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The streaming wars are far from over.

Having conquered the west, streaming giants are gearing up for a global takeover. Just this week, FIFA, the organisation that regulates football globally, announced that it's launching a new streaming service, FIFA+ for fans. Already the organisation is looking to capture its audience, rolling out the service globally and for free.

But just as FIFA+ is making its way into the cells of fans across the world, Amazon Studios is getting set to take a plunge into Nollywood. The company is currently shopping for top executives to produce original Nigerian content.

Below are the tech stories and news you need to know to start your day, carefully curated by Technext.
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Summary of the news


  • FIFA has launched FIFA+, a new streaming platform to broadcast live matches and other content to fans across the world
  • A new report shows that Russian is experiencing "brain drain" as the tech industry workers are leaving the country
  • A new report shows that 348 million Africans don't have access to mobile internet
  • Amazon Studios is gearing up for a big bet on Nollywood, as it posts job ads for senior executives to develop Nigerian content
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FIFA+ is the free football streaming platform we’ve been waiting for

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Banking on its cache of fans spread across the globe, Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) has announced the launch of its streaming platform, FIFA+ (FIFA plus), to deliver free streaming of classic matches and political sports events to fans around the world, Technext reports.

This sports streaming platform is not the first of its kind. Disney+, Hulu, Paramount+ and Sling TV have created live football streaming pages. The European football governing body also launched its own streaming service, UEFA.tv in 2019.

In a bid to increase its market share to rival other existing platforms, it has planned to use the platform to promote its sponsors.

This launch underscores FIFA’s content shift away from the YouTube world which it had used to broadcast matches to millions of football fans across the globe.
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Russian Tech Industry Faces ‘Brain Drain’ as Workers Flee

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By March 22, a Russian tech industry trade group estimated that between 50,000 and 70,000 tech workers had left the country and that an additional 70,000 to 100,000 would soon follow. They are part of a much larger exodus of workers from Russia, but their departure could have an even more lasting impact on the country’s economy, the New York Times reports.

The exodus will fundamentally change the Russian tech industry, according to interviews with more than two dozen people who are part of the tight-knit community of Russian tech workers around the world, including many who left the country in recent weeks. An industry once seen as a rising force in the Russian economy is losing vast swaths of its workers. It is losing many of the bright young minds building companies for the future.

The recent exodus reverses 10 to 15 years of momentum in the Russian tech industry, said Konstantin Sonin, an economist at the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy, who immigrated from Russia to the United States. “It is now like the ’90s, when whomever was able to move moved out of the country,” he said.
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348 million Africans lack access to mobile internet- Report

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348 million Africans living in the Sub-Saharan region lack access to mobile internet, a new report by GSMA has found, Technext reports.

With the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, households and economies on the continent have had to endure reduced household income and stalled Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth. These setbacks find meaning in this new report on ownership and affordability of internet-enabled phones among Africans.

The 48-page report, Making internet-enabled phones more affordable in low- and middle-income countries, highlights limited access to credit, gaps in access to affordable handsets and affordable finance as challenges. From the rural to urban centres, the problems restrict the efforts to bring access to mobile internet to more people.
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How Amazon Studios wants to penetrate the Nigerian market

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Amazon Studios, the American television and film producer and distributor, in a bid to expand its subsidiary that creates original content, Prime Video across African, has out our adds for at least three senior executives to help develop local Nigerian content.

The company over the years has expanded its streaming services across more than 240 countries including Nigeria. This new investment, Technext reports, may be key to helping the Nigerian film industry gain more recognition.

According to the job listing as of April 11 on the company’s website, there is vacancy for the role of a senior movies creative, senior scripted series creative, and a head of Nigerian originals. The role is based in London and they are to report directly to Ned Mitchell, the Los Angeles-based head of originals for Africa and the Middle East for Amazon Studios.
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