Category: Business
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🇧🇲 From GetEmails to Retention.com: The Rise of Adam Robinson and the Tragic End of a Bootstrapped Tech Visionary
Adam Robinson transformed GetEmails from a fast-growing email-identification startup into Retention.com, building a multimillion-dollar bootstrapped technology empire before his life and entrepreneurial journey ended in a tragic Florida Learjet crash that killed nine people.
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SBA Officially Recognizes the Creator Economy — What It Means for Small Businesses
The U.S. Small Business Administration has issued new guidance formally clarifying how qualifying content creators fit within its small-business framework. The move could make it easier for podcasters, streamers, digital publishers, video producers and social-media entrepreneurs to navigate SBA financing and contracting opportunities—but it does not automatically qualify creators for loans.
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🇰🇪 Protecting Legacies: API Events Gears Up for Africa’s Definitive Private Wealth Gathering
API Events, the pan-African B2B organiser, is launching the Capital & Legacy Forum in Nairobi on 10 November, an invitation-style gathering for family offices, UHNW individuals and the advisors who serve them.
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🌎 Google’s $10 Million Bet on the Ghost of Spirit Airlines
Google has bid $10 million for a massive archive of defunct Spirit Airlines’ internal corporate data, including about 100 million emails and 500 million Microsoft Teams messages. The deal highlights a growing AI race for real-world enterprise data while raising new questions about employee privacy, corporate memory and who owns the digital history of a…
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🇬🇭 🇨🇳 Ghana Opens Direct Cedi-to-Yuan Payment Channel With China, Reducing Reliance on the Dollar
Ghana has launched a direct cedi-to-yuan payment mechanism that allows businesses to settle eligible China trade transactions without using the US dollar as an intermediary. Piloted by Stanbic Bank Ghana, the system uses China’s CIPS network and could reduce settlement times and foreign-exchange costs while strengthening Ghana-China trade.
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🍁 Mountain Province Gives Up 49% Gahcho Kué Stake as Diamond-Market Pressure Deepens
Mountain Province Diamonds is transferring its 49% stake in Canada’s Gahcho Kué diamond mine to De Beers as part of a restructuring aimed at eliminating mine-related liabilities, stabilizing its finances and securing new funding amid prolonged weakness in natural-diamond prices.
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🇳🇬 Dangote Refinery Launches $1.6 Billion IPO in Africa’s Biggest Share Sale
Nigeria’s Dangote oil refinery is preparing a $1.6 billion initial public offering that would value the refinery at about $47 billion, in what Reuters reports would be Africa’s largest stock-market listing. The planned November listing marks a major stage in the development of the Lagos-based refine…