African fintech Flutterwave acquires Nigerian open banking startup Mono, sources say in an all-stock deal valued at $25M to $40M; Mono raised $17.5M since 2020
How a Chinese entrepreneur amassed 10M+ IPv4 addresses, mostly from Africa, to lease them outside Africa, leaving African ISPs struggling to expand capacity
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How a Microsoft-backed $1B geothermal-powered data center in Kenya faced construction delays due to uncertainty over its value for local businesses
Semafor : X: @reedalbergotti . LinkedIn: Alexis Akwagyiram X: Reed Albergotti / @reedalbergotti : Interesting story from our Africa bureau on what ever happened to those African data centers that eve...
African e-commerce giant Jumia says it is ramping up the number of China-based merchants on its platform, as it faces competition from Temu and Shein
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How the US conducted a monthslong campaign to push The Gambia and at least four other developing nations to license Starlink; diplomats call the events alarming
The State Department has intervened on behalf of Musk's satellite internet company in five developing nations. Bluesky: @karlbode.com , @emptywheel , @rimaanabtawi , and @malwarejake . Mastodon: @Suff...
Researchers unveil Aardvark, an AI weather prediction system that they say uses thousands of times less compute and is tens of times faster than current methods
A new AI weather prediction system, Aardvark Weather, can deliver accurate forecasts tens … Markus Kasanmascheff / WinBuzzer : New Weather AI Promises Faster, Low-Cost Forecasting Without Supercompute...
Mastercard withdrew its commitment to invest $100M in 54 Collective, a top VC firm in Africa, where startup funding fell from $4.6B in 2022 to $2.2B in 2024
Read the latest from @tarykuh.bsky.social: — restofworld.org/2025/masterc... X: @restofworld : Mastercard Foundations big withdrawal from Africa's top VC firm leaves a gap in support for early-stage...
Central African Republic, the first African country to adopt BTC as legal tender, launches CAR MEME on Solana, trading at $0.03 on February 11, down nearly 90%
- CAR Meme is second cryptocurrency launched by the country — Nation first in Africa to adopt Bitcoin as tender in 2022
Starlink has disrupted Kenya's existing ISP industry since its launch in July 2023, forcing legacy providers to lower prices and increase internet speeds
@khadijaalam.bsky.social and i reported on how starlink cost less than local isps in some african countries. — restofworld.org/2025/starlin... Forums: r/ghana : This Article Is Claiming that Starlin...
OpenAI, Meta, and Orange plan to train AI models on African languages, starting with Wolof and Pulaar, addressing a shortage for Africa's thousands of dialects
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