Two weeks ago, TPG’s Rise Fund invested $ 200 million in Airtel Mobile Commerce BV (AMC BV) — the mobile money business of telecom Airtel Africa. After closing the deal, the Bharti Airtel subsidiary noted that it was still in discussions to sell additional minority...
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April 1, 2021 albert
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John Ruffolo isn’t as famous as some investors but he’s very well-known in Canadian business circles. The longtime head of Arthur Andersen’s tech, media, and telecommunications practice, he joined OMERS roughly a decade ago when a former colleague became CEO and brought him aboard the...
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Meet “Elizabeth Ann.” The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Thursday the successful birth of a cloned black-footed ferret. Scientists cloned Elizabeth Ann from a ferret that died 30 years ago. This cloning, which can understandably sound Sci-Fi, is an innovative conservation effort. The Fish...
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February 20, 2021 albert
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SAVE 69%: A two-year subscription to NordVPN is on sale for £2.74 per month as of Feb. 7, saving you 69% on list price. This is a big day in the world of sport, as the Kansas City Chiefs and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers battle...
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February 7, 2021 albert
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TL;DR: A Nonna Live: Cooking Pasta with Nonna & Family class is on sale for £33.12 as of Jan. 11, saving you 25% on list price. About three years ago, Chiara Nicolanti started an Airbnb Experiences page to share her grandmother’s authentic pasta recipes and...
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January 11, 2021 albert
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The end of 2020 was seen as a positive for many, but it was bittersweet in at least one way: Adobe finally, officially killed Flash Player. This didn’t come as a surprise, as Adobe had announced Flash would die with three years’ advance warning. It...
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The UN released a stark climate report on Wednesday. The Emissions Gap Report 2020 is an assessment of a wide chasm: the gap between where human-created carbon emissions are expected to be in 2030 versus the cuts actually needed to substantially limit global warming. The...
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Black Friday — the day that launched 1,000 other shopping holidays — may have lost its place as the “start” of the Christmas shopping season by now (it gets bigger and earlier with each passing year). But the day after Thanksgiving still pulls in a...
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November 28, 2020 albert
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The Oversight Board put in place by Facebook may not be a success, but it will point the way to solving problems for other fast-growing companies. itbusinessedge RSS Feed
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October 29, 2020 albert
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Millions of homes have voice-enabled devices, but when was the last time you heard a piece of synthesized speech longer than a handful of seconds? WellSaid Labs has pushed the field ahead with a voice engine that can easily and quickly generate hours of voice...
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