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# OPay’s $4 Billion Test: Africa’s Payments Giant Is Becoming a Lender Ahead of Its NYSE IPO **By WigWag Africa Business Desk** OPay built its business by making digital finance accessible through n...
From Hitler's rockets to rogue chatbots, every new technology arrives with a villain attached. Here is why we keep writing the same nightmare, and what is actually worth worrying about. Think of Jame...
*"The biggest scaling mistake isn't building the wrong feature. It's building any feature before you've actually listened," says WigWag CEO Busuulwa Peter Nsereko.* --- Every SaaS founder eventually...
WIGWAG AFRICA THE AI FRONTIER AT THE EDGE OF CONTROL Inside the global race to build increasingly powerful artificial intelligence—and the growing struggle to ensure that the machines we create rema...
Starlink Launches High-Speed Internet Service in Uganda: A Luxury Uganda Did Not Ask For There is a particular tradition in journalism that goes back centuries, one where a writer picks up a pen not...
**Court filings and a new wave of investigations reveal how the race for AI training data is turning physical books into machine-readable intelligence — and raising a bigger question for Africa: who o...
For ten years, Olugbenga "GB" Agboola watched $40 billion flow through the platform he built — and kept none of it. That is not a metaphor. It is the literal, defining constraint of the payments busi...
# The African Century Begins Here: What Bill Gates Saw in Rwanda — and Why the Rest of the Continent Is Watching 
Two and a half weeks after the Trump administration abruptly cut off global access to Anthropic's most advanced AI tools, the Commerce Department has reversed course, restoring access to Claude Fable...
The Nairobi-based startup's MSB licence from Canadian regulators marks a milestone in the continent's fintech revolution — and a bold challenge to costly remittance corridors. In 2019, twin brothers...
Most modern tablets are quite good. A few stand out as better than the rest. Phone = good. Tablet = maybe even better? I'm not saying I'll die on this hill, but I'll debate it here: Sure, your phone s...
*BleagLee's Juveline Ngum Ngwa just beat 2,000 rivals from 100 countries to win $1 million. Her secret? AI-powered stoves, drone-mapped dumpsites, and a stubborn refusal to quit.* She keeps no uraniu...
For the past eighteen months, the question has quietly simmered in Kampala's tech circles, government corridors, and rural trading posts alike: when would Starlink finally arrive? The answer came on M...
When thinking about the future of work across Africa, the question that seems to dominate boardroom conversations, government policy discussions, and everyday chatter in Nairobi coffee shops, Lagos co...
OAKLAND, California – Jury selection began this week in the $134 billion lawsuit that pits Elon Musk against OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman. The trial, unfolding at a federal courthouse here, has drawn...
A man accused of carrying out cyberattacks on behalf of the Chinese government has been extradited to the United States, and faces over a decade in prison if convicted. Last year, the U.S. Justice D...
| WigWag Mobility DALLAS – The future of ridesharing has officially arrived in North Texas. Starting this week, Tesla has rolled out its fully unsupervised Robotaxi service in Dallas and Houston, all...