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Nigeria’s digital payroll platform Bento expands to Kenya, Rwanda and Ghana, to enter six other African markets in 2022

TechCrunch

In its next phase of expansion, Bento is eyeing Egypt, South Africa, Uganda, Tanzania, Angola and Ethiopia by the end of next year. The startup, founded in 2019, is helping businesses to automate the disbursement of salaries and other statutory remittances including taxes and pension. Its platform currently supports 400 businesses.

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NowNow raises $13M seed, plans to scale its ecosystem of financial products across Africa

TechCrunch

“Doing that and building our proprietary IP ourselves changed our business,” the chief executive said. “So starting, we provided digital banking solutions to consumers and businesses. This product has been made available to a few small businesses to test in a pilot phase.

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Proton VPN review 2025: A nonprofit service with premium performance

Engadget

Proton VPN successfully masked our real IP address, even on a virtual location in Angola. This is standard for a VPN that wants to remain in business, and the transparency report shows the company does indeed fight court orders when it can. Sam Chapman for Engadget We also used BrowserLeaks to check for WebRTC leaks.

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Kuwait cracks down on crypto miners to cut down on electricity usage

Engadget

Kosovo outlawed the practice back in 2022 and Angola did the same in 2024. Kuwait isnt the only country to regulate or outright ban the practice. Russia has banned crypto mining in several regions throughout the country. European countries like Iceland and Norway have strictly regulated the industry due to energy shortages.

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Rite Aid store closures update: List of doomed locations keeps growing, now includes more than a third of all stores

Fast Company Tech

The drugstore chain, which has already found buyers for most of its prescription business, has added another 111 retail drugstores to its rapidly growing list of doomed locations, a court filing revealed last week. The list includes pharmacies across 12 states, with California and New York being hit the hardest.

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