Kenyan startup Teleeza has developed a mobile content aggregation and advertising platform that utilises a smartphone’s lockscreen. Launched earlier this year, Teleeza allows users to easily and conveniently access customised content on their lockscreen, and has already onboarded over 55 local, regional and international publishers.
International Business Machines Corp. won hybrid cloud deals with a number of Africa’s largest banks including South Africa’s Nedbank and Morocco’s Attijariwafa Bank. The U.S. tech giant is working with as many as six banks on the continent spanning from Mozambique to Nigeria. The deals will allow its African banking clients to store their information with some of it held internally in what’s known as private cloud and other data stored in public clouds.
We have lots to discuss today, Dear Reader. First, digital experience platform Optimizely (bought last year by Episerver, which then took its name) has launched a new set of unified insights and data services to meld its collection of acquired products. The data foundation is the Zaius CDP, which Optimizely bought this past March.
It’s deal-making time for generative AI model builders and publishers who can provide them with quality data. Germany publishing giant Axel Springer is trading access to its data for Microsoft adtech, AI, and Azure hosting solutions. Meanwhile, The Financial Times has struck a deal with OpenAI to license its content with attribution of summaries and quotes.