Blackboard founder transforms Zoom add-on designed for teachers into business tool
When Class founder Michael Chasen was in college, he and a buddy came up with the idea for Blackboard, an online classroom organizational tool. His original company was acquired for $1.64 billion in 2011. Chasen later developed Class, a Zoom add-on, during the pandemic to help teachers make better use
Read moreGroww joins the first wave of Indian startups moving domiciles back home from US
Groww, an Indian investment app, has become one of the first startups from the country to shift its domicile back home. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreMTN Uganda Releases Q1 Unaudited Results
MTN Uganda, as well as the related JSE SENS announces its Q1 unaudited results for the quarter ended March 31, 2024. Key highlights are: Mobile subscribers grew by 12.0% to 19.9 million Active data subscribers increased by 27.6% to 8.6 million Active fintech users increased by 13.6% to 12.4 million
Read morePetersen Takes Charge: Reshaping the Energy Industry
First Battery, renowned for automotive battery excellence, appoints Shane Petersen as Director of Sales and Marketing. With 93 years of history in powering vehicles across South Africa, First Battery embraces a future of energy liberation under Petersen’s leadership. His extensive experience across mobility, energy, and multinational enterprises positions him to
Read moreTikTok will automatically label AI-generated content created on platforms like DALL·E 3
TikTok is starting to automatically label AI-generated content that was made on other platforms, the company announced on Thursday. With this change, if a creator posts content on TikTok that was created with a service like OpenAI’s DALL·E 3, it will automatically have an “AI-generated” label attached to it to
Read moreAMEX, O3 Capital Endow First Business Credit Card in Nigeria
O3 Capital- O3, a prominent Nigerian fintech and the nation’s inaugural non-bank credit card issuer, has disclosed a partnership with AMEX- American Express to introduce four new American Express credit cards. These include the O3 American Express Green Card tailored for consumers, the O3 American Express Gold Card also designated
Read morePayJustNow & Merchant Capital: Boosting South Africa Retail
South African Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) provider PayJustNow has teamed up with trusted alternative lender Merchant Capital to introduce a new cash advance offer, PayJustNow Advance. Craig Newborn, CEO at PayJustNow, Craig Newborn, CEO at PayJustNow, explains, “The retail sector is facing challenging times with economic pressures causing a
Read moreIndia weighs delaying caps on UPI market share in win for PhonePe, Google Pay
India’s mobile payments regulator is likely to extend the deadline for imposing market share caps on the popular UPI payments rail by one to two years, sources familiar with the matter told TechCrunch. The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), a special unit of the Reserve Bank of India, plans
Read moreCMC Cloud Launched to Propel Africa to the Edge
CMC Networks, a global Tier 1 service provider, has launched its CMC Cloud solution to deliver high-performance edge computing across Africa. CMC Cloud is an Infrastructure as a Service- IaaS solution designed to bring workloads closer to the end user and enhance the performance of applications and services, without the
Read moreThe Future of Digital Identity in South Africa
When it comes to accessing essential services, such as national medical care, grants, and the ability to vote in elections to shape national policy, a valid identity document is critical. In South Africa, undocumented citizens are restricted in their ability to collect social grants or go to a hospital. Even
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