Online Business Daily Digest – November 17, 2025

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

1. Boeing has a carbon emissions problem. Startup Charm Industrial is cleaning up. – TechCrunch
2. Inside Harvey: How a first-year legal associate built one of Silicon Valley’s hottest startups – TechCrunch
3. Europe banned new gas cars after 2035 — now it’s reconsidering
4. Sky Sports killed off its female-focused Halo brand after just three days
5. How to Make a Seemingly Impossible Leadership Decision – Harvard Business Review
6. Great Leaders Empower Strategic Decision-Making Across the Organization – Harvard Business Review
7. 🇳🇬 Chronicles of Ezra
8. 🇳🇬 NLC plans ‘mother of all protests’ against Moove Africa over anti-labour practices
9. Indie Hackers: Work Together to Build Profitable Online Businesses – Indie Hackers
10. Earn easily $5000/month without marketing all the time. – Indie Hackers
11. 🇳🇬 Jumia Slashes Staff To 2,000, Bets on AI to Turn Its Business Profitable
12. 🇳🇬 SA-Born maxwell+spark Raises USD 15 M Series B To Electrify Industrial Logistics
13. 🇳🇬 How Egyptian prop-tech startup Partment enables hassle-free 2nd home ownership
14. 🇳🇬 Announcing the $5M Core Africa Innovation Fund: Empowering Local Web3 Builders
15. Chinese Beverage Chains Spread Across the US, Challenging Starbucks’ Dominance
16. Inside the Multimillion-Dollar Plan to Make Mobile Voting Happen
17. Winning With Pinterest Ads: How to Increase Your B2C Sales
18. Using AI to Automate Your Social Media and Your Marketing
19. OpenAI’s new LLM exposes the secrets of how AI really works – MIT Technology Review
20. Google DeepMind is using Gemini to train agents inside Goat Simulator 3 – MIT Technology Review
21. Busyness isn’t a badge of honor
22. The hidden résumé metric that predicts whether you’ll get an interview
23. 🇳🇬 Please Call Me back in court over 40% claim
24. 🇳🇬 After building his first startup at 19, this Babcock university graduate now heads the African subsidiary of an Indian fintech
25. The evolution of rationality: How chimps process conflicting evidence
26. Wyoming dinosaur mummies give us a new view of duck-billed species
27. An Interview with Unity CEO Matthew Bromberg About Turnarounds – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
28. Stratechery by Ben Thompson – On the business, strategy, and impact of technology. – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
29. 🇳🇬 9mobile to vacate 2,576 sites under deal with IHS Towers – Condia
30. 🇳🇬 Verto opens new office in Lagos – Condia

That’s all for tech and online business today 🚀. Which AI trend or startup caught your eye? Share below!