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Bolt raises $714 million in its largest funding round to support business expansion and scaling Bolt, a ride-hailing company, has announced a $714 million funding round, which the company describes as its largest to date. Sequoia Capital and Fidelity Management and Research Company LLC led the round, which was also participated in by Whale Rock, Owl Rock, D1, G Squared, Tekne, and Ghisallo. The additional funding comes four months after the company raised €600 million in a Series E round.

Binti, a film produced entirely by women, has become Tanzania's first-ever Netflix release Netflix, the world's largest movie streaming service, has premiered Binti as Tanzania's first-ever Netflix film. Black Unicorn, a production company founded by two sisters, Angela and Alinda Ruhinda, produced the film. Binti, directed by Seko Shamte, won the Zanzibar International Film Festival's Best Feature award. Binti, which translates as 'young women' in Swahili, follows four women as they navigate.

TooNFT, a Blockchain-based Webtoon Platform, Debuts on Toomics Ecosystem  Anyone who has been following the world of NFTs (non-fungible tokens) knows that investors adore cartoon-themed projects. Whether it's hugely popular canine-themed cryptocurrencies like Dogecoin (DOGE) and Shiba Inu (SHIB), or even well-known NFT collections like The Bored Ape Yacht Club (TBAYC), the fact remains that toons continue to play a significant role in modern investing. With that said, 'TooNFT,' a blockcha.

Raspberry Pi Can Detect Malware by Scanning for Electromagnetic Waves The world's largest companies are grappling with an increase in the frequency and sophistication of malware attacks, but an intriguing new malware detection technique may help businesses ward off these threats without the use of any software. A research team at France's Research Institute of Computer Science and Random Systems developed an anti-malware system based on a Raspberry Pi that scans devices for electromagnetic wav.

Legendary Billionaire Investor Reveals Massive Bitcoin Bet As Ethereum, BNB, Solana, Cardano, And XRP Prices Suddenly Soar Bitcoin and cryptocurrency prices have recovered following a sell-off that wiped out nearly $1 trillion from the combined crypto market — and after one closely watched investor predicted the market's bottom. The bitcoin price, which fell below $40,000 per bitcoin for the first time since September this week, has since risen to around $43,000—a gain of 5% in the.

Standard Chartered's intended to close half of its physical branches Standard Chartered Plc has announced plans to close approximately half of its branches in Nigeria as part of a push to focus exclusively on digital banking. The company, which initially had 25 branches throughout Nigeria, had begun streamlining its physical locations to a total of 13, five of which would be in Lagos. According to a source who spoke to Technext, the company initiated this review on December 16 last year in an.

Microtraction announces its first deal of the year, an investment in fintech startup Pivo Microtraction, a venture capital firm, has announced an investment in Pivo, a startup that provides credit-focused financial services to supply chain SME players. This investment comes months after the company announced its final investment for the year 2021, a stake in Honeycoin. Microtraction, whose long-term goal is to accelerate Africa's transition to a sustainable and developed economy, did not disc.

Africa's early-stage technology startups can now apply for the Google for Startups accelerator African early-stage technology startups developing solutions to the continent's problems can now apply to the Google for Startups Accelerator program. The Google for Startups Accelerator Africa is a three-month program for seed to Series A technology startups located throughout Africa. The program aims to bring the best of Google's programs, products, people, and technology to startups that are alrea.

Laptops or Desktop Computer: What to Look in For Gaming? Top-end performing laptops or desktops provide great experiences for gamers. They are able to grasp the desired thrill and adrenaline rush while gaming. Whether to depend on present-day gaming desktops or contemporary laptops is something that gamers find a difficult decision to make.  Laptop manufacturers have innovated high-performance graphic processing unit resolution, keeping up with the growing needs in the gaming market. Th.

Tumblr now includes a sensitive content toggle on iOS in accordance with App Store guidelines Tumblr hid search results for a variety of tags on iOS for weeks in order to adhere to the App Store's guidelines. Tumblr is attempting to address the issue today by rolling out a sensitive content toggle for its iOS app that allows users to opt-in to seeing sensitive content. (By default, the toggle prevents you from viewing sensitive content.) When you search for a sensitive tag — for example,.