Millions of Americans deal with mental illness each year, and more than half of them go untreated. As the mental health industry has grown in recent years, so has the number of tech startups offering virtual therapy, which range from online and app-based chatbots to video therapy sessions and messag...

Companies like Tala are at the forefront of the race to deliver rudimentary financial services to the 1.7 billion people on the planet who lack even a bank account. Two years ago, Amylene Dingle lived with her husband and 7-year-old daughter in Payatas, an impoverished Manila neighborhood with th...

Mastercard knows only too well that technology can drive inclusive financial growth with simpler and more efficient ways to do business and life. And Raghu Malhotra, the man spearheading this trajectory in Africa, is also focused on social progress. In many ways, Raghu Malhotra is like the brand ...

Hold, buy or sell – forget oil. One of Africa’s foremost resources is its new media industry, merging technology with the continent’s formidable population, to attain a current worth north of $10bn. At the centre of this remarkable growth in the budding sector is marketing communications: a...

In the past, Ethiopia has been called the Cradle of Mankind, but today it seems Ethiopia is a guiding light for change, shining over all of Africa. As new Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has made incredible moves in gender equality and inclusion with his gender balanced cabinet and appointment of the c...

“As a source of creativity and vitality, our diversity blends harmoniously with our desire to live together, to lay the groundwork for our constant quest for the consolidation of our country’s unity.” – President Paul Biya Many consider Cameroon to be a source of life for Africa due to it...

Bulk Messaging is the dissemination of large numbers of SMS messages for delivery to mobile phone terminals using the internet. You can send SMS to millions of phones around the world with a click of a button. It is used by media companies, enterprises, banks (for marketing and fraud control) and co...

The economy is changing, and so also the way people work. A singular income is not enough, and employees are finding creative, lucrative ways to work for themselves beyond the nine-to-five. A bearded man, wearing a pin-striped grey duckbill cap, stands behind a bar counter. To his right adorni...

While recession fears may be looming in the minds of some, new data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that the economy and job market may actually be strengthening. The quits rate—or the percentage of all employees who quit during a given month—rose to 2.4% in July, according to the B...

As the job market has evolved, so too have the skills required of seekers. But when 75% of human resources professionals say a skills shortage has made recruiting particularly challenging in recent months, it would appear as though the workforce hasn’t quite kept pace. Now LinkedIn is stepping in ...