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MTN Completes Mobile Money Spinoff in Ghana
MTN Group has completed the structural separation of its Ghana mobile‑money business, merging MobileMoney Ltd with the newly formed MobileMoney Fintech Ltd (MMFL) effective 31 March 2026. The spin‑off satisfies Ghana’s Payment Systems and Services Act 2019 and places the fintech operation under MTN Dutch Holdings B.V. and the MTN Ghana Fintech Trust. Mobile‑money revenue in Ghana surged 35.7% to about $548 million, with active users reaching 19.3 million. MTN intends to replicate the separation in other African markets such as Uganda and Nigeria.
Mastercard and PayPal Veteran Jill Cress Is Babylist’s First CMO
Babylist, the online baby‑registry platform, reported $750 million in revenue and 45% year‑over‑year growth, prompting the hire of veteran marketer Jill Cress as its first chief marketing officer. Cress, who previously led consumer strategy at Mastercard and marketing at National Geographic, PayPal,...
I Tried Google Photos' New AI Enhance Tool: How It Crops, Relights, and Fixes Your Shots - Sometimes
Google Photos has launched AI Enhance, an one‑tap editing feature that automatically adjusts lighting, color, framing, and cropping. The tool, introduced last year, is now rolling out to every Android device worldwide. Users receive three AI‑generated versions of each photo and...
Attabotics Announces Integrator Partnership Program
Attabotics announced an integrator partnership program to extend its 3D robotic cube storage technology through third‑party distributors. The first partner, SAVOYE North America, will combine its automated storage expertise with Attabotics’ hardware and software to deliver end‑to‑end fulfillment solutions. The...
Novo Launches High-Dose Wegovy in the US; Evotec Pressured to List Its US Unit
Novo Nordisk has introduced a high‑dose 7.2 mg version of its obesity drug Wegovy in the United States, expanding the GLP‑1 portfolio beyond the standard 2.4 mg dose. The new formulation targets patients with severe obesity who need greater weight‑loss efficacy. Pricing...
The Hidden Cost of UI-Driven Data Pipelines: Why Teams Are Moving to Infrastructure as Code
UI‑driven data pipeline tools let early‑stage teams launch pipelines quickly, but the convenience hides configuration state across multiple dashboards and vendor accounts. As organizations scale, hidden operational debt accumulates, leading to schema drift, silent failures, and an inability to diff...
Wholesale Resurgence Reshapes Retail Growth Strategy
Retail brands are reversing the past decade's direct‑to‑consumer (DTC) focus, with wholesale emerging as the primary growth engine. Lightspeed’s 2026 State of B2B eCommerce report shows 78% of brands now rank wholesale as their top investment channel, while only 18%...
AI May Threaten Critical Thinking in the Workplace
A University of Bath report warns that AI adoption in the workplace threatens critical thinking and creativity, especially for knowledge that relies on hands‑on experience, culture, and analytical judgment. Researchers differentiate AI‑compatible encoded and embedded knowledge from AI‑incompatible embodied, encultured,...
Houston Methodist to Deploy Midstream Health’s Agentic AI Financial Action Platform Across Enterprise
Houston Methodist has partnered with Midstream Health to roll out its Agentic AI Financial Action Platform across the health system, beginning with supply‑chain operations. The AI agents ingest both structured ERP data and unstructured contract PDFs to automatically detect pricing...
Trump Breathes New Life Into Old Green Hydrogen Dreams
President Donald Trump’s war in Iran is reshaping global fuel strategies, prompting Japan to accelerate its green hydrogen agenda. Tokyo has teamed with New Zealand to launch a hydrogen corridor that will power a freight route between Fukushima and Fukuoka, targeting...
Revolut Faces €11.5m Penalty over Fee Claims
Revolut has been hit with an €11.5 million (≈ $12.5 million) fine by Italy’s competition authority for misleading advertising and opaque account‑restriction practices. The regulator found that claims of zero‑commission trading were inaccurate and that the neobank failed to provide clear pre‑contractual information...
Robin Weiss Obituary
Robin Weiss, a pioneering virologist who died at 86, led the 1984 discovery that CD4 is the cellular receptor for HIV and created the first UK HIV antibody test with Richard Tedder. The test enabled large‑scale, accurate detection of HIV,...
Why IT Teams Shouldn’t Build Financial Crime Risk Platforms
Financial institutions often attempt to replace spreadsheet‑based financial crime risk assessments with in‑house IT solutions, only to encounter soaring budgets, missed deadlines, and incomplete functionality. The article explains that these platforms require constant regulatory updates, extensive governance, and deep domain...
Anthropic Locked In Google & Broadcom While Its Revenue Tripled
Anthropic announced a multi‑gigawatt agreement with Google and Broadcom to secure next‑generation TPU capacity for training its Claude models. The partnership comes as the company’s revenue run‑rate surged to $30 billion, up from $9 billion at the end of 2025. Anthropic’s enterprise‑focused...
Beyond Speed and Cost: The Push for Transparency in Cross-Border Payments
The cross‑border payments industry is shifting from a focus on speed and cost to a demand for total transparency, driven by the G20 roadmap and coordinated pressure from regulators, banks, fintechs, corporates, and consumers. Transparency comprises upfront fee and FX...
Analyst Explains Why Ontology Separates Palantir (PLTR) From Peers
UBS analyst Karl Keirstead said Palantir’s ontology layer, paired with Foundry’s metadata mapping, turns raw enterprise data into actionable insights and creates a hard‑to‑replicate AI moat. He listed Palantir among the eight best U.S. stocks for the next five years....
Here’s What The ALSO Partnership Means For DoorDash (DASH) Stock
DoorDash announced a strategic partnership with autonomous‑vehicle startup ALSO, coupling a multi‑year commercial agreement with a direct equity investment. ALSO recently closed a $200 million Series C round, and DoorDash’s co‑founder Stanley Tang will serve as a board observer. The collaboration focuses...
Pathward Recognized for Digital Banking Innovation in 10th Annual FinTech Breakthrough Awards Program
Pathward Financial, Inc. (Nasdaq:CASH) was named “Banking‑as‑a‑Service Platform of the Year” in the 10th annual FinTech Breakthrough Awards. The award recognizes Pathward’s end‑to‑end sponsorship capabilities, from prepaid cards and deposit accounts to money‑movement, merchant acquiring and credit solutions. As a...
Fighting Back: How Restaurants Are Reclaiming the Customer Relationship
Restaurants are actively fighting delivery‑platform dominance by building first‑party ordering channels, adopting B2B order‑management tools, and pursuing regulatory relief. Large chains such as McDonald’s and Domino’s have launched branded apps to capture customers directly, while independents turn to services like...
Los Angeles to Open Subway Extension May 8
Los Angeles Metro will open a 3.92‑mile D‑Line subway extension on May 8, adding three new stations and terminating at La Cienega Boulevard. The agency projects 16,200 weekday boardings for the new segment, which is part of a $3.7 billion plan slated for...
Variance Bags $21.5m to Power AI Compliance Agents
Variance, a developer of agentic AI tools for risk and compliance, secured a $21.5 million Series A round led by Ten Eleven Ventures. The funding will accelerate its platform that automates KYC, KYB, AML, transaction monitoring and fraud detection for financial institutions...
Globalstar Eyes 5G Opportunity From Growing Enterprise AI Use
Globalstar unveiled its XCOM RAN private 5G platform, an end‑to‑end solution that bundles three radios, a core network, an orchestrator and an industrial router. The system adheres to open RAN standards and works on the US shared spectrum n48, the...
NASA’s Space Reactor-1 Freedom: America’s First Nuclear-Powered Mission to Mars
NASA announced Space Reactor‑1 Freedom, a nuclear‑electric spacecraft slated for a December 2028 launch to Mars, marking the United States’ first deep‑space mission powered by a fission reactor. The vehicle repurposes the Lunar Gateway Power and Propulsion Element, pairing a >20 kW...
PPC Group Completes Construction at 2.1GW Greek Solar PV Portfolio
Greek utility PPC Group has finished building a 2.13 GW solar photovoltaic portfolio across former lignite mines in northern Greece, branding it as Europe’s largest PV cluster. The 14‑project complex, highlighted by the 550 MW Phoebe plant and the 940 MW Amyntaio complex...
Closing the Gap in Regulatory Change Management
Financial services firms are drowning in an ever‑growing flood of regulatory updates across multiple jurisdictions, and most still rely on manual spreadsheets, basic document collectors, or half‑baked automation. While horizon‑scanning tools surface new rules, they rarely translate raw text into...
Firefly Signs Deal with Modular Sea Launch Startup Seagate
Seagate Space Corporation and Firefly Aerospace have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to jointly develop a modular offshore launch platform for Firefly’s Alpha rocket. The platform, based on Seagate’s Gateway Series, is designed to provide a purpose‑built sea‑based spaceport capable...
Cooling Bracelet to Help Irish Women Battle Key Menopause Symptom
Irish engineer Aonghus O’Donovan has launched the MyCelsius cooling bracelet, a wrist‑worn device that drops skin temperature by 10 °C in under ten seconds. The wearable, entering the Irish market on April 7, targets menopausal hot flushes and claims an 80% efficacy...
MGI Engineering Completes First Flights of TigerShark Strike Platform
MGI Engineering announced the TigerShark, an autonomous deep‑strike UAV, completed its first flight on April 1, marking the first European system of this class tested in over a decade. The subsonic, one‑way platform can carry a 300 kg payload, has a cruise...
Autodesk Strengthens Bridge Between Revit and Forma
Autodesk has launched a tech preview that positions Revit as the first Forma Connected Client, linking the desktop BIM tool directly to Autodesk’s AECO cloud platform. The integration enables teams to import site, terrain and parcel data from Forma Site...
Are Manure Digesters a Real Solution to Dairy Farm Emissions?
Governments are subsidizing anaerobic digesters that turn cow manure into biogas, a technology that can slash methane emissions from dairy operations by up to 70%. Proponents argue the systems are among the most effective livestock‑focused climate tools, while critics warn...
Astroscale Plans World-First Multi-Orbit Satellite Inspection Mission
Astroscale Japan announced the ISSA‑J1 mission, the first multi‑orbit satellite inspection to demonstrate a single servicer spacecraft navigating between distinct orbits and approaching non‑cooperative targets. The mission will inspect Japan’s retired ALOS satellite and the failed ADEOS‑II, capturing high‑resolution imagery...
TOP-5 Lightweight Linux Distributions for Container Base Images
Choosing a lightweight Linux distribution for container base images directly influences image size, runtime performance, security exposure, and maintenance overhead. The guide evaluates five production‑grade options—Alpine, Alpaquita, Chiseled Ubuntu, RHEL UBI Micro, and Wolfi—against criteria such as footprint, libc implementation,...
STAT+: Many Cancer Patients Don’t Get Genomic Tests to Guide Treatment, Study Finds
Genomic sequencing, a key component of precision oncology, is underused in metastatic cancer care. A JAMA Network Open study of five cancer types found that only about half of patients received tumor genetic testing, with lower rates among low‑income, Medicare/Medicaid,...
Five-Drug VIPOR Regimen Shows Promise in Aggressive Blood Cancer
Researchers at Jiangsu and Shanghai Hengrui have patented selective Nav1.8 sodium‑channel blockers that alleviate pain in rodent models without cardiac or CNS effects, and plan IND‑enabling toxicology studies in 2026 with Phase I trials slated for 2027. Parallel advances in hematopoietic...
Hematopoietic Stem Cell Research Points to Leukemia’s Early Roots
Recent hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) studies reveal that chronic inflammation can seed the earliest genetic lesions that later evolve into leukemia. The research shows that inflammatory signals remodel the bone‑marrow niche, prompting mutations in primitive stem cells long before clinical...
OpenAI and Spotify Leaders Back London-Based AI Agent Security Startup in $13M Seed Round
London‑based Trent AI emerged from stealth with a $13 million seed round led by LocalGlobe and Cambridge Innovation Capital, joined by executives from OpenAI, Spotify, Databricks and AWS. The startup offers the first multi‑agent security platform that continuously scans, assesses risk...
Introducing EGF: An Open File Format for Educational Games
An open file format called Educational Game Format (EGF) was released on Zenodo in November 2025 to simplify creation and distribution of educational video games, especially for Africa’s growing edtech market. Developed by the founder of ZakiGames, EGF packages content,...
800 MW/1.5 GWh Dinawan Solar Farm and Battery Storage Project in Australia Secures Approval, Bids to Reduce NSW Reliance on...
Spark Renewables secured final state approval for the Dinawan hybrid project in New South Wales, pairing an 800 MW solar farm with a 356 MW/1,574 MWh battery energy storage system. The AUD 1.35 billion development sits in the South West Renewable Energy Zone and links to...
Outpayce Boosts Travel Companies’ Chargeback Resilience with Riskified Integration
Outpayce announced integration with Riskified, bringing AI‑driven fraud‑prevention and a Chargeback Guarantee to its travel‑focused payments platform. The partnership gives more than 180,000 travel agencies and airline sales offices access to machine‑learning risk models that evaluate hundreds of transaction features....
Artemis II Sets New Human Distance Record During Lunar Flyby
NASA’s Artemis II mission completed a historic lunar flyby, sending four astronauts farther from Earth than any humans before them. The crew reached roughly 260,000 miles (about 418,000 km) from the planet, eclipsing the Apollo 13 record set in 1970. The flight marked the...
Petri Kokkonen Appointed Co-Lead of IAB Europe’s Programmatic Working Group
Petri Kokkonen, CEO of Relevant Digital, has been appointed co‑lead of the IAB Europe Programmatic Working Group alongside Sportradar’s Ralf Ollig. The group unites European ad‑tech stakeholders to shape standards, drive research, and improve transparency as AI reshapes programmatic buying....
Tackling Data Breach Risks Requires Perpetual Planning
Data breach fallout can linger, damaging reputation and sparking class‑action lawsuits. Finance and cyber experts warn that an annual security review is no longer sufficient; continuous assessment is required. Hydrolix illustrates this approach with weekly cyber discussions, quarterly board reporting,...
Amazon Introduces Transport Surcharge for Partners
Amazon announced a new transport surcharge to offset rising fuel and logistics costs linked to the Middle East conflict. Effective April 17, a 1.5% fee will be added to Fulfilment by Amazon (FBA) shipments in ten European countries, followed by a...
DBOS, Inc. Announces Technology Partnership with Databricks to Increase Agentic AI Reliability and Trust
DBOS, Inc. announced a technology partnership with Databricks to enhance the reliability and observability of agentic AI workflows. The collaboration integrates DBOS’s open‑source durable execution platform with Databricks’ Lakebase serverless Postgres, creating real‑time checkpoints that let AI agents resume automatically...
Russian Cyber Spies Targeting Consumer, Soho Routers
The UK National Cyber Security Centre and Microsoft have uncovered a large‑scale DNS hijacking operation run by Russian APT28, also known as Fancy Bear, targeting vulnerable consumer and small‑office routers. The campaign, active since August 2025, has compromised over 200 organisations and...
Autoimmune Disease-Related Inflammation Reduced with ENDOtollins Drug
A study in *Nature Chemical Biology* reports a new class of compounds called ENDOtollins that selectively block the Munc13‑4–syntaxin 7 interaction, dampening endosomal Toll‑like receptor activation and systemic inflammation. Screening of roughly 32,000 molecules identified ENDO12 as the most potent candidate,...
J&J Launches Enhanced PFA Device in Europe
Johnson & Johnson received CE‑mark approval for its Varipulse Pro pulsed‑field ablation (PFA) device and is launching it across Europe. The upgraded system delivers lesions five times faster than the prior sequence while maintaining comparable efficacy and operates at a lower...
Inside Intelligent Enterprises
Wipro and Intel have launched the WINGS.OTNxT.AI platform, an end‑to‑end managed service that unifies operational technology (OT) and Internet of Things (IoT) environments for manufacturers. The solution, already deployed by more than 40 customers, combines device inventory, secure networking, vulnerability...
China Shifts 5G Focus to Monetization and Enterprise Growth
China’s 5G market is approaching saturation, prompting operators to pivot from subscriber acquisition to monetizing enterprise and industrial services. The shift emphasizes higher‑value contracts such as private networks, smart manufacturing, and IoT connectivity, which promise greater ARPU and longer contract...
Snappy Technologies Rolls Out System to Unify Delivery Marketplaces
Snappy Technologies unveiled a new integration platform that consolidates disparate food‑delivery marketplaces into a single unified system. The solution leverages a standardized API to aggregate orders, inventory, and driver data across services like DoorDash, Uber Eats, and Grubhub. Early pilots...