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inDrive clarifies car age limit confusion, pegs it at 2002 and later
Ride-hailing company inDrive has clarified a vehicle age limit kerfuffle that arose among drivers on the platform, stating…
Stripe and Advent offer to buy PayPal for $53 billion
Payments company Stripe and private equity firm Advent International have jointly offered to acquire PayPal for $60.50 per…
ITU warns Africa faces prolonged internet outages with only one submarine cable repair ship
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has warned that Africa is critically underserved in terms of submarine cable infrastructure…
Kenya licenses 25 more digital lenders as mobile loan market hits $1.16 billion
Kenya’s Central Bank has licensed 25 additional digital credit providers, bringing the total number of approved digital lenders…
The Future of Entertainment is Interactive: How Media-Tech Gamification Actually Works
The days of just sitting back and watching TV are officially over. A new category is taking over…
Liang Wenfeng becomes the richest AI founder with $36bn net worth following Deepseek’s $7.4bn raise
A man most of the world had never heard of eighteen months ago is now richer than the…
Nigerian telecom operators record over 150,000 fibre cuts in two months, the highest yet
The Nigerian telecoms industry has suffered more than 150,000 fibre cut incidents across April and May 2026, the…
Confusion as inDrive representatives disagree on car age limit: Is it 2001, 2008 or 2011?
E-hailing drivers operating on the inDrive platform were thrown into confusion after the different accounts of the company’s…
GIGX, KuCoin join SEC’s latest ARIP cohort, as the logistics-born wallet stakes its regulatory claim
Nigeria’s Securities and Exchange Commission didn’t wait long for a second announcement. A day after clearing seven virtual…
South Africa to deploy 600 handheld biometric scanners for real-time immigration checks
South Africa’s Department of Home Affairs has issued a tender to procure handheld mobile devices equipped with biometric…
