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YC-backed Djamo is building a financial super app for consumers in Francophone Africa
Djamo, a financial super app for consumers in Francophone Africa, is the first startup from Ivory Coast to get backing from Y Combinator. ...
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Ngozi Okonji Iwela emerges the first Black woman to run the world’s top trade official.
The path has been cleared for Nigeria’s Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala to become the first woman and the first African to lead the World Trade Organization ...
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Huawei emerges as Top Employer in Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, others
Huawei Technologies Nigeria has again been recognized as one of the top employers in Nigeria. The company has received the annual Top Employers ...
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China’s central bank is partnering with Swift on a new joint venture
The global interbank settlement organization SWIFT is partnering with the People’s Bank of China (PBOC). SWIFT and PBOC subsidiaries, including the Digital Currency ...
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Applications open for Somaliland female-focused accelerator programme
Somaliland accelerator and investor Innovate Ventures has opened applications for its Women in Business Accelerator, which will culminate with four startups receiving investment ...
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Israel Drops To 7th Spot In 2021 Bloomberg Index Of Innovative Countries
Israel slipped to 7th place in the newest Bloomberg Innovation Index of 2021, dropping one spot from last year’s index where Israel ranked 6th, and ...
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Jesse Draper of Halogen Ventures Closes $21 Million Fund to Invest in the Next Generation of Billion Dollar Businesses Run by Women
Jesse Draper’s venture capital fund focused on early stage consumer technology startups with a female in the founding team, has closed a second ...
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NatWest to convert all debit cards to Mastercard
NatWest is to convert all of its debit cards to Mastercard, giving the card scheme a massive leg-up in its efforts to break ...
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Leadspace raises $46 million to bring big data insights to B2B Sales
Leadspace offers a customer data platform (CDP) that uses AI and big data to help sales and marketing teams build rich B2B customer profiles ...
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China’s blockchain service network announces Cosmos integration
Blockchain-based Service Network, China’s blockchain infrastructure project has announced that it has adapted Cosmos (ATOM) to its Chinese network. The Chinese BSN, unlike ...