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Global payments giant Visa says it will invest $1 billion by 2027 to expand its investments in Africa amidst a digital payments boom on the continent. Visa chief Al Kelly announced this pledge on Wednesday during the U.S.-Africa Business Forum, a sub-event in the broader U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit, a three-day event where U.S. President Joe […]

Visa to invest $1B in Africa over the next five years by Tage Kene-Okafor originally published on TechCrunch

Redwood Materials said Wednesday it will build a new battery materials and recycling facility on a 600-acre campus near Charleston, South Carolina that will eventually employ 1,500 people and make enough cathode and anodes components to supply one million EVs annually. Little is known about the incentives deal the company struck with the state. However, […]

Redwood Materials to build multibillion-dollar factory in the U.S. “battery belt” by Kirsten Korosec originally published on TechCrunch

Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This is our Wednesday show, where we niche down to a single topic, think about a question and unpack the rest. This week, Natasha is bringing one of her favorite panels from Disrupt to […]

The impact of hype with Clubhouse’s Paul Davison by Theresa Loconsolo originally published on TechCrunch

Startup connects existing factory equipment to the cloud, giving manufacturers a real-time view of their operations.

Guidewheel lands $9M Series A-1 for SaaS that boosts manufacturing and trims carbon emissions by Tim De Chant originally published on TechCrunch

During an economic downturn, it’s easy to focus on negative headlines, but revenue teams still have targets to meet. How do you drive accountability at a time when every sale matters?

In a turbulent market, it’s time to get methodical about sales by Ram Iyer originally published on TechCrunch

Twitter’s lead privacy regulator in the European Union is being kept very busy indeed by Elon Musk’s erratic piloting of the bird site. Following a report by Platformer, which suggests Musk is planning to force users to accept personalized advertising unless they pay for a subscription service that will include an opt-out for ads, the […]

Reports of Musk forcing tracking ads on Twitter put him on a costly collision course with EU privacy laws by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch

The U.S. National Security Agency is warning that Chinese government-backed hackers are exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in two widely used Citrix networking products to gain access to targeted networks. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2022-27518, affects Citrix ADC, an application delivery controller, and Citrix Gateway, a remote access tool, and are both popular in enterprise networks. […]

NSA says Chinese hackers are exploiting a zero-day bug in popular networking gear by Carly Page originally published on TechCrunch