It started withCTIA Wirelessin Orlando Florida. It will continue for the next 45 days through Techstars in Boulder, Colorado. What is it? 4 trips and 3 countries in 60 days, all for the love of what we do here atThe Next Web. While some people count out precisely how many pairs of socks and underwear to take with them on a trip, I’ve never found that to be a challenge. For me, the moment of panic sets in when I realize that I’ve left a charging cable or a memory card at home....

With the success of Safaricom’s mobile money service,M-Pesain Kenya, analysts have looked to other African countries as potential mobile money success stories. A key market with potential is Nigeria. With over 90 million cellular phone subscribers in the country, it is Africa’s largest mobile phone market and is one of the fastest growing mobile markets in the world. Currently only 20 million Nigerians out of the nation’s 150 million citizens have bank accounts....

If you’ve been using Facebook Insights to try to get an idea about what is happening with your Facebook page, you’re likely seeing some interesting results. Unfortunately, you’re also probably completely confused by what Insights is telling you. PageLeveris a Y Combinator-backed startup that is turning the world of Facebook analytics upside down. Since it requires access to your page from anyone who is a page administrator, it can pull deeper, more meaningful data and it can tell you information about that data that you’ve never seen before....

The dramatic rise of online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic has spotlit concerns about the role of technology inexam surveillance— and alsoin student cheating. Some universities have reportedmore cheatingduring the pandemic, and such concerns are unfolding in a climate wheretechnologies that allow for the automation of writingcontinue to improve. Over the past two years,the ability of artificial intelligenceto generate writing has leapedforward significantly, particularly with the development of what’s known as the language generator GPT-3....

Android users in the Middle East can finally get their hands on paid apps from the Android Market now that Google has added the feature for 10 MENA countries. If you’re an Android smartphone owner residing in Algeria, Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Tunisia, and Yemen then you can purchase paid apps from the market. Other MENA countries, stand in line for the next update reportedSaudiMac yesterday. What is shocking about this upgrade is the fact the three largest online countries in terms of mobile and Internet usage haven’t been included yet, them being Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, and Egypt....