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Twitter staff must really be wishing for a quiet life… Elon Musk, the gadfly billionaire who recently decided he wants to add the social media platform to his collection of tech firms, has just tweeted that his $43BN bid to buy the company is “on hold pending details supporting calculation that spam/fake accounts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Stock-outs, unpredictable prices of farm produce and a lack of working capital are among the challenges that plague small restaurants and food vendors in emerging markets. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

African payments company Interswitch has secured a $110 million joint investment from LeapFrog Investments and Tana Africa Capital to scale its digital payment services across the continent, the two private investment firms said in a statement Wednesday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

VC firm Educapital recently announced that it has reached the first close of its second fund. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Faye aims to disrupt the travel insurance market by offering a user-friendly platform, covering various aspects of travel, and providing features like alerts and digital claims filing.

Automating customer service tasks, particularly those that require agents to speak with customers on the phone, is something of a holy grail in the enterprise. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Israeli trip-planning app Moovit is integrating with Orlando-based autonomous shuttle startup Beep, which will allow riders to view options for taking Beep shuttles alongside other forms of transit, like buses or trains. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Cloudflare today announced that it’s collaborating with Deno, the development company behind the eponymous Deno runtime, and individual contributors of the Node.js open source project to create standards that enable developers to write code between Deno, Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Atma, an Indonesian startup that wants to make job hunting less painful, announced today it has raised $5 million in pre-seed funding led by AC Ventures, with participation from Global Founders Capital. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Microsoft is throwing its weight behind Epic Games in the fight against Apple — and bringing Fortnite back to iOS in the process. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices