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Algeria’s Yassir picks up $30M to build a super app in North Africa

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at Stanford and spending most of his professional life in Silicon Valley working at various companies, CEO Noureddine Tayebi returned to Algeria to get involved in the country’s nascent tech scene to start a company and build technical talent in the Maghreb region (Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia). Image Credits: Yassir.

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Yassir pulls in $150M for its super app, led by BOND

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The African startup, first launched in Algeria, has now raised $193.25 When CEO Noureddine Tayebi started Yassir, the plan was to build a super app that included services people — in the French-speaking Maghreb region consisting of Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia — had little or no access to on one platform.

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Tunisian edtech startup GOMYCODE raises $8M to expand across Africa and the Middle East

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In addition to Tunisia, GOMYCODE is present in Bahrain, Morocco, Egypt, Algeria, Ivory Coast, Senegal and Nigeria. Image Credits: By 2030, it is predicted that the number of youths — people between the ages of 15 and 24 — in Africa will increase by 42%, according to the UN.

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4 keys to international expansion

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After an initial success helping Groupon scale internationally via a merger with Rocket’s incubation firm CityDeal, Rocket’s team have aggressively scaled businesses from Algeria to Zimbabwe — sometimes in a matter of weeks. Some companies are global by default — think mobile gaming companies — or simply require language localization.

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Gulf states using COVID-19 contact tracing apps as mass surveillance tools, report says

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Photo by Thomas Trutschel/Photothek via Getty Images. But the approaches have differed — most prominently, around issues of user privacy and whether the data should be anonymized and stored locally or linked to real identities and sent to a central server.

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ChatGPT: Everything you need to know about the AI-powered chatbot

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based company to stop processing locals’ data. The local radio, TV and internet awareness campaign has a slightly more generous timeline of May 15 to be actioned.) March 14, 2023 OpenAI launches GPT-4, available through ChatGPT Plus GPT-4 is a powerful image- and text-understanding AI model from OpenAI.

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