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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.

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.

India continues to be among the fastest-growing market for public cloud service providers due to the robust demand from large enterprises, digital natives, and from small and medium businesses in the country. Enterprises continued to invest in public cloud to ensure business continuity, improve resilience and productivity, and drive digital innovation.

The Indian data centers market is witnessing healthy growth primarily driven by large hyper-scalers like Amazon web services, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, IBM, Uber, Dropbox that are outsourcing their storage needs to third party data centre providers.

According to the new Sisense Future of Data Analytics Report 2022 – Asia Pacific Edition, data professionals in the APAC region see data and analytics as valuable to digital transformation and future-proofing their business, yet find their organisations’ strategic capabilities are far from reaching their true potential.

Robotic Marketer, has unveiled a new digital marketing dashboard to complement what it says is the world’s first marketing strategy technology platform. The technology uses data-driven benchmarking, peer-sourced insights, data mining and machine learning to help marketing teams create and execute more effective marketing strategies.

CommBank has moved to the next phase of its plan to build a huge loyalty platform of linked services for banking customers. It is launching loyalty scheme Yello to six million retail banking customers in a bid to retain customers in the face of global competition from big tech while getting ahead of incoming data privacy regulatory changes.

Spot2, a Mexican brokerage startup, announced a $4.2 million seed round led by Streamline Ventures. HOF Capital, Acrew Capital, H20 funds, and angel investors. Spot2 was founded in 2021. It holds the promise of enabling commercial real estate identification, validation, and lease closing in six times less time than usual. The proptech developed technology based on an algorithm that offers solutions to connect brands with available commercial spaces successfully.

Habi, a startup that emerged in 2019 to digitize the process of buying and selling homes in Colombia, this week became Colombia’s second unicorn. The startup’s model is two-sided. For those who want to sell properties, Habi buys them expeditiously, within 10 days. And to those looking to buy, Habi offers real estate, helping them obtain a mortgage loan. The company operates in more than 15 cities in Colombia and Mexico.

Egyptian startup Instabug, a mobile monitoring, crash and bug reporting solution for mobile teams, has raised US$46 million in Series B funding to add to its product and build what it says will be the first mobile observability and performance monitoring platform.

African payments company Interswitch has secured a $110 million joint investment from LeapFrog Investments and Tana Africa Capital to scale its digital payment services across the continent.

Kenyan startup TopUp Mama, which provides African restaurants with access to supplies, financial services, and business management tools, has closed a US$1.7 million seed funding round to accelerate its growth.