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Indian luxury watch brand Bangalore Watch Company (BWC) has raised $1.4 million in a seed round from a group of its customers, including family office principals and high-net-worth individuals from India and overseas.

There are games that invite you into fantastical worlds, showering you with epic quests and heroic triumphs. And then there are games that lock you in a dusty, creaking house with a mallet-wielding, septuagenarian terror. Granny falls firmly into the latter category,

There's a quiet disaster unfolding across Kenyan finance departments right now. It started on 1st January 2026, when KRA quietly switched on a validation system that cross-checks every income tax return against three data sources: TIMS/eTIMS invoices, withholding tax records, and customs import data.

Kenya has spent years pushing businesses onto eTIMS. The logic was sound. Real-time invoice data means less underreporting, faster validation, and a cleaner tax base. On paper, it's the right move.

Egyptian startup Paymob, the leading payments infrastructure service provider in the MENA region, has secured US$35 million in a pre-Series C funding round to support its ongoing expansion across the region.

African ed-tech incubator and accelerator Injini will host the fifth edition of South African EdTech Week in partnership with the Mastercard Foundation, with the event moving to Gauteng for the first time.

South African startup Exten AI has developed an AI-native platform that lets entrepreneurs with no coding skills build working software applications just by describing them in everyday language.

Egyptian payment orchestration startup MoneyHash has partnered with Saudi fintech Geidea, giving businesses on its platform access to Geidea’s payment gateway across the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Egypt.

Blizzard has officially announced World of Warcraft: Forever - known to players as "WoW Classic Plus" - introducing a brand-new, long-term gameplay system for Classic players.

Since the launch of EA Sports FC 27, Ultimate Team has remained the game's most popular core mode. FC 27 coins are an indispensable resource for building a powerful squad.

AfriWallStreet called on the African Union, Afreximbank, and national ministries of industry and trade to tie future trade concessions and incentives directly to manufacturing capacity, local content, and job creation targets.

Bengaluru- based edtech startup Arivihan has secured $10 million in Series A funding from existing investors Accel and Prosus Ventures, along with an additional $200,000 from its existing GSF angel investors.