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Orange Launches 5G Test Lab in Côte D’Ivoire
Orange Côte d’Ivoire has unveiled its Orange 5G Lab, a 5G ecosystem for digital professionals, start-ups and businesses.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Analysis: On the Road to Digital-ID Success in Africa: Leveraging Global Trends
Mobile technology is a key catalyst and potential gamechanger for driving and advancing digital-ID ecosystems in Africa.
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- Finance
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Brazilian Fintech Nomad Raises $32 Million in Series B Funding
Latin American fintech Nomad, which enables Brazilians to establish bank accounts in the United States, has raised $32 million in Series B financing.
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- Finance
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- Latin America
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Rapper Nas joins Google in $20 Million Investment for African Gaming Company
The Grammy Award winning hip-hop star has now joined Google in Investing in Carry1st, an African mobile game publisher.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Kenyan E-Commerce Company Copia Global Raises $50 Million to Ramp up African Expansion
Kenyan B2C e-commerce company Copia Global has raised $50 million in a Series C equity round led by Goodwell Investments.
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- Finance, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Accel India Leads $55 Million Round in Investing Super App Pluang
The latest funding round will enable Pluang to invest in growth in Southeast Asia and further expand its engineering and product team run out of India’s NCR.
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- Technology
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- Asia Pacific
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Vote for NextBillion’s Most Influential Article of 2021
As an open forum for emerging markets business, NextBillion publishes around 150 original, guest-written articles per year, covering enterprises, innovations, challenges and opportunities across multiple sectors and geographies. Each December we select the 12 most-read articles of the past year to include in our "Most Influential Article of the Year" contest. We invite you to vote for the article that impacted you the most in 2021. You can vote up to one time per hour during the two-week voting period, which runs from Dec. 20 to Jan. 2.
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Local Context Matters: Why Localization is Key to Accelerating Financial Inclusion in Africa
Mobile technology has proven to be an effective tool for broadening financial inclusion in Africa. But as Kenny Orisanaiye at HollaTags Limited points out, the continent’s cultural diversity complicates these efforts, as Africa has several thousand ethnic groups and over 2,000 distinct languages. He explores how financial service providers can design innovative solutions to this challenge by embracing localization and adapting their products and user engagement content to serve the specific cultural requirements of the African market.
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- Finance, Technology
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