The round was led by Africa-focused fund 4DX Ventures and UAE-based venture capital firms Nuwa Capital and Shorooq Partners . Other participating investors include Al Faisaliah Group and Samurai Incubate. According to its founders, this pre-seed investment will allow the company to further expand in the country and lay the foundation for entry into the Middle East and sub-Saharan Africa. El Daly company’s founder and president told TechCrunch. “Many things have changed within the ecosystem over the past decade in the space....

The closing of Endeavor Catalyst Fund IV represents Endeavor’s largest fund to date, surpassing the fund’s initial $200M-$250M target. It also brings Endeavor Catalyst’s total assets under management up to $500M+. “The quality of entrepreneurial talent today across the 40+ markets where Endeavor operates is the highest we’ve ever seen, and we can’t wait to invest more in these places,” said Allen Taylor, Managing Partner, Endeavor Catalyst. The community of Limited Partners (“LPs”) behind Endeavor Catalyst IV includes iconic founders like Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn), Marcin Żukowski (Snowflake), and Kevin Ryan (DoubleClick, MongoDB), as well as more than 100+ of Endeavor’s own entrepreneurs....

The company’s seed round was led by Seedstars Africa Ventures with participation from Persistent Energy, Kepple Africa Ventures, Factor[e] and Oridun Capital Management. Maxime Bouan, managing partner at Seedstars Africa Ventures, said, “As a society, we have recognized climate change as one of the biggest threats to our generation, and it is critical we use smart capital to support entrepreneurs across Africa who are creating innovative and localized solutions to tackle this challenge....

ETC is the native token of Ethereum Classic, a blockchain project that was formed in 2016 when Ethereum’s network was broken into two due to a group debate. For a long time, Ethereum Classic was mostly overlooked by the public. Investors thought that Ethereum is better than Ethereum Classic however, in early 2021, the crypto sector had a slowdown, and the price of the Ethereum Classic currency began to rise again....

Cooperative Bank of Oromia, CBO (S.C.) began operations in 2005 and now serves over 2.4 million customers, with a total of 283 branches and sub-branches in Ethiopia. The bank needed a core banking system that would provide a competitive edge as it enhanced services to expand in the growing market. They tapped IBM solutions to efficiently accommodate their growing customer portfolio and meet plans to increase their branches by 25% each year....

Justin Lin filmed movies three through six in the franchise and then took a break before returning to film movie number nine. He is credited for transitioning from the original tuner and street racing scenes to the current action format. He is also the man behind writing the initial script for the new movie together with Dan Mazeau. Just recently, he shot a video with Vin Diesel about how Fast X movie is “the beginning of an epic end” Lin’s exit was reportedly due to “creative differences,” although the split has also been described as “amicable”....

The levels of enquiries and activity increased which combined with landlords becoming more flexible allowed for discounted rents and lease concessions such as rent-free periods ensuring improved levels of take up as they bid to attract and retain new occupiers. This increased office market activity has underscored the ‘flight to quality’ trend with businesses taking advantage of more affordable rental levels plus the chance to occupy better quality office accommodation with improved facilities placing employee wellbeing at the forefront....

What if you’re making breakfast in the morning and need to know if you have enough time to drop off the dry-cleaning before work? On your Alexa device, you can say, “Alexa, open Cortana,” and ask when your first meeting is. If you won’t have enough time, simply ask Alexa to open Cortana again and set a reminder for the end of your workday to drop off the clothes. This collaboration will make the two companies a force to reckon with in the race of voice assistants....

The company chose the underpromising and overdelivering route unlike Tesla which dials everything to eleven right from the announcement. The new changes aren’t huge but they are enough to sway a customer who is on the fence. The Lightning with the standard range battery was targeted to have 426 horsepower, but it will now offer 452. The extended range model was going to come with 563hp, but Ford says it’ll ship with 580hp instead....

The funding will be used to acquire a Payment and Financial Technology Service Providers (PFTSP) license in Ghana. It will also be used to build and set up new products including BezoCredit, an interest-free credit product and BezoInvest, an investment product. BezoInvest will be a platform that users can invest their savings. This funding will also serve to grow BezoMoney user base and expand its team and scale and across the country....

Global Shapers Community, Lagos, has been implementing the Project Digiterate programme for the past four years. Project Digiterate is an initiative that empowers and equips youths in underserved communities aged between 15 and 35 with critical digital and technology skills. The year 2022 marks five years of Project Digiterate, and HP Life has completed a partnership agreement with the Global Shapers Community, Lagos, to boost the impact of the initiative and empower more youths....

Glovo’s investment comes Mubadala €400 million fund set aside to invest in leading European tech companies. The firm joins the unicorn club with the close of this round, making it only the second privately held business in Spain to surpass a $1billion valuation. The everything delivery app- from food to groceries and drinks —raised €150M in April, SoftBank invested in the firm a few months ago and it also raised $134M in Series C in mid-2018 bringing the total raised to around $490 million....

The final copy of Google’s next operating system is expected to be dispatched in the early weeks of this coming October. One of the desired features from Android 12 is the Material You interface that permits the Pixel smartphones to download a series of wallpapers unswervingly in the App. Google has consistently been on the verge of making Sure that its applications stay updated with its latest OS version. It started with the Google Contacts, Google Messages, Google Chrome and now Google Calendar app that benefits from a narrower redesign, as spotted by Android Police The compatibility of Google’s calendar application with the Material You interface is refined....

Funny thing is that the real date when Google was founded remains something of a mystery that even the company admits it does not know exactly when it began. The search engine was founded in September 1998 by two Ph.D. students, Larry Page, and Sergey Brin, in their dormitories at California’s Stanford University. And Google usually marks its birthday on September 27 each year. Although without much explanation, Google’s birth date has changed over the years....

You’ll have noted that even though Microsoft isn’t mentioned here, we are talking about GAFAM in the headline. Let’s say instead that Google is the “GAFAT” member that is the most greedy. The apple brand’s ideology is related to the last spot on the podium. The statement “Respect for privacy is a fundamental right, and it is one of Apple’s core values” is used to introduce the company’s privacy policies....

This year in August, the Californian giant gave us a glimpse of its first SoC for thy smartphones. Named Tensor, this processor was developed in partnership with Samsung and is expected to be seen on the Pixel 6 Pro and the Pixel 6. The mountain view firm seems not to be slowing down even a little bit. Google on its following Chips but not for its smartphones As per Nikkei Asia’s words, he describes the processors as having cross-checked the information from three different sources....

The rollout is expected to take about a week to reach all Pixel Buds Pro devices. Installation takes the devices to version 3.14. A user has to ensure make the Pixel Buds app on their phone is version 1.0.474476083 or up to date to get the update. The feature obtained from stalling the new update include a five-band custom EQ to play preferred audio, and six presets tuned by Google’s audio engineers, in case you want to find a good setting quickly....

In this month’s International Micro, Small, and Medium-sized Businesses (SMBs) Day celebration, the development was made public. In order to create an online professional certificate program in digital marketing and e-commerce that is aimed at small and medium-sized businesses, Google announced a partnership with Coursera, a provider of free online courses (SMEs). The certificate program is the most recent in a line of programs designed to get participants ready for entry-level work....

The move is important because cyber-attacks are on the rise. The new chrome with better password protection will ensure a streamlined flow or work. In 2018, the worldwide spending on Cybersecurity approximated to $114 billion an increase of 12.4 per cent from 2017 according to Cybersecurity Ventures market Report 2019. However, the figures are gradually growing with businesses as the biggest targets of spending on Cybersecurity. For instance, The largest cybersecurity budgets belong to Fortune 500 corporations, with financial institutions seemingly having the deepest pockets....

The firm’s executives are sensitive to the fact that most parents are cautious about allowing their children access YouTube due to fears that they will be faced with expletive-laden comments or X-rated pop videos. According to a report given by the Wall Street Journal, a new child-friendly version would possibly have a Google dashboard to provide parents larger control over what their young ones are doing online. Google however declined to comment on the claims....