Market Trends & Consumer Behaviour
Nigeria wants $11.92bn in taxes; tech will decide if it works Summary Nigeria aims to raise ₦17.85 trillion (about $11.92bn) in tax and customs revenue in 2026, leaning heavily on technology to plug the gap left by shrinking crude oil earnings. The plan focuses on boosting collections from VAT, corporate income tax, customs levies and […]
👨🏿🚀TechCabal Daily – MultiChoice begins Canal+ restructuring Summary MultiChoice has started restructuring its businesses to accommodate Canal+ after the French media group completed a mandatory buyout. The R55 billion (≈$3.17bn) takeover has prompted MultiChoice to create a subsidiary called LicenceCo to hold its broadcasting licences and to reduce its controlling stake in LicenceCo to 20% […]
Proxy Season Global Briefing: Trends on Boards of Directors Summary Glass Lewis’s global proxy-season briefing reviews director election results, shareholder dissent, and board diversity trends across regions for 2025. Overall patterns are stable in the US, rising opposition in parts of Canada, minimal dissent at large European companies, and elevated — though declining — opposition […]
The Value Multiplier: Why Retention Beats Acquisition in a Capital-Starved Market Summary Rising capital costs and scarce investment mean the old “grow-at-all-costs” playbook is dead. The article argues businesses should prioritise customer retention over acquisition by delivering measurable, quantified value — a concept the author calls the Value Multiplier. By reframing retention around measurable outcomes […]
What’s Next for TikTok? Your Next Best Social Media Marketing Strategy Moves Summary TikTok’s near-term future looks less binary: a U.S.–China framework deal aims to move the app to U.S.-controlled ownership, buying time before the Sept 17 divestiture deadline. Meanwhile, New York is advancing youth-safety rules that limit algorithmic feeds and late-night notifications for under-18s, […]
AI Customer Support Explained: Benefits, Use Cases and Pitfalls to Avoid Summary AI customer support is shifting service from reactive, labour‑intensive operations to proactive, data‑driven experiences. The article explains how machine learning, natural language processing and generative AI are being used to augment agents—automating repetitive tasks while preserving human empathy for complex cases. Key practical […]
USA Today Enters Its Gen AI Era With a Chatbot Summary Gannett, the publisher behind USA Today and hundreds of local titles, has launched DeeperDive — a chatbot-style tool developed with Taboola that answers reader queries, summarises reporting, and recommends related stories across the USA Today network. The aim is twofold: reclaim reader attention that […]
Matthew Prince Wants AI Companies to Pay for Their Sins Summary Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince argues that AI firms must pay for the content they scrape and reuse. He explains Cloudflare’s new default to block unauthorised AI crawlers — effectively creating a pay-per-crawl model — and frames it as a way to restore scarcity and […]
How AI Is Upending Politics, Tech, the Media, and More Summary WIRED’s AI Power Summit convened leaders from technology, politics and publishing to debate how artificial intelligence is reshaping society. The event brought contrasting perspectives: industry figures touted AI’s potential for scientific and economic renewal, while politicians and media executives warned of harm to journalism, […]
Founders’ takes: Why we need European AI employees Summary Lucas Spreiter of Venta AI argues that AI is shifting work from human labour to AI labour and that Europe must build its own “AI employees” rather than import them from the US or China. The piece traces Europe’s deep research roots (LeCun, LSTM, DeepMind, Stable […]
