Facebook is set to launch “Sabee”, an educational mobile App for Nigerians. The internal Research and Development (R&D) team at Facebook has been working on the app and even conducted a test among Nigerians.
Ghana has now become the first West African country to conduct a census digitally, using tablets and satellite images to improve the reach of field agents and ensuring the whole population in Ghana is counted on a census night.
Splitit, the company empowering consumers to use their existing credit to spread payments over time, announced a partnership with tabby, the leading Middle East Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) provider. tabby is the leading BNPL provider serving the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, supporting more than 2,000 merchants, including Ikea, SHEIN, Marks and Spencer, adidas, and Toys R Us. tabby will integrate Splitit’s installment payment platform through a white-label solution to allow tabby’s merchants to offer installments on credit cards.
Amperity has launched Lakehouse CDP, which delivers CDP functions within “lakehouse” data stores including Snowflake and Databricks. Amperity tools for data modeling, data quality, identity resolution, generative AI, segmentation, and performance measurement will send all results to a company’s own lakehouse rather than a separate Amperity-managed database. Modules can be used independently but the real benefit here is that Amperity is one of the few “composable” CDP vendors who offer a complete set of pre-integrated CDP functions.