TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2022

Informal retail is still king in Africa. A study by PwC reported that informal channels such as kiosks and mom-and-pop stores account for 90% of sales in Africa’s major economies. JABU, with more than 200 employees, is gearing for a Series A fundraising this quarter, Akinin told TechCrunch.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

If S/HE raises $3,000, S/HE could qualify for a trip to one of their programs in South Africa! Create different templates for each social media channel and either share them directly with your fundraisers or ask your team captains to send them along to their teams. Insert personal language around fundraising campaign link]”.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

Much of the growth so far has been concentrated in four key markets: Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya and Egypt. These markets make up 32% of Africa’s population, 51% of the continent’s mobile network connections, 50% of its professional developers and 51% of its GDP.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2017

As a promotion for its new show, Genius , the National Geographic Channel has created an Albert Einstein bot for Facebook Messenger. Momconnect is a bot developed by the Praekelt Maternal Health , an initiative that uses mobile technology to improve the health of pregnant women, newborns and infants in South Africa.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2022

As a result, Convertedin plans to make its services available in Portuguese — in addition to English and Arabic — for brands in Brazil and also Mexico, another South American market. Fergany also said Convertedin is eyeing South Africa and India too. “We

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Schools have become a big channel for us, and half of our subscribers are using us in schools,” he said. “We The platform is available in other markets, such as South Africa, Sierra Leone, the UK, Liberia, Gambia and the US, but Shagaya said uLesson has spread in these countries via word of mouth.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Stephen Mally from Fundraising in Asia discusses how limited channel communication can hurt your organization. NGO Pulse (South Africa). Learn how a nonprofit in South Africa, the Papillon Foundation , helps unemployed people learn new skills and find jobs. September is all about CRM in Australia !

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2023

We are building a trust network that, for example, allows a company in Kenya to know who to work with in a country like Nigeria, South Africa. That finding made me curious about B2B trade, large supply chains and how entrepreneurs in Africa access large procurement opportunities.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Sabi is an attempt at platforming the informal sector and African trade via various online and offline channels. So I’m not going to go to a business that is used to working a particular way and change it but instead offer several other channels that they’re more comfortable with through our platform.”.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2022

Restaurants who use the management platform also have access to a dashboard that allows them to accept and process orders from food delivery services Jumia Food, Glovo, Bolt Food, and in-store, website, social media channels like WhatsApp. Orda claims no other company in its space has made similar integrations.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2022

We’ve built an extensive distribution channel covering almost half of the high schools in Kenya, and that means we have an opportunity to solve other tech needs that schools have,” said Nyangolo. “We South Africa’s edtech FoondaMate eyes speedy takeoff after $2M funding.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

Startups like JABU and several others such as Wasoko, TradeDepot , Omnibiz, MarketForce , MaxAB and Chari have made this process easier via apps and more efficient distribution channels. In January, the company had over 6,000 merchants using its platform across Namibia, South Africa and Zambia.

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Tableau

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Twelve countries are even getting their first ambassador ever: Azerbaijan, Chile, Finland, Kenya, Mauritius, New Zealand, Norway, Pakistan, Poland, South Africa, South Korea, and Sweden. And they share their expertise across 116 blogs, 188 Twitter handles, and 38 YouTube channels. They have wide-ranging backgrounds, too.

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Tableau

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Twelve countries are even getting their first ambassador ever: Azerbaijan, Chile, Finland, Kenya, Mauritius, New Zealand, Norway, Pakistan, Poland, South Africa, South Korea, and Sweden. And they share their expertise across 116 blogs, 188 Twitter handles, and 38 YouTube channels. They have wide-ranging backgrounds, too.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2021

They customarily rely on brick-and-mortar channels to sell and process policies. From the McKinsey report in 2018, the total gross written premiums (GWP) in Eastern Africa was $3.3 In comparison, South Africa did $48.3 This takes a long processing cycle and has poor customer satisfaction and higher distribution costs. .

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2022

YouTube picked up Super Sema’s first season, acquired its distribution rights and launched the series on its YouTube Originals channel in March 2021. Since its launch, Super Sema’s YouTube Channel has attracted more than 40 million views. The Kukua team. It was a constant hit.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2022

Informal retail is king in Africa, with hundreds of billions of dollars of consumer goods sold through its channels yearly. TradeDepot , on the other hand, operates an asset-heavy model across Nigeria, Ghana and South Africa.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 29, 2021

It also has operations in South Africa, where it was originally founded. That works out to about 10% of all 911 centers in the U.S. 7,000 in total), and covering 35% of the population (there are more centers in cities and other dense areas). Its footprint includes state coverage in Arizona, California and Kansas.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

The company, which facilitates B2B payments for businesses in Francophone West Africa, mainly via mobile money channels, has raised a total of $7 million in the financing round. . In 2019, West Africa reported the most live mobile money services in any region, with 56 million active accounts.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2022

Co-founder and CEO Yele Oyekola told TechCrunch over a call that this distributor-retailer channel has been a source of viral growth for the startup. FMCG distributors can onboard retailers in their network on the Duplo platform, collect payments digitally and access real-time insights into business performance.

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2013

Johannesburg, South Africa. Philadelphia's Net Tuesday livestreamed a talk by Amy Sample Ward on building a multi-channel campaign. Johannesburg, South Africa: Open Data for Nonprofits - an Introduction. Number of countries with active groups: 20. Number of NetSquared meetup members: 17,590. New Groups.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The lack of interoperability between African currencies is primarily behind why a Kenyan business owner who wants to pay an invoice to another business owner in South Africa with either shillings or rands ends up using the dollar — the currency that powers almost 80% of Africa’s bilateral trade.

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TechNode

JANUARY 30, 2024

Details: A year after Ma positioned WeChat Channels as Tencents major hope for the future, he said that the short video-sharing function has brought lots of surprises and committed to fully supporting livestreaming-based commerce in 2024.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 22, 2020

This video from Proctorio’s YouTube channel shows how the Abnormal Eye Movement function works,” he tweeted at 8:44PM PT on the 24th. This video from Proctorio’s YouTube channel shows how you can configure the Record Room feature,” he wrote at 8:47.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

a slowing down, making mindful choices about what channels are truly effective and slowing down and being intentional about practice – so good practice becomes a habit. There was applause from the audience. ” I also talked about this from the perspective of nonprofits putting social media into practice.

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AFP Blog

JANUARY 29, 2014

Latest global social, digital, mobile data for ya : his report presents all the key statistics, data and behavioural indicators for social, digital and mobile channels around the world. For other reports in this series, please visit [link] H/T to Social Fish'

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

. “China-based vendors managed to get quality devices, high specifications and the latest technology at affordable prices with huge marketing and channel spends,” Singh said. “Indian vendors were just not able to compete in any of these levers — product, marketing, channel, etc.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Some include the Red Cross, The Weather Channel, local newspapers, Craigslist, and others. Since then, the platform (which is open source ) has been modified for use in South Africa (mapping xenophobic violence), DR Congo , Vote Report India (to monitor the recent local elections) and more.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 14, 2013

Nelson Mandela: A South African anti-apartheid. revolutionary and politician who served as President of South Africa. from 1994 to 1999, Mandela was the first black South African to hold the office, and the first elected in a fully representative, multiracial. Hated by Winston Churchill and others, he was imprisoned.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2022

The opportunities are countless, from data analytics to innovative distribution channels.”.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 16, 2025

and Europe, with some additional reports in Mexico, Brazil, South Africa, Australia, United Arab Emirates, and Israel. For ongoing updates regarding this issue, please reference our @SpotifyStatus X channel.” By 9:05 a.m., Technical issues are mainly reported in the U.S.

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