Here’s today’s Online Business, Tech & AI roundup 💻. From African startups to global artificial intelligence trends.
- 🇳🇬 Scale partners with Mastercard to simplify card issuance across five African markets
- 🇳🇬 Nigeria’s Moniepoint enters Kenya with 78% stake in Sumac microfinance
- 🇳🇬 ₦3 billion and no investors: How Fixr is rewriting service delivery
- 🇳🇬 After years of trying, Moniepoint breaks into Kenya with Sumac acquisition
- 🇳🇬 GoSwap raises first funding round to expand battery-swap network for electric scooters in Morocco
- 🇳🇬 If PoS agents were robots, fuel prices would have killed them
- 🇳🇬 How SA’s Happy Pay is making BNPL interest-free with its ad-subsidised network
- 🇳🇬 Kenyan social commerce startup Twiva raises funding from Jobtech Alliance
- 🇳🇬 Cardoso says the CBN will stay the course as reforms yield dividends – African Business
- David Sacks is done as AI czar — here’s what he’s doing instead
- Anthropic wins injunction against Trump administration over Defense Department saga
- Anthropic Supply-Chain-Risk Designation Halted by Judge
- How Trump’s Plot to Grab Iran’s Nuclear Fuel Would Actually Work
- The Download: a battery pivot to AI, and rewriting math
- The snow gods: How a couple of ski bums built the internet’s best weather app
- Elon Musk loses big in court; X boycott perfectly legal
- Spotify seeks $300M from Anna’s Archive, which ignores all court proceedings
- Intercom’s new post-trained Fin Apex 1.0 beats GPT-5.4 and Claude Sonnet 4.6 at customer service resolutions
- Mistral AI just released a text-to-speech model it says beats ElevenLabs — and it’s giving away the weights for free
- Exclusive: China’s top chipmaker has supplied chipmaking tech to Iran military, US officials say – Reuters
- Netflix raises subscription prices across all plans in US – Reuters
- Treat Nonprofits as Strategic Partners, Not Just Philanthropic Recipients – Harvard Business Review
- How Successful Retailers Prosper in Tough Times – Harvard Business Review
- AI in the workplace: A report for 2025 | McKinsey – McKinsey & Company
- McKinsey Recruiting Events and Initiatives | Careers – McKinsey & Company
- At Age 24, He Ditched Becoming a Lawyer to Open a Coffee Shop. Last Year It Brought In $40 Million.
- A False Story Can Go Viral in Minutes — Here’s How Smart Leaders Stay Ahead of It
- The Senate’s deal to fund DHS got past its biggest hurdle, setting TSA workers up to get paid
- Chelsea Handler says her dating life changed after 40: ‘I’m too hot to be dating 65-year-olds’
- How Bourbon Waste Could Soon Power Your Electric Car
That’s all for tech and online business today 🚀. Which AI trend or startup caught your eye? Share below!
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