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https://www.ft.com/content/80e6939d-d085-499d-ac9d-3ac6386b69c1

Airbnb reported strong quarterly earnings and said tourists from places with higher vaccination rates were “driving the travel recovery”, and ​​employees are taking sensitive computer code from their companies at three times the rate they were a year ago. Plus, the FT’s Africa editor David Pilling and McKinsey & Company partner Topsy Kola-Oyeneyin discuss the growth of financial technology start-ups in Africa. 

Airbnb benefits from ‘travel recovery’ as bookings and revenue grow

https://www.ft.com/content/fd8f8621-cac4-4bff-a082-9a74d1cbec15

Disney outpaces streaming rivals as it doubles subscribers in a year

https://www.ft.com/content/9b705a6f-35f6-49cf-883b-0581fbf5ab48

Workers increasingly steal company data during ‘turnover tsunami, with San Francisco correspondent Hannah Murphy 

https://www.ft.com/content/a7a2b5c4-1653-4364-84c1-c322c5b56745

African start-ups attract international investors — but need local ones too, with Africa editor David Pilling 

https://www.ft.com/content/566fc2a5-6df4-4145-8157-99d4eb8da4c1

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