Netflix’s advertising business has reached a major turning point, more than doubling its revenue to $1.5 billion between 2024 and 2025. During the company’s most recent earnings call, co-CEO Greg Peters expressed high confidence in this trajectory, projecting that ad revenue will “roughly double again” in 2026 to reach approximately $3 billion. This rapid scaling…
Premium smartphone demand lifted Apple to market leadership in 2025. Global smartphone shipments grew 2% year-on-year (YOY) in 2025, driven by increasing premium phone demand and improving momentum in key emerging markets, according to preliminary estimates from Counterpoint’s market monitor. According to the report, the market sustained its growth momentum throughout 2025, primarily driven by…
The global economy has shown resilience amid turbulence during the past year, including shifting trade policies – yet growth remains subdued and far below pre-pandemic levels, the UN said in a landmark report published on Thursday. The World Economic Situation and Prospects 2026 predicts that global economic output will grow by 2.7 per cent this…
Harare — Most of the fastest-growing economies, with gross domestic product growth rates exceeding 6%, will be on the African continent in 2026, according to Africanews, citing data from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Growth rates in countries such as Rwanda, Uganda, and Ethiopia will exceed 7%, while South Sudan and Guinea will achieve double-digit…
Megaport Limited (ASX: MP1) (“Megaport”), the world’s leading Network as a Service (NaaS) provider, today announced the acquisition of Extreme IX,India’s leading Internet Exchange operator, from Extreme Labs, a Bulgaria-headquartered software and network engineering company that incubated the Extreme IX platform. The acquisition expands Megaport’s global platform into one of the world’s fastest-growing digital infrastructure…
MoneyBadger CEO Carel Van Wyk. South African payment and logistics leaders say the country’s digital commerce sector is set for solid growth in 2026, but exporters may face continued pressure from US tariffs. The forecasts come from executives at Peach Payments, MoneyBadger and TUNL, who outlined expected trends for the year ahead. MoneyBadger CEO Carel…
New research analyzes the influence of changes in rainfall to Serengeti National Park in Tanzania. PHOTO/Richard Mortel/Flickr, CC BY 2.0 By SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT [email protected] The Serengeti is one of the most diverse ecosystems on Earth. The massive savanna stretches more than 30,000 square kilometers across Tanzania and southwestern Kenya, and conservation sites, including national parks and…
Eventbrite is a global events marketplace that serves event creators and event-goers in nearly 180 countries. Since its inception, Eventbrite has been at the center of the experience economy, transforming the way people organize and attend events. The company was founded by Julia Hartz, Kevin Hartz, and Renaud Visage, with a vision to build a…
MTN Group CEO Ralph Mupita MTN Group has spent three decades building a pan-African empire – but if you look closely at the map, its centre of gravity is skewed towards West Africa and Southern Africa. On one side sits South Africa and on the other is a powerful West African bloc led by Nigeria…
Nouakchott — Achieving Mauritania’s ambition of becoming an upper-middle-income country by 2050 will require accelerated economic diversification, according to the World Bank Group’s Growth and Jobs Report released today. According to Ibou Diouf, World Bank Country Manager for Mauritania, “this report suggests an analytical framework to support the Government’s efforts to create the conditions for…
