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It’s still unclear whether the African Union can deliver a continental passport, which would allow visa-free travel between member countries, this year.

The potential economic impact is huge as intra-African travel continues to lag the world.
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The 2015 Super Bowl holds the record for the biggest audience for a single-network broadcast in US history.
The only thing to pull in more viewers? The Apollo 11 moon landing. But that was aired simultaneously across several networks.
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The iPhone 11 has breathed life back into Apple in India.
The company had its best quarter yet in India in Q4 of 2019, shipping close to 925,000 iPhones.
That's 200% YoY growth. Not bad for a brand that was posting negative growth a year ago. http://ow.ly/ty4650y8Zba pic.twitter.com/ZgMqtkFCJj
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The volume of trade between Africa and China means the continent is on high alert for a coronavirus outbreak. Quartz pro +
@AfDB_Group VP Jennifer Blanke thinks an "economic contagion" can only be avoided with "excellent crisis management." Read more: http://ow.ly/s6vK50y90Vq pic.twitter.com/JiT2HaaKAo
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As many Americans ditch traditional TV plans for streaming services, one thing hasn’t changed: The NFL is still a very popular television product.

For the second straight year, ratings for the NFL grew—but declined for almost everything else.
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And mentions of “uncertainty” in Economist Intelligence Unit reports have spiked.
All this uncertainty does carry at least some cost.
Brexit uncertainty "is estimated to have gradually reduced investment by about 11% over the three years following the June 2016 vote." 
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If you had to describe the state of the economy in an emoji, it’d be:
No one is sure what will happen in 2020, partly because of all the looming political uncertainty. There’s the trade war, the US election, Brexit (still), and global protests—and that’s the short list.pic.twitter.com/ludfpMdNHB
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The curtain closed on 2019 with the global economy seeming, somewhat improbably, pretty much okay. Will 2020 be equally dramatic? Will it, too, have an upbeat ending? Our latest field guide tackles this year's biggest risks to the global economy. http://ow.ly/WlpW50y6pBP pic.twitter.com/6J6c4S7C6O
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"We have this terrible situation in which people are raising babies and little children on their own." Quartz's
@BelleTimsit visited Finland's family cafés to see how they're helping locals navigate one of modern parenting's biggest challenges.
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We all hit the same pitfalls when gauging risk. We underestimate it, overestimate it, and misunderstand key information. https://bit.ly/2NSsVG4 pic.twitter.com/1haQnamSxP
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These are just some of the Nigerian English words and phrases being added to the Oxford English Dictionary. The dictionary says Nigerians “have made, and are continuing to make, a unique and distinctive contribution" to the English language.


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Over the course of a year, an amateur hacker exacted wicked revenge on his ex-girlfriend, manipulating the justice system and confounding police. Quartz pro
@KathyGongXS shares her thoughts on this alarming story—and recalls her own personal experience. http://ow.ly/nYp350y5ApJ pic.twitter.com/2wV4FBkg7X
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@KathyGongXS joins the discussion on this week's field guide about the gaming industry. https://qz.com/co/2894335/ pic.twitter.com/qjZomOuJIC
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As for the next generation of gamers, a lot of gaming’s growth will be in Asia. PWC predicts that China will, or possibly already has, overtaken the US as the largest video game market globally.
Read more: https://qz.com/1787169/how-the-gaming-industry-is-changing-across-the-world/ …pic.twitter.com/ayFzQKbt8p
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The gaming industry is now larger than the film industry, by some measures.

Our life today is far more gamified than you likely recognize, and in the future, it will be even more so.
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According to German psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer, most of us are bad at knowing when to take risks. But that can change. Learn exactly how to change that in the season premiere of Quartz’s new series RISK: https://bit.ly/2NSsVG4 pic.twitter.com/17yoXLKfJI
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Microsoft has given us a glimpse of a carbon-negative future. http://ow.ly/7Jaz30qbyFW pic.twitter.com/rdHusUwTV7
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Netflix is increasingly a story of two different companies.
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The streaming service has hit a wall in the US, according to its Q4 earnings report.
However, it added 8.8 million subscribers worldwide, easily beating its own projections.
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Since 2020 is seen as the start of a new decade, Brookings Institution’s annual Foresight Africa report looked at the average economic growth forecasts for the next five years till 2024. There's more good news for Senegal, Rwanda, Niger, Uganda, and Mozambique.pic.twitter.com/HdY2eNHoC7
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Prediction: 2020 will be a good year for Africa.
Last year, the continent had some of world’s fastest-growing economies and the coming year won’t be very different.pic.twitter.com/87MdouHnkV
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