Microsoft accounted for 33% of brand impersonation attempts tracked by Check Point Research in the third quarter of 2026, up from 23% in the previous quarter and roughly four times the share of any other brand.
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Her Startup, an accelerator for women-led technology businesses in Africa, has opened applications for its second cohort, targeting 10 early-stage founders seeking to scale their businesses and become investment-ready.
I spend a big part of each working day using search engines. A lot of my questions are technology-related: How does this feature work? What does that error code mean? Which apps are compatible with the new hardware platform or OS version I’m testing right now?
Six African startups have received a combined $400,000 in catalytic grant funding through the 2026 FINCA Ventures Prize Competition, an initiative designed to support early-stage businesses developing solutions in financial inclusion, sustainable agriculture and food systems.
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AI incidents expose the limits of national regulation in a borderless technological ecosystem. India can help bridge rival governance blocs and build a common baseline for accountability.
Over the past decades, as Africa’s startup scene has grown, many African-founded companies have moved their parent companies to foreign locations such as Delaware, California, London and Paris.
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In January 2012, Uganda’s Ministry of Health issued a moratorium halting new eHealth projects. Donors and NGOs had piloted up to 80 different mHealth applications in Uganda in 2008, and none of them scaled. Donors paid for the pilots. Nobody paid for national rollout.
The expansion of data centres, and the energy they consume, is at the heart of the discussion. “These data centres consume large amounts of electricity and use significant quantities of fresh water,” explains Alok Mishra, professor at NTNU.
