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Africa Tech Radio (ATR) is the first online radio in Africa with a 100% focus on Africa’s technology. Listen Live on www.africatechradio.com
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This podcast tackles the biggest trends in African tech and interviews local startups disrupting their industries. The hosts are Connecting Africa Editor Paula Gilbert, Associate Editor Matshepo Sehloho and Venture for Africa Co-Founder & CEO Tobi Lafinhan who may come from different geographies and cultural backgrounds but who all have a love of tech and an interest in Africa's startup scene in common. Find the latest news at http://www.connectingafrica.com Connect on Twitter: Paula - @paul ...
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The Trajectory Africa is a “pop-up” podcast exploring the trajectory, or pathway, of venture capital and startup formation in Africa. With the unique African landscape—market characteristics, business environment, goals, and culture—as a starting point, The Trajectory Africa aims to identify a destination for African tech, as well as the sign posts that signal direction of travel. It’s modeled on the concept of a mixtape, in which each episode, or “track” will feature a conversation with a “ ...
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An insight-rich immersion in African tech ecosystem affairs for the discerning Africa-focused founder.
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Terser Adamu, who is an Africa Business Strategist, International Trade Adviser, and Director at ETK Group, hosts the award-nominated Unlocking Africa Podcast. During each episode he shares his thoughts on how to unlock Africa’s economic potential in the 21st century. This is delivered through engaging and thought-provoking discussions with innovators, entrepreneurs, investors, policymakers, and business leaders who are unlocking Africa’s economic potential. Whether you're a business leader, ...
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Entrepreneurship and business techniques and tips you won't learn in business school.
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The Techpoint Africa Podcast brings you the most important stories of the week on startups, technology and innovation in Africa. Listen in every Thursday afternoon (WAT). You can find us on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, TuneIn or anywhere else you get your podcasts
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The Factory Founder Podcast features founders from the Founders Factory Africa portfolio offering live insights about their startup journeys, personal entrepreneurial experiences, and lessons learned along the way.
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Startup Cornell is a podcast hosted by Entrepreneurship at Cornell that explores the bold entrepreneurial ideas coming from our students, faculty, staff and young alumni.
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The Flip is an editorial-style podcast exploring contextually relevant insights from entrepreneurs and investors changing the status quo in Africa. The name The Flip comes from the opportunity to flip the script – question some of the pervasive narratives on entrepreneurship, challenge the ubiquity of Silicon Valley thought leadership, and champion the entrepreneurs building a future inspired by Africa. Produced and hosted by Johannesburg-based entrepreneur and American expat Justin Norman. ...
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The next African story will be written by Africans, and there are people crafting the narrative now. Join Dotun as he hosts a series of conversation with people whose ideas and work is shaping the African future.
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Discover the first-hand accounts of innovation, failure, resilience and success in building South Africa’s most prominent startups, scaleups and venture capital funds.
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The Not So Secret Sauce Podcast and Newsletter feature insightful insider exchanges between investment specialists, venture builders and innovation architects at the Founders Factory Africa 'Mothership' and early-stage startup ecosystem innovators of all stripes. The show, brought to you by Founders Factory Africa, is where we "open source the secret sauce".
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Africa-focused technology, digital and innovation ecosystem insight and commentary.
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A podcast at the intersection of Business, Entrepreneurship, Tech & Popular Culture in Africa. We bring together people with views worth sharing & we banter. We take a lighthearted approach to somewhat serious matters of popular interest.
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Splice celebrates the transformation of media in Asia. This podcast features conversations with people across the global media ecosystem: media startup founders, tech, data and design folks, investors, journalists, media development funders and donors, product managers, and academics. Hosted and produced by Rishad Patel and Alan Soon.
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Built in Africa is a podcast that puts the spotlight on African startups, innovators and everything that makes them tick. Follow us on social media @BinAfripod Fan mail: hello@builtin.africa Ad placements: ads@builtin.africa
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This is a platform for Start-Ups, to serve as enablement to entrepreneurs. We create a media hub for entrepreneurs to be heard, showcase their businesses and also share lessons they've acquired on their entrepreneur. The Show inspires, motivates, and informs on doing business
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TechAndButter (Tech&Butter) Just tech stuff in plain English. Our Goal is to "Make technology Applicable and Relatable"
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This podcast explores relevant conversations around tech in Africa, from the perspectives of different stakeholders in the tech eco-system, with the goal is to reach people at various levels in tech; from the newbie trying to scale or pivot, to the tech experts. Each episode of the podcast has versatile and experienced personalities who share valuable insights for positive impact on everyone who listens.
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We focus on the tech ecosystem by creating and disseminating knowledge. We tell authentic stories, acknowledging and preserving history, embracing civilization, and encouraging technology and innovation. In all this, we point out the impact and the actionable points. At Impact Masters we are disrupting the status quo: Body, Mind, and Spirit. Subscribe to our channel and podcast: https://linktr.ee/impactmasters Michael Kimathi LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelkimathi/ Twitter: htt ...
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Here on the Startup&Angels Podcast, you will encounter various topics regarding entrepreneurship, fundraising, pitching, business development, growth hacking, investing, and technology; featuring interviews with industry experts in these areas. Startup&Angels connects founders, business angels, investors, corporates, mentors, and advisors through various events, workshops, and an online community. The community was founded in 2016 by French Australian entrepreneurs passionate about the start ...
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One Vision podcast, hosted by Theodora Lau, brings purposeful innovation to spotlight. It is where impact meets innovation. One Vision is a convergence of minds that dream of a more equitable, inclusive, and sustainable world for future generations galvanized by innovation. The latest season, FinTech Fuse, brought to you by the powerhouse trio, Theodora Lau, Barb MacLean, and Stephanie Foster, continues the tradition of telling stories that matter. We speak to startup founders, investors, in ...
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The Global Startup Movement podcast delivers independent emerging market focused technology, digital and innovation insights and analysis. We produce podcasts, live events, and bespoke market insight content with a deep understanding of the complex dynamics of the stakeholders within startup ecosystems around the world. The show is executive produced and presented by podcaster and entrepreneur, Andrew Berkowitz (www.thegsm.co).
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Looking to explore the intersection of AI and journalism? Influential thought leaders in the industry join data scientist and media entrepreneur, Nikita Roy, each week to explore what's next with AI and its implications for the media landscape. In each episode, industry experts discuss how automated newsrooms have the potential to change journalism and uncover opportunities to optimize workflows and increase efficiency without compromising journalistic integrity. Hosted on Acast. See acast.c ...
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Why? Because no one wants to startup and fail... permanently. As a compliment to The AKADEMY’s Accelerator program, the goal of this podcast is to help inform the early-stage entrepreneurs journey so you can avoid unnecessary catastrophic mistakes. We'll give you the confidence to pursue life on your terms. Visit eventualentrepreneurAKADEMY.club to learn more! Founded in Atlanta, GA with global aspirations. We want to see you win!
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Welcome to our podcast where creative tech guys discuss various topics in entrepreneurship, life, tech (of course), and technology in Africa;
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MENAbytes Today highlights the stories from different tech startup ecosystems of Middle East & North Africa. For more details, log on to http://www.menabytes.com.
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Venturing through 90+ countries, we’ve discovered one commonality. From Latin America, Africa, Asia, the Middle East to Eastern Europe, there are growing tech startup ecosystems transforming the world. Emerging market startups are generating market-creating innovations, leapfrogging Silicon Valley’s innovations, and solving local problems faster than governments. Join us to hear from startup ecosystem champions, entrepreneurs and investors in emerging markets. We discuss what makes these mar ...
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Welcome to the crypto information and education hub of Africa. The gateway to web3. This show highlights projects, ecosystems and people making impact and driving adoption of decentralized technologies across Africa. Get informed on all things bitcoin, Defi, NFTs, web3 culture and all things crypto.
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Financial technology in Africa is changing at an accelerating rate, and with it, the very nature of business on the continent. As one of the largest payments companies in Africa, the Paystack team is constantly speaking to teams doing amazing work all over the continent. The Decode Fintech Podcast allows us to hit "record" and share what we're learning! We'll be speaking with a broad range of players from across the African fintech ecosystem, from startup founders, to bankers, to the folks w ...
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Fintech has the power to build a more inclusive world. Fintech for the People is about the innovators who are developing fintech solutions that reach the people who’ve been left behind. In each episode, we’ll hear from innovators who are creating financial solutions that bring every person the financial tools they need to grow their business, support their family, and build their community. Together, we’ll learn how fintech looks different in spaces and places where basic financial services ...
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Inside the C-Suite is a new podcast focused on showcasing Africa startup success stories. From Goodlife Pharmacy, the East African pharmacy and beauty supplies chain to Big Square, East Africa's fastest growing casual dining restaurant group, and Cellulant, an award-winning digital payments company, which recently raised an impressive $47.5M Series D funding from TPG Growth's Rise Fund! Join the founders and investors behind these success stories, and host, Winnie Odhiambo, Associate Directo ...
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Connecting Africa's fastest-growing businesses to the Diaspora. Through each episode, I am telling the stories of African founders worldwide and exploring themes that are important to us as Africans in the diaspora. You can sign up to The Diaspora Talks Newsletter where I am sharing weekly news bites on the latest in tech, startups and business in Africa - https://mailchi.mp/0a565d01c62b/diaspora-talks-newsletter-subscribers. You can also find me on Instagram and Twitter @annetteabena - let' ...
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GX Podcast is a one-of-its-kind podcast on government experience thought leadership. In our inaugural series, the technology futurist Ian Khan talks to government services leaders, govtech innovators, and decision-makers at startups, emerging tech companies, thinktanks, and universities, and engages them in conversations around the need for governments to change their approach in the current times, and how governments can engage better with citizens and deliver superior service experiences. ...
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On the Global Counsel podcast, you can hear the GC team discuss and debate topical developments in public policy and regulation from around the world.Global Counsel is an advisory firm working with clients around the world to gauge political developments and how these impact both business risk and opportunity. For more information about Global Counsel, visit our website: www.global-counsel.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Highly inspirational and motivational conversations with high achievers and trailblazers exploring their mentality and attitude that has made them winners and successful. It's a global conversation with so much value. Listen to their stories and apply the principles to your life because Everyone is born a Winner, we just have to Decide.
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I admit it, I'm a curious person! Every week, I try to learn new things from technology, to business, religion and culture, talking to inspirational people with real-world experience in them. Their stories educate and inspire me, and I hope they do the same for you. And did I mention each episode is under 30 minutes? I'm Seyi Taylor. I've been a doctor, designer, startup founder and currently work in product. I've worked on projects for MTV, Facebook, Coca-Cola and the World Health Organisat ...
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Conversations, presentations, and readings about democratizing smart technology such as Artificial Intelligence to benefit everyone and reshaping our civilization for beneficial outcomes and a better future in the Smart Technology Era. It takes us on a holistic sense-making journey and lays a foundation to synthesize a more balanced view and better understanding of smart technology, its applications, its benefits, its risks, its limitations, its progress, and its likely future paths. Our cur ...
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Welcome to the official SoundCloud account of Memeburn, Gearburn, Ventureburn, and Motorburn -- the Burn Media family.
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XReal introduces a $200 device that brings Android apps to its AR glasses
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The $200 Beam pro looks like an Android phone, but instead it's a mobile device designed specifically for Xreal’s glasses. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy TechCrunch
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Thinking Differently: A Case for Venture Building in African VC
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On this special episode of The Trajectory Africa, we’re featuring “someone you should know”—David Ogundeko, Founder and Chief Vision Officer for Funema, a last-mile, impact-focused, alternative investment company. David has spent the last 7 years creating a model to engineer and invest in problem solving, impact creating, high growth SMEs. In the p…
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Former NSA head joins OpenAI board and safety committee
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The high-profile addition is likely intended to satisfy critics who think that OpenAI is moving faster than is wise for its customers and possibly humanity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy TechCrunch
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Building for Giving, The Inspiring Mission of Simple Modern
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In this episode of the Deciding to Win podcast, host Reginald Nsowah interviews Mike Beckham, the CEO of Simple Modern. They discuss Mike's background, his journey as an entrepreneur, and the importance of culture and vision in building a successful company. Mike shares valuable insights on entrepreneurship, failure, leadership, and the impact of s…
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Amazon says it’ll spend $230 million on generative AI startups
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Amazon says that it’ll commit up to $230 million to startups building generative AI-powered applications. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy TechCrunch
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Building a Long-Term Payment Infrastructure in Africa That Removes Currency Friction and Accelerates Economic Growth with Elizabeth Rossiello
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Episode 127 with Elizabeth Rossiello, who is the CEO and founder of AZA Finance, an established provider of currency trading solutions that accelerate global access to frontier markets through innovative infrastructure. By leveraging cutting-edge technology in our flagship products, TransferZero and BFX, AZA is able to significantly lower the cost …
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The evolving role of the CFO as the guardian of performance and value and your financial copilot
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It is an exciting time to be in tech. With nine out of ten CFOs projecting higher AI budgets in 2024, how will the integration of AI in business impact the skill sets required for the CFOs? How can AI bring benefits to the day-to-day financial processes including working capital management? And what are some of the things that we need to keep in mi…
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Margo Fowkes discusses her book "Leading Through Loss" and how leaders can navigate grief at work. Margo is a grief specialist and consultant wth a background in psychology and organizational development. Listen for three action items you can use today. Host, Kevin Craine Do you want to be a guest? Everyday-MBA.com/guest…
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iOS 18 cracks down on apps asking for full address book access
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To give users more control over the contacts an app can and cannot access, the permissions screen has two stages. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy TechCrunch
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Ford’s secretive low-cost EV team is growing with talent from Rivian, Tesla and Apple
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A TechCrunch review of LinkedIn data found that Ford has built this team up to around 300 employees over the last year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy TechCrunch
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Apex’s off-the-shelf satellite bus business attracts $95M in new funding
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Fresh off the success of its first mission, satellite manufacturer Apex has closed $95 million in new capital to scale its operations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy TechCrunch
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Why governments are bad with digital currencies
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Today on the Techpoint Africa Podcast, our hosts discuss: Rwanda's Central Bank Digital Currency The latest on the Wasoko and MaxAB merger Subscribe to The Modern Workplace/, Equity Merchants/, Techpoint Digest/ and Intelpoint's newsletter/ Timestamps 00:00 - Intro 01:09 - Why CBDCs don't do much 11:28 - The Wasoko-MaxAB merger Useful links Wasoko …
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An African Tech Exit - Selling Sendwave for $500 Million
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One of the African tech ecosystem's largest exits was the 2020 sale of Sendwave to WorldRemit for $500 million. Sid Sridhar was Sendwave's Head of Business at the time, and in this episode, Sid shares his M&A lessons for the African tech ecosystem. Sid is now the Head of Business at Wave, the mobile money company spun out of Sendwave that's competi…
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Biden administration looks to give Rocket Lab $24M to boost space-grade solar cell production
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In addition to the federal funding, the state of New Mexico — where SolAero is based — committed to providing financing and incentives that value $25.5 million. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy TechCrunch
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Elon Musk threatens to ban Apple devices from his companies over Apple’s ChatGPT integrations
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Elon Musk is threatening to ban iPhones from all his companies over the newly announced OpenAI integrations Apple announced at WWDC 2024 on Monday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy TechCrunch
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The mystery of an alleged data broker’s data breach
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Since April, a hacker with a history of selling stolen data has claimed a data breach of billions of records — impacting at least 300 million people — from a U.S. data broker, which would make it one of the largest alleged data breaches of the year Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…
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The Factory Founder Podcast EP16: Revolutionising personal wealth management through crypto-investments with Sean Andrew Sanders
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In this Factory Founder Podcast episode, Revix Founder & CEO & Founder Sean Andrew Sanders offers in-depth insights about live efforts to scale their crypto-investments platform in South Africa and how they are poised to take on other markets. What to look forward to in this episode: Sizing the crypto investing market in South Africa [2:15] Revix’s…
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#78, Mark Straub - On Digital Identity as a Fundamental Driver of Economic Growth
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This season of Building the Future was made possible by Moniepoint My guest today is Mark Straub, founder & CEO of Smile ID. Smile ID is building identity verification infrastructure for businesses in Africa. Mark and I were connected by a mutual friend, but I’ve always been fascinated by his transition from being a venture investor to becoming a s…
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Bereave wants employers to suck a little less at navigating death
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If death and taxes are inevitable, why are companies so prepared for taxes, but not for death? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy TechCrunch
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New York moves to limit kids’ access to ‘addictive feeds’
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New York’s state legislature has passed a bill that would prohibit social media companies from showing so-called “addictive feeds” to children under 18, unless they obtain parental consent. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy TechCrunch
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Siri and Google Assistant look to generative AI for a new lease on life
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Voice assistants in general are having an existential moment, and generative AI is poised to be the logical successor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy TechCrunch
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In this episode we speak to Reza du Plooy, director and co-owner of data analytics consultancy Datalab, about the rolethat data analytics plays in the success of African businesses as well as the unique data challenges that the continent faces.
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Shopify has acquired Threads.com, the Seqiuoa-backed Slack alternative, Threads said on its website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy TechCrunch
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How the Africa Oxford Initiative is Supporting African Research and Innovation Ecosystems Through Equitable and Extensive Collaborations with Dr Anne Makena
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Episode 126 with Dr. Anne Makena, who is Co-Director of the Africa Oxford Initiative (AfOx), a cross-university platform for academic and research collaborations between the University of Oxford and African researchers and institutions. The Initiative aims to support the work of universities and research institutions across Africa and to facilitate…
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Do we want banking to be spicy or boring?
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What are the real problems that real people are facing, and what is the financial services industry doing about it? Barb, Mary, and Theo reunited for a new episode of One Vision — FinTech Fuse! where we asked the rhetorical question of: “Do banks feel like the only way to compete is to put on a hoodie and pretend to be a startup?” Should we just pu…
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Building Connected Customer Relationships
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Nicolaj Siggelkow discusses his book "Connected Strategy" and how to build continuous customer relationships for competitive advantage. Nicolaj is a professor at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, where he also serves as co-director of the Mack Institute for Innovation Management. Listen as he describes how by designing your own “conne…
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Robinhood acquires global crypto exchange Bitstamp for $200M
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Stock-trading platform Robinhood is diving deeper into the cryptocurrency realm with the acquisition of crytpo exchange Bitstamp. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy TechCrunch
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Amazon buys Indian video streaming service MX Player
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Amazon has agreed to acquire Indian video streaming service MX Player from the local media powerhouse Times Internet, the latest step by the e-commerce giant to make its services and brand popular in smaller cities and towns in the key overseas market. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…
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Dive goes cloud-native for its computational fluid dynamics simulation service
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Spun out of Bosch, Dive wants to change how manufacturers use computer simulations by both using modern mathematical approaches and cloud computing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy TechCrunch
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Asana introduces ‘AI teammates’ designed to work alongside human employees
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Asana is using its work graph to train LLMs with the goal of creating AI assistants that work alongside human employees in company workflows. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy TechCrunch
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Are we expecting too much from African startups?
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Today on the Techpoint Africa Podcast, our host, Chimgozirim Nwokoma is joined by Francis Ogbuka, VP Sales, Zone and Abraham Augustine, Comms & Programs Lead, Norrsken to discuss: Zone's decentralised PoS payment gateway Gro Intelligence's shutdown The Copia Global story Subscribe to The Modern Workplace/, Equity Merchants/, Techpoint Digest/ and I…
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GetWhy, a market research AI platform that extracts insights from video interviews, raises $34.5M
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GetWhy helps businesses carry out market studies and extract insights from video-based interviews using AI. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy TechCrunch
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Jaemark Tordecilla: Unlocking the Potential of Custom GPTs for Newsrooms
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Jaemark Tordecilla, Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, joins host Nikita Roy to discuss the potential of using custom GPTs for journalistic purposes. Jaemark is the former editor-in-chief and senior assistant vice president of News and Public Affairs at GMA News, the Philippines' leading digital news organization. For the past year as a Nieman Fe…
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CC: X is now hiding post likes for all users
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X formerly Twitter now allows you to like any post of interest without fear of being called out. Listen to know what's happening on all your favourite social media platforms!By africatechradio.com
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Travel app Sékr wants to help you plan your next road trip with its new AI tool
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Sékr, a startup that offers a mobile app for outdoor enthusiasts and campers, is launching a new AI tool for planning road trips. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy TechCrunch
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#77, Anu Adedoyin-Adasolum - On differentiation in B2B ecommerce and complexities of the offline market
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My guest today is Anu Adedoyin-Adasolum, the co-founder and CEO of Sabi. Sabi is a B2B e-commerce startup that provides digital infrastructure to Africa's informal economy. In October 2023, they announced reaching $1B annual GMV. I've always been fascinated by Sabi, especially their ability to bring seemingly disjointed and complex pieces together …
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Spotify to increase premium pricing in the US to $11.99 per month
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Spotify has announced that it’s hiking subscriptions for customers in the U.S., the second such price increase in the space of a year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy TechCrunch
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MENA Region Vibe Check + Lessons from Startup Tunisia
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🎙️ This month's episode takes us to Tunisia, speaking to Mariem Sellami, a founder and former program manager at Startup Tunisia to understand what it’s like running a venture in Tunisia. 🇹🇳 Like most nascent tech ecosystems, the government plays an important role in the Tunisian ecosystem, with legal frameworks like the Startup Act—passed in 2019—…
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TTS: Data Mistrust impacts on Financial Inclusion in Africa
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Trust is one of the major reasons over 400 million Africans are financial excluded. In this episode of Tony’s Tech Side, the Chief Service Delivery Officer at Global Voice Group (GVG), Edouard Docteur, discusses data mistrust in Africa and its Impact on Digital Financial Inclusion.By africatechradio.com
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X tweaks rules to formally allow adult content
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X will now allow users to post consensually produced NSFW content as long as it is prominently labeled as such. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy TechCrunch
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Spain bans Meta from launching election features on Facebook, Instagram over privacy fears
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Meta has been banned from launching features on Facebook and Instagram that would have collected data on voters in Spain using the social networks ahead of next month’s European Elections. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy TechCrunch
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The Global Month Ahead: European elections, the Biden-Trump debate, G7 leaders summit.
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On this month’s episode, Isabelle is joined by Europe Director Tom White, President of GC US Erin Caddell, and Senior Associate Giulia Pasquali. Tom discusses the European elections including the current state of play, the challenges of building a stabilizing majority and the future of Ursula von der Leyen and her flagship policies. Erin analyses t…
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Instagram now lets teens limit interactions to their ‘Close Friends’ group to combat harassment
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Instagram is expanding the scope of its "Limits" tool specifically for teenagers that would let them restrict unwanted interactions with people. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy TechCrunch
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Using the Best of Tech and Human Touch to Solve Human Capital Challenges for Businesses in Africa with Paul Breloff
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Episode 125 with Paul Breloff, Founder and CEO of Shortlist, which is building a better way to hire, combining the best of tech, data, and human touch to provide executive search and youth employment programming across Africa, India, and 20+ countries globally. Since its inception in 2016, Shortlist has collaborated with more than 900 companies and…
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From Print to Crypto: Navigating the digital revolution with Keith Grossman
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How do you go from extraordinarily principled libertarian ideals that challenge the status quo to mass adoption? In this week’s One Vision podcast, we chat with Keith Grossman, President, Enterprise at MoonPay, former President of TIME magazine, and former Global Chief Revenue Officer of Bloomberg, on the partnership between MoonPay and PayPal, the…
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Billionaire Groupon founder Lefkofsky is back with another IPO: AI healthtech Tempus
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Eric Lefkofsky knows the public listing rodeo well and is about to enter it for a fourth time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy TechCrunch
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Gallup Research: Managers are the Single Biggest Factor for Success
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Jim Harter, PhD discusses his book "It's The Manager" and Gallup research that finds managers and team leaders are the single biggest factor in your organization's success. Jim is Chief Scientist for Gallup's workplace management practice. He is coauthor of the New York Times bestseller "12: The Elements of Great Managing," and "Wellbeing: The Five…
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Redpanda acquires Benthos to expand its end-to-end streaming data platform
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Redpanda has already integrated Benthos into its own service and has made it the core technology of its new Redpanda Connect service. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy TechCrunch
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TTS: All the AI Features that Google, Open AI and Microsoft Announced in May 2024
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May 2024 was the month for AI feature announcements from Google, OpenAI and Microsoft, among others. In this episode, Tony, shares all the major AI updates from these global tech companies and what they could possibly mean for you.By africatechradio.com
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How Clean Energy Ventures avoided the pandemic bubble and raised a $305M fund
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When other firms were investing and raising eye-popping sums, Clean Energy Ventures took a different approach. It appears to be paying off. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy TechCrunch
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