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Investable.africa Launches Platform to Connect African Startups With Investors
The platform allows founders to build a profile covering their problem, solution, traction, team and current round, with every profile checked by the Investable.Africa team before going live.
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- Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Analysis: Profits and Investment Appear to Be Aligning More Closely as the International Taxation Landscape Evolves
Tax competition can attract profits and investment and boost innovation, but the overall gains are often offset by diminished government budgets and negative short-term spillovers if the tax cuts are financed through debt.
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- Finance, Investing, Technology
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- Global
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World Bank Group Launches First Digital Strategy to Expand Access and Create Jobs
The strategy addresses four priorities: expanding connectivity; making devices and data more affordable; strengthening digital services and skills; and helping countries build the foundations to benefit from artificial intelligence.
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- Technology
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- Global
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Report: AI Models Cost More When You Don’t Use English
Some languages require far more tokens for AI models to process, raising costs and reducing context for the people who use them.
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- Technology
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- Global
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Rest of World Faces Prospect of Shutting Down
Rest of World launched in 2020 with an ambitious goal: to shift Western perspectives by telling global stories about technology often ignored by the mainstream US news outlets.
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- Technology
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- Global
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Report: High Spectrum Costs Squeeze African Telecom Investment and Digital Growth
A new report by the GSMA, Spectrum Policy in Africa: Enabling Investment and Empowering Consumers Through Effective Spectrum Pricing, identifies the high cost of accessing radio spectrum—the invisible radio frequencies that carry mobile calls and internet data—as a central bottleneck. African mobile operators pay significantly more for relatively less spectrum, leaving them with limited capacity to expand or improve service quality.
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- Technology, Telecommunications
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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UNDP and Blockchain for Good Alliance Launch Cybersecurity Programme
As public institutions rely more on digital systems, including blockchain technology, cybersecurity is critical to protecting services, public funds and trust.
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- Technology
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- Global
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Proparco Invests US $20 Million in Frogfoot, Vox and Hypa to Expand Affordable Fibre Connectivity in South Africa
A key focus of the companies’ growth strategy is the expansion of fibre networks into lower-income and township communities.
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- Investing, Technology, Telecommunications
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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