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Tinvo, based in Singapore, raises $12 million in a Series A round to develop financial services for supply chain merchants Tinvio was founded to provide a streamlined method for supply chain merchants to communicate with buyers. The company is now preparing to launch financial services, including financing and credit card issuing. The Singapore-based startup announced today the close of a $12 million Series A round to further develop its business-to-business transactions platform. The round was.

Reasons why Nigerian Government is creating its own digital currency — what are the benefits? The emergence of digital currencies has transformed the global financial ecosystem over the last decade. Cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum have exploded in popularity as a substitute for fiat currencies, resulting in unprecedented global adoption. The meteoric rise of cryptocurrencies elicited hostile responses and responses from regulatory authorities worldwide. Numerous governments.

Netflix is considering adding video games to its streaming library in the coming year Netflix may expand beyond the best movies and television shows in the next year to include video games in its catalog, according to a new Bloomberg report. The company has hired a former EA and Facebook executive to execute the plan. Netflix will treat games as a distinct genre of content, similar to how it treated documentaries and other genres. It is unknown whether the streaming company will offer existing.

Flymachine raises $21 million to develop a platform for virtual concerts in a post-pandemic world As concerts and live events return to the physical world on a national scale, many in the technology industry have wondered whether some of the pandemic-era opportunities for virtualizing these events have been lost for the foreseeable future. Flymachine, based in San Francisco, is on a mission to discover the digital music industry's holy grail: a way to capture some of the magic of live concerts.

Amazon reportedly worked on an Alexa wearable for kids The company has experimented with an Alexa-enabled wearable for children, according to Bloomberg, as a new way of ingratiating itself into your life and the lives of your loved ones. According to documents obtained by Bloomberg, the device was considered for inclusion in Amazon's 2020 product roadmap, and it would have added to the company's growing lineup of technology products geared toward children. The $99 wearable, codenamed "Seeker,".

5 ways to attract the right customers for your online business Have you ever wondered why ants gravitate toward honey or why magnets gravitate toward metal? Or, in less figurative terms, a business's paying customers? If so, you are not alone. Pricing, aesthetics, and occasionally certain nuances all contribute to a person reaching for their wallet to pay for a good(s) or service (s). However, just as ants congregate around honey rather than gall, and magnets gravitate toward metal rather tha.

3 years after raising $7m in Initial Coin Offering, where is SureRemit today? By the end of 2017, blockchain and cryptocurrency had established themselves as significant technology fields in Africa. The years that followed saw a massive increase in the number of players and an increase in investment. SureRemit was one of the pioneers in figuring out how to use technology for good. The company began utilizing blockchain technology in order to lower the cost of sending money to Africa. SureRemi.

Africa is set to welcome another major cryptocurrency platform and here is all we know We are constantly on the lookout for significant advancements in Africa's technology ecosystem. Recently, we've begun to hear rumblings about a possible disruption in Africa's project financing. According to information filtering out, a major African brand operating in the mobility and logistics sectors may be nearing completion of a collaboration with a group of international partners to develop and launch .

Cadoo receives $1.5 million to gamify fitness through wagering challenges Cadoo, a US-based startup that gamifies fitness by transforming it into a betting opportunity, using the prospect of winning (or losing) real money to motivate people to get off the couch, has raised $1.5 million in seed funding from Sam & Max Altman's Apollo Ventures and the student-focused Dorm Room Fund. Although the app has been around since 2018, it launched a "challenge model" in March 2020 that allows users to.

Masten Space Systems is developing a moon-based GPS-like network Masten Space Systems, a startup aiming to send a lander to the moon in 2023, is developing a lunar navigation and positioning system similar to that used on Earth. Masten is developing the prototype as part of a contract with the Air Force Research Laboratory's AFWERX program. Once deployed, it will be the first off-world navigation system of its kind. Until now, spacecraft bound for the moon have been required to carry equipmen.