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Flutterwave and PayPal collaborate to allow African merchants to accept and make payments

TechCrunch

That might be a thing of the past for some businesses as African payments company Flutterwave today is announcing a collaboration with PayPal to allow PayPal customers globally to pay African merchants through its ‘Pay with PayPal’ feature. Going by this partnership, we can expect the majority of them to be global plays.

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How African startups raised investments in 2020

TechCrunch

“When these companies evolve to go global, we still count them as African companies.” Due to unfriendly regulations, business and tax conditions, Nigerian startups are increasingly incorporating their startups abroad and other African countries like Seychelles and Mauritius. ” Briter Bridges has a similar methodology.

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This is what your life will be like when the world hits a dangerous climate tipping point

Fast Company Tech

A new consensus is growing within the scientific community about climate change: The goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 Weve already experienced the first full calendar year beyond this threshold, with last years global average temperature being 1.6 Fires and Disease By 2100, the number of extreme fires could increase 50% globally.

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