Mastercard & MTN Group Fintech Expand Mobile Money in Africa
Mastercard and MTN Group Fintech have entered a multi-market agreement aimed at fostering a new era of collaboration to provide millions of individuals and small businesses across Africa with digital tools for secure mobile payments. This initiative seeks to expand access to the benefits of a cashless digital economy. Under
Read moreMeta’s Zuckerberg woos big tech in Asia to double down on AI chips
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who is touring Asia countries this week, said in a meeting with South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol on Thursday that Meta wants to beef up its cooperation with Samsung Electronics for AI chips to offset geopolitical risk issue in Taiwan, where TSMC, the world’s biggest
Read moreEx-Meta employees’ Aptos tests Hong Kong’s crypto appetite
Ever since Hong Kong legalized cryptocurrency trading last June, blockchain projects from the West have been paying more attention to the Asian financial hub. Aptos, the a16z-backed blockchain networka16z- and Tiger Global-backed blockchain network developed by a group of former Meta employees, is one of them. Started by some of
Read moreWhat measures can you take to strengthen your data security and defend against cyberthreats?
As cyberthreats surge and data gains greater value, South Africa’s regulatory landscape is evolving, compelling businesses to prioritize data security and privacy. Compliance is crucial, but so are business continuity, cost management, and competitiveness. A comprehensive approach to data protection is vital, necessitating a proactive stance and leveraging advanced technologies
Read moreSilence Laboratories, a cryptographic security startup, secures funding
Silence Laboratories, a startup that builds infrastructure using multiparty computation (MPC) to help enterprises keep data private and safe, said it has raised a $4.1 million funding round. Pi Ventures and Kira Studio co-led the recent funding, which brings its total raised to $6 million, along with angel investors. The startup will
Read moreBfree, a Nigerian startup enabling lenders recover debt ethically, gets $3M backing
Bfree, a tech-enabled debt collection startup based in Nigeria, was founded to automate and introduce ethical debt recovery processes after its founders witnessed the use and adverse effects of aggressive retrieval techniques, such as incessant calling and debt-shaming, by predatory digital lenders. After its launch in 2020, the startup introduced
Read moreMastodon users can now share their profile via QR code on Android
Decentralized social network Mastodon has updated its official app for Android to let users easily share their profiles with QR Codes. This could be useful in loud places like event and hotel lobbies to exchange profiles, the company said in a blog post. To share the QR code, users can
Read moreMeta’s ‘consent or pay’ data grab in EU faces fresh charges of privacy coercion
A controversial move by Meta last year, when it switched to charging users in the Europe Union for an ad-free subscription for access Facebook and/or Instagram unless they agreed to be tracked and profiled so it could keep running its attention-mining microtargeting ad business, has triggered a set of complaints
Read moreReliance-Disney India media merger to control 85% of streaming, half of TV audience
The merger of Indian media assets of Reliance, its portfolio Viacom18 and Disney will create an entity that captures 85% of the country’s on-demand streaming service audience and about half of the TV viewers, analysts said, posing bigger challenges to Netflix, Amazon’s Prime Video, Apple, Sony and Zee. The merger,
Read moreOpenCTI maker Filigran raises $16 million for its cybersecurity threat management suite
Paris-based cybersecurity startup Filigran is capitalizing on the success of OpenCTI to build a suite of open-source threat management products. The company has already found some early traction with OpenCTI, its open-source threat intelligence platform. That’s why the company recently raised €15 million (around $16 million at today’s exchange rate)
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