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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. Bento is tapping the payroll and HR management market in Africa that has traditionally relied on laborious analog processes to disburse pay.

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

TechCrunch

Although only a target of 64% was met by the end of the decade, one positive from the exercise is that achieving financial inclusion across the country is still a continuous process that has seen fintechs take part alongside banks in recent years. Agency banking upstarts are the main innovators in this space.

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Proton VPN review 2025: A nonprofit service with premium performance

Engadget

We had high hopes for Proton here because of its VPN Accelerator technology, which runs VPN communications across several parallel tracks to process everything faster. Proton VPN successfully masked our real IP address, even on a virtual location in Angola. It didn't disappoint — for the most part.

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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

With this latest list, the pharmacy chain has now marked more than 470 stores for closure since the Chapter 11 process began about a month ago, comprising more than a third of Rite Aid’s total fleet of 1,277 locations. Fast Company has reached out to Rite Aid to ask about the timeline of the closures.

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Joann fabrics store closing dates: Here’s the full list of locations that will close for good this week

Fast Company Tech

As part of that bankruptcy process, its assets were sold off, and all of its around 800 stores are being liquidated. For Joann, its financial burdens became too much, and the company decided to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in February, its second bankruptcy in less than a year. Which Joanns stores are closing in April?

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