South African Agri-tech startup IQ Logistica has announced the launch of ‘Farmers Friend’, a new companion farming operations mobile application. The tool is for farmers to use in-field to manage their full farming operations straight from their phones or tablets.
Nigerian auto-tech startup Autochek has acquired Moroccan counterpart KIFAL Auto to drive its expansion into the North Africa region. Autochek aims to build digital solutions that will enhance and enable a seamless and safe automotive commerce experience across Africa.
Cloud major Oracle is expanding security services and capabilities of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) to help Indian customers, protect their applications and data against emerging threats. They believe that Indian customers will be able to leverage the benefits of new innovations and further fortify their data, be aligned with their regulatory requirements, and prevent any security breaches.
In a follow-up to their January report, the U.K. Competition and Markets Authority raised the number of concerns they have with Privacy Sandbox to 79. Among other issues, they adopted the privacy concerns raised by another U.K. regulator, the Information Commissioner’s Office. Google’s recent decision to shift third-party cookie deprecation to next year might mean they saw this coming.