Online Business Daily Digest – December 22, 2025

Here’s today’s Online Business, Tech & AI roundup 💻. From startups to artificial intelligence, these are the key updates.

1. How Europe’s new carbon tax on imported goods will change global trade
2. Google lobs lawsuit at search result scraping firm SerpApi
3. WIRED Roundup: The 5 Tech and Politics Trends That Shaped 2025
4. Introducing a New Chapter for ‘Uncanny Valley’
5. Honey: all the news about PayPal’s alleged scam coupon app
6. Frozen Waymos backed up San Francisco traffic during a widespread power outage
7. The 2025 Stratechery Year in Review – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
8. Stratechery by Ben Thompson – On the business, strategy, and impact of technology. – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
9. Indie Hackers: Work Together to Build Profitable Online Businesses – Indie Hackers
10. How we validate idea and making $1000 MRR in 4 month 🙌 – Indie Hackers
11. 🇳🇬 Paystack revives Consumer App, Zap, eight months after $190,000 fine – Condia
12. 🇳🇬 How Ibrahim Adepoju is proving African software can compete globally – Condia
13. Facebook Ad Algorithm Changes for 2026: What Marketers Need to Know
14. How to Write High-Converting Copy with AI: A Strategic Framework
15. 🇳🇬 Naivas’ Recipe For Success: Interview With CEO Andreas von Paleske
16. 🇳🇬 2025 African Startup Review: Unpacking The Business Stories That Defined the Year
17. Hiring specialists made sense before AI — now generalists win – VentureBeat
18. Mistral launches OCR 3 to digitize enterprise documents, touts 74% win rate and $2-per-1,000-page pricing – VentureBeat
19. When You Have to Execute a Strategy You Disagree With – Harvard Business Review
20. 4 Ways to Build Durable Relationships with Your Most Important Customers – Harvard Business Review
21. 🇳🇬 2026 will force African tech to grow up
22. 🇳🇬 Day 1-1000 of Travella: “We are the future of decentralised logistics”
23. AI coding is now everywhere. But not everyone is convinced. – MIT Technology Review
24. A brief history of Sam Altman’s hype – MIT Technology Review
25. Yann LeCun confirms his new ‘world model’ startup, reportedly seeks $5B+ valuation – TechCrunch
26. Netflix acquires gaming avatar maker Ready Player Me – TechCrunch
27. 🇳🇬 Why this Franco-Beninese founder built his fintech in Nigeria, and not in France or the Benin Republic
28. 🇳🇬 From Huwaei to Airtel and 9Mobile, Ibikunle Peters explains how he spent 10 years ensuring phone calls go through
29. Exploring a new city? Grab these 3 free, under-the-radar apps first
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That’s all for tech and online business today 🚀. Which AI trend or startup caught your eye? Share below!