strong half-year to…
5 interesting ways to transfer files from Android to iPhone Not long ago, I tried to send a single photo from my Android phone to a friend who uses an iPhone. Nothing fancy—just one image that should have taken five seconds to share. Instead, it became an unexpected mini-adventure through settings menus, file-sharing apps, and confusing options that all seemed determined not to cooperate. What should have been a quick task turned into a long search for a method that both devices agreed on. Android’s sharing options didn’t line up with iPhone’s limitations. Some apps required accounts, others compressed the…
5 Interesting Ways to Transfer Files from Android to iPhone in 2025 – Step-by-Step (With Images) Switching from Android to iPhone? The biggest headache is always moving your photos, videos, contacts, WhatsApp chats, and documents without losing anything. Apple’s Move to iOS app is the official method, but it’s slow and needs both phones to be fresh (or factory reset). In 2025, there are faster, smarter, and more interesting ways — some you’ve probably never tried. Here are the 5 best methods. 1. WhatsApp’s Built-in QR Code Transfer (Fastest for Chats + Media)Best for: WhatsApp chats, photos, videos, voice notes…
Bridging Africa’s Digital Divide: GSMA’s Push for Affordable Smartphones and Inclusive Connectivity in 2025 Across Africa, an estimated 600 million people live within reach of 3G or 4G networks but have never gone online. The culprit, according to Angela Wamola, Head of GSMA Africa, isn’t poor coverage or flawed policies—it’s the stark reality that smartphones remain prohibitively expensive for the average African consumer. In a bold response, the GSMA launched a continent-wide initiative last month at MWC Kigali 2025, partnering with operators and manufacturers to deliver entry-level 4G smartphones priced between $30 and $40—a price point that could spark one…
M-KOPA Kenya Hits $1.6 Billion in Credit Disbursed – Becomes One of Kenya’s Largest Lenders to Low-Income Households By Ndefo Onyekachukwu | November 24, 2025 M-KOPA Kenya, the local arm of the pan-African pay-as-you-go giant, has now extended more than $1.6 billion (KES 207 billion) in credit to customers across the country, cementing its position as one of Kenya’s biggest lenders to low- and middle-income households. The milestone was revealed on Monday during the launch of M-KOPA’s first Kenya-focused impact report in Nairobi, which chronicles the company’s 15-year journey from selling solar kits in rural areas to financing smartphones and…
Paystack Fires Co-Founder Ezra Olubi Over ‘Significant Reputational Damage’ from Resurfaced Tweets By Ndefo Onyekachukwu | November 24, 2025 Paystack, the Stripe-owned Nigerian payments giant, has terminated the employment of its co-founder and former Chief Technology Officer, Ezra Olubi, citing “significant negative reputational damage” caused by resurfaced tweets from over a decade ago. The decision, announced on November 24, 2025, follows Olubi’s suspension on November 13 amid allegations of sexual misconduct and the viral resurfacing of explicit tweets from 2009–2013. Olubi, who co-founded Paystack in 2015 with Shola Akinlade and helped scale it to a $200M+ acquisition by Stripe in…