Tech
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Airtel Africa receives $100M for its mobile money business from Mastercard
Two weeks ago, TPG’s Rise Fund invested $200 million in Airtel Mobile Commerce BV (AMC BV) — the mobile money business of...
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Bilibili ups the ante in games with $123 million investment in TapTap
Competition in China’s gaming industry is getting stiffer in recent times as tech giants sniff out potential buyouts and investments to beef...
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Cendana has raised a $30 million ‘fund of funds’ for VCs managing $15 million or less
Cendana Capital, a San Francisco-based fund of funds manager, has amassed stakes in more than 100 venture firms since launching in 2010....
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Spain’s Glovo picks up $528M as Europe’s food delivery market continues to heat up
On the heels of Deliveroo raising more than $2 billion ahead of its debut on the London Stock Exchange this week, another...
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PingPong is a video chat app for product teams working across multiple time zones
From the earliest days of the pandemic, it was no secret that video chat was about to become a very hot space....
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For VC Hans Tung, the personal becomes public in a growing campaign to ‘stop Asian hate’
Longtime venture capitalist Hans Tung is a big guy. His size might just be lifesaving. A first-generation Taiwanese-American who came to the...
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Microsoft gets contract worth up to $22 billion to outfit U.S. Army with 120,000 AR headsets
The killer use case for AR/VR might just be warfare. Today, Microsoft announced that it’s won a contract to outfit the United...
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Facebook says Trump can’t skirt its ban through daughter-in-law’s account
Trump’s daughter-in-law Lara Trump promoted a new interview with the former president on Facebook and Instagram Tuesday, but a workaround to Trump’s...
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444What to make of Deliveroo’s rough IPO debut
Deliveroops. After a lackluster IPO pricing run, shares of Deliveroo are lower today, marking a disappointing debut for the hot delivery company....
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481Hex lands $5.5M seed to help data scientists share data across the company
As companies embrace the use of data, hiring more data scientists, a roadblock persists around sharing that data. It requires too much...