Ever since May, when the US Commerce Department added Huawei to its Entity List, weve been hearing of possible workarounds to the issue. The blacklisting essentially denied US companies from trading hardware and software with Huawei and resulted in great losses for both sides. In July, the US Commerce Department announced its plans to begin…
Kenya’s Twiga Foods raised a total of $30 million in October from lenders and investors led by Goldman Sachs. This adds to the list of African startups the U.S. financial firm has backed, including e-commerce venture Jumia and South African fintech startup Jumo. Twiga, a B2B food distribution company, will use its funds to set up a…
Curve, the London-based “over-the-top banking platform,” has added support for Samsung Pay in the U.K., making it easy for Samsung smartphone owners to pay using their mobile phone, regardless of who they bank with. The new feature is enabled by Curve’s ability to consolidate all of your bank cards into a single Curve card. This…
Heads up, startuppers. We’ve entered the final week of early bird pricing on passes to Disrupt Berlin 2019. Place your procrastination on hold, because the deadline to save as much as €500 comes to an abrupt halt on 8 November at 11:59 p.m. (CEST). Do yourself a saver-favor and buy your early-bird pass to Disrupt Berlin today.…
Welcome to the first Moonday Morning of November. If you don’t know what that means, where have you been? But seriously, it’s Hard Fork’s wrap-up of this weekend’s cryptocurrency and blockchain news that you can’t afford to miss. Let’s take a look. 1. Late last week, the UK‘s tax office, Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC), issued an update to…
Chinese state-sponsored hackers are attacking telecom networks to sniff out SMS messages that contain keywords revolving around political dissidents.
Jessica spends 12 hours a day on the internet managing security for web assets and loves her macha tea
Six months after discussing the privacy feature at its Google I/O conference, the company is finally rolling out Incognito Mode for Google Maps on Android.
Shiv has over 8 years experience working on Internet of Things and an avid user of Drones
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Jessica spends 12 hours a day on the internet managing security for web assets and loves her macha tea
After three weeks in the top spot, the Redmi Note 8 Pro is no longer the most interesting phone in our database. The upcoming Mi Note 10 dethroned it, its teased penta camera clearly gathering a lot attention. Those two are followed by the Redmi Note 8 and the Mi Note 10’s Chinese version –…
Alpacas have gone from being a lesser-known version of a llama to a full-blown craze, and are becoming ever more popular thanks to their friendly nature, fluffy exterior, and cute faces. Running an alpaca farm, therefore, is miles away from running a high-tech company in a world full of technological innovation, digital transformation, and cut-throat…
