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Folake Balogun

Folake Balogun is a renowned tech journalist who offers insightful and critical analysis of the African rapidly growing digital economy, particularly within Nigeria. She closely monitors the health of the African startup ecosystem by covering significant venture capital trends, investment deals, and the challenges faced by emerging firms. Known for her deep dives into the fintech sector, she covers the evolution of digital payments, dynamics of major financial innovations and also extends to emerging technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the future of connectivity by providing context to their economic and social impact.
678 Articles

Moove to raise $1.2bn debt round for US autonomous vehicle expansion

Moove, an African mobility fintech startup, is on a quest to secure…

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African startups June fund raise is highest so far – Report

Start-ups in Africa closed $365 million in funding in June, according to…

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Flutterwave sacks staff in Kenya, South Africa

In a major cost-cutting move, Flutterwave has streamlined staff in Kenya and…

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Ecobank taps Google Cloud to deepen financial inclusion

Ecobank, a pan-African financial services group, has partnered with Google Cloud in…

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Okra’s CEO quits to become Kernel’s new head of Engineering

Fara Ashiru has joined UK-based Kernel, a firm that builds custom AI…

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MTN Nigeria unveils $150m data centre, Dabengwa

MTN Nigeria, in collaboration with Dell Technologies, has launched Dabengwa Data Centre…

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Cloudflare to block AI bots from scraping website content

Cloudflare has begun blocking AI crawlers from scraping content from websites by…

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CAC launches AI-powered registration portal to simplify business registration

The Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) has unveiled a new Artificial Intelligence (AI)-driven…

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