Twitter agreed to Nigeria's demands wholesale to end a seven-month ban on the platform
Banned in Nigeria for seven months over a deleted tweet, Twitter agreed to register locally, pay taxes, and train moderators to restore access in 2022.
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500 VERÖFFENTLICHTE FÄLLE · REGELMÄSSIG AKTUALISIERTStellaService sold its data business to fund a hard pivot to Stella Connect
Its retail analytics business capped, StellaService sold that unit to PowerReviews and pivoted fully to real-time feedback platform Stella Connect.
Fall lesenEleven Sports Taiwan streamed empty-stadium CPBL games in English as MLB paused
When Covid-19 delayed MLB, Eleven Sports Taiwan English-commentated the CPBL on Twitter, drawing over 5M views in five games from fans worldwide.
Fall lesenCheetah swapped its B2B wholesale model for D2C delivery after COVID cut sales 80%
When shelter-in-place orders crashed its restaurant business, Cheetah relaunched as contactless consumer delivery and hit a $1M monthly run rate in eight weeks.
Fall lesenUpCounsel was days from shutdown when a longtime user bought it to keep it alive
Facing a March 4 closure after years of lawsuits, UpCounsel was bought by Enduring Ventures, a holding firm founded by a former customer.
Fall lesenEmily Kirsch dropped Powerhouse's incubator model and built a $7M cleantech fund instead
Tired of being a landlord to startup tenants, Powerhouse's founder turned the Oakland incubator into a matchmaking firm, then launched a venture fund.
Fall lesenCrunchyroll launched in India at ₹79/month with the world's cheapest anime subscription
Sony-owned anime platform priced Indian subscriptions at 94 cents/month to crack a piracy-dominated market, reaching 46,000 mobile MAU in under two years.
Fall lesenGoogle Flood Hub paired AI flood forecasts with pre-disaster cash aid in Bangladesh
Google's AI flood forecasting enabled GiveDirectly to send cash before floods hit, flipping the humanitarian model from reactive to proactive.
Fall lesenEricsson: Svanberg halved the workforce, cut R&D 85 sites to 25 and returned to profit
After three years and SEK 51B of losses, the new CEO accelerated cost programs, kept the cash from the 2002 rights issue, and banked SEK 19B profit in 2004.
Fall lesenBolt won 60% of Nigeria's ride-hailing market by prioritizing low prices over safety
Bolt entered Nigeria in 2016 and captured 60% market share by subsidizing rides and undercutting rivals, maintaining dominance despite reports of assault
Fall lesenAmazon ran a cricket-style league to retain India gig riders during peak season
Amazon built Delivery Premier League, a 30-day cricket-scored competition for Flex riders, to stop Diwali attrition in India
Fall lesenZestful built perk cards, raised $5M and hit 80% MoM growth
Denver startup eliminated expense reports with purpose-built debit cards, raising $5M and onboarding 100+ companies across 14 countries
Fall lesenUber IPO falls 8.5% as $3B losses expose profitability gap
Uber's 2019 IPO fell 8.5% day one because it lacked the profitability that protected Facebook and Alphabet post-IPO.
Fall lesenShein's absence from retail spawned an unauthorized boutique network in Mexico
Grassroots Mexican women built unauthorized Shein boutiques across low-income areas, turning the e-commerce model into a 60%-margin distribution system
Fall lesenRoblox IPO filing reveals COVID-fueled revenue surge as losses triple
Roblox leveraged pandemic-driven engagement growth to file for a direct listing at a $4B+ valuation, despite losses tripling as user hours surged 171%
Fall lesenEcommurz turned a meme account into Indonesia's most influential tech watchdog
A bored startup worker's meme account became Indonesia's go-to tech gossip platform with 168K followers and mainstream media influence
Fall lesenChipotle's non-equity accelerator traded cash for sustainable food credibility
Chipotle's Cultivate Foundation ran a non-equity accelerator offering mentorship and credibility, with startups valuing long-term partnerships over fast exits
Fall lesenCarrefour: Plassat sold what others valued more and put the group back into growth
The new chairman sold Colombia and Malaysia, franchised Greece and Indonesia, and reinvested the proceeds in French stores — profit tripled in a year.
Fall lesenArgentina prisons authorize cellphones, transforming inmate life during pandemic
Buenos Aires courts authorized cellphones in prisons during COVID-19 lockdowns, turning isolation into connection, education, and digital access for inmates.
Fall lesenHolaCode trains deported Mexicans for high‑pay tech jobs
After US deportation, Fernando Figueroa joined HolaCode, a Mexico City bootcamp that trains return migrants in software engineering for high‑pay jobs.
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