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| Ramon Bello, GM, Paga Engine. Image source: Paga |
But as digital payments mature, more fintechs are increasingly discovering that selling the infrastructure underneath financial transactions may be another business with steadier economics.
This is a bet that Paga Group is now making.
By Temitayo Jaiyeola
Full story at Tech Cabal
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| The Google Glasses logo at this year's I/O (Amy Skorheim / Yahoo Tech) |
During day two of Google I/O, the company’s annual developer conference, I finally got a chance to try on a prototype of the company’s forthcoming “intelligent eyewear.” Developed in partnership with Samsung on the hardware side and Warby Parker and Gentle Monster on the fashion side, the two new Android XR “audio glasses” are set to debut this fall.
During the keynote, a Samsung rep said the goal was creating something that people would actually want to wear. And judging from the images shared so far, it feels like they hit the mark. The Warby Parker design looks more like an old-school, horn-rim style pair, while the Gentle Monster version has a distinct retro beach-vibe (though Yahoo Tech’s Dan Thorp-Lancaster thinks they have a Matrix-y vibe, which I can also see).
By Amy Skorheim
Full story at Yahoo News
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| Ten years after the Brexit referendum, Remainers continue to campaign to rejoin the EU - Getty |
Sir Julian King said Britain would need to surrender Margaret Thatcher’s EU budget rebate, meaning it would pay at least £5bn each year more for membership than it did before Brexit.
On Monday, Roberta Metsola, the president of the European Parliament, said the EU’s “door was open” to Britain, after reversing Brexit became central to the Labour leadership psychodrama.
By James Crisp
Full story at Yahoo News
Just like you never thought you would read that, I never thought that I would type it, but here we are.
In a move that could leave people confused, curious, or both, Meta launched its Incognito Chat on WhatsApp and MetaAI app.
Full story at IOL
By Yasmine Jacobs
Ming is author of Robot-Proof: When Machines Have All the Answers, Build Better People. She doesn’t speak about the future of work the way most executives do. Where they tend to see a straightforward productivity story—AI as a tool that will absorb the tedious tasks and free humans for the interesting ones—she sees a far more unsettling picture. The serial AI entrepreneur argues that the very premise of the debate is wrong, and that the skills companies are currently training for are the ones AI will master first.
“We misunderstand what kind of intelligence AI actually is,” she says. “Agentic AI is a ‘how’ machine. It can learn the rules of coding, legal analysis, or financial modeling and execute them faster and cheaper than any human. If a job can be defined by past data, an AI will eventually do it.”
By Rodger Dean Duncan,
Full story at Forbes
Musk took to X to vent his frustrations, alleging that the South African government had denied Starlink a license based on racial considerations.
“South Africa won’t allow Starlink to be licensed, even though I was BORN THERE, simply because I am not Black! We were offered many times the opportunity to bribe our way to a license by pretending that a Black guy runs Starlink SA, but I have refused to do so on principle.
Full story at IOL
By ZamaNdosi Cele
She navigated to EaseMoni, a loan product offered through OPay’s lending arm, reviewed the repayment terms, and took some loans. It was ₦6,000 ($4.21) the first time. Then subsequently, ₦24,000 ($16.85).
Peace told TechCabal she repaid the loan before the one-month deadline, closed the app, and moved on. The app, however, did not.
Full story at Tech Cabal
By Fancy Goodman , John Adoyi
