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August 09, 2022
- Ride-haling giants look to ads for profitability
- Tech events to attend this week: Blockchain4Business, Advancio Fintech for Growth + more
- 3 cryptocurrencies you should invest in this August to cash in on the market rebound
- Elon Musk will have his duel
- BlockHeader hosts 1st Web3 workshop and hackathon in Northern Nigeria
- Want your kids to be the next tech bro? Here are 5 tech summer camps to consider
- Linda Obi speaks on solving the problem of women’s underrepresentation in crypto with Techonomy
- Social Media Roundup: Nigerian women are doing well!
- UK expansion: Kora selected as one of 2 Commonwealth Investment projects
- How streaming algorithms have become Afrobeat’s biggest gatekeeper
- Global Tech Roundup: Uber reports another loss, Sheryl Sandberg finally leaves Meta
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Youverify announces support programme for African startups
- Financial Inclusion: More Collaboration Needed with Regulators, says i-invest CPO, Tobi Olusoga
- Make way for Amazon Prime Video
- NBC fines Multichoice and others, 5 million naira for televising the BBC banditry report
- How Twitter plans to promote healthy conversations during Kenya elections
- Philisiah Mwaluma speaks on starting out early in tech, empowering other women with Codeln
- Meet the 5 Africans featured on the 2022 Bloomberg New Economy Catalyst list
- Y Combinator’s great cut
- Despite economic downturn, Airtel, MTN record $2.9bn revenue from Nigeria in 6 months
- These are the top 6 music streaming apps worth your coin
- “Digital Customer Experience can be an enabler of growth for Startups” – Collins Iheagwara, of Simpu on leveraging technology for improved customer delivery
- Crypto explainer: Here is all you need to know about the Pi Coin
- Y Combinator slashes Startups Accelerator Class by 40%
- Reviewing the new Pocket App by PiggyVest: This is what changed
- More layoffs in Africa
- Kenya’s Lami raises $3.7m seed extension, plans expansion to Egypt, Nigeria
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Meta hosts popular content creators to exclusive dinner on the metaverse in Lagos
- Youverify raises $2.5m total seed fund, to expand across Africa
- Founders of popular Crypto Ponzi scheme, Forsage arrested for $300m fraud
- Hollywood dominates as moviegoers spent N51m on cinema in one weekend
- Flutterwave VS Bank of Ghana
- NCC pledges N500m for research in Nigerian universities
- Meet the 21 African news organisations selected for 2022 Google News Initiative $150,000 fund
- A timeline of the recent travails of Flutterwave, ChipperCash others in Kenya
- Dogecoin: 71% of crypto experts believe it is time to sell
- More fire in Kenya
- Social Media Roundup: Flutterwave’s struggles in Kenya, Tobi Amusan’s exceptional victory + others
- Why Franklin Peters of Boundlesspay believes Africa can be a blockchain hub
- Stakeholders debate regulations in the Nigerian tech ecosystem at GAT Summit 2022
- CBK vs Flutterwave and ChipperCash
- Does Nigeria replicate regulations? Innovators discuss localisation at GAT Summit 2022
- GAT Summit: What is the role of proper governance in ease of doing business?
- GAT Summit 2022: Tech executives are now more powerful than political leaders – DG NITDA, Inuwa Abdullahi
- GAT Summit 2022: Are regulators working to collaborate with tech innovators?
- Tech innovators discuss challenges with regulations at GAT Summit 2022
- Lagos governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu says Lagos is an emerging tech hub at GAT Summit 2022
- Regulating the Nigerian tech ecosystem
- Facebook mimics TikTok with its new Feeds feature
- 6 travel vloggers you should check out