Nigerian startup Stranerd has launched a peer-to-peer learning platform where students can ask and answer homework-related questions, with the service designed to give the smartest students opportunities to offer support to others who may be less skilled in particular subjects.
Nigerian e-health start-up Field Intelligence, which is digitising the supply chain and transforming access to essential, life-saving medicine, claims to have saved the Nigerian government US$2 million in losses that would have been attributed to expired medication in the last five years.
Tech Mahindra on Friday said it has approved a proposal for the acquisition of a 100 per cent stake in Allyis India and Green Investments, for a total consideration of up to $125 million. The acquisition is expected to bolster Tech Mahindra’s capabilities in digital experience solutions – learning and development, marketing, instructional design; and engineering – cloud and automation, analytics, and technical support services.
There’s probably no limit to Amazon’s greed – because capitalism – but there are constraints as governments regulate BigTech more aggressively and, just maybe, the free market works its wonders. Amazon cited “seller sentiment related to the fee” in its statement pulling back from its planned 2% fee on sellers who don’t use its Prime fulfillment services. But looming antitrust cases likely had something to do with it.