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Amongst a ton of product changes to make Twitter a more attractive platform, Elon Musk has mentioned multiple times his desire to make direct messages better and more secure. So much so that he wants DMs to “superset Signal” — the encrypted messaging app. Over the weekend, Musk said that the end-to-end encrypted DM feature […]

Elon Musk says Twitter is ‘aiming’ to roll out encrypted DMs this month by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch

Any organization hoping to scale can create rituals that engage people in their work and inspire them to be their best selves.

Creating remote work rituals that stick by Ram Iyer originally published on TechCrunch

Don’t let your biggest fears become your new reality.

Soaring anxieties over an impending recession on the backs of interest rate hikes by the Fed are not likely to ease anytime soon. Amid such volatilities, beginners with little money…

It’s taken rather longer than a month for Meta-owned WhatsApp to commit to address complaints swirling around how it imposes terms of service on users but the European Commission has just announced that the messaging platform has agreed to improve how it communicates to users and presents future ToS updates. Early in 2021, WhatsApp triggered […]

WhatsApp agrees to clean up its user messaging in the EU by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch

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Nerves are fine, but falling apart… not so much.

Alerzo, a Nigerian B2B e-commerce platform that digitizes commerce and payments processes between FMCG suppliers and informal retailers, has laid off 15% of its full-time workforce, the company confirmed to TechCrunch. This is the company’s second round of layoffs in seven months. As a first-party e-commerce business, Alerzo had a headcount of more than 2,000 […]

Nigerian B2B e-commerce startup Alerzo cuts 15% of full-time staff in second round of layoffs by Tage Kene-Okafor originally published on TechCrunch

Last month, Flutterwave, Africa’s largest startup by private valuation, was involved in a hack that resulted in over ₦2.9 billion (~$4.2 million) missing from its accounts, according to local tech publication Techpoint Africa. According to the documents seen by the publication and reviewed by TechCrunch, unknown actors transferred the funds across 28 accounts in 63 transactions […]

Alleged security breach leaves millions of dollars missing from Flutterwave accounts by Tage Kene-Okafor originally published on TechCrunch