AGP Executive Report
Last update: 7 hours agoSMB & Tourism Boost: Malindi’s low-season economy got a surprise lift from East African festival-goers at Summertides, with queues at fuel stations and supermarkets and heavy use of mobile money. Local Dining Expansion: Lodi’s Jimmy’s opens in the former Pietro’s space, expanding a family Italian restaurant legacy into a Rat Pack-style supper club concept. Tech for Small Businesses (and users): Windows 11 Phone Link users report a serious memory leak tied to Cross Device Service, sometimes consuming tens of GB of RAM and forcing manual process restarts. Hospitality Cost Pressure: Shrewsbury’s BID backs a push to cut hospitality VAT from 20% to 10% and also calls for changes to business rates and VAT registration thresholds to prevent more closures. Cloud + HPC for Industry: Scaleway acquires Qarnot to add high-performance computing capabilities and waste-heat recovery, including a prior partnership with A2A in Brescia. Startup Ecosystem Link-Up: Pakistan signs a Letter of Intent with Plug and Play to bring global acceleration and corporate partnerships, with proposed offices in Islamabad and Karachi.
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