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Crypto

Changpeng Zhao reaffirms belief in Bitcoin, calls it a hard asset

Binance Founder Bets on Bitcoin's Long term viability despite slump

Analysis

Apple turns 50 next week. Eddy Cue thinks the next 50 could break it.

The question inside Cupertino is whether what got Apple here can carry it forward.

News

MTN’s Ayoba app is shutting down

MTN is shutting down Ayoba, its messaging and super app launched in 2019. Despite early growth and free data incentives, the platform failed to retain users against WhatsApp and Telegram.

Funding

Happy Pay raises $5M to build an ad-funded payments network that charges consumers nothing

Happy Pay has raised $5 million to expand its ad-funded BNPL platform in South Africa. The startup shifts the cost of credit from consumers to merchants, offering zero-interest installment payments.

Features

‘I entered tech through strategy’: The non-coder route that shaped myStash’s Onyinye Stephanie

Onyinye Oguego, co-founder of myStash, shares how she made her first million before entering tech and why access to capital remains the biggest barrier for African women building wealth.

AI

The 30% rule: How SORA kills more African mosquitoes for less with AI drones

By combining fixed-wing drones and AI, they are killing mosquitoes and decoding the inefficiency of the public health budget.

Crypto

$96 billion in crypto transactions : The Nigerian SEC thinks is time for serious regulations

Nigerians Using Crypto Processed $96 billion Last Year

Features

Ex-PalmPay employee’s startup helping Africans reduce the cost of online subscriptions

Subify is helping Africans cut software subscription costs by splitting enterprise plans across users, turning a WhatsApp group into a fast-growing fintech product.

Analysis

Wise receives conditional approval for Nigerian remittance (IMTO) licence

We explore what this means for Wise's African expansion, and if it can compete with local players like LemFi and Moniepoint.

News

Kenya’s share of African agtech funding has halved in 2 years. Here is what the money is chasing instead.

African-based funders have quietly halved their Kenya agtech activity in two years, and the money trail explains what went wrong.

News

Africa’s Starchitect Jumoke Adenowo exits Flutterwave board after two-year tenure

Jumoke Adenowo has stepped down from Flutterwave’s board after more than two years, adding to a series of leadership changes at the fintech unicorn.

Fintech

Mastercard to acquire BVNK for $1.8B to expand stablecoin payments

Mastercard is acquiring stablecoin infrastructure firm BVNK for up to $1.8 billion, aiming to connect blockchain-based payments with traditional financial systems.

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