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Cameroon’s Ejara raises $2M to offer crypto and investment services in Francophone Africa

TechCrunch

So it stayed on my mind.” Ejara has more than 8,000 users from Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Mali, Guinea and Senegal, as well as French-speaking Africans in the diaspora (Europe, Asia and the U.S.), “So even at that tender age, I asked myself how we managed to do everything right and still end up in that zone.

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Top 2021 Fundraising Strategies: Mastering Online Appeals and Messaging

Bloomerang

If you’re doing this on your own, it’s a good idea to ask a few friends or volunteers who know nothing about your organization to serve as user guinea pigs. . Keep in mind that a digital-first strategy doesn’t mean you give up on personal touches. Keep these questions in mind: . Is it optimized for mobile devices? .

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Notch will sell you insurance in case your Instagram gets hacked

TechCrunch

As with any startup, you don’t want to be the guinea pig — but, for big enough creators, a monthly payment could be worth the peace of mind it brings. But before launch, Notch helped some creators with account retrieval, which is why there are testimonials on the company’s website.

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Crisis Lessons Learned When My Apartment Building Was on Fire

Care2

Keep in mind that you may need to bring in some outside firemen or other professionals of your own. If they are one of my neighbors, they’ll be standing outside trying to console a very stressed, worried, and freaked out guinea pig.) Firemen and Ladder. False Alarms are Dangerous. The Hidden Impact of Crisis.

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ZmBIZI’s $550 Z2 phone pays you for your data usage

The Verge

Some of these coin-earning tasks are essentially asking you, the user, to allow yourself to become a data guinea pig, but I’m not sure the minimal reward will be worthwhile. It’s not clear whether each app will disclose how and where it will be using the information it collects about you.

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Worst of Museums for this Decade

Museum 2.0

These two adages were both in my mind last week when I asked people for the worst museum trends. Djupdraet (@mdjupdraet) December 9, 2019 Instead museums found themselves at the mercy of the next big thing and the whims of tech firms: Being big tech guinea pigs: We end up with unsustainable shiny tech and then just feel used.

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On Becoming a Guinea Fowl review: A fierce, acerbic Zambian comedy-drama about community

Mashable Tech

The second feature by Zambian-Welsh director Rungano Nyoni, On Becoming a Guinea Fowl is a brilliantly wry film of funeral traditions and familial idiosyncrasies. From there on out, On Becoming a Guinea Fowl sweeps through its mere 99 minutes with clamorous force. What is On Becoming a Guinea Fowl about? UPDATE: Mar.

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