Africa Roundup: Terragon’s Asia acquisition, Twiga Foods’ $10M raise, SimbaPay’s China payment service
Jake Bright Contributor Jake Bright is a writer and author in New York City. He is co-author of The Next Africa. More posts by this contributor...
New EU Piracy Watchlist Targets Key Pirate Sites and Cloudflare
In recent years the Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR) has released several reports detailing “notorious markets” that contribute to large volumes of copyright infringement...
Some things Jack Dorsey didn’t mention in his Myanmar meditation travelogue
Twitter co-founder and chief executive officer Jack Dorsey recently went on a birthday trip to Myanmar. As Dorsey recounted in a series of tweets to his...
Robot Dogs, Space Gardening, and Tumblr’s Porn Ban: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week
It hasn’t been a great week for tech giants, a few of whom were taken to task for all manner of questionable ethics or decision-making. Facebook,...
Tencent-backed fleet manager G7 racks up $320M in funding
A sizable funding round is poised to heat up a race to automate China’s logistics infrastructure. Beijing-based fleet management company G7 announced on Monday that it has...
Alibaba Group takes majority control of loss-making movie unit Alibaba Pictures with $160M share purchase
Alibaba Group announced today that it will increase its stake in Alibaba Pictures from 49% to 50.92%, making it the loss-making movie production company’s controlling shareholder....
Oil Allies Refuse to Welcome Key Scientific Report at UN Climate Talks
In what is likely an unsurprising but no less troubling move, the oil alliance between Kuwait, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and, embarrassingly, the United States has intercepted...
UK Intelligence Agencies Are Planning a Major Increase in ‘Large-Scale Data Hacking’
Intelligence agencies in the UK are preparing to “significantly increase their use of large-scale data hacking,” the Guardian reported on Saturday, in a move that is...
The Episode Titles for Stranger Things Season 3 Are Here
Are you up for some wild speculation? Well, you’ve come to the right place as Netflix just announced the episode titles for Stranger Things season 3....
Payment service Toss becomes Korea’s newest unicorn after raising $80M
South Korea has got its third unicorn startup after Viva Republica, the company beyond popular payment app Toss, announced it has raised an $80 million round at...
