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Twitter’s Jack Dorsey will spend 3 to 6 months of 2020 in Africa
Africa will define the future! CEO says.
In his recent tweet Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter and the financial services provider company Square , who was in Africa has expressed his nostalgia by saying he is sad…
Paytm raises $1 billion in the latest funding round
Used by millions, Paytm has revolutionized payments in India.
Indian financial startup Paytm has secured a funding of $1 billion in the latest funding, as reported . Paytm was valued $15 billion in 2019, and over 400 million people…
African fintech startup Opera’s OPay received $120 million in funding from Chinese investors
OPay has grown its business from payments to other fields with OWealth, ORide, and OFood.
Incubated by Opera , famous for its web browser, Africa-based startup OperaPay, widely known as OPay, has gained $120M from the Chinese investors in series B round. Along with PalmPay…
Motorola made users nostalgic with foldable Android RAZR
The Lenovo-owned company Motorola is going to release a new foldable RAZR Android smartphone in January 2020. Remember Hello, Moto!? Motorola aims to keep its ionic flip phone RAZR alive…
WeWork’s Chairman Marcelo Claure terminates 13 people for abusing vendor policies
Former Sprint CEO Marcelo Claure became the Executive Chairman after SoftBank takeover over 80% of WeWork.
WeWork’s Marcelo Claure – the chairman, has sent a memo to employees that states the company has investigated policy abuse and fired 13 employees. Mr. Laure has further mentioned that…
HP receives a $30bn proposal from Xerox
The deal would be complicated because HP is more than three times the size of Xerox by value.
Xerox is aiming to buy HP Inc. HP confirmed that it had received a potential business combination proposal from Xerox on Tuesday, 5th November 2019. As per Bloomberg, the company…
Indian Startups have raised $11.3B this year; a record
Indian startups have become the next target of investors and venture capitalists globally
With two months left in 2019, Indian tech startups are already having a great year as a record amount of $11.3B has flown into the local ecosystem of the country,…
SoftBank to take charge of WeWork
SoftBank decided to acquire WeWork at an $8 billion valuation.
WeWork, an American commercial real estate company that provides shared workspaces for technology startups, founded in 2010. Eventually, after the ouster of its Co-founder Adam Neumann, the company lost its…
Facebook Libra project is coming up with other cryptocurrency ideas
“We could do it differently,'' said by the Head of Libra project for Facebook.
There is a raised possibility that Facebook could use cryptocurrencies based on national currencies, to bring its long-awaited Libra project into the action. In the wake of growing skepticism about…
Canva now valued at $3.2 billion after $85 million fundraise
Canva uses a drag-and-drop format and provides access to photographs, vector images, graphics, and fonts to make images …
Canva is now valued at $3.2 billion after an $85 million fundraise by Mary Meeker’s venture capital firm joined by General Catalyst, Bessemer Venture Partners, Blackbird, and Sequoia China. It…