Fintech

First Algorand GameFi platform Zone secures $2.3m in funding

Zone, the first GameFi ecosystem on the Algorand blockchain, raised $2.35 million in new funds before…

MoneyFellows and e-Cards team up to provide digital financing solutions to pension and cash support beneficiaries

Egyptian fintech, MoneyFellows, has partnered with e-Cards, a subsidiary of government-backed digital payment specialist, e-Finance,…

KKR to invite Saudi wealth fund to back telecom Italia bid

KKR & Co. has reached out to Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund as it seeks…

New information from Niko Partners: Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Egypt together will have 85.8 million gamers and expects $3.1 billion in games revenue by 2025

Niko Partners, market research and consulting firm covering video games, esports, and streaming in Asia,…

Kenyan mobile money application Alvin raises $740k in pre-seed funding

Kenyan startup Alvin, a smart money manager app that helps people align their daily spending…

Google buys Israeli security startup Siemplify for $50million

Alphabet Inc-owned Google said its cloud division had acquired Israeli cybersecurity startup Siemplify, as the…

Tesla’s vehicle deliveries surge over 80%; projected to hit 1.5mln in 2022

Tesla, an American electric vehicle and clean energy company, is projected to deliver 1,544,402 vehicles…

AIMMO raises $12M Series A to advance data labeling technology

Most artificial intelligence models are trained through supervised learning, meaning that humans must label raw…

Apple becomes first company to reach $3 trillion market value

Apple Inc became the first company with a $3 trillion stock market value, lifted by…

Big Tech market $2.5 trillion in value in 2021

Google’s parent company rose 65 percent in 2021, making it the top performer. Big tech-powered…