Bluechip Technologies, an African enterprise company that partners with international OEMs like Microsoft and Oracle and provides data warehousing solutions and enterprise applications to banks, telcos and insurance firms, is announcing its European launch.
Miferia, a Mexico-based business-to-business wholesale marketplace, bagged $7 million in seed funding to continue developing its curated website connecting independent retailers in Mexico with domestic brands in categories like cosmetics, food and beverage and home décor. Over 90% of retail in Mexico, still takes place in just 2 million physical stores, and less than 1% of B2B transactions have moved online and are largely still dependent on cash transactions, which often requires retailers to pay upfront for merchandise.
Beacon Power Services (BPS, and energy tech company, which provides data and grid management solutions to help Africa’s power sector distribute electricity more efficiently, has announced that it has closed a seed round of $2.7 million to improve electricity access for sub-Saharan African cities.
Microsoft has confirmed that Reddit has blocked its Bing search engine from crawling content; Reddit seems to have blocked DuckDuckGo too. Reddit content will still appear in Google search results, but then Google has paid Reddit $60 million to allow it to train its AI models on that content. Reddit says the block has nothing to do with the Google deal: okay.