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‘Developed nations should take financial responsibility of energy transition’ Silveira

Brazil is encouraging wealthy nations to contribute to the global transition to sustainable energy, stating that these countries must make larger pled

Brazil is encouraging wealthy nations to contribute to the global transition to sustainable energy, stating that these countries must make larger pledges to compensate for their reliance on polluting energy sources. ‘Since they get their power from far fewer clean sources than nations in the Global South, developed nations should confront bigger challenges.’, said Alexandre Silveira. The government of Brazil has been a prominent advocate for rich countries to follow through on its climate funding promises, which fall short of the billions of dollars required to prevent global temperatures from increasing. Developing nations of the Southern Hemisphere will provide clean energy to the industrialised world, utilising these countries positions in global commerce. Read More..

B2B Tech News | 6 days ago         

Mauritania The BCI Group and the African Development Bank have reached an agreement worth 485,000 USD.

The Affirmative Finance Action for Women in Africa AFAWA program, which aims to promote womens access to finance in Africa, has signed a technical sup

The Affirmative Finance Action for Women in Africa AFAWA program, which aims to promote womens access to finance in Africa, has signed a technical support agreement for $485,000 with the Bank for Trade and Industry BCI of Mauritania. The project intends to improve support for womenowned small and mediumsized businesses in Mauritania, Mali, Senegal, and Guinea as well as BCIs ability to finance trade and industry.During the Invest DaysNouakchott Forum, AFAWA and the Mauritania Investment Promotion Agency organised a workshop on enhancing the financial inclusion of womens SMEs in Mauritania. The AFAWA ambassadors program, which will promote accelerated access to funding for African women entrepreneurs and highlight female leaders, was also introduced at the meeting. Read More..

B2B Tech News | 6 months ago         

TechConnect Africa and Uber Highlight How Technology Can Support Economic Equity in Africa

Women at Uber and Black at Uber collaborated with TechConnect to host an event on the importance of technology and culture in fostering parity through

Women at Uber and Black at Uber collaborated with TechConnect to host an event on the importance of technology and culture in fostering parity throughout the continent in honour of International Womens Month. The event is meant to serve as a reminder to all African women and girls of their potential to become global leaders and trailblazers in business and technology, or really any career route they want to choose, according to Marjorie SaintLot, Head of Uber Ghana and Cote dIvoire. An influencerled community organisation called GigSister was established in Africa to unite, empower, and expand the number of female drivers using the Uber network. Read More..

B2B Tech News | 6 months ago         

Rwazi to scale its market insight stage supported by $4 million seed subsidizing

Rwazi, a market intelligence business, is trying to fill this gap by giving market insights backed by data acquired directly from customers. The firm,

Rwazi, a market intelligence business, is trying to fill this gap by giving market insights backed by data acquired directly from customers. The firm, which was founded in 2021, is now expanding in emerging areas, notably Africa, where it claims to have a presence in 40 nations. Rwazi collects information such as product usage, consumption frequency, and household budgets and income. What data the company obtains is based on the requirements of its SaaS product users. Rwazi, which was a part of the Techstars Los Angeles development programme last year, now has 50,000 users. Read More..

B2B Tech News | 6 months ago         

A Kenyan court has prevented Meta from working with its new content moderation partner.

A Kenyan court has temporarily prohibited Meta Platforms Inc. and Meta Ireland from working with their new content moderation subcontractor, Majorel,

A Kenyan court has temporarily prohibited Meta Platforms Inc. and Meta Ireland from working with their new content moderation subcontractor, Majorel, while a new lawsuit brought by 43 content moderators regarding wrongful termination and blacklisting is being heard. The temporary injunction prevents Sama, Metas departing content moderation partner, from making any redundancies. After closing its content review arm in January, Sama now plans to fire 260 content moderators who worked throughout Eastern and Southern Africa at the end of this month. According to the petition, moderators who applied for jobs at Majorel were turned down because they had previously worked at a facility run by the third respondent Sama. Sama claims that it followed Kenyan law and communicated. Read More..

B2B Tech News | 6 months ago         

CodiumAI makes use of generative AI to assist developers in automatically creating code logic tests.

Itamar Friedman, cofounder and CEO of CodiumAI, is familiar with the struggle of creating test suites to validate code logic. He founded CodiumAI to a

Itamar Friedman, cofounder and CEO of CodiumAI, is familiar with the struggle of creating test suites to validate code logic. He founded CodiumAI to address that issue, and today his ninemonthold business came out of stealth with a sizable $11 million seed investment. His approach uses generative AI to create the tests automatically. By creating the tests for you, CodiumAI eliminates the need for you to manually create these logic tests. In order to generate code analysis, test plans, and test code as well as to interactively reply to user requests for test clarification, the company created a unique big language model called TestGPT. During the past few months, it has worked with 1,000 early adopters and is now making the free product available to everyone who is interested. Read More..

B2B Tech News | 6 months ago         

Rwazi will use $4 million in seed money to expand its market intelligence platform.

Rwazi, a market intelligence business, offers market insights based on data gathered directly from consumers. It is now scaling in emerging countries,

Rwazi, a market intelligence business, offers market insights based on data gathered directly from consumers. It is now scaling in emerging countries, particularly Africa, and seeks unitlevel data such as product sizes purchased, frequency of sales, and consumer geographic location. It has a $4 million seed capital and will be releasing new products this year that support other languages. Consumers track their purchases via a web or mobile app and are compensated for confirmed submissions on Rwazis platform. Multinationals can use Rwazi to gain insight into who is buying what, for how much, from where, when, and why, allowing them to increase revenue and expand. Read More..

B2B Tech News | 6 months ago         

Flutura, an industrial AI firm, will be acquired by Accenture.

Flutura, an industrial artificial intelligence AI business with its headquarters in Bangalore, India, has reached an agreement to be acquired by Accen

Flutura, an industrial artificial intelligence AI business with its headquarters in Bangalore, India, has reached an agreement to be acquired by Accenture NYSE ACN. The agreement will make Accentures industrial AI services stronger, enabling customers to reach their net zero goals more quickly and improving the operation of factories, refineries, and supply chains. The AI platform from Flutura helps process, asset management, and reliability engineering teams evaluate, forecast, and improve asset performance, reliability, throughput, and energy efficiency outcomes of production and manufacturing facilities. It also offers selfservice solutions for advanced analytics. According to data Accenture presented at the 2023 World Economic Forum in Davos, businesses require strong AI capabilities to have a digital core and increase success. Read More..

B2B Tech News | 6 months ago         



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