African e-commerce fulfilment startups backed by Y Combinator seem to be piquing investors’ interest this year for their niche e-commerce play. Summer batch graduate ShipBlu is the latest on that list and confirmed to TechCrunch that it has raised $2.4 million in seed funding. The company, founded by Ali Nasser, Ahmed ElKawass, Abdelrahman Hosny in…
African e-commerce fulfilment startups backed by Y Combinator seem to be piquing investors’ interest this year for their niche e-commerce play. Summer batch graduate ShipBlu is the latest on that list and confirmed to TechCrunch that it has raised $2.4 million in seed funding. The company, founded by Ali Nasser, Ahmed ElKawass, Abdelrahman Hosny in…
African e-commerce fulfilment startups backed by Y Combinator seem to be piquing investors’ interest this year for their niche e-commerce play. Summer batch graduate ShipBlu is the latest on that list and confirmed to TechCrunch that it has raised $2.4 million in seed funding. The company, founded by Ali Nasser, Ahmed ElKawass, Abdelrahman Hosny in…
Has Verizon cracked the code on the NB-IoT business case? LOS ANGELES–During Mobile World Congress Los Angeles this week, Verizon Business made a major upgrade to its Internet of Things (IoT) offering in an effort to capture new revenue from enterprise digitalization investments in manufacturing, healthcare, utilities, retail, and other high value sectors. The carrier…
Welcome to Startups Weekly, a fresh human-first take on this week’s startup news and trends. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. I spent the past month interviewing current and former employees at Ro, a health tech unicorn, about rising tensions within the company as it struggles to grow into its $5 billion valuation.…
A Russian national, who was arrested in South Korea last month and extradited to the U.S. on October 20, appeared in a federal court in the state of Ohio on Thursday to face charges for his alleged role as a member of the infamous TrickBot group. Court documents showed that Vladimir Dunaev, 38, along with…
The FCC has actioned a Trump-era recommendation to ban China Telecom from operating services in the United States. China Telecom Americas is based in Virginia and sells mobile services which target Chinese Americans, tourists, and businesses. In April last year, the Trump administration’s Justice Department recommended that the FCC revoked China Telecom Americas authorisations to…
The FCC has actioned a Trump-era recommendation to ban China Telecom from operating services in the United States. China Telecom Americas is based in Virginia and sells mobile services which target Chinese Americans, tourists, and businesses. In April last year, the Trump administration’s Justice Department recommended that the FCC revoked China Telecom Americas authorisations to…
The FCC has actioned a Trump-era recommendation to ban China Telecom from operating services in the United States. China Telecom Americas is based in Virginia and sells mobile services which target Chinese Americans, tourists, and businesses. In April last year, the Trump administration’s Justice Department recommended that the FCC revoked China Telecom Americas authorisations to…
Welcome to Startups Weekly, a fresh human-first take on this week’s startup news and trends. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. I spent the past month interviewing current and former employees at Ro, a health tech unicorn, about rising tensions within the company as it struggles to grow into its $5 billion valuation.…
