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Lynk demos global satellite connection for ordinary phones and prepares for commercial launch

TechCrunch

Lynk showed that a satellite could hit an entire city with an evacuation or shelter in place message, and indeed that may be one way the tech is used in the future. As to that, the company is partnering first with Aliv in the Bahamas and Telecel Centrafrique in the Central African Republic.

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MARA raises $23M from Coinbase Ventures and FTX to build Africa’s portal to the crypto economy

TechCrunch

his time there made him aware of the societal and financial challenges affecting Africans in remote places and theories of how bitcoin and blockchain technology could help. While shuttling between Nigeria (his hometown) and the U.S., But M ARA wants to make an immediate influence.

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