Africa just scored a major tech coup. On March 24, Zimbabwean billionaire Strive Masiyiwa’s Cassava Technologies announced a partnership with Nvidia to build Africa’s first artificial intelligence factory. This isn’t...
In energy-starved Ethiopia, where electricity reaches less than half of the population, a local startup’s unconventional bet on battery-powered motorcycles has hit the spot. In less than a year of...
Mastercard Foundation has pulled out of a commitment to invest $100 million in a leading African venture capital firm at a time when tech startups on the continent are struggling...
Nigerian entrepreneur Fara Ashiru built her fintech platform, Okra, on Amazon Web Services in 2020. She would pay AWS in dollars even as Okra earned in naira because American cloud...
Starlink, launched in 2019 by Elon Musk’s SpaceX, has become the leading satellite internet provider in the world. Now available in more than 100 countries, Starlink can also be a...
FILE -- A Starlink satellite internet antenna at the Manakieaway village of the Marubo people in Brazil's Acre state, on April 6, 2024. A panel of Brazilian Supreme Court justices voted on Monday, Sept. 2, 2024, to uphold a decision by one justice last week to block the social network X across the country because its owner, Elon Musk, refused to comply with court orders to suspend certain accounts.
Peter Mutei, a ride-hailing driver in Nairobi, gets his gigs through Uber and Little, a Kenyan ride-hailing platform. Uber gives him more business overall, but he still prefers Little, as...
A picture taken on February 4, 2016 shows Kenyan taxi parked in a street of Nairobi, waiting for clients, on February 4, 2016.
In Kenya, Uber has made a big splash on the market in 2015, to the chagrin of taxi drivers accused of retaliating in recent days by multiplying acts of vandalism and assaults against their competitors.
Lesser-known tech companies were rewarded by changing headwinds outside the West this year. India’s homegrown EV industry, a Chinese video game that became a soft power success, and a U.S.-based...
In 2024, Rest of World covered some of the biggest shifts in the tech industry that have changed lives around the world: the rise of AI, Chinese companies expanding overseas,...
In September, Ammar Hmid, the founder and CEO of Presto, celebrated a new milestone for his delivery company in Libya: The startup had surpassed 23,000 orders in a single day....
Karim Beguir starts his interview with Rest of World by bringing up Star Wars. This is something he does often, since he’s from the remote Tunisian city of Tataouine, which...
Over the past two days, ride hailing apps Uber and Bolt have become battlegrounds for a conflict between Nigerians and South Africans over a beauty pageant contestant. Earlier this month,...
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