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Ford’s high-tech business transformation, fueled by cloud

CIO

One need only look within Ford’s executive ranks to see the technology talent driving its digital future: Doug Field, Ford’s chief electric vehicle (EV) and digital systems officer, and Rob Bedicheck, executive director of platform architecture, were both recruited from Apple.

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Nestcoin raises $6.45M pre-seed to accelerate crypto and web3 adoption in Africa and frontier markets

TechCrunch

Africans and people in emerging markets missed out on the first set of opportunities that technological advancements brought to the world. Computers, the internet, fintech, artificial intelligence, any tech you can name ( except mobile tech) people in these regions have always had to play catch up.

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YC W22 batch nets 24 African startups, including 18 from Nigeria

TechCrunch

Thus, its platform makes it “easy for these businesses to issue corporate expense cards (Visa for now) and software, mainly for sales and marketing teams, to track and control spending. Founders : Alphas Sinja, Boya’s chief executive officer, has over eight years of experience in the banking and finance sectors.

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API security startup 42Crunch raises $17M Series A led by Energy Impact Partners

TechCrunch

Eighty-three percent of internet traffic now comes from APIs but traditional firewall approaches are not adapted to cope with the specific threats that APIs create.”. Isabelle Mauny, co-founder and CTO of 42Crunch, said: “Protecting APIs from threats at runtime is only part of the story. They all came about due to API vulnerabilities.

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Corsha lands $12M to bring MFA security to machine-to-machine API traffic

TechCrunch

APIs, which allow two applications on the internet to talk to each other, became central to organizations’ digital transformation efforts during the pandemic. That’s what we’re doing in the API world,” Corsha co-founder and CTO Anusha Iyer told TechCrunch.

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Apiumhub is Angular Global Summit partner

Apiumhub

Among speakers you may find: Maxim Salnikov – Developer Engagement Lead @Microsoft Michel Ruffieux – Lead Software Engineer @Jobcloud Elad Shechter – CSS/HTML Architect @appwrite Nir Kaufman – Front End Tech Lead @Next Hava Babay-Adi – Tech Lead @Google Greg Radzio – CTO @Cobiro.

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How fintech and serial founders drove African pre-seed investing to new heights in 2020

TechCrunch

For Jituboh, her solid tech background spoke for her — boasting a senior software engineering job at Pexels and engineering consultant role at Canva before founding Okra. Njoku, who took part in the round as an angel investor, is the CEO of IROKO , a Nigerian VOD internet company.

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