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Treepz founder Onyeka Akumah on how to succeed in transportation tech

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Since Treepz, formerly Plentywaka, was founded in 2019 in Lagos, the startup has expanded west into Ghana and east into Uganda. You’re seeing investors make a lot more time for due diligence. Treepz founder Onyeka Akumah on how to succeed in transportation tech by Rebecca Bellan originally published on TechCrunch.

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In the race for tech talent, the US should look to Mexico

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A professor at Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM), he's partnered with Microsoft, IBM and Google to deliver digital transformation and cognitive technology services. One of the major factors in the growth and adoption of tech in the U.S. Demand increasing for Mexican tech talent.

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African tech took center stage in 2021

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Two years ago, the African tech ecosystem saw newfound attention from global players that translated to the continent’s best year of receiving venture capital. From varying sources, it is estimated up to $2 billion went into African tech startups in 2019. It wasn’t a bad year, though. African startups nearly raised $1.5

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Twinings tech chief stirs up the IT department

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As the chief business transformation and technology officer at Twinings Ovaltine (TwO), some might imagine Sandeep Seeripat’s role to be the epitome of what a senior technology executive should be, with a remit beyond IT operations, an authoritative voice in the boardroom and a reporting line straight to the CEO.

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Best Practices for Micro-Services Management, Traceability and Visualization

Speaker: Robert Starmer, Cloud Advisor, Founding Partner at Kumulus Technologies

This session will provide an overview of service mesh, a review of the Istio service mesh itself, and dive into best practices and integration models for integrating the traceability model into a distributed application. January 31 2019 11.00 Trace Data - Visualizing application traces to understand application interactions.

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Elon guts Twitter, Google shutters Hangouts, and the tech layoffs continue

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Hey, all — welcome back to Week in Review , the newsletter where we sum up the most read TechCrunch stories from the past week. Layoffs everywhere : Meanwhile, news of tech industry layoffs continues to pour in. And oof, what a week it was. Want this newsletter in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. Let’s just dive right in.

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Dear Sophie: Can an H-1B co-founder own a Delaware C Corp?

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Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur Immigration Services.” Dear Sophie: What does Biden’s win mean for tech immigration? The other founder is from India and is working on an H-1B at a large tech company.