American big tech companies want to become Africa’s next internet providers. Earlier this month, Amazon acquired an operating license to roll out its low-Earth orbit satellite broadband service, Amazon Leo...
I was genuinely impressed the first time Grok replied to me. Elon Musk’s AI tool didn’t sound like a generic chatbot trying to be funny. It sounded like someone I...
Two days before its general elections, Uganda has turned off the internet across the country. The measure is necessary to mitigate the rapid spread of “misinformation, disinformation, electoral fraud, and...
TOPSHOT - Residents travel past an electoral billboard supporting Uganda's incumbent president and National Resistance Movement (NRM) presidential candidate Yoweri Museveni, ahead of the 2026 Ugandan general elections, in Kampala on January 10, 2026. (Photo by Luis TATO / AFP via Getty Images)
November 18 was supposed to be a routine workday for Rwanda-based entrepreneur Derrick Ikenga. But it turned out to be a nightmare he wasn’t prepared for. Cloudflare, a U.S.-based cloud...
LinkedIn job scams have become a borderless epidemic, preying on the hopes of desperate job seekers and costing victims across the globe anywhere from a few hundred dollars to $25,000....
For the past several months, my social media feed has been flooded with people bragging about spinning up apps and websites over a weekend without any engineering help or coding...
It’s been a turbulent week for the global tech industry. On September 19, U.S. President Donald Trump announced a $100,000 fee for new applicants of H-1B visas, which allow highly...
Competition has been steep for Jumia, Africa’s largest e-commerce platform, especially from major Chinese companies like Temu and Shein. Jumia is now using the same playbook its Chinese rivals have...
American tech giants have increased spending on artificial intelligence tools designed to resolve some of the world’s most pressing problems. Since 2020, Google has spent $200 million on AI-driven social...
As Nigeria bets billions of dollars on becoming the next outsourcing superpower, it is grappling with how artificial intelligence and immigration policies are radically reshaping the industry. The African nation...
Seni Sulyman, right, Andela's country director in Nigeria, and colleagues on a video call at the start-up's offices in Lagos, Nigeria, Sept. 29, 2017. "This is a platform for giving people who want to learn and succeed access and opportunity," says Seni Sulyman, a 32-year-old graduate of Harvard Business School, of the company. (Tom Saater/The New York Times)
A battle for data sovereignty is brewing from Africa to Asia. Developing nations are challenging Big Tech’s decades-long hold on global data by demanding that their citizens’ information be stored...
A recent data breach of about 16 billion login credentials is said to have put users of Facebook, Instagram, Google, and Apple at risk of fraud and identity theft. The...
After conquering Africa’s phones, Transsion wants to own its roads. The Chinese company, which controls about half of Africa’s smartphone market, entered the continent’s electric vehicle race by introducing its...
Meta is in trouble in Nigeria. Local authorities have fined Meta $290 million for regulatory breaches, prompting the social media giant to threaten pulling Facebook and Instagram from the country....
In the sprawling electronic market of Lagos’ Computer Village, an item is flying off the shelves: the Starlink kit. These satellite dishes, with their distinctive white faces and plug-and-play simplicity,...
Tesla is finally set to debut in Saudi Arabia, years after a dramatic fallout between Riyadh and Elon Musk. The electric vehicle company will open showrooms in Riyadh, Jeddah, and...
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...
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