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Days after winning control of Congress in the midterms, Democrats have picked their first big target: the tech giants that helped pay for President Donald Trump’s White House ballroom. Senator Richard Blumenthal, who is set to chair the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, has asked Apple, Google, Meta, Nvidia, Amazon and Microsoft to hand over…

Madica, a structured pre-seed investment programme for African startups, today announced $6M in additional capital from Flourish Ventures to extend its investment pilot by three years. Building on lessons learned and early signs of traction across its portfolio, Madica will back 25-30 additional companies and deepen its company-building support for exceptional founders who are underserved…

MUMBAI: The crackdown has gone beyond fake profiles, with investigators uncovering the human cost behind the scams. Meta, Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, Adobe, Coinbase, Starlink and other technology companies have joined law enforcement agencies from 10 countries in a coordinated operation targeting online fraud networks in West Africa, leading to the removal of more than 3.7…