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If you are a Big Brother Naija fan (BBN), then you should know one of the headline sponsors for last year’s edition, Abeg.
Well, on today’s edition of the Techpoint Africa Podcast, we talk about its rebrand to Pocket and its approval in principle of a Mobile Money Operator (MMO)License.
2:09 - Abeg rebrands to Pocket
11:18 - Kune Food shutdown
25:01 - Kenyan president rejects ICT Bill
Internet shutdowns on the African continent have come to be a norm. So much so that in 2020, Sub-Saharan Africa lost $237.4 million to Internet censorship. In Central Africa, the Sudanese government shut down the Internet in the country on Thursday, June 30, 2022, due to protests against the military government. This is at least the fifth time this is happening since 2019, and as Emmanuel says, it is "brute hammer tactics." Timestamps 3:39 - Sudan Internet shutdown 8:03 - Flutterwave's new hires 21:00 - MTI $1.7 billion fraud Useful links Sudan government shuts off internet ahead of anti-coup protest Flutterwave Appoints Former Goldman Sachs Managing Director, Gurbhej Dhillon as New CTO CFTC Charges South African Pool Operator and CEO with $1.7 Billion Fraud Involving Bitcoin The Derivatives Market in the World of Corporate Finance Scaling with stellar communication technologies at the Termii Elevate 1.0 Conference ...
Read all Techpoint articles referenced in today's episode here: www.techpoint.africa/topics/techpoint-africa-podcast-52/ Continue the conversation on Community. community.techpoint.africa/ Email us your feedback at podcast@techpoint.africa. Listen every Friday at 8 AM (WAT). You can find us on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, SoundCloud, TuneIn or anywhere else you get your podcasts. Visit www.techpoint.africa for more stories. ...
Read all other Techpoint articles referenced on today's episode here. https://techpoint.africa/topics/techpoint-africa-podcast-34/ Register for the FCMB open API sandbox webinar. https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIode6oqDosGtA3AkRu1gjYNUCfkIE3pTHm Nigerian startups raised $55.37m in Q1 2020; over 99% of which came from foreign sources. Download the report. https://intelligence.techpoint.africa/form.php?report=NSFR2020Q1 Email us your feedback at podcast@techpoint.africa. Listen every Friday at 8 AM (WAT). You can find us on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, SoundCloud, TuneIn or anywhere else you get your podcasts. Visit www.techpoint.africa for more stories. ...
