Ivory Coast-based startup Babimo is helping small businesses overcome payment challenges by allowing them to receive customer payments via QR code. Founded in 2022 after Messek El Mehdi noticed that local wallet actors did not include retail businesses in their strategies, Babimo provides a professional digital wallet to its B2B clientele.
Ghanaian startup Hurupay is helping businesses and individuals across Africa overcome the negative impacts of fluctuating local currencies by allowing them to make and receive stablecoin-based payments. Formed earlier this year, Hurupay is a crypto wallet that enables users to access stablecoins, which are non-volatile cryptocurrencies pegged to the value of the US dollar at a ratio of 1:1.
Enghouse Interactive and Voxtron Middle East LLC today announced a bold and far-reaching expansion of the longstanding partnership between Voxtron and Enghouse Interactive. Voxtron, a prominent provider of customer engagement optimization solutions to the Middle East market has engaged Enghouse Interactive as a key partner as it looks ahead to its next phase of expansion. Under the expanded partnership, Voxtron will resell and offer a range of additional technologies centered around Enghouse CCaaS.
Continuing its early fall shopping spree, Salesforce has signed a definitive agreement to acquire data protection and management company Own (it is also acquiring voice agent vendor Tenyx). In addition to analytics capabilities Own will enhance Salesforce’s existing data security tools. It has been a Salesforce AppExchange partner for over 10 years.