Here are four trends shaping the small business landscape to be aware of as you implement your plans throughout the year. The beginning of a new year often comes with a laundry list of goals and to-dos, which can quickly become overwhelming if you try to tackle too much, too fast.
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Nine out of ten fintechs plan to recruit more experts to help tackle fraud as they expect scams to soar in 2023, according to new research from OCR Labs Global and FINTRAIL. The research, Fighting Identity Fraud in an Economic Downturn, shows that in 2022 fintech experienced a rise in third-party
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Popular social media platform, Instagram, has announced new changes on its home screen, starting from February 2023. The Meta-owned platform, in an update, revealed that part of the changes would involve the removal of the ‘Shop’ tab from its home screen. The ‘Shop’ option allows people to easily purchase items from business
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There are strong reasons to believe that ‘tech winter’ is something that many startups will be able to weather. Startups disrupt traditional business landscapes, so when the landscape for startups itself faces disruption, you can expect consternation and caution to abound. As reported by startup ecosystem market intelligence platform CB Insights, 2021
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President Joe Biden of the United States of America has announced the commitment of $350 million to facilitate digital transformation in Africa. According to Biden, such intervention would help to make sure more people across Africa participate in the digital economy. He stated that the commitment included partnerships such as a new
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Digitally upskilling the UK workforce is a key enabler of growth and will be essential to economic recovery. How can businesses ensure they introduce a successful strategy? Businesses throughout the UK continue to face extreme turmoil. During the Covid-19 pandemic, the uncertainty of regulations from week to week made it difficult
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President Muhammadu Buhari has signed the Nigeria Startup Bill into law. The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, announced this on Wednesday after a meeting with the President at Aso Villa. He disclosed that the startup bill passed on July 20, 2022, was initiated by the executive arm and seeks
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While speaking to African reporters on the sideline of the just-concluded GITEX 2020 in Dubai, the special advisor to the Lagos state governor on innovation and technology, Olatunbosun Alake, said that the government is planning to launch its own venture capital fund that would “write bigger equity cheques for Nigerian
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Mujahid Musa is a young entrepreneur who ventured into Information and Communication Technology (ICT) after graduating with good grades from the Faculty of Communication, Department of Mass Communication, Bayero University, Kano (BUK). Born in 1995, Mujahid had over the years registered himself as a household name in ICT development, especially
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For your startup to stay ahead, listen to your customers, accept ideas from your team, but always keep the core problem top of mind Every worthwhile project starts with a problem to be solved. You identify something that could be improved. You realise nobody has done it before you, or at least,
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