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Digital banking startup Revolut raises $250M at a valuation of $1.7B
Revolut, the London-based fintech that offers a digital banking account and sprawling set of other financial services, is disclosing that
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Y Combinator is going after Chinese startups with its first official event in China
High-profile U.S. startup accelerator Y Combinator is making a push to bring more China-based startups into its program after it
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Nigeria wants 2 positions at the International Telecommunication Union
Nigeria has its eyes on two positions on theInternational Telecommunication Union’s (ITU) Administrative Council as revealed by the Executive Vice
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Globacom taps Huawei for new submarine optic fiber cable
A formal contract signing ceremony has been held to herald the second submarine optic fiber project by telecoms giant Globacom
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Samsung Galaxy A7 (2017) starts getting Oreo update
Yet another Samsung smartphone has started getting the Oreo update. The device in question is the Galaxy A7 (2017), and
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Early Go-Jek investor NSI Ventures goes independent and rebrands to Openspace
NSI Ventures, the Singapore-based VC firm affiliated with PE firm Northstar Group that invested early in ride-sharing unicorn Go-Jek, is going
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Gmail for Android getting 'snooze' and 'mark unread from here' features
Google just gave Gmail's web UI a major revamp. And now, it's coming to light that the service's Android app
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Business solutions firm Africa’s Talking closes $8.6M round led by IFC
African VC TLcom Capital invests $5M in Nigerian data analytics firm Terragon Group Business APIs in Africa are getting a
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In the age of Cambridge Analytica what are reasonable data norms?
Sameer Noorani is a serial entrepreneur currently working on a stealth startup. His previous startups include: Roomvine, Hoodere and RoundOnefight. Things really escalated quickly
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Allegro.AI nabs $11M for a platform that helps businesses build computer vision-based services
Artificial intelligence and the application of it across nearly every aspect of our lives is shaping up to be one
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China-based online education companies just launched an aggressive hiring spree in search of U.S. teachers
Teachers have long supplemented their incomes by tutoring. And there’s perhaps never been a better, or easier, time to do
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How Microsoft helped imprison a man for ‘counterfeiting’ software it gives away for free
In a sickening concession to bad copyright law and Microsoft’s bottom line over basic technical truths and common sense, Eric
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Acorns launches retirement account product to expand beyond retail investing
Acorns, the mobile service that’s providing a gateway to investing in the stock market, has completed the master plan it
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Usalama Technologies enabling quick and easy access to emergency services
Usalama Technologies, a mobile based platform that links its users to emergency service providers while providing access to real time
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Adtech company BuySellAds acquires Digg
It looks like Digg has found a new owner: digital advertising company BuySellAds, which has acquired a majority stake in the
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Rookout raises $4.2M for its rapid production debugging platform
Few people get into coding because they enjoy debugging, but since there’s no such thing as perfect code, issues inevitably
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Egypt mass transit app SWVL Raises $8 Million In Series A Funding
SWVL, Egyptian app-based mass transit system just raised $8 million in Series A funding, setting a new record for the largest
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Opera announces Opera Touch, a new mobile browser designed for one-handed use
Opera has released a new web browser for Android, the Opera Touch. The browser is designed around one-handed use and
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Moto E5 Play Specs and Price
Coming to the most affordable of the E5 models, suitable for buyers on a tight budget. The smartphone doesn’t have
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Funding Your Startup Business: Should You Go Creative To Raise Money For Your Venture?
Africa’s ever-expanding tech movement is gaining momentum as it was reported that 2017 was the best year so far
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The FDA is cracking down on Juul e-cig sales to minors
The FDA has its eye on Juul Labs, the e-cigarette company that has captured nearly half of the $2 billion
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Moto E5 Plus Specs and Price
Introducing the best of the E5-series recently unveiled by Motorola in the launch event held in Brazil. Unarguably, the Moto
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Facebook warns GDPR could flatten or reduce European user count
Europe’s sweeping privacy law GDPR goes into effect May 25th, and Facebook is being forced to push users through new
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Facebook’s Internet.org has connected almost 100M to the “Internet”
Facebook is getting the developing world online, even as the developed world criticizes its privacy practices. Mark Zuckerberg said today
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Moto E5 Specs and Price
Motorola added to the E-series in its latest release event in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The Moto E5-series unveiled comprises of
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PayPal shares tick up after surpassing expectations for the quarter
PayPal reported its first-quarter results after the bell on Wednesday, sending shares up about 3 percent in after-hours trading, due
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Google releases new standalone app for Google Tasks
Alongside a revamped Gmail, Google also launched a new standalone app for Google Tasks, a web service that was previously
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Ford to stop selling every car in North America but the Mustang and Focus Active
Ford today announced it will phase out most cars it sells in North America. According to its latest financial release,
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Will Elon Musk give us the cyborg dragon we want, or the one we need?
It’s 2018. We need a stupid cyborg dragon. You know it, I know it. But only one borderline super villain
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Qualcomm delivers a better-than-expected second quarter amid its chaotic year
Fresh off a massive cascading series of fiascos that has thrown the future of Qualcomm into doubt, the company managed
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Facebook beats in Q1 and boosts daily user growth to 1.45B amidst backlash
Amongst massive criticism over data privacy, Facebook showed the resiliency of its advertising machine by beating Wall Street’s $11.41 billion
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Moto Z3 Play shows off dual rear cameras and 18:9 screen in leaked press render
The Moto Z3 Play will be the first in the series to employ a tall 18:9 touchscreen, according to past
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Dolo delivers on the Foursquare prophecy of hyper-local tips
Dolo is the kindness of strangers as an app. Where’s the prettiest place in the park? What’s the best thing
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Alexa integration comes to Meural Canvas letting you use your voice to navigate the art world
Alexa can do just about everything if you ask it the right question in the right way. Today, it’s gaining
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For the first time, parents can limit YouTube Kids to human-reviewed videos and recommendations
To address parents’ concerns over inappropriate content on YouTube being seen by children, Google today is announcing an expanded series
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OnePlus 6 leaks in new renders showing its front and rear, Super Slo Mo video capture outed too
OnePlus has been teasing its next smartphone for weeks now, and the OnePlus 6 is set to finally become official
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Netflix picks up ‘Follow This’, a weekly series about BuzzFeed reporters
Netflix and BuzzFeed News are teaming up for a 20-episode documentary series called Follow This. According to Variety, the show
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Nokia 6 (2018) review
Introduction Nowadays, most smartphones are sequels to once successful headliners and, in an unsurprising turn of events, HMD opted to
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Awesome Ways to Speed up WordPress Site
WordPress site too slow? Are you losing visitors as a result? Maybe what you need is a plugin that will
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Microsoft’s Azure Container Instances are now generally available
If you wanted to play modern software development buzzword bingo, talking about Azure Container Instances (ACI) would surely help you
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Best Android Phones under #90,000
If you have gone through our offerings in the entry-level market (phones under #20,000 and #30,000), considered what we put
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Amazon's new Echo Dot Kids Edition is a more expensive Dot with parental controls
Amazon is revamping its Echo Dot speaker to entice parents with its new child-friendly Kids Edition. The Echo Dot Kids
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Rocketrip raises $15 million to reward cost-saving employees
If your company lets you expense the nicest hotel when you travel, why wouldn’t you? But what if you got
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Netflix has a lot of original content coming in May
Get outside and enjoy the next few days of spring while you still can, because Netflix has plans to keep
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Gfycat ramps up its focus on game clips and highlights as it hits 180M monthly users
Gfycat is already a pretty popular host for lots of content like short clips from shows and movies, but there’s
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Google announces big Gmail update with redesigned UI and new security features
Google has revealed the brand new version of Gmail, which comes with more than just visual changes. There are dramatic
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Check out these amazing demos at TC Sessions: Robotics May 11 at UC Berkeley
We’re a mere two and a half weeks out from TC Sessions: Robotics, and we couldn’t be more excited. We’ve
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The DOJ is investigating potential Huawei violations of Iran sanctions
Another shoe, so to speak, may be about to drop for Huawei. According to new reporting from The Wall Street
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Didi appoints one of its execs to lead ride-hailing service 99
Didi, the Chinese transportation behemoth that acquired Brazilian ride-hailing service 99 back in January, has replaced 99’s chief executive with one
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Zume looks to life beyond pizza
Launch a fleet of robotic pizza vans and you’re going to get painted as the robotic pizza company. It’s a