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mPharma, a telehealth pioneer out of Ghana, gets physical with 100 virtual centers across Africa

TechCrunch

The potential for telehealth across Africa is vast and promising as mobile connectivity deepens, and innovations that could potentially bridge the doctor-patient ratio gap increase according to a Deloitte report. This is what makes mPharma’s telemedicine unique,” Rockson told TechCrunch. We currently have five centers open.

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MyHealth Africa, a startup connecting patients with health specialists across the globe, lands $1M funding

TechCrunch

The new funding also follows Top HealthTech Startup in Africa award, by the Global Startup Awards (GSA) Africa, an exclusive vehicle for the GIIG Africa Fund to find, fund and scale continent’s innovative startups, the startup clinched in June this year.

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Peek raises $80M as its travel experiences software and marketplace business passes $2B in bookings

TechCrunch

Travel and tourism are slowly starting to move again in the wake of COVID-19 crashing over the world and sending us to shelter in place. New investor Goldman Sachs Asset Management is also in the round, along with 3L, Cathay Innovation, I2BF Global Ventures, Manta Ray and Apeiron.

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5 hot IT budget investments — and 2 going cold

CIO

Hot: AI and VR/AR With digital transformations moving at full throttle, and a desire to stay innovative, it should come as no surprise that use cases for virtual reality, augmented reality, and artificial intelligence continue to grow in several verticals. There are indications the voice market is slowing. IDC is forecasting a 5.1%

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Virtual reality in banking. How are we going to visit the bank in the future?

Strategy Driven

Perfect examples of the implementation of these visionary ideas are virtual and augmented reality. Although these technologies are similar, they offer different types of experiences for users: Virtual Reality (VR) is completely computer generated, while Augmented Reality (AR) superimposes selected images over the user’s field of view.

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Max Q: Astra heads to the Space Coast

TechCrunch

CEO Joe Laurienti likened Ursa Major to a company like Intel, which is constantly innovating more powerful processors and outsourcing that expertise to brands like Dell and Lenovo. “We It’s once again going to be an entirely virtual conference, so people from all over the world will be able to join — and you can, too.

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Arabian moonshots may hold huge implications for the whole world

Pandora's Brain

They are looking to AI to help them develop alternative energy sources, create smart cities, improve government services, and build world-class industries in fintech, healthcare, and tourism. Inbound tourism used to be virtually impossible; now it takes just a few seconds to obtain a tourist visa online.