The Gulf’s Lifeline For Egypt Worries Cairo Residents
May 22nd, 2025
Via Semafor, a report on how the Gulf’s lifeline for Egypt is worrying Cairo’s residents: A Dubai-based billionaire’s plans to redevelop downtown Cairo with new streets and skyscrapers — an area akin to his home — is drawing a growing backlash in the Egyptian capital, where residents fear not simply the loss of a historic […]
Read more »North Korea Stole Your Job
May 22nd, 2025
Via Wired, an article on how – for years – North Korea has been secretly placing young IT workers inside Western companies. With AI, their schemes are now more devious—and effective—than ever: On paper, the first candidate looked perfect. Thomas was from rural Tennessee and had studied computer science at the University of Missouri. His re?sume? said he’d […]
Read more »The Taliban’s Cyber Caliphate
May 22nd, 2025
Via Modern Diplomacy, a look at how the digital battleground has become an increasingly critical theatre for modern geopolitical conflicts, and the Taliban’s recent social media campaign targeting the UAE and Saudi Arabia underscores this shift: The digital battleground has become an increasingly critical theatre for modern geopolitical conflicts, and the Taliban’s recent social media […]
Read more »Quantum Qatar
May 22nd, 2025
Via Semafor, a report on Qatar’s $1 billion bet on quantum computing: Qatar plans to pour $1 billion over the next decade into quantum computing, one of the biggest government sponsorships of the technology. A joint venture between US quantum computing company Quantinuum and privately held Qatari investment firm Al Rabban Capital is spearheading the […]
Read more »Starlink’s Pan-African Strategy: Byte by Byte
May 22nd, 2025
Via Semafor, a look at how Starlink is stitching together a pan-African strategy in small bytes: By the time Starlink, the satellite internet provider owned by billionaire Elon Musk’s Space X, bumped up its monthly subscription prices in Nigeria by nearly 50% last week, most observers had been expecting the hike. Nigeria’s regulators blocked Starlink’s […]
Read more »China: The World’s First Electrostate?
May 20th, 2025
Courtesy of The Financial Times, an excellent article with compelling graphs about China’s long march towards national electrification: China could be on its way to becoming the world’s first major “electrostate”, with its electrification rate climbing to 30 per cent, ahead of the EU and US where electricity as a final share of energy has […]
Read more »Focusing primarily on The New Seven Sisters - the largely state owned petroleum companies from the emerging world that have become key players in the oil & gas industry as identified by Carola Hoyos, Chief Energy Correspondent for The Financial Times - but spanning other nascent opportunities around the globe that may hold potential in the years ahead, Wildcats & Black Sheep is a place for the adventurous to contemplate & evaluate the emerging markets of tomorrow.