President Barack Obama has the highest followers on Twitter

Technology is expanding the frontiers and boundaries of business and political governance. During the 'Obama years', his face or messages appeared in 2 of every 4 Americans.

Today,  former President Barack Obama has topped the list of 'highest person with twitter followers', with over one hundred and eight million (108,787,220) followers. Meaning that with a piece of technology, the flexibility of solving problems 'have been solved'.

At the heels of Google, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, comes out other services aided by technology like Fintech, age-tech etc. KPMG reported that "global investments in Fintech remained steady at over $31b, year-overyear,and that "Nigeria has over 50 fintech start-ups that make up the fintech ecosystem with investment exceeding $200 million between 2014 and 2015. While the volumes of transaction keep growing, the likes systemSpec's Remita, Interswitch, Paystack are leading the space." Remita alone processes over $30 billion worth of transactions annually. Interswitch recorded payment transactions of $2.4b in 2014.

Dominic Endicott, a venture capitalist and partner at Nauta capital had said that "back in 2007, digital innovation in the $14 Trillion global financial services industry was limited, and the term “Fin-Tech” was used by perhaps a hand-full of entrepreneurs and investors. Today, it is an established term, and fin-tech venture capital investment surpassed $27 Billion in 2017 . “Age-Tech” today is similarly in use by a sub-culture of investors, entrepreneurs, corporations and social-impact groups, and the state of digital innovation in the aging economy is comparable to that in financial services in 2007. I would suggest that “Age-Tech” is about digitally-enabling the Longevity economy. We can think of 4 categories of digital-enablement in Age-Tech: services purchased by older people; services purchased on behalf of older people; services traded between older and younger people; and services delivered to future older people."

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