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Statistics Show That The UK Government Now Own Stakes In More Than 150 Startups
Softbank Says Its Latin America-targeted Fund Has At Least $3 Billion To Invest In Startups
El Salvador Is Looking To Exempt Foreign Investors From Paying Taxes On Bitcoin Profits
China Plans To Break Up Ant Group’s Alipay Into Separate Businesses, Financial Times Reports
Online Stockbroker Stakeshop Pty Ltd. Plans to launch Australia’s Cheapest Brokerage Service
Mexico’s Central Bank Governor Says Bitcoin Is An Item For Barter And Not Money
Court Temporarily Unfreezes Bamboo Accounts So They Can Pay Salaries, Rent
Bitcoin To Become Legal In Ukraine Following El Salvador’s Adoption
Microsoft Enters Into A Multi-year Strategic Alliance With India’s OYO, Will Work With The Startup To Develop Travel And Hospitality Products
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In What Could Be Asia’s Biggest Fundraising, Sea Plans To Raise $6.3 Billion
Kenya’s M-Pesa Now Has 50 Million Africans Using Its Mobile Money Platform
Amazon Is Launching Its Cashier-less Technology, Will Be Available At Two Whole Foods Stores Opening Next Year
Nigerian Startup Prospa Raises $3.8 Million In Pre-seed Round, Will Offer Banking And Software Services To Small Businesses
A Research Team At Standard Chartered Forecasts Bitcoin Reaching $100,000 By Early Next Year
PayPal To Buy Japanese Buy-Now-Pay-Later Firm Paidy For $2.7 Billion
Sources Say ByteDance Is In Talks With Wall Street Banks To Borrow Over $3 Billion
The Price Of Bitcoin Falls Below $50k, Loses Up To $9,000 In Value And Tumbles More Than 10 Percent On El Salvador’s Adoption
African Fintech Wave Now Valued At $1.7 Billion After Raising $200 Million
El Salvador Is Officially The First Country To Adopt Bitcoin As A Legal tender
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Binance Ceases Operations In Singapore After Regulator’s Warning
Bitcoin Nears $52,000, Investors Believe The Price Will Continue To Rally
Nigerian Auto-tech Company Autochek Acquires Cheki Kenya And Uganda From ROAM At An Undisclosed Amount
The NIBSS Launches Its NQR Payment Solution In Ajah Markets, To Continue Campaigns In Other Lagos Markets
South Africa And Singapore Add To The List Of Countries To Warn Against Binance
MTN Nigeria Signs A N500 million Partnership Deal With The NFF
Australia’s BNPL Firm Zip Acquired South Africa-based BNPL Payflex For An Undisclosed Amount
Alibaba Will Invest $15.5b In President Xi Jinping-Driven “Common Prosperity” Initiative
Nigeria’s Bumpa Ends Pre-seed Round With $200,000 Fund, Wants To Provide Better Services For Merchants
WhatsApp Gets Fined $266 Million By Irish Regulator Over Data Privacy Concerns
VanMoof Set To Become The World’s Leading E-bike Brand After Raising $128 Million In Series C Round
Google Appeals 500 Million Euro Fine Imposed By French Regulator
Xiaomi’s Electric Vehicle Business Is Officially Registered
Lagos-based Kwik Delivery Plans Abuja Expansion, Unveils Okocha, Fehinty As Brand Ambassadors
Prosus Acquires India’s BillDesk For $4.7 Billion, To Merge It With Its PayU Business
India’s Ola Cabs plans To Raise $1 billion In India IPO
Pan African VC Firm LoftyInc Announces A Third Fund Of $10 Million For African Startups
Barbados-based Bitt Inc. Has Been Named By CBN As Technical Partner For E-Naira Set To Launch October 1
Nigeria’s B2B Marketplace Sabi Concludes Seed Funding Round At 150k Merchant Mark
Fitness Tracker Firm Whoop Valued At $3.6 Billion After Funding Led By SoftBank
The Australian Government Is Considering Tightening The Regulation Of Digital Payment Services With New Laws
Nigeria’s Central Bank Releases Guidelines For Imminent E-naira
Leigh Travers Has Been Appointed As Binance Australia’s CEO
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VC Capital Firm Andreessen Horowitz Announces $400 Million Funds Targeted At Seed Deals
UK’s Revolut Is Seeking A Banking License To Operate In Australia
Game Development Company Nexters Makes Its Debut On NASDAQ
PawaPay Secures $9m In A Seed Round Participated By MSA, UK-based Investment Firm 88mph And Mr. Eazi-owned Zagadat Capital
NCC Boss Says Nigeria Is Ready For 5G Adoption
NIBSS’ QR Payment Solution Is Now Available For Lagos Buyers And Sellers
Google Calls It Quits With Qualcomm, Samsung Will Supply Google With The 5G Modem For Imminent Flagship Phone
Egyptian Startup MaxAB Raises $15 Million In An Extension Round, Acquires Morrocan Startup WaystoCap
Revenue Of Chinese Smartphone Maker Xiaomi Surges 64 Percent, Prepares To Expand Into Autonomous Driving
TAT Orders Multichoice To Pay N900b/$2.1b Before Sept 23rd Over Tax Evasion Allegations
The Sale Of NFTs Is Spiraling In August As Interest In It Continues To Rise
US President To Host CEOs Across The Tech, Finance, And Energy For Security Summit At The White House
South Korean Parliament Committee Vote Against Google And Apple’s In-app Purchase Commission
Shopify And TikTok Partner On A Feature That Would Let Shoppers Buy Directly From The TikTok App
Bitnob Plans To Provide Africans With A Free, 10-second Remittance Transfer Service Via Bitcoin Lightning Network
NITDA Hits Microloan Platform Soko Loan with N10m Fine For User Privacy Invasion
Kenya’s CashBackApp Raises $475k In Pre-seed Round, To Use Funds For Expansion Plans
Poly Network Hacker Finally Returns All stolen Assets Worth $610 million
Nigeria’s OPay Raises $400m At A Valuation Of $2 Billion In Softbank-led Round
Plentywaka Acquires Stabus, Raises $1.2M Seed To Scale Operations
Bitcoin Is Back At $50,000 After Months Of Intense Fluctuations
PayPal Launches Crypto Trading In The UK, Believes Digital Currencies Will Take A Greater Role In E-commerce In The Long Run
Taiwan-based Blockchain Startup XREX Raises $17 Million In Pre-Series A Round
Ibadan-based Alerzo Raises $10.5 Million In Series A Round, Plans To Bring Informal Retailing Online
T-Mobile Reveals Hackers Accessed Data Of another 5.3 Million Subscribers
Adobe Wants To Purchase Video-collaboration Software Company Frame.io For $1.2 billion
Profit Of Payments Processor Adyen Beat Expectation, Boosted By US Volumes
Google Gets Another Fine From Russia Over Failure To Remove Banned Content
Nvidia Forecasts Q3 Revenue Above Expectation, Talks on Closing $40b Arm Deal Taking Longer Than Expected
Robinhood Expects Retail Investors To Become Less Active In The Q3
PayPal Cancels Late Fees For Buy Now, Pay Later Purchases
Nigeria’s Central Bank Freezes Bank Accounts Of Fintech Firms Risevest, Bamboo, Trove, And Chaka
Hackers Steal About 7.8 Million Postpaid Customers’ Data, T-Mobile Reveals
Binance Hires Former US Treasury Criminal Investigator
Tencent’s Results For Q2 Profit Beats Estimates, Rises 29 Percent
Tencent Music Beats Estimates Irrespective Of China’s Copyright Rules
Tesla Shares Plummet As Regulators Launch An Investigation Into Its Autopilot System
China’s Didi Improves Transparency For Drivers’ Salaries By Providing Access To Pay Breakdown
Shares Of Virgin Galactic Falls As Founder Sells Stake Worth $300m
Poly Network Rewards Hacker With $500,000 ‘Bug Bounty’
Elon Musk Is The World’s Richest Man Again After Tie With Jeff Bezos
Poly Network Says More Than Half Of Stolen Assets Have Been Returned
Social News Site Reddit Valued At $10 billion After New Funding Round
Toshiba Corp Reports Q1 Earnings That Goes In Line With Expectations
So Far $260m Has Been Returned To Poly Network Following $600m Heist
Conference: This Year’s Web Summit Will Take Place Physically
Over $600 million Was Stolen In What Could Be The Largest Crypto Heist Of All Time
Lenovo’s First Quarter Profit Spirals On Work-From-Home Demand
The Nigerian Inland Revenue Service Generated N512.23 billion As VAT In Q2
Jeff Bezos And Elon Musk Tie For The Title Of World’s Richest Person
SoftBank Saw A 39 Percent Dip In Its First Quarter Net Profit
Moove Raises $23m In Series A Round To Ease The Process Of Vehicle Acquisition In Africa
ByteDance Aims For Hong Kong IPO By Early 2022, Sources Say
Bitcoin Come From A 2021 Low To Now Trade At $45,000
Uber Reports Its 2021 Second Quarter Results, Beats Analysts’ Estimates
South Africa’s Naked Raises $11m In Series A Round To Increase The Reach Of Its Insurance Products
Huawei Revenue Drops 29% As The Effect Of The U.S Blacklist Continues To Weigh In
Kenya’s Wapi Pay Raises $2.2m Non-equity Pre-seed Led By Nubank Investors
Kuda Is Now Nigeria’s 7th Most Valuable Bank After A $500m Valuation
South Africa’s Agritech Startup Khula, Raises $1.3m Seed Funding To Scale Operations
Robinhood Shares Jump 50 Percent Earning The Title ‘meme of memes’
Sony Reports A Jump In First-quarter Operating Profit Boosted By Pandemic Demand
Jacob Rothschild’s RIT Capital Partners Is Co-leading A Funding Round For Aspen Digital
Spotify Is Testing A New Less Restrictive Tier With Ads Called Spotify Plus, Priced At $0.99 Monthly
Nigerian SME Lending Platform, Payhippo Accepted Into Y Combinator’s Summer 2021 Batch
MTN Records N790.3 billion Naira In Revenue In First Half Of 2021
Tencent Shares Plummet After Chinese Media Brands Tagged Them “spiritual opium”
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Square To Buy Australian Buy-now-pay-later Firm Afterpay For $29 billion
Nigeria’s Kuda Raises $55m In Series B Round, Valued At $500m
Elon Musk Slams Apple Again, This Time For Charging “Global Internet Tax”
Robinhood Closes Stock Market Debut At $34.82 Per Share, Disappointing Investors
Elon Musk Co-Founded Startup Neuralink Raises $205m In Vy Capital-led Round
Amazon Still Had Quarterly Revenue Above $100b As Growth Slows In Andy Jassy’s First Quarterly Earnings
Panasonic’s Q1 Profit Soars 27 Times On Robust Demand For Car Batteries, Appliances
Samsung Electronics Sees Strong Chip Demand, Mobile Recovery As Q2 Profit Jumps
Qualcomm Sees Impressive Quarter, Predicts Rise In Sale Of 5G Chips As Supply Challenges Begin To Fade
Facebook Reports Fastest Revenue Growth Since 2016 With An Impressive Quarter
Spotify Reports An Impressive Quarter With Growth In Its Ads Business And Paid Users Count
Microsoft Corp Sees Its Most Profitable Quarter On Steady Cloud Growth
Google’s Parent Company Alphabet Reports Increased Revenue And Profit Boosted By Ads
Apple Inc. Beats Analysts Estimates With Sales Of 5G iPhones, Services, Others
The CBN Reiterates Its Stance On Cryptocurrency As it Sets To Launch Its Digital Currency In October
Binance CEO Says He Is Willing to Step Down Whenever He Finds Someone That Can Do A Better Job
Music Service Audiomack Extends Its Monetization Program To Independent African Artists
Piggyvest Acquires Savi.ng, Sum Of Transaction Is Undisclosed
South African Payments Startup Yoco Raises $83M In Its Dragoneer-led Series C Round
Computer Peripherals Company Logitech Sees A 66% Increase In Sales Driven By The Pandemic
Tesla Reports Q2 Net Income Of More Than $1 Billion, Up Ten Times The Figure From The Previous Year
PayPal To Research Blocking Transactions That Fund Hate Groups And Extremists In The U.S
Angel Investor Olumide Soyombo Is Launching A Venture Capital For Funding African Startups
Tencent Must Give Up Music Licensing Rights In 30 Days, China’s Regulator Orders
Snap Stock Soar Almost 25% A Day After Q2 Earnings Beat
Mobile Operator Vodafone Publishes 3.3% Increase In Q1 Revenue As Europe Scales Back to Growth
Twitter Surpasses Revenue Estimates, Sees Improvement In Its Ad Business
Australian Antitrust Watchdog To Probe Amazon, eBay, Other Online Markets
Elon Musk Says Tesla Will ‘Most Likely’ Restart Accepting Bitcoin For EVs
Percent, A Donation-based platform Raises $5 Million, Aims To Become The Stripe Of Donations
Phononic, A Climate Tech firm, Raises $50 Million From Goldman Sachs
UK Telecom Group BT Takes Multi-million Pound Stake In Risk Management Firm Safe Security
Netflix Sees An Increase In Paid Subscribers But Failed To Meet Expectations
Bitcoin Falls Below $30k For The Second Time
India’s Swiggy Raises $1.25 Billion From Softbank, Others
Wise Sees A 43% Growth In Q1 With Increase In Users
IBM’s Q2 Revenue Beats Estimates, Sees Growth In Cloud And Consulting Businesses
Blue Origin Is Set For Its Inaugural Space Flight
Investment Firm Blackstone Acquires Majority Stake In Simplilearn For $250 Million
Zoom To Purchase Cloud-based Call Center Operator Five9 In $15 billion Deal
Tencent To Buy British Video Game Company Sumo In $1.3 Billion Deal
Ethereum Co-founder Anthony Di Iorio Is Quitting Crypto Out Of Personal Safety Concerns
Binance Is Unauthorized To Sell Stock Tokens, Hong Kong Regulator Says
Xiaomi Corp. Overtook Apple Inc. in Q2 As The World’s Second-largest Smartphone Vendor
Chinese Regulators Blocked ByteDance’s Toutiao From Registering New Users Since September
Jack Dorsey’s Square To Launch New Bitcoin-focused Business
Samsung Is Considering Another Texas Location To Site $17 billion Chip Factory
The CSPC Sues Amazon, Demands The Withdrawal Of Hazardous Products
E-bay Sells Its Adevinta Stock To Equity Firm Permira For $2.25 Billion
Shares In The Buy-now-pay-later Sector Tumble After A Report That Said Apple Plans On Launching The Service
Anhui Becomes The Latest Chinese Province To Ban Cryptocurrency Mining
PayPal Launches a Buy-now-pay-later Service With No Late Fee in Australia To Take On Rival Afterpay
Chinese Regulator Approves Tencent’s $3.5b Deal To Buy Out Sogou Inc
Blue Origin Acquires License For Human Space Travel Ahead Of Jeff Bezos Flight
French Authorities Fine Google 500 million euros Over News Copyright
Chinese Video Game Streaming Platforms Huya And DouYu Call It Quits With The Planned Merger
Cryptocurrency Trading Volume Slump 40 Percent In June
Richard Benson’s Virgin Galactic Says It May Sell Up To $500m In Shares
Sources Say China’s Antitrust Regulator To Order Tencent To Give Up Music Label Exclusivity
Richard Branson Visits Space Aboard Virgin Galactic Flight Ahead Of Jeff Bezos
Flipkart Welcomes Back SoftBank In A $3.6b Funding Round, To Be Valued At $37.6b
Chinese Antitrust Regulator Blocks Tencent’s $5.3b Video Games Merger
The U.S. Adds 14 Chinese Companies To Its Economic Blacklist Over Xinjiang
Chinese Authorities To Remove 25 Didi Apps From App Stores As Crackdown Continues
Robinhood Gives Founders Another Chance At A $1.4 billion Windfall
Jack Dorsey’s Square To Make Hardware Wallet For Bitcoin
Xiaomi To Raise $1.2 billion Through Debt Issuance
BlackRock Raises $250m To Invest In Select Countries Across Africa, Asia, And Latin America
Nigerian Fintech Company, Lidya Raises $8.3m In Funding A Year After Its Europe Expansion
Fintech Company Wise Valued At $11b After Its Direct Listing On The London Stock Exchange
More Than $1b In Crypto Has Been Spent Using Crypto-linked Visa Cards
Shares Of China EV Maker Xpeng Set To Open Up 1.8% In Hong Kong Debut
Binance Suspends Payments From EU’s SEPA Network
Samsung Electronics Q2 Profit Likely Jumped 38% On Strong Chip Prices, Says Snalysts
Sales Volume Of NFTs Jumps To $2.5b In The First Half Of 2021
Nigerians Traded N92.25m Bitcoin On Paxful Despite The Ban
Andy Murray’s Wimbledon NFT Sells For $178k
Chinese Authorities Have Asked App Stores To Remove The Didi App
Five Things To Know About Andy Jassy As He Takes Over As Amazon’s CEO
Qualcomm Is Gearing To Battle Apple As New CEO Wants Better Laptop Chips
Andy Jassy Will Take Over As Amazon’s CEO With 61k Shares Worth $214m On Monday
Jim Whitehurst To Step Down As IBM’s President Following Red Hat Deal
Tesla’s Q2 Deliveries Meets Estimates Irrespective Of Global Chip Shortage
India-based Startup Licious Is Expanding To Other Markets After Raising $192m
Nigeria’s FairMoney Raises $42 million In Series B Round
Gaming Firm MTG Acquires India’s PlaySimple For $360 million
Thai Regulators Hit Crypto Exchange Platform Binance With A Criminal Complaint
Grocery Delivery Startup Rohlik Raises $119m For Europe Expansion
Brazilian crypto exchange Mercado Bitcoin Raises $200m From Softbank
World Wide Web Source Codes Sell For $5.4 million At Sotheby’s
Zoom Acquires Real-time Translation AI Company In An Undisclosed Deal
Carbon – A Nigerian Digital Bank Partners With Visa To Launch Debit Cards This Year
Online Payments Platform Payoneer Goes Public Shortly After SPAC Merger
Facebook Hits The $1 Trillion Market Cap Milestone Yesterday
Jiji Acquires Cars45 For An Undisclosed Amount, Plans Expansion
Cowrywise Gets License From Nigeria’s Securities and Exchnage Commission
Language Learning Edtech Platform Duolingo Has Filed To Go Public
Visa To Acquire Swedish Fintech Startup Tink For $2.2 billion
Qualcomm Plans On Working On A Faster 5G Variant With About 30 Network Carriers And Gear Providers
Bids for World Wide Web Source Code Have Jumped To $2.8m From An Opening Price Of $1,000
Elon Musk And Jack Dorsey To Speak About Bitcoin At A Pro-Bitcoin Adoption Event Next Month
Panasonic Sells Its Tesla Stake For $3.6b, Funds To Be Used For Expansion
E-Mart Plans To Purchase eBay’s South Korean Business For $3billion
Warren Buffett Resigns As A Trustee From The Gates Foundation
Starlink’s IPO Will Happen Once Cash Flow Is More Predictable, Says Elon Musk
Chinese Self-driving Startup WeRide Raises $310m, Strengthens Partnership With Nissan
Chaka Becomes 1st Startup To Receive SEC’s License To Be Nigeria’s Robinhood
BlackRock’s Lucy Liu Says China’s Crackdown On Tech Companies Will Last A Few Years
Tesla’s Rival Xpeng Motors To Raise $2b In Hong Kong Listing
Microsoft Hit $2 Trillion Market Value In Intraday Trading Yesterday
US-Israeli Cybersecurity Firm Transmit Security Raises $543m In Early Funding Round
Bitcoin Makes A Brief Plunge Below $30,000 Before Rebound
More Than Three Metric Tons Of Bitcoin Mining Rigs Taken Out Of China
China’s Bitcoin Crackdown Has Wiped Off $300b From The Crypto’s Value
U.S. Commerce Department Revokes TikTok, WeChat Prohibited Transaction List
Uber to become sole owner of Cornershop
Elon Musk’s Starlink: Global Internet Coverage By September
MicroStrategy Acquires $490 Million Worth Of Bitcoin
Coinbase Backed Crypto Trading Firm; Amber Group, Hits $1b Valuation After Fresh Funding
CBN Digital Currency Will Deepen Financial Inclusion, Says FDC
After Federal Open Market Committee report, Bitcoin slumps to $35,000
Spotify acquires podz, a discovery channel improving podcast transcript
European Startup Investment Hits €43.8b In The First Half Of 2021
Chinese Apps Risk Subpoenas Or Bans Under Biden’s Order, Sources Say
Alphabet’s Self-driving Car Company Waymo Announces $2.5b Investment Round
Nigeria Has Lost Over N24 billion In The 10 Days Since The Twitter Ban
Cryptocurrency: Polkadot In A Frenzy As It Debuts On Coinbase
Sale Of NFTs Are Dropping But Advocates Still See A Bright Future
Billionaire Tim Draper Is Still Positive About Bitcoin Reaching $250K In 2022
Amazon Will Become The Largest U.S. Retailer By 2022, Analysts At JP Morgan Forecast
Gaming: Facebook Acquires Game Studio BigBox VR
Bitcoin surges after Elon Musk says Tesla would accept cleaner Bitcoin