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Analysis: Nations Priced Out of Big AI Are Building With Frugal Models
Amid a widening global divide in AI adoption, low-cost AI models that can deliver sovereignty and efficiency with a smaller environmental footprint are gaining ground.
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- Technology
- Region
- Global
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Elon Musk’s Starlink Blocked from Operating in Namibia
It operates in about 25 African countries but has faced regulatory challenges in others, including South Africa, where ownership rules have also blocked its entry.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Ghana’s National ID Cards Can Now Make Payments
The NIA’s aim for developing this feature is to bolster financial inclusion within the country.
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- Finance, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Why Enterprise AI Deployment in the Asia Pacific Keeps Stalling at the Pilot Stage
Matt Codrington, VP and GM for Lenovo Greater Asia Pacific, framed it as a structural pivot point at the event’s media roundtable. Last year, he told reporters, the conversation was about proving return on investment. This year, the question is different: why are organisations that have already proven it still struggling to scale?
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- Technology
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- Asia Pacific
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Foley Represents Brazilian HealthTech Startup Mevo in $18 Million Funding Round
Mevo addresses a major gap in Brazil’s health care system, where more than 150 million people manage roughly one billion handwritten prescriptions each year, creating inefficiencies that limit the development of more integrated patient services.
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- Health Care, Investing, Technology
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- Latin America
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Kenya’s 4G Capital Secures $2 Million Funding to Expand Financial Inclusion Across East Africa
Founded in 2013, 4G Capital blends human customer service with advanced digital technology to deliver small working capital loans and customised business training to micro enterprises that are excluded from the formal financial system.
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- Finance, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- financial inclusion, fintech, innovation, lending, MSMEs, scale, startups
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Tazapay Raises $36 Million in Total Series B Funding to Scale Next-Generation Payment Rails Globally; Circle Ventures Leads Extension
The extension reflects investor alignment around Tazapay's regulated, last-mile infrastructure, which harnesses modern digital settlement technology to power cross-border payments for businesses operating across emerging markets — replacing legacy banking rails with faster, more capital-efficient alternatives.
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- Finance, Technology
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- Global
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South Africa’s Hlayisani Capital Launches 2nd Fund with Initial $29.9 Million in Commitments
It offers strategic support and capital to high-growth, highly scalable SMEs with a proven track record, and specialises in growing these SMEs into large, successful enterprises that operate across multiple territories, create jobs and generate export revenue domestically.
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- Investing, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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