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Africa’s largest fintech company, Flutterwave, has acquired Nigerian open banking startup Mono in an all-stock deal valued between $25 million and $40 million, according to people familiar with the transaction. The acquisition brings together two of Africa’s leading fintech infrastructure companies. Flutterwave operates one of the continent’s widest payments networks, while Mono, often described as…

Robert Playter, CEO of Boston Dynamics, announced on Tuesday that he is stepping down from his role effective immediately and leaving the company on February 27th, as previously reported by A3. Under Playter’s leadership, Boston Dynamics navigated its way through an acquisition from Softbank that brought it to Hyundai in 2021, and it launched a…

When is October Prime Day 2025? This year, October Prime Day ran from Tuesday, Oct. 7, through Wednesday, Oct. 8. It was a two-day sale, compared to four days for July. Does Costco also hold a sale for Prime Day? Similar to Prime Days past, Costco is holding a Member Savings Week sale to compete….

An outage affecting web hosting giant Amazon Web Services (AWS) has taken out vast swathes of the web, including websites, banks, and some government services. Amazon said on Monday morning that the outage had been “fully mitigated” and that most services are returning to normal after an hours-long stretch during which much of the internet…

After long insisting that it will release its first trifold phone this year, Samsung has gotten one step closer by showing off a version of the hardware at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, being held this week in Korea. No-one’s allowed to touch it though (let alone fold it), and Samsung is staying coy…