Kenya’s Safaricom launches M-Pesa Super App with Offline Mode, Mini-apps
Kenya’s leading telecoms company, Safaricom, has launched its long-awaited M-Pesa Super App, which comes with an offline mode and a mini-app functionality.
Kenya’s leading telecoms company, Safaricom, has launched its long-awaited M-Pesa Super App, which comes with an offline mode and a mini-app functionality.
To increase the internet penetration rate in Africa to 51% by 2025, The Smart Africa Alliance, a group of primarily 32 African countries, has teamed up with Japanese technology giant, SoftBank, on the use of non-terrestrial connectivity to spread internet access to underserved regions on the continent.
Microverse has developed an online coding academy with a collaborative learning system, curriculum designed for a diverse range of candidates, and deferred tuition until graduates land a job. The company projects the more than 1,000 full-time students will go through the program this year, including about 75% from Africa and Latin America. It just announced $12.5 million in venture capital funding.
If robots wrote the news, would they write about other robots? I ask because there’s been a suspicious burst of items about AI-powered writing tools, just when live journalists might have set things on autopilot so they could sneak out early for the holiday. Top of the list: writing-suggestion platform Grammarly just raised $200 million at a $13 billion valuation, doubling total funding to $400 million.