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The Endeavor initiative, which works to catalyze long-term economic growth by selecting, mentoring, and accelerating the best high-impact entrepreneurs around the world, has recently welcomed a number of African entrepreneurs into its network. A total of ten African founders have been added to the Endeavor network, which currently supports 2,197 entrepreneurs leading 1,369 companies in nearly 40 markets around the world, following the selection of founders from three startups based in Egypt and Kenya in April....

Riders may now top up their wallets on the Uber app using a variety of payment options, allowing them to plan their trips ahead of time. Riders may request rides whenever they want without having to worry about carrying cash, thanks to extra payments that have no expiration dates. This partnership also makes it easier for drivers to pay Uber’s service fee (22.5 percent) via various in-app payment methods, which is especially beneficial to people without bank accounts....

He tweeted about his impending death this time. Musk, who has been more active than normal with his erratic tweets since purchasing Twitter for $44 billion, tweeted on Sunday night that he may die in “strange circumstances.” However, this time he got a response from his mother, Maye Musk, who also has a sizable Twitter following. Musk, one of the world’s wealthiest men, occasionally talks about using pot at Twitter’s board meetings, and other times he wants to purchase Coca-Cola and put cocaine in it....

ConDigital, which was launched in January 2019, digitizes the construction project management process for contractors, consultants, and owners. Data calculation, processing, and reporting are among the services it offers, as are schedule, resource, and financial management, communication channels, centralised cloud file storage, and analytics. After being accepted into The Baobab Network’s accelerator program in 2019, ConDigital received US$25,000 in funding and has since raised an undisclosed amount of seed funding....

In ICOs, the quantity of the crowdfunded cryptocurrency is sold to investors in form of “tokens”, in exchange for legal tender or other cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin or ethereum. These tokens supposedly become functional units of currency if or when the ICO’s funding goal is met and the project launches. This way, startups avoid costs of regulatory compliance and intermediaries, such as venture capitalists, bank and stock exchanges, while increasing risk for investors....

Pros You can get a fairly new model Every used-car shopper loves finding a good deal, and the chances of that when buying an ex-rental is high. In most cases, the rentals you see at a dealership are fairly new models. This is because car hire companies are always changing and upgrading their cars to entice their customers. No dealership will have a rental car for more than 15 years. Their version of an older vehicle is the exact car you may be looking for....

Facebook appears to be testing a new feature that would allow users to post a series of connected posts that could be simply text-heavy or with multi-media files. The new feature that is inspired by Twitter threads is said to be in the development stage, and the stable rollout may take some time. The development comes from notable social media consultant Matt Navara who also shared a screenshot of the feature....

While questions continue to be raised about the role that Facebook now plays in our daily interactive process, and the negative impacts in regards to fake news, misinformation and facilitating the growth of concerning movements, at the other end of the spectrum, Facebook’s connective efforts are also yielding positive results, in many ways. One of those is through the promotion of causes, with Facebook’s unmatched scale providing new opportunities for non-profits to raise awareness and funds via the platform’s various tools....

FarmDrive will use the follow-on investment to scale to $13 million of loan originations in 2019 with minimal losses and exceptional returns using, RiPe, a customizable lending engine that will allow lenders to plug in and access low-cost loan origination channels such as USSD, credit scoring, identity verification and a portfolio management suite that includes recovery and collections, payments, customer support and advanced real time data analytics. Elena Haba, Acting Director of Investments at EWB Canada said: “FarmDrive has the potential to shift market attention and fill the credit gap between creditors and underserved small business owners like smallholder farmers....

Expect the Unexpected The San Francisco Shock and Shanghai Dragons went into opening weekend as the big favorites in the Overwatch betting. That was understandable, as the Shock became the first back-to-back OWL champions by beating the Seoul Dynasty 4-2 in last year’s Grand Finals. The Shanghai Dragons are the veritable raid bosses in the East after finishing top of the Asia region standings last year, winning May Melee and the Countdown Cup, and emerging as the most consistent team in the world....

Tobi Amusan, the Nigeria-born 100m Hurdles Women’s World Record Holder becomes $endmobile’s Ambassador due to his speed and resilience. According to Tobi Amusan, 100m Hurdles World Record Holder, “I am excited to be a big part of a product I already use and love. I am always on the road, but I also have a lot of my family members in Nigeria. $end has helped me to keep in touch with them by meeting their needs as much as I can....

“Strong security measures have become a crucial feature in today’s smart devices. They evolve into essential tools that hold the key to our personal data connected to various services. For instance, such as the cloud and financial transactions.” said Dongho Shin, senior vice president of System LSI marketing at Samsung Electronics. “Samsung has a long and proven history in security solutions. They include smart card ICs, IoT processors and other semiconductor products that require robust security....

Gaming is a form of entertainment, and, at the same time, it serves as a workout for the brain. Even scientists can not argue on that as they have proven that video gaming increases grey matter in the brain, thus boosting brain activity. There are many gaming categories, but in our case, we will be concentrating on Mobile gaming. Some of the popular genres that you can find out today include PUBG mobile, Fortnite, Genshini Impact, Asphalt nitro, among many others....

Zeepay is the fastest growing fintech focusing on digital rails to connect digital assets such as mobile money wallets ,cards ,ATMs, bank accounts and digital tokens to international money transfer operators, payments, subscriptions, international airtime and refugee payments. Zeepay is a mobile financial services company with offices around the World including the United Kingdom and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and other Regulators across Africa. As mobile money is a similar concept to a bank account, funds held in a mobile money account are protected by Bank of Ghana regulations....

Start By Finding The Right Help Every brand needs help with the SEO so they will do it properly, and they can look at the Phoenix SEO companies to find one that is appealing to them. They want to get help with understanding what SEO does and how to incorporate it into all that they do online. They want to learn more about the various uses of SEO and how it can increase the traffic that comes to their website, and they will learn a lot and do things well with help....

Priscilla Muhiu, Glovo’s General Manager for Kenya, stated during the partnership announcement that the move will benefit Chandarana Foodplus customers. This is accomplished by increasing the efficiency of fast delivery service while positioning Glovo as a reliable delivery partner. “We are pleased with this collaboration and look forward to bringing a wide range of Chandarana Foodplus products to our customers in Nairobi and, eventually, other towns in Kenya.” We understand how specific the Chandarana Foodplus customer is, and it gives us great pleasure to be able to serve this market segment,” Priscilla added....

“Customers in China are embracing electrification and advanced self-driving technology faster than anywhere else in the world, and the agreement between GM and Momenta will accelerate our deployment of next-generation solutions tailor-made for our consumers in China,” said Julian Blissett, executive vice president of General Motors and president of GM China. “Momenta is committed to developing breakthrough artificial intelligence solutions to push beyond the frontier of possibilities today and significantly improve personal mobility experiences....

To achieve this higher autonomy, Ultra Cruise relies on a combination of cameras, radars and lidar technology onboard. They all work together to support everything from parking in your driveway to avoiding objects, on- demand lane changes and left and right-hand turns. All the while offering a human-machine interface directly in front of the driver, so they know exactly what the car sees.GM is planning on covering over 2 million miles of roads in Canada and the USA in time for the Ultra Cruise official launch in 2023....

With SpamBrain, Google continues its spam-fighting efforts. Google has long tracked harmful websites and other types of spam that may surface in its search results. In 2018, the American behemoth unveiled SpamBrain, a new program that is continually improved to weed out harmful websites. Google’s SpamBrain engine identified almost six times more spam in 2021 than in 2020. Faced with the growing amount of spam created every day, SpamBrain’s capacity to recognize harmful and dangerous activity among billions of pages would have enabled more than 99 percent of searches to remain spam-free, according to the American organization....

The foundation’s team will work with African entrepreneurship ecosystem players, investors, and corporates from Europe and Africa as well as public and private institutions. The foundation aims to help investors and companies benefit from shared knowledge and expertise with regards to investments in African entrepreneurship through collaboration with the foundation’s efforts. Moreover, the GreenTec Capital Africa Foundation will work with public and private institutions to fulfil joint missions, improving time-to-impact ratios through strengthened partnership contributions....