Are you an aspiring entrepreneur or an adventurous professional seeking an exhilarating career path? If so, working for a startup might just be the perfect fit for you. Startups offer a unique blend of innovation, creativity, and the opportunity to make a real impact. But the question remains: where can you find these exciting startup […]
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Africa has been experiencing significant growth in technological advancements in recent years. One of the most promising technologies that have gained traction in Africa is Artificial Intelligence (AI). With the increasing penetration of mobile and internet connectivity, Africa has a unique opportunity to leverage AI to address the economic challenges it faces. However, the adoption
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At Google’s annual I/O developer conference, Android Studio is receiving an infusion of AI. Android Studio Hedgehog, the latest version currently in the Canary release channel, will be the first to support the new conversational experience within Android Studio. This feature is designed to assist developers in writing code, fixing bugs, and answering general coding
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The latest track by AI Drake has gone viral, showcasing how simple it is for someone to use a widely recognized celebrity voice to make a song popular. The track titled “Not a Game” made its debut on SoundCloud and YouTube in recent times, just after a song by a musician named Ghostwriter became popular
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Advertisers can now access an AI Sandbox created by Meta to aid in the creation of Facebook or Instagram ads. The Sandbox offers three features: the ability to generate alternative copies, the option to easily create different assets for a campaign, and a tool that allows companies to create visuals in various aspect ratios. With
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M-KOPA, the African asset financing platform that provides access to “productive assets” and enables customers to pay for them through digital micropayments, has raised over $250 million in new funding. The funding includes $55 million in equity and over $200 million in debt, a significant amount for a growth-stage company in the current venture capital
Kenya is proactively promoting innovation in its startup ecosystem by proposing a specialized tax regime for Employee Share Ownership Plans (ESOPs). The finance bill for 2023 puts forward a deferred tax approach, suggesting that taxes on shares given to employees be delayed until specific triggering events occur. These events include the passage of five years
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A new CEO has been appointed at Twitter, just a day after Elon Musk tweeted that the platform’s new head would be taking up the position in around six weeks. Although Musk didn’t reveal the identity of the new CEO, there has been much discussion among those in the technology and media industries about who
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NovFeed, a Tanzanian biotech company, has been declared the champion of the Milken-Motsepe Prize in Agritech, a competition aimed at promoting technological advancement towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The company emerged victorious over 3,300 other competitors from 105 countries on six continents, receiving the $1 million prize at the Milken Institute Global Conference
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ZOLA’s roots began in and around the Serengeti in Tanzania, where its founders observed that both off-grid and on-grid communities rely on dirty, expensive, and hard-to-manage forms of energy including diesel, kerosene, and lead acid batteries. No primary, integrated power source existed, it was purely inefficient backup systems, an impediment to these communities achieving their
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