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Ghanaian Banks To Collect Tax On Digital Subscriptions Including Netflix and ChatGPT, Starting On October 15
Starting Oct. 15, banks will add a 20 percent charge to foreign digital subscriptions paid with Ghanaian cards. The tax isn't new. Who collects it is.
Microsoft Is Reportedly Winding Down Its Engineering Hub in Nairobi
Staff at the Africa Development Centre were told their jobs are going. Microsoft calls the changes "proposed" and has not used the word closure
Flutterwave’s CEO Joins a Silicon Valley Council Led by Tech’s Biggest Names
Olugbenga Agboola will sit alongside executives from OpenAI, Nvidia, Microsoft and AMD on a Semafor-backed board linking technology builders with policymakers
OPay Files for U.S. Listing, Testing Wall Street’s Appetite for African Fintech
The Nigeria-dominated payments company could raise up to $500 million on the New York Stock Exchange. Its filing leaves key questions about valuation and profit unanswered for now
Labari Data Launches Fundi and Utabiri: One Tracks Accra’s Local Issues, The Other Lets Africans Forecast What Comes Next
Two new tools from the pan-African media group turn citizen knowledge into public data, one about the present, one about the future
Tanzania Is Retiring the Airtime Scratch Card
A regulator-led phase-out pushes phone top-ups onto mobile money, in a bet on a cash-light economy. Street vendors and rural users stand to feel it most
Moove Is Exiting Nigeria, the Market That Made It
Uber's exit from Nigeria broke the car-financing model behind one of Africa's newest unicorns. Thousands of drivers still owe on their cars
Hackers Hijacked Ghana and Sierra Leone Web Domains. Google Says Chrome Users Are Safe
Attackers took over the registries behind .gh, .sl and .as addresses and obtained security certificates for Google and other major brands. Google blocked them, but warned that website owners cannot rely on browsers alone
Wahu Unveils Its New eMoto Bike for African Riders; Opens Pre-Orders
The Accra-based maker is taking pre-orders for the eMoto, a bike that charges from a wall socket and skips the battery-swap model many rivals depend on.
Telecel Says It Plans to Launch 5G in Ghana by December
The operator won a 5G license after Ghana ended a state-backed company's exclusive rights over the service, opening the market to MTN and Telecel