Month: May 2020

DHL  has acquired a minority stake in Link Commerce, a turn-key e-commerce company that grew out of MallforAfrica.com — a Nigerian digital-retail startup. Link Commerce offers a white-label solution for doing digital-sales in emerging markets. Retailers can plug into the company’s e-commerce platform to create a web-based storefront that manages payments and logistics. With the investment one … Continue reading DHL acquires stake in Link Commerce developed by MallforAfrica Continue Reading →

Just one of many legal quagmires Google finds itself in Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich has filed a lawsuit against Google over allegations the company illegally tracked Android users’ location without their consent and even when the location tracking features had been manually disabled, according to a report from The Washington Post. The suit argues Google kept … Continue reading Arizona sues Google over claims it illegally tracked location of Android users Continue Reading →

Gaming development startup Carry1st  has raised a $2.5 million seed round led by CRE Venture Capital . That brings the company’s total VC to $4 million, which Carry1st will deploy to support and invest in game publishing across Africa. The startup — with offices in New York, Lagos, and South Africa — was co-founded in 2018 by Sierra Leonean … Continue reading Carry1st has $4M to invest in African mobile gaming Continue Reading →

Unsurprisingly, the reconstructed angle was a worst-case scenario. You know that scene in every forensic crime drama where someone works out the angle the bullet was fired from and points back to the source? In the case of the Chicxulub asteroid impact and the end-Cretaceous mass extinction 66 million years ago, there’s no mystery about … Continue reading Tracing the trajectory of a 66 million-year-old asteroid impact Continue Reading →

Gaming development startup Carry1st  has raised a $2.5 million seed round led by CRE Venture Capital . That brings the company’s total VC to $4 million, which Carry1st will deploy to support and invest in game publishing across Africa. The startup — with offices in New York, Lagos, and South Africa — was co-founded in 2018 by Sierra Leonean … Continue reading Carry1st has $4M to invest in African mobile gaming Continue Reading →

Vaya Africa, a ride-hail mobility venture founded by Zimbabwean mogul Strive Masiyiwa, has launched an electric taxi service and charging network in Zimbabwe with plans to expand across the continent. The South Africa headquartered company has acquired a fleet of Nissan Leaf EVs and developed its own solar powered charging stations. The program goes live … Continue reading Vaya Africa launches electric ride-hail taxi network Continue Reading →

Plus support for voice control and universal remotes The box that syncs Philips Hue lights with whatever’s on your TV is getting a big update today: it now supports two major HDR standards: HDR10+ and Dolby Vision. At launch, the longly named Philips Hue Play HDMI Sync Box could analyze content playing at up to 4K at … Continue reading Philips Hue TV sync box now supports HDR10+ and Dolby Vision Continue Reading →

Dishcraft Robotics has a simple pitch to corporate kitchens and restaurants that could potentially save tons of single use plastic, non-compostable takeout containers, dishware and cutlery from ending up landfills. Use its cleaning service that will drop off all the clean, reusable dishware and cutlery a restaurant or corporate kitchen could possibly need in the … Continue reading Dishcraft Robotics is using robots to save reopening restaurants from creating more waste Continue Reading →

Welcome to the $15/mo streaming service that calls Police Academy a “classic.” Like it or not, another subscription streaming service has entered the chat. This one—HBO Max—debuts across the United States on Wednesday, and it comes from the combined AT&T-Time Warner media empire. After taking shape in 2018, the new “WarnerMedia” cluster of film and TV content has … Continue reading HBO Max is live: $15/mo for a massive library, significant headaches Continue Reading →