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Ethan Mollick, professor of management at Wharton Business School, has a simple benchmark for tracking the progress of AI’s image generation capabilit
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MTN South Africa has entered the competitive payments market with MoMo Pay, a low-cost digital payment platform designed for informal merchants. Over
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Three Kenyan startups—Roam Electric AB, M-KOPA Holdings Ltd, and Victory Farms Ltd—have been named among Africa’s fastest-growing companies in the lat
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I first tested AI tools in 2019 to automate repetitive parts of my workflow. It seemed like the perfect solution: Let the code execute the manual stuf
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Onafriq, a pan-African digital payments network, has named Simon Black as chair of the board of its UK holding company following his appointment as an
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South African fintechs Paymenow, TymeBank, Omnisient make FT’s Africa fastest-growing companies list
Three South African fintech startups, Paymenow, TymeBank, and Omnisient, have been named in the Financial Times (FT) Africa’s Fastest-Growing Companie
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I cofounded Morning Brew in 2015. Since then, the content landscape has transformed into an even more competitive arena. The cost of paid acquisition
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Nigerian fintechs have had a mixed relationship with cards. In the past, some offered foreign-issued cards like Visa and Mastercard to acquire custome
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Startups on Our Radar is a bi-weekly column that spotlights new startups across Africa taking unconventional approaches, filling fundamental gaps, and
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Craydel, a Kenyan edtech that helps students apply to universities abroad, has launched in Rwanda and is expanding its Nigerian team as part of its am
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One of the biggest reasons I’m a late(r) convert to AI is that AI-generated content usually has some tells. And while I’m a little closer to it than m
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At last year’s Moonshot event, I met Seye Bandele, CEO of Nigerian HR tech upstart PaidHR for the first time. He was much taller in person than I imag
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Growth is the mandate for brands each year. One way to grow? Create offerings that appeal to a wider group of people. That’s where inclusive marketing
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Welcome to HubSpot's Expert Edge Series , where we interview top execs at major brands to explore their perspectives on the latest trends, challenges,
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When I started using AI, everything changed: my output, my confidence, my career. I went from working full-time and building content after hours to la
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