Jim Kavanaugh climbs into a sleek, black-leather-interior Mercedes bus that whisks him away from his company’s new headquarters in St. Louis to a squat, one-story outpost nearby. Kavanaugh is retracing the route he has traveled many times with executives from hundreds of America’s largest companies, including Citigroup, Verizon
Nigerian-based payment application development company TechAdvance, with subsidiaries such as Gpay Africa, PayElectricBills and Advance Bank, recently received a $1 million investment from Bahrain-based group, Lamar Holding. The Nigerian company is focused on developing and deploying niche payment technologies in emerging markets. This recent investment by Lamar Holding’s so
The Galaxy S10 is a fitting 10th-anniversary phone for Samsung and its storied S series. It delivers on change with a novel-looking Infinity-O screen so large it displaces the front camera, and a triple-lens rear camera that takes ultra-wide photos. Its in-screen fingerprint sensor tech
Following a wide-spread suspension that swept through Twitter on Tuesday, the company has confirmed that it may have been an error and that some of the accounts have been restored. A Twitter spokesperson told Techpoint Africa that “upon further investigation, a number of the accounts
Chinese mobile-phone and device maker Transsion will list in an IPO on Shanghai’s STAR Market, Transsion confirmed to TechCrunch. The company—which has a robust Africa sales network—could raise up to 3 billion yuan (or $426 million). “The company’s listing-related work is running smoothly. The registration application and issuance process is
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