The 25 Best YA Books of All Time
Young adult books are still super popular for a reason. Being a teenager is a time of self definition and so many exciting firsts. It’s a...
The Worlds of Middle-Earth: The Millions Interviews Richard Ovenden and Catherine McIlwaine
Beginning with The Silmarillion in 1977, and ending with The Fall of Gondolin in 2018, Christopher Tolkien edited and published 25 books of his father J.R.R....
Japan to Fully Reopen to Tourists Despite Record Covid-19 Cases in August
The government of Japan is planning to fully reopen the country to international tourism, perhaps as early as October, according to reports from Nikkei Asia and...
Celebrating and supporting small business heroes
The past two years have not been easy for business. However, through the disruption small businesses have been the heroes of our communities in many ways,...
Yandex’s sale of News and Zen to VK completes
Russian search giant Yandex has confirmed the completion of the sale of two of its flagship media properties, News and Zen, to local social media giant,...
Stockholm’s EQT Growth closes $2.2B to fund scaling European startups like Vinted, Mambu and Epidemic Sound
The days of European startups relocating to the U.S. if they want to grow (and raise money to do so) have been receding in the rearview...
Elon Musk’s third termination notice to Twitter is about Mudge’s severance
The third time is the charm. Elon Musk’s lawyers might have been thinking that while sending the third termination notice to Twitter last Friday in an...
Nigerian financial management app for merchants Kippa bags $8.4M in new funding
Kippa, the Nigerian startup improving the lifecycle of small businesses across the country with its financial management and payments platform, has raised $8.4 million in an...
Kenya’s HotelOnline acquires hospitality software company HotelPlus
HotelOnline, a Kenya-based Yanolja-backed travel technology scale-up that fashions itself as an e-commerce and digital marketing enabler in the hospitality industry, has acquired HotelPlus, a software...
Pan-African “gender equal investor“ Janngo Capital hits first close of €60M fund
After stints at Jumia as its former managing director at its Nigerian office and founding CEO of its Ivorian office, Fatoumata Bâ, a veteran of the...
