The 2Africa project, championed by social media giant, Facebook and seven other companies, is adding four new branches to its 37,000km undersea Internet cable. The new branches extend the cable’s connectivity to Seychelles, Angola, the Comoro Islands and a new landing in South-East Nigeria. They will join the recently announced extension to the Canary Islands.
Fast-rising technology education company, Utiva has launched ‘The Nucleus’, an encrypted device with more than 40 well-curated pre-installed learning content with zero reliance on the internet, that allows Africans in the remote regions now access tech skill training.
The world’s first cloud-native, fully integrated cash management platform, powered by microservices and Open Banking APIs for banks in Middle East & North Africa (MENA) has been launched in the UAE. Intellect Global Transaction Banking (iGTB), with origins that can be traced to Citibank, has 90+ banks globally and 30+ banks in the MENA region working with them for digital cash transformation.
GrowthLoop will use TransUnion identity data to improve U.S. consumer match rates on client files sent to advertising media such as Facebook and Google Ads. The data should also help clients to find matches among records within their files, building more accurate customer profiles. GrowthLoop calls itself a “composable CDP”, meaning it works with data assembled in external data warehouses.