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According to the Verge (Bloomberg first broke the news), OnlyFans, the video-sharing site, will prohibit sexually explicit content in order to attract investors. The change is due to come into effect on October 1st. Now the company has pivoted to safe-for-work material from OnlyFans creators on a new app on iOS and Android called OFTV. Link
Google announced product and policy moves around child safety, controlling what ads they can be shown and creating mechanisms to block abusive behaviour. Link
In the UK, cars are back on the roads. Link
Great analysis of how AirTable which started life marketing itself to consumers as a well-designed place to smartly organize hiking trips and plan grocery shops is has expanded its enterprise sales, support, and services teams from a handful of people to more than 50. Questions still remain about Airtable’s upmarket move and how well their relatively underdetermined positioning—as a no/low-code software builder tool—can be sold into the enterprise. Link
Nigeria's economy may be struggling, but its fintech groups have attracted more than $1bn in venture capital in the past two years. As the coronavirus pandemic hit tech fundraising, Nigerian companies raised $307m in venture funding, a fifth of Africa’s total, according to Partech. Lagos is now Africa’s hottest start-up scene. Much of the investment has gone to companies that provide network or payments services, such as Paystack which was acquired by Stripe for $200m last October. Link