TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Kenyan startup Wowzi has secured new funding to expand the reach of its platform, which turns social media users into brand influencers, to West and Southern Africa — as it taps the increasing usage of social sites across the continent driven by the proliferation of smartphones and a deepening internet penetration.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

Even as India has already emerged as the second-largest internet market, with more than 650 million users, much of the country remains offline. Among those outside of the reach of the internet are merchants running small businesses, such as roadside tea stalls and neighborhood stores. Image Credits: Bank of America Research.

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CIO

AUGUST 30, 2022

Despite an evolving internet penetration rate of 47% in 2020, according to Internet World statistics, the social use of ICTs remains the main cause of digital illiteracy in Africa. Nigeria is the first to launch national digital currencies by the central bank (CBDC) in October 2021.

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Existek

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

How does mobile banking impact the future of the financial industry? Why do banks and financial institutions recognize the potential to offer mobile app services to their customers? Check this article on how to build a mobile banking app and discover the opportunities it opens for your business.

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Exadel

JANUARY 26, 2023

Financial software development , consulting, and transformation has swept across the banking industry. The banking industry will be undergoing a technological transformation in the year 2023. Top trends in banking to expect include cloud migrations, the use of DevOps and omnichannel strategies, and greater use of AI.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2020

After a flurry of local reports exposing the firm’s massive debt, which is reported to be as high as $520 million , a district court in Shanghai placed Ziwutong Beijing Asset Management, the parent organization behind Danke, on the country’s “social credit” blacklist. when it went public in January.

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CIO

APRIL 19, 2023

How do you define ‘best-in-class’ from a social perspective? I think about this in the context of a ‘relationship bank.’ When we are in the office and having impromptu discussions about our personal lives, or getting a meal together, or having non-work-related discussions, we are making deposits into the relationship bank.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

But NayaPay’s goal is even bigger; to bank millions of adults that remain unbanked, with women affected the most — only one in three women holds a bank account. The youth and freelance communities in Pakistan are also majorly locked out by traditional banks. We are very bullish on fintech in Pakistan.

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CIO

APRIL 30, 2024

The untargeted scraping of facial images from the internet or security footage to create facial recognition databases is also prohibited. The law would also ban AI systems that monitor employee or student emotions, conduct social scoring, or engage in predictive policing based on a person’s profile or characteristics.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2021

ShareChat, an Indian social network that added Twitter as an investor in 2019 , may soon receive the backing of two more American firms. Twitter-backed Indian social network ShareChat raises $40 million. ShareChat, Google and Snap did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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CIO

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The evolution of AI and the use of structured and unstructured data When discriminative AI rose to prominence in sectors such as banking, healthcare, retail, and manufacturing, it was primarily trained on and used to analyze, classify, or make predictions about unstructured data. have encouraged the creation of unstructured data.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

Founders : Before beU delivery, Hao Zheng, who leads the team as chief executive, was the founder and CEO of Yooul, a social networking app in China. Abdigani Diriye, Khalid Keenan and Youcef Oudjidane, the other co-founders, have combined experience across engineering, investment banking and venture capital. Website : [link].

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2023

Lamine Zarrad started StellarFi in 2021 after selling another fintech company he’d started, banking app Joust, to ZenBusiness in 2020. StellarFi was set to close on $5 million in venture debt from Signature Bank for runway extension — a deal that fell through once that institution was forced to shutter earlier this month.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 15, 2021

The thesis behind the startup, said Jain in an interview with TechCrunch, is to provide financial literacy to teenagers, who additionally have limited options to open a bank account in India at a young age. Teens represent the “most tech-savvy generation, as they haven’t seen a world without the internet,” he said. Unlike in the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

JULY 8, 2021

But the company later pivoted to create a social payments app. And one that makes money work the way the Internet works,” Circle co-founder and CEO Jeremy Allaire told TechCrunch’s Natasha Lomas in 2016. Auditing firms regularly check that issuers always keep as many USD in bank accounts as USDC in circulation.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 24, 2022

Bank transfers are also popular option for online purchases, but involve several steps, which increases the risk of cart abandonment. For example, he added that some regions have poor internet connectivity, so customers may drop out of the checkout process if it involves clicking multiple webpages.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

A banking app built for online creators, Creative Juice announced its $50 million fund to underwrite creator businesses. YouTubers and other social media stars can apply for upfront cash to grow their businesses in exchange for a cut of their revenue over a certain period of time, usually between six months and three years.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Most people have experienced the internet only through Web 2.0: online applications, the social web and software as a service form the fabric of our lives. Lately, many have championed web3 as the internet’s next phase, but the term encompasses so much territory, conversations can be rather diffuse. .”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 22, 2022

Today, we are more or less at a similar stage in its development lifecycle as we were in the early 1990s for the internet. Social media platforms are awash with aggression, bullying, harassment and exploitation. In the multidimensional world of the metaverse, this will become exponentially more difficult. How can I authenticate users?

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CTOvision

JUNE 28, 2016

Social engineering is one of the most problematic attack techniques to combat. User education is most effective at stopping a social engineer. Users who are aware of the potential for social engineering attacks and learn to recognize them can use simple methods to thwart these attacks successfully. Stu Sjouwerman.

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CIO

DECEMBER 11, 2023

This is also a requirement for the AI systems for the insurance and banking sectors. They also prohibit untargeted scrapping of facial images from the internet or CCTV footage, social scoring, and AI systems that manipulate human behavior or exploit the vulnerabilities of people.

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CIO

AUGUST 29, 2022

In a recent survey of 1,500 global executives, about three in four executives (78%) cite technology as critical for their future sustainability efforts, attesting that it helps transform operations, socialize their initiatives more broadly, and measure and report on the impact of their efforts.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Horizon is today announcing its first close of $125 million for the fund, its fourth, with the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC) pitching in $30 million as an anchor investor. and Catherine T. Some of those efforts had a very tech focus, as we have previously chronicled.). billion the year before.

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OTS Solutions

JULY 28, 2022

Open banking has brought a new era in which systems can quickly and easily connect to new platforms and apps. Digital ecosystems that work well together quickly replace physical banks and paper systems. Various kinds of companies, from banks and insurance companies, have been around for 100 years.

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The Parallax

MARCH 26, 2018

VANCOUVER—Of all the tactics hackers use to attack a target, the most common by far is the innocuous-sounding “social engineering.” Social engineering has become a big business for cybercriminals. READ MORE ON SOCIAL ENGINEERING. Why (and how) China is tying social-media behavior to credit scores. They’re being analyzed.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

We’re going on Day 5 with no power, heat or internet. Power’s first product is a credit card issuance program, which is designed for companies, brands and banks to offer fintech experiences, such as customized credit card programs, targeted promotions and personalized rewards, embedded into existing mobile and web applications.

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OTS Solutions

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Overview of Digital Transformation Digital transformation means the operational, cultural, and organizational changes within an organization’s ecosystem with the help of modern technologies such as cloud computing, the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile apps, etc. Future of Digital Transformation: 1.

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CIO

MAY 16, 2023

The industries these decision-makers represented include insurance, banking, healthcare and life sciences, government, entertainment, and energy in the U.S. Blockchain Opportunities Decentralization: Blockchain advocates hope to realign control of the Internet by taking away the power held by big technology companies seen as gatekeepers.

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DataRobot

JULY 6, 2021

Shopping was a social experience. In this time of social distancing, we order supplies on the internet and have them delivered to our homes. confirmed that this cognitive limit on social relationships extends to social media. Without computers, banks couldn’t handle trillions of dollars of transactions each year.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

The fundraise six months ago ensured that the startup had enough capital in the bank to operate comfortably, he said. He said that like other businesses, Chargebee has been cautiously navigating the global pandemic. But the recent growth Chargebee has seen prompted the startup to grow more aggressive.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

Payments for consumers have made a huge shift to the online world in the last year, a time when they have moved more of their purchasing to the internet to minimize in-person transactions in the midst of a virus-based health pandemic. Most are bank transfers. It takes a 2.9% “We have developed models to do it same day.

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Openxcell

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

A technology called the blockchain powers this decentralized and peer-to-peer internet evolution, enabling more direct and peer-to-peer interactions. The Web3 Internet makes the decentralized Internet more secure and private by using blockchain technology, the same technology that underpins Bitcoin. What is Web3?

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2022

Tiger gets its claws into Slice : Getting a bank account can be easy; getting credit, not so much. Internet of downswings : IoT has become one of the top vectors of hacker attacks, and Ordr just raised $40 million to monitor the 35 billion devices online, Kyle reports. Also, this was the day we learned about fuzzing. Fascinating!

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2023

The anti-social media Image Credits: Beata Zawrzel / NurPhoto / Getty Images I’m not gonna lie, I’m getting really bored of two billionaires bloviating about wanting to beat seven bells out of each other, MMA style. OpenAI proposes a new way to use GPT-4 for content moderation , which could potentially make the internet pretty different.

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The Parallax

OCTOBER 29, 2020

They have also been urging states and municipalities to take steps to protect elections from foreign manipulation, including using education and awareness to mitigate the spread of election disinformation over social networks. It’s not like banking, health data, the military, or anything else we consider high security.”

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2021

He has been a serial entrepreneur and investor as a co-founder of LaunchTime, an incubator and investor in early-stage tech startups and as a co-founder of Community Connect, which was one of the first social networking companies. Ben focuses his investing activities on primarily consumer-facing companies. Leah Solivan, Fuel Capital.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

Carry1st , a South African publisher of social games and interactive content across Africa, has raised a $20 million Series A extension led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). When we think about Carry1st, we want to be the leading consumer internet company in the region. L-R: Tinotenda Mundangepfupfu, Lucy Hoffman and Cordel Robbin-Coker.

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