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10 JUNE, 2021 IN PARTNERSHIP WITH Good morning ☀️ ️ Yesterday, Salvador became the first country to make bitcoin a legal tender. Which country do you think is next? In today’s edition: My Life in Tech How finance apps performed in 2020 What tech investors fear and find interesting about Nigeria’s Twitter ban Apple’s new […]

9 JUNE, 2021 IN PARTNERSHIP WITH Good morning ☀️ ️ Talking about trying out new things, Zimbabwean director Ben Mahakais launching his next drama series over WhatsApp.  That wasn’t a typo. Yes, WhatsApp. It’s an interactive drama series that’ll containemojis, texts, stickers, voices, and photos. In today’s edition: Why half the internet was down on […]

Good morning ☀️ ️ Amazon is close to buying MGM Studios for between $8.5 - $9 billion. If it goes through, it would be Amazon’s biggest acquisition since it bought Whole Foods in 2017 for $13.7 billion. In todays edition: SA is thinking digital currency Flutterwave is named CNBC disruptor What African cities have the best internet speeds? The Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated remote work across Africa. While I spent quite a lot of time at the office in 2019, I now do the majority of ...

Snapchats new milestone What exactly do product managers do? According to Tobi Lufadeju, product managers are walking encyclopedias. At Reliance HMO, she’s a product manager who is in charge of their consumer business unit. New to the role, she battled with impostor syndrome at first. “The first two months on the job were not easy. I joined an existing team which meant that I had to do a lot of learning and observation in the beginning. My team members would throw around in-house language d...

In today's TechCabal Daily, we have a Quick Fire section, a look at Airtel Africa's Q1 report, some news about Bitcoin and TC Insights

Ethiopia’s mobile money decision Seerbit’s Omoniyi Kolade wants financial inclusion for all Africans Everyone talks about the moment they knew what they wanted to do with their lives.  For some people this moment comes very early – an engineer may tell you it was the first time she ever saw LEGO bricks as a kid. For some others, it comes at the cusp of adulthood, just as adolescence starts to fade. The former is where Omoniyi falls. His realisation came sometime during his penulti...

Uber raises fares Ride-hailing giant Uber has raised fares in Nigeria by 13% weeks after its driver-partners went on strike. The details: From 8:00 am to 12:00 pm on Mondays through Friday, Uber riders will now pay a base fare of ₦237, minimum fare of ₦538; ₦70 per kilometre and ₦12 per minute. These fares are up from the previous minimum fare of ₦500, ₦200 base fare, ₦50 per kilometre and ₦11 per minute. At other periods, riders will be charged a minimum fare of ₦575; a base...

Sony’s P5 issues Blessing Abeng on dreaming in French, learning on the job, and overcoming career failures My dad wanted me to be a doctor. Obviously, that didn’t happen. Back in the day, my mother used to get teased about having two daughters. Her co-workers would tell her, “you don’t have a child yet because you don’t have a son.” So you didn’t go down the medicine path. How did you find your way to branding? A friend of mine recommended that I go to branding school and turn my ...

Explain your job to a five-year-old I help people do a bunch of everyday activities (like moving around their cities) more effectively using technology. What’s the first career you dreamed of having as a kid? I remember dreaming about being a physicist early on. I was really captivated by cosmology and the universe growing up, and in many ways, I still am. Whats something you wish you knew earlier in career/life? Be the river, not the boat. Whats the best advice youve ever received in your ca...

Apple’s under the radar acquisition spree Female-led Kenyan Insurtech raises $1.8 million Carry1st’s payments solution for gaming spurs $6 million Series A In the three years since its launch, Carry1st has become a medium for bringing mobile gaming from global companies to Africa. The Cape Town-based company realised that developers have had problems with distribution and payments in Africa.  They decided to solve that by embedding a fintech solution, Pay1st, on their platform. Pay1st feat...