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👨🏿🚀TechCabal Daily – GTCO goes hunting
In partnership with Happy Buhari Day. 🇳🇬 ☀️ Today was declared a public holiday to honour former President Muhammadu Buhari who passed on. Whether you’re catching […]
Tag: Retail
Wamda
ORA Technologies closes Its Series A round with a record $7.5 million
Press release: The Moroccan startup ORA Technologies announces the closing of its Series A for a total of $7.5 million, led by Azur Innovation Fund alongside […]
TechCabal
Luno co-founder’s MoneyBadger raises $400,000 pre-seed
MoneyBadger, a South African crypto payments startup founded by Luno co-founder Carel van Wyk, has raised a $400,000 (R7 million) pre-seed round to scale adoption of […]
Tech in Asia
Tracking China’s retail blitz across Southeast Asia
Technode
Taobao Instant Commerce and Ele.me orders top 80 million a day; tea stocks rally while platform shares slip
Taobao Instant Commerce and Ele.me announced that their combined daily orders have surpassed 80 million, including over 13 million non-restaurant orders, with daily active users exceeding […]
TechCabal
South Africans ditch cash and cards for digital payments, new report shows
South Africans are changing how they pay for things faster than ever. A new “State of Consumer Payment in South Africa” report by Stitch in partnership […]
Technode
Alibaba doubles down on Taobao Instant Commerce with a $6.98 billion subsidy plan
Taobao Instant Commerce, Alibaba’s push into on-demand retail, unveiled a RMB 50 billion ($6.98 billion) subsidy initiative on July 2. Over the next 12 months, the […]
TechCabal
Starlink resumes direct shipments to Lagos, opens new office
Starlink has resumed direct shipments of residential kits to Lagos and other Nigerian cities, ending a seven-month suspension that began in November 2024. The company also […]
Tech Nova Ghana
Africa Launches PAPSSCARD to Power Cross-border Payments and Boost Financial Sovereignty
On June 27, at the 32nd Afreximbank Annual Meetings in Abuja, Nigeria, Africa officially launched PAPSSCARD — the continent’s first pan-African card scheme — as a […]
Wamda
Jadwa leads $50 million investment in Saudi fueltech PetroApp
Press release: Jadwa Investment, a leading investment management and advisory firm in the Middle East, today announced it has led a USD 50 million investment round […]