Netflix is expected to report its slowest quarterly revenue growth on Thursday as its ad-supported plan struggles to attract customers in the saturating U.S. market, which could pressure the company to pull back on content spending this year. The streaming pioneer has been reeling under strained consumer spending, rising costs of financing production and increased...
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Qwest TV, Quincy Jones music platform to launch of DStv and Showmax starting from 20 Jan
Jazz fundis or fans have been crying for years for not seeing their favourite music genre on television and streaming platforms. Good news, starting from the 20th of January South African jazz fans will start to enjoy a non stop music of jazz, soul and blues on both DSTV and Showmax thanks to Quincy and...
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Africa’s Leading Data Analytics Company, Periculum Launches Utambuzi in Kenya
Utambuzi has launched in Kenya. Utambuzi, which means ‘insights’ or ‘diagnosis’ in Swahili, is a personal finance management product that leverages machine learning to track income and expenses, and plan budgets while providing valuable insights on financial behavior to help users better align their expenses with their financial goals. Also, with this product, there is...
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Clickatell Predicts Mobile Messaging to be the Next Big Channel for Digital Commerce in 2023
Strategic mobile messaging in CX will help brands accelerate business growth in 2023 and beyond Clickatell, a Chat Commerce and business messaging leader, conducted research on customer service trends and preferences for travel and retail and identified that brands that personalize both their digital and in-person commerce experiences can generate more meaningful and lasting customer...
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Cellulant and Solv Kenya Partner in Payments Deal to Serve Tens of Thousands of Micro, Small Medium Enterprises (MSME)
This partnership will enable MSMEs using the Solv Kenya platform to reconcile, receive, and view all their payments on the go under one roof Leading Pan-African payments provider Cellulant (https://www.Cellulant.io/) and MSMEs-focused B2B digital platform Solv Kenya have signed a financial services partnership that will enable Solv Kenya’s expanding MSME partners to access digital payment and...
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OPINION | Love the problem — and make your customers love you writes Brandon Fairweather
Why it makes excellent business sense to avoid the solution trap, and rather put your customers right at the centre of what you do. Our favourite war story concerns the bank that engaged us to design a new app. Given their knowledge and experience they were quite clear that they knew exactly what their customers...
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Spotify back online after brief outage according to Downdetector
Audio streaming platform Spotify suffered a brief outage on Friday, leaving tens of thousands of users unable to access the platform before services appeared to come back online. “Everything’s looking much better now!” Spotify Status, an account that provides updates about the audio platform’s status, said on Twitter. Downdetector, which tracks outages through a range of...
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Kaspersky supports International Criminal Police Organization’s (INTERPOL) operation to combat cybercrime in African countries
The threat intelligence data was shared with INTERPOL as part of the agency’s long-standing Gateway project Kaspersky has contributed to INTERPOL’s Africa Cyber Surge Operation (ACSO) by sharing data, comprising of indicators of compromise (IoCs) on various cyberthreats and types of cybercriminal activity targeting African countries. This evidence provided the grounds for a series of...
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The future of mobile gaming and what it means for media and marketers
Gaming is commanding a growing share of consumer attention with little indication that this trend will be abating any time soon. Mobile games generated revenue of more than US$93bn globally in 2021, accounting for 52% of the international games market. Lockdowns imposed in 2020 and 2021 in response to the Covid-19 pandemic meant that most...
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![[African] Fintech revenues could grow by 8X to reach $30 billion by 2025 – McKinsey & Company](https://techdailypost.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Square-Launches-New-Banking-Platform-For-Small-Business-1-360x360.jpg "[African] Fintech revenues could grow by 8X to reach $30 billion by 2025 – McKinsey & Company")
[African] Fintech revenues could grow by 8X to reach $30 billion by 2025 – McKinsey & Company
African fintech has a significant impact on day-to-day life on the continent and with its current upward trend it can be perfectly poised to rapidly advance Africa’s global competitiveness As the fastest-growing start-up industry in Africa, African fintech raised over US$1,3 billion in 2021 alone, the success of fintech companies is being fuelled by several...