TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Last year, MaxAB , the food and grocery B2B e-commerce and distribution platform serving a network of traditional retailers across Egypt and Morocco, raised its $55 million Series A in two tranches ; the latter accompanied its acquisition of the Morocco-based and YC-backed WaysToCap. million orders within this timeframe.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

According to a McKinsey report, most African countries have experienced double-digit insurance growth in CAGR in local currency over the last five years, thus positioning the region as the second-fastest growing for insurance globally after Latin America. As many as 2.8% Despite the abysmal number, there’s some good news.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

More venture capital keeps trooping into Africa’s B2B e-commerce retail, a space where startups are digitizing informal trade to get thousands of merchants to operate more efficiently. Chari offers an identical offering in Morocco. B2B e-commerce platform Chari is acquiring the credit line of Axa Assurance in Morocco for $22M.

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TechCrunch

MAY 31, 2022

Appetito , the Egyptian platform that delivers groceries and household products to customers from 11 dark stores across three cities in the North African country, is acquiring Lamma , an identical startup with operations in the Maghreb regions of Tunisia and Morocco. . The deal is expected to close by the end of Q3 2022.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2022

Autochek expands to North Africa after acquiring Morocco’s Kifal Auto. Autochek was previously present in Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Ivory Coast, Uganda and Morocco. New report examines Africa’s growth in the digital economy and VC investment landscape. The company, which in October last year raised $13.1

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

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. So far, its execution has been spot on.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Stephen Deng, the co-founder and partner of DFS Lab, a firm that invests in digital commerce startups, serially compared the 2016 Southeast Asia funding landscape to where Africa might be in 2021, at $3 billion. Digital payments gateway MFS Africa is one of Africa’s few corporate investors and acquirers. billion and $2.8

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2021

They include Algeria, Botswana, Egypt, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Senegal, Seychelles and South Africa. Since launching in 2019, the African payments company has partnered with Visa to launch Barter; Alipay to offer digital payments between Africa and China; and Worldpay FIS for payments in Africa.

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DataRobot

AUGUST 1, 2022

.” Just recently, e& enterprise entered a strategic three-year alliance with DataRobot , global AI platform provider, to launch the first AI as a Service (AlaaS) offering in the UAE, Egypt, and Morocco. We expect other regional and international operators to follow the lead of e& and DataRobot in deploying AI.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

In addition to Tunisia, GOMYCODE is present in Bahrain, Morocco, Egypt, Algeria, Ivory Coast, Senegal and Nigeria. It offers over 30 learning tracks ranging from web development to digital marketing and data science to artificial intelligence. It raised $850,000 seed in October 2020. GOMYCODE utilizes the latter.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2022

Its platform connects over 6,000 retailers to local and multinational suppliers — such as Namibia Breweries Limited, ABInBev, Bokomo, Coca-Cola, Namibmills — and digitizes orders, payments and logistics. And JABU — profiting from owning its supply chain — is making efforts to digitize its physical cash collection processes via wallets.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

While incumbents have pioneered various enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems to digitize these processes, companies would still get four to five different software platforms to complete multiple tasks. They are electronic yet manual processes that make their work very inefficient. San Fransisco-based investor Partech led the round.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2008

It comes from Digiactive , a five-month-old site devoted to digital activism and was written by Dan Schultz , a student at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. (Hat tip: Jessica Dheere, Project Director, Social Media Exchange, Beirut) for pointing to this excellent resource - A DigiActive Introduction to Facebook Activism.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

The goal is to train over 150-250 NGOs in Jordan, Lebanon, Yemen, Morocco, and other countries and help them put social media skills into practice. Provide digital infrastructure to the 150 – 250 organizations through a public-private partnership with Microsoft.

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TechCrunch

MAY 23, 2022

Recently, there’s been rapid digitization of this market , with several startups upending incumbents such as classifieds and hoping to define the new era of used-car-sale platforms. Autochek expands to North Africa after acquiring Morocco’s Kifal Auto. Some include U.K.’s

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Our potential client base is much broader than one type of institution; so long as the broker has a digital play, they can use our infrastructure to access African exchanges.”. The fintech, launched in 2020, is eyeing capital markets in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Morocco and Egypt.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Since the start of this year, Jambo has already signed up over 12,000 students across 15 countries (Morocco, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Equatorial Guinea, Uganda, Kenya, Congo, Uganda, Rwanda, DR Congo, Tanzania, Zambia, Namibia, Madagascar and South Africa) to take a curated web3 curriculum, both online and offline.

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The Verge

JULY 23, 2021

According to an analysis done by the Post and other Pegasus Project members, the current presidents of France, Iraq, and South Africa were included, along with the current prime ministers of Pakistan, Egypt, and Morocco, seven former prime ministers, and the king of Morocco.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2023

This is particularly noteworthy, as every other region experienced a double-digit drop in funding activity during the same period,” said Max Cuvellier , co-founder of The Big Deal on Africa’s investment activity in 2022. Ecosystems outside the top four include countries like Ghana, Uganda, Tanzania, Morocco and Tunisia.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2023

The latter incident is also subject to a lawsuit by an Irish digital rights group that’s challenging the DPA’s enforcement finding that there was no security breach.) Mass data scraping of personal information can constitute a reportable data breach in many jurisdictions.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

The conference in Morocco was a “tri-lingual event” and was translated into French, English, and Arabic, although the content and instructional design were identical to the event in Jordan. Chema Gargouri, In Country Director, Tunisia being interviewed by the local radio station in Fez, Morocco.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2012

E-Mediat is working with more than 220 NGOs in Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Tunisia, and Yemen. Rami Al-Karmi, N2V Lab. The program is managed by the Institute of International Education (IIE), and implemented with a coalition of leading new media experts and local and international partners from the public and private sectors.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

This concept has been pioneered by the Internet Archive with its Open Library can lend a digital copy of a book for a period of time as long as it (or a partner library) owns a physical copy of that book which it holds back from being lent to someone else. We can use the same ebook file to deliver the content ten different ways.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2023

We’re very excited for the impact they’ll have here at OpenAI,” OpenAI wrote in a brief post published to its official blog. The entire team has joined OpenAI to work on our core products including ChatGPT.” Europe, South Korea and New Zealand, and soon more will be able to download the app from the app store.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2023

The partnership [with Riot Games] is our big initiative this year because we built all this cool tech around payments and digital commerce, and we leveraged it only for our games,” remarked the CEO, who founded Carry1st with Lucy Hoffman and Tinotenda Mundangepfupfu.

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