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Efreshli, founded in 2019 by Heba El Gabaly, uses its virtual decor tool to allow buyers to see how room setups will look before making a purchase. Through its virtual décor tool, which allows users to visualize how room setups will look before making a purchase, the firm intends to provide a fresh and accessible method to furnish homes, offices, or any other area. Efreshli collaborates with furniture and decor brands to design rooms depending on a customer’s aesthetic style and budget, as well as assisting with the purchase of the items....

Local and international angel and venture capital investors can now select vetted opportunities and invest quickly and securely amounts of just R1000 or more to own shares in various African businesses. Sthembiso Zwane, co-founder of GoGetta explains, “Quality African businesses are struggling to raise capital using traditional financiers such as banks. Crowdfunding is a billion-dollar global industry and it’s time for Africa to weigh in. GoGetta is a solution to these funding issues and unlocks the potential of Africa’s entrepreneurs....

The theme of this year’s competition is “The Future of Food” and will give participants, both in the regional and global competition, an opportunity to develop as well as showcase innovative ideas to impact an industry in the region. EIA sub-Saharan Africa is open to students and small businesses from within the region with a limit of four people per participating team. All participants in the regional competition, who meet the global criteria, are automatically entered into the EIA global competition....

As part of its effort to support community managers, Facebook is announcing a new Facebook Community Manager Certification Program that will serve as a resource for community managers so that they can prepare for the final certification. The online course is totally free through Facebook Blueprint, but there is a fee for the actual certification exam. This is generally the case for all Facebook certifications. Facebook Blueprint certification badges are recognized across various industries and can help community managers stand out as experts in their field....

In a statement, Facebook’s Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg said that the core efforts of Internet.org are non-exclusive partnerships with mobile operators to offer free basic internet services to people through Internet.org. This is a set of basic websites and services to introduce people to the value of the internet that will add value to their lives. These websites are very simple and data efficient, so operators can offer these for free in an economically sustainable way....

Across the social media platforms, the voice of the brand should be consistent. Your email marketing should have the same tone as that of your TV advert. And this is what a social media agency will help you with – Brand Consistency. A brand is not just a logo or colors or a cover photo. It decides the connection your customers will feel with your business. This connection and engagement with your customers will be your stepping stone to improve your brand’s presence on social media....

Khazna was launched in 2020 as an earned wage access product, but it has since evolved into a multi-product that caters to the 50% of Egyptians who use smartphones but do not have access to formal financial services. It now provides general credit, buy now pay later (BNPL), and bill payment services. The startup gained CBE clearance to create its own card, in cooperation with ADIB Egypt, after raising US$38 million in Series A funding last month to scale up its attempts to replace informal cash-driven alternatives across Egypt....

Elvin Hu, a Google Chrome designer, provides a first look at the logo’s redesign in a Twitter thread, as well as some of the thinking behind the ever-so-subtle changes. Instead of using shadows to “raise” the borders between each color of the screen, the red, yellow, and green are simply flat. And, while Hu doesn’t mention it, the blue circle in the middle appears to be larger and staring even deeper into your soul, but that could just be my imagination....

HiiL kicked off its annual global Innovating Justice Challenge in search of the region’s best justice-related social entrepreneurs in March this year which attracted more than 200 applications from startups with high impact justice innovations. The stringent selection process comprised a week of intensive ‘bootcamp’ workshops for six regional finalists, and a pitching session in which they demonstrated their work to an international audience of justice experts including the Deputy Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development, Mr John Jeffery, and the Ambassador of Netherlands to South Africa, Mr Han Peters....

Experts believe that a successful team or company is one that plays a couple of team-building games here and there to strengthen the common purpose. There are various games that can be played to solidify relations and communication. Broken Telephone This game is used to rectify issues of communication. Broken Telephone, as the name suggests, refers to a breakdown of information flaw. But, as you are playing the game, you then go on to initiate good communication....

Both views are very valid, and cannot be dismissed. While efforts are being made to create more jobs and reduce unemployment, no thought has gone into the other cause of unemployment, which is the lack of employability skills among many graduates. Gaanstart has decided to pay attention to the unemployed, by helping to provide employability skills. Gaanstart is a social enterprise aimed at tackling widespread youth employability in Nigeria by using online videos to teach employability skills to graduates and undergraduates in Nigerian Universities....

The watchfaces are adapted to Samsung’s discontinued OS.a even though the Watch3 and Watch5 series run on different platforms. The Watch3 boots Tizen OS. A new snoring detection feature has been added. It was introduced with the release of Galaxy Watch4 series. It still requires your phone to be near you with granted permission for using the phone’s microphone. The Daily Activity indicator syncs data with Galaxy smartphones. The firmware version, R8x0XXU1DVH4 should arrive soon as Smartwatch updates aren’t usually delayed by much....

Did you know that, contrary to what one might think, older age groups are the fastest-growing segments of many social media platforms’ audiences[1]? Facebook, for example, saw users above the age of 65 increase by roughly 25% over the past year[2], while those aged 50 plus represent Snapchat’s fastest-growing audience segment[3]. “When brands decide that they want to be on social media, they first need to consider the ages of the audiences on each platform as this plays a massive part not only in the messaging they should use but the format thereof too,” says Alistair Errington, Sales Team Lead at Ad Dynamo – Africa’s leading media sales house....

GeroCare wants to change that, and make it easy for the elderly to receive timely medical care. Co-founded by Ebi Ofrey (CEO), Ajibola Meraiyebu (COO) and Bruce Lucas (CTO), and launched on May 30 2017, GeroCare is a subscription-based medical care for the elderly. Upon subscription, the aged are entitled to regular home visitation by doctors and administration of health care peculiar to their needs. Subscription plans include monthly, quarterly, biannually, annually, with price ranging from N15000 – N120000, depending on the needs of users....

For the fans, expectations are high with majority anticipating records to be broken and new heroes identified with track athletics taking the lead as the most competitive sport during the Olympic. On the back of LGs technological initiatives in sporting world, sport enthusiasts and especially the athletes are expected to leap big with their focus being going for the gold, thanks to LG top of the line technology that has made training for elite athletes more effective....

The first micro fulfillment center was launched in June 2021, while the second was opened in June 2022, now with the opening of the third MFC, Glovo is looking into leveraging their advanced affordability value proposition and offer affordable fresh and consumer packaged goods (CPG) to the lower middle-income earners, consumers can now additionally order from the third micro fulfillment center through the Glovo Market. Glovo Market uses the latest in in-store digital technology and dedicated resources to ensure the quickest possible delivery times with customers receiving their orders in 20-40 minutes....

The blessing and curse of the “internet age” is its pure abundance of information. New medias, with their emphasis on fast digital delivery, have made news absurdly accessible. But this democratization has come with a hefty price-tag: for who are the arbiters of that which we now register as facts, tidbits of the real? All talk of “fake news” aside, there is still the problem of simple overload. Indeed, it is often too easy to feel overwhelmed in this new landscape of digitalized information – we receive news via email, social media, blogs, podcasts ....

Google Photos new update will enable users to manually face tag other people who they have not tagged previously or without necessarily having uploaded many photos. A user is able to tag someone immediately after taking a picture, a process that previously needed more time to have google assemble other photos taken together. However, the face detection procedure still relies largely on google to a person’s face. For instance, if you take a picture of a pet or someone and omit their faces, it will automatically reject the tagging because the picture is unrecognizable without a face....

To make it easier to find valuable material made by and for people, the organization will introduce several changes to its search engine over the next week. Therefore, bot-generated content, which often results from a stuttering translation, should be conveyed at the bottom of the ranking. Together with another Google optimization currently in place, this upgrade will progressively enhance search results. Testing of products is the topic. These releases, according to Google, are a part of a more considerable and continuing effort to lessen low-quality material and make it simpler to identify genuine and helpful staff....

The Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) has simplified the process of obtaining the document by creating a portal that allows for online applications. The Query Management Information System (QMIS) is located on the KNEC website and is an electronic platform for online submission and processing of examination-related queries such as Certification of Examination Results for candidates who have lost their certificates, Confirmation of Examination Results, and Equation of Foreign Qualifications....