Month: July 2021
South African payments startup Yoco raises $83M Series C led by Dragoneer
Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) contribute heavily to the economic success of many countries, particularly those in the developing world. They are the backbone of most economies: Globally, SMEs represent about 90% of existing businesses and create more than 50% of employment. In South Africa, these businesses contribute around one-third…
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Apple bumping up iPhone 13 series production numbers confirmed An artist's impression of the iPhone 13 in eight different colors including red, blue and orange
Apple had reportedly placed orders with its contract assemblers like Foxconn, Pegatron and Luxshare for manufacture of around 90 million new iPhone models, a 20% bump up from the 75 million units of iPhone 12 models produced last year. Now, it looks like that Apple’s production target of the impending…
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Microsoft Surface Duo 2 leak reveals much-required camera upgrade surface duo
Microsoft’s Surface Duo was arguably the company’s most ambitious hardware project in recent times. Despite a promising form factor, the phone failed to live up to the expectations due to some drawbacks – camera performance being a major one. Now a fresh leak shows off its sequel – the Microsoft…
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ActiveFence comes out of the shadows with $100M in funding and tech that detects online harm, now valued at $500M+
Online abuse, disinformation, fraud and other malicious content is growing and getting more complex to track. Today, a startup called ActiveFence, which has quietly built a tech platform to suss out threats as they are being formed and planned, to make it easier for trust and safety teams to combat…
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Cloudflare slams Amazon Web Services over massive markups AWS Office
The CDN provider Cloudflare has called out Amazon Web Services (AWS) for its high egress fees which make it harder for its customers to move their data to a different cloud. Back in 2018, Cloudflare launched the Bandwidth Alliance alongside 15 other cloud computing providers in an effort to reduce…
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HP brings its next-gen Victus 16 gaming laptops to India HP Victus 16
HP has announced the availability of its latest gaming laptops under the Victus 16 lineup. To recall these laptops were unveiled globally in May. With these laptops, the company adds the latest Intel 11th Gen processors and AMD Ryzen processors to its lineup. The HP Vitcus E series laptops are…
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